Software Developer Contracts in Scotland

Software Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Software Developer daily rate in Scotland is £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 96 146
Rank change year-on-year +9 +50 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 41 73 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.87% 2.60% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.98% 2.73% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 49 15
10th Percentile £414 £400 £375
25th Percentile £427 £415 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £572 £525 £494
90th Percentile £669 £625 £610
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £511
% change year-on-year - +2.69% +13.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.25
Median hourly rate - £59.03 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - +5.41% -
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.70 £57.50 £48.12
% change year-on-year +5.57% +19.49% +41.53%

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 2,070 2,677 3,358
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 95.30% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,251 1,920 2,387
10th Percentile £200 £232 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £554 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 52
10th Percentile £12.33 £12.90 £14.65
25th Percentile £16.13 £15.75 £17.50
Median hourly rate £24.26 £21.75 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +11.52% -18.99% -28.40%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £48.19
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.13 £54.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in Scotland

Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Software Developer in Scotland

Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in Scotland over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Developer in Scotland

Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Developer in Scotland

Software Developer
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 Software Developer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 6 May 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 +1 28 £536 +12.84% 3
Edinburgh +17 5 £430 -7.53% 5
Lanarkshire +1 1 £425 -29.17% 1
Software Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Software Developer 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 28 (68.29%) Code Quality
2 25 (60.98%) Artificial Intelligence
2 25 (60.98%) Degree
3 23 (56.10%) PayPal
3 23 (56.10%) Chatbot
3 23 (56.10%) Conversational UI
4 19 (46.34%) Python
4 19 (46.34%) JavaScript
5 18 (43.90%) HTML
6 13 (31.71%) SQL
7 12 (29.27%) Java
8 11 (26.83%) C#
8 11 (26.83%) Software Engineering
8 11 (26.83%) AWS
9 9 (21.95%) Agile
9 9 (21.95%) Public Sector
10 8 (19.51%) AWS CDK
10 8 (19.51%) Accessibility
10 8 (19.51%) CI/CD
10 8 (19.51%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (19.51%) Amazon S3
10 8 (19.51%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (17.07%) Serverless
11 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (17.07%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (17.07%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (17.07%) TypeScript
11 7 (17.07%) CSS
11 7 (17.07%) Linux
12 6 (14.63%) Oracle

Software Developer 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 2 (4.88%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.44%) SAS
Applications
1 23 (56.10%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 11 (26.83%) AWS
2 8 (19.51%) Amazon S3
3 7 (17.07%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (17.07%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (17.07%) Serverless
4 4 (9.76%) OpenShift
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (4.88%) iPaaS
5 2 (4.88%) Rekognition
5 2 (4.88%) Textract
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (2.44%) HTTP
1 1 (2.44%) iSCSI
1 1 (2.44%) SSL
1 1 (2.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.51%) Amazon Aurora
1 8 (19.51%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.88%) MariaDB
2 2 (4.88%) MySQL
2 2 (4.88%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.88%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.44%) DB2
3 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.88%) Cucumber
2 2 (4.88%) Git
2 2 (4.88%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (4.88%) Selenium
2 2 (4.88%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (21.95%) Public Sector
2 2 (4.88%) Banking
2 2 (4.88%) Finance
3 1 (2.44%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (43.90%) HTML
2 8 (19.51%) AWS CDK
3 7 (17.07%) CSS
4 5 (12.20%) Node.js
4 5 (12.20%) React
4 5 (12.20%) REST
5 3 (7.32%) Spring
6 2 (4.88%) Django
6 2 (4.88%) Gherkin
6 2 (4.88%) Laravel
6 2 (4.88%) OpenAPI
6 2 (4.88%) Spring Boot
6 2 (4.88%) Swagger
6 2 (4.88%) Yii
7 1 (2.44%) OAuth2
7 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.44%) RESTful
7 1 (2.44%) Spring Security
7 1 (2.44%) Spring Web Flow
7 1 (2.44%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.44%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.07%) Linux
2 2 (4.88%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (4.88%) Unix
3 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.44%) Windows
3 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (68.29%) Code Quality
2 25 (60.98%) Artificial Intelligence
3 23 (56.10%) Conversational UI
4 11 (26.83%) Software Engineering
5 9 (21.95%) Agile
6 8 (19.51%) CI/CD
7 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (12.20%) Human-Centred Design
8 5 (12.20%) Mentoring
8 5 (12.20%) Microservices
9 4 (9.76%) Code Coverage
9 4 (9.76%) Pair Programming
9 4 (9.76%) TDD
9 4 (9.76%) User Experience
10 3 (7.32%) Coaching
10 3 (7.32%) ETL
10 3 (7.32%) Kanban
10 3 (7.32%) Requirements Analysis
10 3 (7.32%) Scrum
10 3 (7.32%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (46.34%) JavaScript
1 19 (46.34%) Python
2 13 (31.71%) SQL
3 12 (29.27%) Java
4 11 (26.83%) C#
5 7 (17.07%) TypeScript
6 3 (7.32%) Bash
7 2 (4.88%) Perl
7 2 (4.88%) PHP
7 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (60.98%) Degree
2 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.51%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.88%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (9.76%) Grafana
2 3 (7.32%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.44%) Kibana
3 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (56.10%) PayPal
2 6 (14.63%) Oracle