Algorithms Contracts in Scotland

Algorithms
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Algorithms over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 138 170
Rank change year-on-year +26 +32 -18
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 10 29 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.47% 1.08% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.41% 2.95% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 2
10th Percentile £408 £600 £487
25th Percentile £419 £694 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £750 £512
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +46.63% +20.35%
75th Percentile £564 - £527
90th Percentile £612 - £536
UK median daily rate £590 £600 £675
% change year-on-year -1.67% -11.11% +22.73%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Algorithms is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 711 982 1,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.19% 36.45% 33.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 665 798
10th Percentile £200 £231 £250
25th Percentile £363 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £553 £557
90th Percentile £654 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 26 21
10th Percentile £12.49 - £15.63
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £18.13 £12.73 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.42% -70.40% -4.44%
75th Percentile £35.00 £22.39 £52.50
90th Percentile £60.10 £50.74 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +5.33%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in Scotland

Algorithms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Algorithms in Scotland

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in Scotland

Algorithms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Algorithms in Scotland

Algorithms
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 Algorithms within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 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 -5 7 £475 -36.67% 5
Edinburgh +36 3 £519 - 8
Algorithms
UK

Algorithms
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 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) Big Data
2 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (10.00%) Flink
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Mockito
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 6 (60.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (40.00%) Java Scala Developer
3 4 (40.00%) Linux Developer
3 4 (40.00%) Linux Scripter
3 4 (40.00%) Scala Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Development Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
4 1 (10.00%) SEO Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Development Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Spring
2 2 (20.00%) Kafka
2 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (10.00%) CSS
3 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (10.00%) Guice
3 1 (10.00%) OpenTracing
3 1 (10.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Data Structures
1 3 (30.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Linux
1 6 (60.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) OO
2 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 2 (20.00%) Microservices
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) OOD
4 2 (20.00%) Scrum
5 1 (10.00%) Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (10.00%) Black-Box Testing
5 1 (10.00%) DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Link Building
5 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
5 1 (10.00%) Software Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) Scala
3 2 (20.00%) Perl
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) Kotlin
4 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Google