SDLC Contracts in Scotland

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for SDLC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SDLC over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 65 80
Rank change year-on-year +3 +15 -26
Contract jobs citing SDLC 68 110 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.06% 3.84% 2.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.46% 4.15% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 51 67
10th Percentile £400 £413 £409
25th Percentile £413 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £578
90th Percentile £669 £712 £660
UK median daily rate £585 £600 £571
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.17% +14.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £60.22 £50.06
25th Percentile - £62.02 £53.25
Median hourly rate £21.64 £65.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.71% +19.27% +21.11%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile - £69.00 -
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +9.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

SDLC is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,967 2,651 3,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.60% 92.63% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 1,908 2,312
10th Percentile £229 £263 £240
25th Percentile £400 £408 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £624
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 46
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.51 £18.35
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -55.69% -0.01%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.75 £49.34
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Scotland

SDLC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Scotland over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SDLC in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Scotland

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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 SDLC within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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 -8 50 £500 -9.09% 21
Edinburgh +24 13 £558 +7.21% 18
Fife 0 1 - - 1
SDLC
UK

SDLC
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 7 (10.29%) Apache Spark
1 7 (10.29%) SAS
2 6 (8.82%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.94%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 38 (55.88%) AWS
2 16 (23.53%) Azure
3 8 (11.76%) GCP
4 4 (5.88%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (4.41%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (4.41%) OCI
6 2 (2.94%) IaaS
6 2 (2.94%) npm
7 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.47%) GitHub
7 1 (1.47%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.29%) Fibre Channel
1 7 (10.29%) iSCSI
2 5 (7.35%) ATM
3 4 (5.88%) SAN
4 2 (2.94%) DNS
4 2 (2.94%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.47%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.29%) Relational Database
2 6 (8.82%) DB2
3 2 (2.94%) Big Data
3 2 (2.94%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.94%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.47%) Power BI
4 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (7.35%) JIRA
2 2 (2.94%) Cypress.io
2 2 (2.94%) Git
2 2 (2.94%) JUnit
2 2 (2.94%) Subversion
3 1 (1.47%) GitLab
General
1 21 (30.88%) Finance
2 14 (20.59%) Banking
3 13 (19.12%) Public Sector
3 13 (19.12%) Social Skills
4 11 (16.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (7.35%) Investment Banking
7 4 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 26 (38.24%) Developer
2 19 (27.94%) Java Developer
3 8 (11.76%) Full Stack Engineer
3 8 (11.76%) Lead
4 7 (10.29%) Analyst
4 7 (10.29%) Java Engineer
5 6 (8.82%) Backend Developer
5 6 (8.82%) Python Engineer
6 5 (7.35%) Architect
6 5 (7.35%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (7.35%) Business Analyst
6 5 (7.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (7.35%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (7.35%) Storage Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Full Stack Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Senior
8 3 (4.41%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (35.29%) Spring
2 19 (27.94%) Spring Boot
3 13 (19.12%) AngularJS
3 13 (19.12%) REST
4 11 (16.18%) CSS
4 11 (16.18%) HTML
4 11 (16.18%) JPA
4 11 (16.18%) RESTful
5 10 (14.71%) Kafka
6 7 (10.29%) Flash
6 7 (10.29%) POSIX
7 6 (8.82%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (8.82%) Middleware
7 6 (8.82%) OpenTracing
7 6 (8.82%) PySpark
8 2 (2.94%) JSON
8 2 (2.94%) React
8 2 (2.94%) XML
9 1 (1.47%) EJB
9 1 (1.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.18%) Public Cloud
2 9 (13.24%) Data Structures
2 9 (13.24%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.35%) NVMe
3 5 (7.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 4 (5.88%) Client/Server
5 3 (4.41%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.41%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.41%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.94%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.47%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.71%) Linux
2 8 (11.76%) Windows
3 7 (10.29%) Unix
4 6 (8.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (8.82%) Windows Server
5 4 (5.88%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (69.12%) Agile
2 29 (42.65%) Microservices
3 26 (38.24%) Software Engineering
4 20 (29.41%) CI/CD
5 18 (26.47%) Operational Stability
6 14 (20.59%) Decision-Making
7 13 (19.12%) Full Stack Development
8 12 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence
8 12 (17.65%) Machine Learning
8 12 (17.65%) Test Automation
9 10 (14.71%) End-to-End Testing
10 7 (10.29%) Business Case
10 7 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (8.82%) Community of Practice
11 6 (8.82%) High Availability
11 6 (8.82%) Infrastructure Automation
11 6 (8.82%) User Acceptance Testing
12 5 (7.35%) Observability
12 5 (7.35%) Preventative Maintenance
12 5 (7.35%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (51.47%) Java
2 21 (30.88%) SQL
3 16 (23.53%) Python
4 12 (17.65%) Scala
5 11 (16.18%) TypeScript
6 10 (14.71%) Kotlin
7 7 (10.29%) Perl
8 1 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (5.88%) Degree
2 3 (4.41%) Azure Certification
2 3 (4.41%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.41%) QA
3 2 (2.94%) NCSC
4 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.47%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (16.18%) Docker
2 7 (10.29%) NFS
3 4 (5.88%) GPFS
4 2 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.47%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.82%) Prometheus
2 6 (8.82%) Zipkin
3 4 (5.88%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 1 (1.47%) Ansible
4 1 (1.47%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.47%) Puppet
4 1 (1.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (10.29%) Microsoft
1 7 (10.29%) Oracle
2 6 (8.82%) IBM
2 6 (8.82%) Sybase
3 4 (5.88%) Brocade
3 4 (5.88%) EMC
3 4 (5.88%) Google
3 4 (5.88%) NetApp
3 4 (5.88%) Veritas
4 2 (2.94%) VMware