Enterprise Software Contracts in Scotland

Enterprise Application Software
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Software in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Software over the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 104 127
Rank change year-on-year -2 +23 -3
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 23 9 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.34% 0.48% 0.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.24% 1.43% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 10
10th Percentile £253 £335 £361
25th Percentile £291 £457 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.57% +15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £644 £517
90th Percentile £579 £700 £526
UK median daily rate £525 £541 £575
% change year-on-year -3.00% -5.87% -

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Enterprise Software falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 710 629 976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 41.33% 33.62% 37.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 380 653
10th Percentile £202 £200 £213
25th Percentile £362 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -9.55% +3.65%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £550
90th Percentile £588 £689 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 23 17
10th Percentile - £12.30 £12.82
25th Percentile £17.30 £13.75 £15.99
Median hourly rate £19.17 £18.13 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year +5.74% -5.47% -52.64%
75th Percentile £24.66 £19.55 £35.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £24.18 £50.14
UK median hourly rate £29.33 £45.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year -34.82% +15.38% +48.57%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Enterprise Software as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Software in Scotland

Enterprise Software
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Software in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Software in Scotland

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Software in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Software in Scotland

Enterprise Software
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Software in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Software in Scotland

Enterprise Software
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Software within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +3 20 £450 -21.74% 6
Edinburgh -3 1 £525 -8.74% 7
South Ayrshire - 1 £230 -
Enterprise Software
UK

Enterprise Software
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.70%) Alfresco
1 2 (8.70%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.04%) AWS
2 2 (8.70%) SaaS
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.35%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (4.35%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 1 (4.35%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.35%) CloudFront
3 1 (4.35%) GitHub
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
3 1 (4.35%) PaaS
3 1 (4.35%) Route 53
3 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) DNS
1 1 (4.35%) Kerberos
1 1 (4.35%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) KDB
1 7 (30.43%) Kdb+
2 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.70%) MySQL
4 1 (4.35%) CockroachDB
4 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.35%) InfluxDB
4 1 (4.35%) NewSQL
4 1 (4.35%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Xcode
2 1 (4.35%) Artifactory
2 1 (4.35%) GitLab
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) Postman
General
1 15 (65.22%) Social Skills
2 8 (34.78%) Finance
3 7 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (30.43%) Banking
3 7 (30.43%) Investment Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Legal
5 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Developer
2 7 (30.43%) C++ Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Linux Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Python Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Senior
2 7 (30.43%) Senior C++ Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Senior Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Senior Python Developer
3 6 (26.09%) Mobile Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Database Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Designer
5 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Solutions Designer
5 1 (4.35%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) SwiftUI
1 6 (26.09%) UIKit
2 2 (8.70%) Node.js
2 2 (8.70%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (8.70%) React
2 2 (8.70%) REST
2 2 (8.70%) Spring
2 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
3 1 (4.35%) Ext JS
3 1 (4.35%) Loki
3 1 (4.35%) Middleware
3 1 (4.35%) OAuth
3 1 (4.35%) OpenAPI
3 1 (4.35%) OpenID
3 1 (4.35%) SAML
3 1 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Credit Risk
1 6 (26.09%) iPad
1 6 (26.09%) iPhone
1 6 (26.09%) Mobile App
1 6 (26.09%) Virtual Team
2 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 8 (34.78%) Linux
1 8 (34.78%) Windows
2 6 (26.09%) Android
2 6 (26.09%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Agile
1 10 (43.48%) SDLC
2 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
2 9 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (34.78%) Containerisation
3 8 (34.78%) Decision-Making
4 7 (30.43%) Data Protection
4 7 (30.43%) Data Science
4 7 (30.43%) Software Engineering
4 7 (30.43%) Test Automation
5 6 (26.09%) Biometrics
5 6 (26.09%) Design Patterns
5 6 (26.09%) Mobile Development
5 6 (26.09%) MVC
5 6 (26.09%) MVVM
5 6 (26.09%) Rapid Prototyping
5 6 (26.09%) Scrum
5 6 (26.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 6 (26.09%) TDD
5 6 (26.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) C++
3 6 (26.09%) Objective-C
3 6 (26.09%) Swift
4 3 (13.04%) Java
5 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.70%) SQL
6 1 (4.35%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (4.35%) Bash
6 1 (4.35%) Groovy
6 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) OCP
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Grafana
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) Kibana
3 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle
1 1 (4.35%) Remedy
1 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow