SDLC Contracts in Glasgow

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for SDLC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SDLC over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 31 55
Rank change year-on-year +2 +24 -23
Contract jobs citing SDLC 53 60 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 6.48% 6.69% 3.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.03% 7.09% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 23 24
10th Percentile £372 £444 £371
25th Percentile £389 £459 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £550 £490
Median % change year-on-year -19.55% +12.24% +19.51%
75th Percentile £500 £638 £628
90th Percentile £614 £700 £775
Scotland median daily rate £456 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -17.05% +15.79% +11.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

SDLC is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 754 846 856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 92.18% 94.31% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 589 649
10th Percentile £275 £349 £268
25th Percentile £376 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £483 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% +7.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £561 £580 £538
90th Percentile £618 £688 £623
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 34 19
10th Percentile £11.94 - £20.05
25th Percentile £16.00 £10.63 £23.83
Median hourly rate £36.22 £13.88 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +161.05% -62.93% +87.15%
75th Percentile £54.69 £22.50 £45.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £58.75 £56.55
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
% change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SDLC in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Glasgow over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Glasgow

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SDLC in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 8 (15.09%) Apache Spark
2 6 (11.32%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (5.66%) SAS
4 2 (3.77%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 34 (64.15%) AWS
2 10 (18.87%) Azure
3 8 (15.09%) GCP
4 3 (5.66%) npm
5 2 (3.77%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.55%) ATM
2 3 (5.66%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (5.66%) iSCSI
3 2 (3.77%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.09%) Relational Database
2 4 (7.55%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (5.66%) Big Data
4 2 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.77%) DB2
Development Applications
1 9 (16.98%) JIRA
2 3 (5.66%) Cypress.io
3 2 (3.77%) Git
3 2 (3.77%) JUnit
3 2 (3.77%) Subversion
General
1 21 (39.62%) Finance
2 10 (18.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (15.09%) Banking
4 7 (13.21%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.66%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 33 (62.26%) Developer
2 21 (39.62%) Java Developer
3 8 (15.09%) Full Stack Engineer
4 7 (13.21%) Java Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) Backend Developer
6 5 (9.43%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Full Stack Developer
6 5 (9.43%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 4 (7.55%) Architect
7 4 (7.55%) Python Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Lead
8 2 (3.77%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Release Manager
8 2 (3.77%) Senior
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (47.17%) Spring
2 20 (37.74%) Spring Boot
3 14 (26.42%) AngularJS
4 13 (24.53%) REST
5 12 (22.64%) Kafka
5 12 (22.64%) RESTful
6 11 (20.75%) CSS
6 11 (20.75%) HTML
6 11 (20.75%) JPA
7 7 (13.21%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (13.21%) OpenTracing
8 6 (11.32%) PySpark
9 4 (7.55%) Middleware
9 4 (7.55%) React
10 3 (5.66%) Flash
10 3 (5.66%) POSIX
11 2 (3.77%) JSON
11 2 (3.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.75%) Public Cloud
2 10 (18.87%) Data Structures
2 10 (18.87%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (5.66%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (5.66%) NVMe
5 2 (3.77%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.77%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.87%) Unix
2 3 (5.66%) Linux
3 2 (3.77%) Data ONTAP
3 2 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.77%) Windows
3 2 (3.77%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (81.13%) Agile
2 28 (52.83%) Microservices
3 26 (49.06%) Software Engineering
4 22 (41.51%) CI/CD
5 19 (35.85%) Operational Stability
6 14 (26.42%) Full Stack Development
7 13 (24.53%) Artificial Intelligence
7 13 (24.53%) Machine Learning
8 12 (22.64%) Decision-Making
9 11 (20.75%) End-to-End Testing
10 9 (16.98%) User Acceptance Testing
11 8 (15.09%) Test Automation
12 6 (11.32%) Community of Practice
12 6 (11.32%) Continuous Delivery
12 6 (11.32%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (11.32%) Dependency Injection
13 5 (9.43%) Backlog Refinement
13 5 (9.43%) Data Modelling
13 5 (9.43%) Release Management
13 5 (9.43%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 32 (60.38%) Java
2 24 (45.28%) SQL
3 11 (20.75%) Kotlin
3 11 (20.75%) Scala
3 11 (20.75%) TypeScript
4 9 (16.98%) Python
5 8 (15.09%) PL/SQL
5 8 (15.09%) Shell Script
6 3 (5.66%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (5.66%) Degree
2 1 (1.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) QA
System Software
1 10 (18.87%) Docker
2 3 (5.66%) NFS
3 2 (3.77%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 11 (20.75%) Kubernetes
2 7 (13.21%) Prometheus
2 7 (13.21%) Zipkin
3 2 (3.77%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 10 (18.87%) Oracle
2 4 (7.55%) IBM
3 3 (5.66%) CA Agile Central
3 3 (5.66%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.77%) Brocade
4 2 (3.77%) EMC
4 2 (3.77%) Google
4 2 (3.77%) NetApp
4 2 (3.77%) Sybase
4 2 (3.77%) Veritas