Software Engineering Contracts in Aberdeen

Software Engineering
Scotland > Aberdeen

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Aberdeen requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 7 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Aberdeen 15.15% 3.57% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.63% 3.57% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Scotland median daily rate £440 £528 £505
% change year-on-year -16.59% +4.46% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.00 - -
Median hourly rate £47.00 - -
75th Percentile £48.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £49.86
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.35% -16.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Aberdeen

Software Engineering 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 Aberdeen.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32 28 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Aberdeen 96.97% 100.00% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 24
10th Percentile £454 £150 £374
25th Percentile £478 £176 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £263 £405
Median % change year-on-year +109.52% -35.19% -10.00%
75th Percentile £584 £491 £538
90th Percentile £600 £542 £588
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £28.23 £16.62 £17.80
25th Percentile £31.19 £16.81 £17.92
Median hourly rate £36.75 £17.36 £18.11
Median % change year-on-year +111.69% -4.14% +3.49%
75th Percentile £42.69 £17.67 £18.31
90th Percentile £45.88 £17.70 £18.42
Scotland median hourly rate £22.88 £19.50 £18.75
% change year-on-year +17.31% +4.00% -6.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Aberdeen

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Aberdeen.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Aberdeen

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Aberdeen

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Aberdeen.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Aberdeen

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Aberdeen

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Aberdeen.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Aberdeen

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Aberdeen 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 4 (80.00%) Amazon ECS
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Fargate
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Computing
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub
1 4 (80.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 4 (80.00%) Bitbucket
1 4 (80.00%) CircleCI
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (80.00%) Mercurial
1 4 (80.00%) TeamCity
1 4 (80.00%) Travis CI
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Architect
2 4 (80.00%) IT Architect
2 4 (80.00%) IT Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 4 (80.00%) Senior Architect
2 4 (80.00%) Senior IT Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 4 (80.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (80.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (80.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) Data Governance
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) High Availability
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (80.00%) Roadmaps
1 4 (80.00%) Software Architecture
1 4 (80.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) C
2 1 (20.00%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Numerate Degree
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Progress Chef
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft