MVC Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Model-View-Controller (MVC)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring MVC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 103 126
Rank change year-on-year -5 +23 +12
Contract jobs citing MVC 9 14 14
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.57% 0.79% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.91% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 10
10th Percentile - £384 £349
25th Percentile £419 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £428
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -0.58% -10.00%
75th Percentile £463 £467 £450
90th Percentile £466 £493 £490
UK median daily rate £438 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.11% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

MVC falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,428 1,531 2,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 89.75% 86.06% 91.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 803 893 1,379
10th Percentile £244 £208 £240
25th Percentile £389 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £479
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -6.05% +0.84%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £575
90th Percentile £623 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.05% -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 43 51
10th Percentile £14.86 £13.33 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.46 £13.22
Median hourly rate £19.99 £22.88 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% +17.31% +4.00%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £57.72
90th Percentile £41.98 £40.90 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.50 £43.95
% change year-on-year -29.15% -19.23% +25.57%

MVC
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

MVC job vacancy trend in Scotland

MVC
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing MVC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing MVC

MVC
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing MVC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing MVC

MVC
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 MVC within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 November 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 +1 4 £438 -0.91% 1
Glasgow -6 4 - - 1
MVC
UK

MVC
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
3 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
3 2 (22.22%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (33.33%) MySQL
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
4 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 3 (33.33%) Xcode
2 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
2 2 (22.22%) git-flow
3 1 (11.11%) GitLab
3 1 (11.11%) Gradle
3 1 (11.11%) JUnit
3 1 (11.11%) Maven
3 1 (11.11%) Mockito
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Banking
4 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
5 1 (11.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Java Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Mobile Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Android Developer
4 1 (11.11%) iOS Android Developer
4 1 (11.11%) iOS Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Spring
1 5 (55.56%) Spring Boot
2 4 (44.44%) React
3 3 (33.33%) Spring MVC
3 3 (33.33%) SwiftUI
3 3 (33.33%) UIKit
4 2 (22.22%) AWS CDK
4 2 (22.22%) CSS
4 2 (22.22%) HTML
4 2 (22.22%) OAuth
4 2 (22.22%) OAuth2
4 2 (22.22%) REST
4 2 (22.22%) RESTful
4 2 (22.22%) Spring Web Flow
4 2 (22.22%) Thymeleaf
5 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
5 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
5 1 (11.11%) JPA
5 1 (11.11%) Kafka
5 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Mobile App
2 3 (33.33%) Credit Risk
2 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (33.33%) iPad
2 3 (33.33%) iPhone
2 3 (33.33%) Virtual Team
3 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (22.22%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Android
1 4 (44.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Data Protection
3 5 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (55.56%) DevOps
3 5 (55.56%) Front End Development
3 5 (55.56%) Microservices
3 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
3 5 (55.56%) TDD
3 5 (55.56%) User Experience
4 4 (44.44%) Design Patterns
4 4 (44.44%) iOS Development
4 4 (44.44%) MVVM
4 4 (44.44%) Scrum
5 3 (33.33%) Biometrics
5 3 (33.33%) Build Automation
5 3 (33.33%) Rapid Prototyping
5 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 3 (33.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Java
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) Swift
3 3 (33.33%) Objective-C
4 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
5 1 (11.11%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle