GoCardless Contract Job Trends in Scotland

GoCardless
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring knowledge or experience of GoCardless products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GoCardless over the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within GoCardless Ltd.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GoCardless 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.063% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £475 £115 -
% change year-on-year +313.04% - -

All Vendors
Scotland

GoCardless falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 683 647 998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 43.20% 38.17% 41.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 362 598
10th Percentile £213 £171 £200
25th Percentile £377 £351 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £593
90th Percentile £625 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 39 35
10th Percentile £17.87 £13.56 £12.28
25th Percentile £17.90 £19.59 £16.36
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% +20.97% +10.05%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £60.00
90th Percentile £60.63 £29.60 £71.40
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £29.39 £44.50
% change year-on-year -14.92% -33.97% +73.08%

GoCardless
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 GoCardless within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 December 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 - 1 £475 -
GoCardless
UK

GoCardless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Apple Pay
1 1 (100.00%) Google Pay
1 1 (100.00%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior WordPress Developer
1 1 (100.00%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Apple
1 1 (100.00%) Google