OpenROAD Contracts in Scotland

OpenROAD
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring OpenROAD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenROAD 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 - 162
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing OpenROAD 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.25% - 0.035%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.85% - 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £400 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.56%
75th Percentile £473 - £488
90th Percentile £482 - -
UK median daily rate £431 - £475

All Application Platform Skills
Scotland

OpenROAD falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 216 334 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 13.29% 15.07% 11.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 203 230
10th Percentile £222 £219 £181
25th Percentile £313 £350 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £453 £436
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% +3.90% -3.11%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £525
90th Percentile £575 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 3
10th Percentile £21.84 £15.36 £17.83
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.42 £17.99
Median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.71% -8.11% +5.71%
75th Percentile £27.91 £17.50 £36.25
90th Percentile £28.38 £24.93 £46.75
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

OpenROAD
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenROAD in Scotland

OpenROAD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for OpenROAD in Scotland

OpenROAD
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 OpenROAD 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 - 2 £400 -
Glasgow - 2 £469 -
OpenROAD
UK

OpenROAD
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 3 (75.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (50.00%) OpenROAD Developer
4 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Java SE
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree