Senior Contracts in Scotland

Senior
UK > Scotland

The median Senior daily rate in Scotland is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 19 17
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 207 264 305
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 9.38% 9.25% 8.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.90% 9.72% 9.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 214 217
10th Percentile £394 £402 £375
25th Percentile £425 £421 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.60% +5.89% +5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £636 £688 £625
UK median daily rate £567 £589 £575
% change year-on-year -3.74% +2.43% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 2
10th Percentile £24.08 - £20.88
25th Percentile £37.55 - £25.94
Median hourly rate £60.00 £17.72 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +238.60% -49.37% -63.54%
75th Percentile - £30.68 £44.69
90th Percentile - £44.38 £50.13
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -4.04% +33.78% +12.63%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 2,090 2,715 3,383
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 95.13% 96.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,278 1,947 2,403
10th Percentile £204 £237 £213
25th Percentile £364 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 45 54
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.90 £12.24
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.21 £17.50
Median hourly rate £33.25 £23.86 £25.55
Median % change year-on-year +39.35% -6.60% -36.14%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.55 £47.99
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £54.14
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Scotland

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Scotland

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Scotland

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Scotland

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in Scotland

Senior
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 Senior within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 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
Edinburgh +8 96 £510 +7.37% 76
Glasgow -8 60 £475 -18.28% 62
South Lanarkshire +3 25 £590 +18.00% 1
West Lothian +13 13 £575 - 4
Renfrewshire - 2 £465 - 1
Lanarkshire -3 1 - - 14
Highlands - 1 - - 3
Senior
UK

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Senior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 89 (43.00%) Public Sector
2 71 (34.30%) Agile
3 53 (25.60%) Social Skills
4 47 (22.71%) JIRA
5 41 (19.81%) Security Cleared
6 39 (18.84%) SQL
7 35 (16.91%) Confluence
8 33 (15.94%) Azure
9 32 (15.46%) SC Cleared
10 28 (13.53%) Java
11 27 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
12 26 (12.56%) Microsoft
12 26 (12.56%) Scrum
12 26 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (10.63%) Oracle
13 22 (10.63%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (10.14%) AWS
14 21 (10.14%) React
14 21 (10.14%) Project Management
14 21 (10.14%) Finance
14 21 (10.14%) Spring
14 21 (10.14%) Roadmaps
15 20 (9.66%) Disclosure Scotland
15 20 (9.66%) PowerShell
16 18 (8.70%) Spring Boot
16 18 (8.70%) Degree
16 18 (8.70%) Atlassian
16 18 (8.70%) SQL Server
17 17 (8.21%) Disaster Recovery
17 17 (8.21%) DevOps

Senior Skill Set
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 35 (16.91%) Confluence
2 5 (2.42%) IBM HTTP Server
2 5 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.42%) WebSphere
2 5 (2.42%) WebSphere Application Server
2 5 (2.42%) WebSphere Portal
3 4 (1.93%) CMS
4 2 (0.97%) Apache
4 2 (0.97%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.97%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.48%) FileNet
5 1 (0.48%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.48%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (15.94%) Azure
2 21 (10.14%) AWS
3 12 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (5.31%) Power Platform
5 9 (4.35%) PowerApps
6 8 (3.86%) Power Automate
7 5 (2.42%) OpenShift
8 4 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.93%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.93%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (1.93%) IaaS
8 4 (1.93%) PaaS
9 3 (1.45%) SaaS
9 3 (1.45%) Serverless
10 2 (0.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.97%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.86%) Firewall
2 6 (2.90%) HTTP
3 5 (2.42%) Network Security
4 4 (1.93%) WAN
5 3 (1.45%) SCCP
6 2 (0.97%) 5G
6 2 (0.97%) BGP
6 2 (0.97%) LAN
6 2 (0.97%) OSPF
6 2 (0.97%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.48%) DHCP
7 1 (0.48%) DNS
7 1 (0.48%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.48%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.48%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.48%) IPsec
7 1 (0.48%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.48%) NAS
7 1 (0.48%) VPN
7 1 (0.48%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 14 (6.76%) Oracle Database
3 11 (5.31%) MongoDB
3 11 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.31%) Power BI
4 10 (4.83%) Metadata
5 4 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.45%) Oracle Database 10g
6 3 (1.45%) Oracle Database 11g
6 3 (1.45%) Oracle Discoverer
7 2 (0.97%) Informix
8 1 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.48%) Big Data
8 1 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.48%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 47 (22.71%) JIRA
2 15 (7.25%) Git
3 13 (6.28%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.83%) Postman
5 9 (4.35%) JUnit
5 9 (4.35%) Oracle APEX
6 8 (3.86%) Cucumber
6 8 (3.86%) IntelliJ
7 5 (2.42%) IBM UrbanCode
8 4 (1.93%) Maven
8 4 (1.93%) Selenium
8 4 (1.93%) Subversion
9 2 (0.97%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.97%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.97%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.48%) Appium
10 1 (0.48%) JMeter
10 1 (0.48%) NUnit
10 1 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
General
1 89 (43.00%) Public Sector
2 53 (25.60%) Social Skills
3 27 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.14%) Finance
5 13 (6.28%) Banking
6 7 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.97%) Legal
9 2 (0.97%) Marketing
9 2 (0.97%) Publishing
9 2 (0.97%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.48%) Humanities
10 1 (0.48%) Military
10 1 (0.48%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.48%) Social Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.14%) React
1 21 (10.14%) Spring
2 18 (8.70%) Spring Boot
3 15 (7.25%) .NET
4 14 (6.76%) J2EE
4 14 (6.76%) REST
5 9 (4.35%) Kafka
5 9 (4.35%) RESTful
6 7 (3.38%) Apache Camel
6 7 (3.38%) Middleware
7 6 (2.90%) CSS
7 6 (2.90%) HTML
8 5 (2.42%) Web Services
9 4 (1.93%) AWS CDK
9 4 (1.93%) GraphQL
9 4 (1.93%) Jest
9 4 (1.93%) Node.js
9 4 (1.93%) Playwright
10 3 (1.45%) Spring Batch
11 2 (0.97%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.25%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.28%) Management Information System
3 9 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
3 9 (4.35%) Wiki
4 8 (3.86%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.86%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.93%) Client/Server
5 4 (1.93%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.45%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.45%) Replication
7 2 (0.97%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (0.97%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.97%) N-Tier
7 2 (0.97%) PKI
7 2 (0.97%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.48%) Clustering
8 1 (0.48%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.48%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.48%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.28%) Windows
2 11 (5.31%) Linux
3 5 (2.42%) Unix
4 4 (1.93%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.48%) Android
6 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (34.30%) Agile
2 26 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (12.56%) Scrum
3 22 (10.63%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (10.14%) Project Management
4 21 (10.14%) Roadmaps
5 17 (8.21%) DevOps
5 17 (8.21%) Disaster Recovery
5 17 (8.21%) High Availability
6 16 (7.73%) Cybersecurity
7 15 (7.25%) PRINCE2
7 15 (7.25%) Software Delivery
7 15 (7.25%) User Experience
8 14 (6.76%) Problem Management
9 13 (6.28%) Code Quality
10 12 (5.80%) Information Security
10 12 (5.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 12 (5.80%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (5.31%) Analytics
11 11 (5.31%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 39 (18.84%) SQL
2 28 (13.53%) Java
3 20 (9.66%) PowerShell
4 13 (6.28%) T-SQL
5 11 (5.31%) PL/SQL
6 9 (4.35%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.38%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.90%) Python
9 4 (1.93%) C#
10 2 (0.97%) C++
10 2 (0.97%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.97%) VBA
10 2 (0.97%) VBScript
11 1 (0.48%) Perl
11 1 (0.48%) PHP
11 1 (0.48%) R
11 1 (0.48%) Rust
Qualifications
1 41 (19.81%) Security Cleared
2 32 (15.46%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.70%) Degree
4 9 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.42%) CISSP
5 5 (2.42%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 5 (2.42%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 3 (1.45%) CLAS
7 2 (0.97%) CCNP
7 2 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.97%) IIBA
7 2 (0.97%) ISEB
7 2 (0.97%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.97%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.48%) CCNA
8 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.48%) MCSE
8 1 (0.48%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.66%) Disclosure Scotland
2 11 (5.31%) Accessibility
2 11 (5.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.86%) PMO
4 6 (2.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.48%) P3O
6 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (4.35%) Docker
2 6 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.93%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.45%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.48%) NFS
5 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (4.35%) Kibana
2 6 (2.90%) Grafana
3 5 (2.42%) Ansible
4 3 (1.45%) Data Guard
4 3 (1.45%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 3 (1.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (1.45%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (1.45%) SCCM
5 2 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.97%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.97%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.97%) Terraform
6 1 (0.48%) logstash
6 1 (0.48%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.48%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (12.56%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.63%) Oracle
3 18 (8.70%) Atlassian
4 7 (3.38%) IBM
5 5 (2.42%) VMware
6 4 (1.93%) Cisco
7 2 (0.97%) Citrix
7 2 (0.97%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.97%) Google
7 2 (0.97%) McAfee
7 2 (0.97%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.97%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.97%) Splunk
8 1 (0.48%) Arista
8 1 (0.48%) Blue Coat
8 1 (0.48%) F5
8 1 (0.48%) Infoblox
8 1 (0.48%) KANA
8 1 (0.48%) Meraki
8 1 (0.48%) SolarWinds