WSDL Contracts in Scotland

Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring WSDL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WSDL over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing WSDL 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.73% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
UK median daily rate £393 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -25.14% +5.00% -9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

WSDL falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 410 361 603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 24.03% 19.36% 23.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 250 432
10th Percentile £313 £325 £388
25th Percentile £419 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £480
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £600 £689 £613
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - - £20.33
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £32.56
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £53.38
Median % change year-on-year - +3.03% -11.03%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 £59.03
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £54.44 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -1.02% -8.33% +2.32%

WSDL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for WSDL in Scotland

WSDL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for WSDL in Scotland

WSDL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for WSDL in Scotland

WSDL
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 WSDL within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Glasgow - 3 £358 -
WSDL
UK

WSDL
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 (100.00%) JBoss
1 3 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 3 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (100.00%) Git
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum Master
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) RAML
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) SOAP
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) API Development
1 3 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 3 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 3 (100.00%) Budget Control
1 3 (100.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Servant Leadership
1 3 (100.00%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle