MISRA C Contract Job Trends in Scotland

MISRA C
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring MISRA C skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 118 141
Rank change year-on-year +6 +23 +29
Contract jobs citing MISRA C 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.13% 0.058% 0.083%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.71% 0.30% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £475 - £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £55.13 - £57.80
25th Percentile £57.19 - £58.25
Median hourly rate £63.75 £75.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +23.97% +15.24%
75th Percentile £69.69 - £62.25
90th Percentile £71.38 - £62.40
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year - +7.44% -8.51%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

MISRA C falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 281 332 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.89% 19.30% 18.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 216 313
10th Percentile £189 £183 £212
25th Percentile £400 £313 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year - -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £540 £500 £538
90th Percentile £599 £588 £588
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 8
10th Percentile £13.35 £13.52 £15.42
25th Percentile £16.00 £14.73 £15.86
Median hourly rate £40.00 £15.00 £17.22
Median % change year-on-year +166.67% -12.87% +30.81%
75th Percentile £62.50 £28.07 £32.53
90th Percentile £74.50 £44.04 £61.80
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £26.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -5.09% -25.35% +56.49%

MISRA C
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MISRA C relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

MISRA C job vacancy trend in Scotland

MISRA C
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing MISRA C.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing MISRA C

MISRA C
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MISRA C in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for MISRA C in Scotland

MISRA C
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 MISRA C within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 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
Edinburgh +7 2 - -
MISRA C
UK

MISRA C
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 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) C++ Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) OOD
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) MISRA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM