V-Model Contract Job Trends in Scotland

V-Model
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring V-Model skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 113 138
Rank change year-on-year -2 +25 +41
Contract jobs citing V-Model 2 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.13% 0.16% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.19% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £403 -
25th Percentile - £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -4.23%
75th Percentile - £606 £438
90th Percentile - £708 £445
UK median daily rate £475 £438 £425
% change year-on-year +8.57% +2.94% -21.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

V-Model 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 1,459 1,617 2,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.24% 86.42% 91.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 807 984 1,462
10th Percentile £263 £213 £250
25th Percentile £391 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £603 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 46 58
10th Percentile £16.84 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.63 £13.43
Median hourly rate £20.00 £20.94 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% +6.88% -8.88%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £58.96
90th Percentile £37.00 £51.50 £75.03
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% - +48.28%

V-Model
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing V-Model as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for V-Model in Scotland

V-Model
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing V-Model.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing V-Model

V-Model
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 V-Model within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 September 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 +4 2 £400 -5.88% 4
V-Model
UK

V-Model
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) PowerApps
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
1 2 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 2 (100.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) ATDD
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Feature Driven Development
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) VBA
1 2 (100.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA