Low-Code Contracts in Scotland

Low-Code
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Low-Code in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Low-Code over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 127 -
Rank change year-on-year +15 - -
Contract jobs citing Low-Code 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.25% 0.090% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.65% 0.27% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £183 - -
25th Percentile £306 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £480 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile £638 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +15.00%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Low-Code 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 618 732 1,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.03% 33.02% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 426 712
10th Percentile £221 £203 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £560
90th Percentile £600 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 36 23
10th Percentile - £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%
75th Percentile £24.66 £38.25 £28.81
90th Percentile £42.00 £60.38 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Low-Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Low-Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Low-Code in Scotland

Low-Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Low-Code in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Low-Code in Scotland

Low-Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Low-Code in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Low-Code in Scotland

Low-Code
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 Low-Code within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Edinburgh +8 4 £525 - 4
Low-Code
UK

Low-Code
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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) InfoPath
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (50.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (50.00%) MariaDB
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Power Query
1 2 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Functional Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (50.00%) HTML5 Canvas
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Kanban
1 2 (50.00%) Log Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Bicep
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Pega