Developer Contracts in Scotland

Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Developer daily rate in Scotland is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 284 445 513
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 13.20% 16.46% 15.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.98% 17.26% 15.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 328 331
10th Percentile £325 £409 £381
25th Percentile £402 £437 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £506 £550 £525
90th Percentile £588 £700 £588
UK median daily rate £511 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.09% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £26.13 £49.99 £48.90
25th Percentile £30.32 £53.38 £53.25
Median hourly rate £38.38 £59.03 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.99% +8.31% +36.25%
75th Percentile £46.61 £72.02 £57.50
90th Percentile £50.89 £79.81 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.78% +17.27% +22.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 2,032 2,578 3,272
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 95.38% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,250 1,820 2,318
10th Percentile £200 £231 £218
25th Percentile £356 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 43 50
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.83 £15.61
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.38 £18.23
Median hourly rate £24.29 £21.75 £29.93
Median % change year-on-year +11.68% -27.32% -20.20%
75th Percentile £60.00 £59.79 £47.99
90th Percentile £66.00 £68.50 £55.86
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Scotland

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Scotland

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Scotland

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Scotland

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in Scotland

Developer
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 Developer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 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 +6 169 £450 -19.28% 59
Edinburgh -9 80 £450 -5.26% 35
West Lothian +5 13 £540 -11.84% 3
Lanarkshire +3 2 £443 -7.81% 18
Aberdeen 0 2 £419 -6.94% 8
Fife +1 1 £428 - 1
Midlothian - 1 £428 - 12
Developer
UK

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 119 (41.90%) Java
2 113 (39.79%) Agile
3 102 (35.92%) AWS
4 82 (28.87%) SQL
5 72 (25.35%) Spring
6 64 (22.54%) Microservices
7 61 (21.48%) Python
8 56 (19.72%) Software Engineering
8 56 (19.72%) Spring Boot
9 55 (19.37%) Public Sector
10 54 (19.01%) Oracle
11 51 (17.96%) React
12 50 (17.61%) JavaScript
13 49 (17.25%) TypeScript
14 47 (16.55%) CI/CD
15 46 (16.20%) Code Quality
16 43 (15.14%) Serverless
17 41 (14.44%) Amazon S3
18 40 (14.08%) Social Skills
18 40 (14.08%) AWS Lambda
19 39 (13.73%) Docker
19 39 (13.73%) Finance
20 38 (13.38%) Artificial Intelligence
20 38 (13.38%) HTML
21 37 (13.03%) AWS CDK
22 36 (12.68%) Azure
23 35 (12.32%) REST
23 35 (12.32%) Kafka
23 35 (12.32%) PostgreSQL
23 35 (12.32%) AWS CloudFormation

Developer Skill Set
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 12 (4.23%) Confluence
2 11 (3.87%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.46%) Apache
4 4 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.06%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.70%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.70%) JBoss
6 2 (0.70%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.70%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.70%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.70%) WildFly
7 1 (0.35%) CICS
7 1 (0.35%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (7.04%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Maximo
2 1 (0.35%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 102 (35.92%) AWS
2 43 (15.14%) Serverless
3 41 (14.44%) Amazon S3
4 40 (14.08%) AWS Lambda
5 36 (12.68%) Azure
6 35 (12.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (5.99%) OpenShift
8 16 (5.63%) GCP
9 12 (4.23%) Power Platform
10 9 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (2.82%) Textract
12 6 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.11%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (1.41%) Rekognition
14 3 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.06%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (1.06%) npm
14 3 (1.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.11%) Kerberos
2 3 (1.06%) SSL
3 2 (0.70%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.35%) 5G
4 1 (0.35%) DHCP
4 1 (0.35%) DNS
4 1 (0.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (0.35%) HTTP
4 1 (0.35%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (12.32%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (11.27%) Amazon Aurora
3 29 (10.21%) Oracle Database
4 14 (4.93%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.52%) Power BI
6 9 (3.17%) Big Data
6 9 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.46%) GIS
7 7 (2.46%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.11%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (2.11%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.76%) MySQL
10 4 (1.41%) Metadata
10 4 (1.41%) Parquet
11 3 (1.06%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.06%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.70%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 35 (12.32%) Jenkins
2 34 (11.97%) JIRA
3 29 (10.21%) Git
4 16 (5.63%) JUnit
5 12 (4.23%) Cucumber
6 11 (3.87%) Oracle APEX
7 8 (2.82%) Postman
8 7 (2.46%) Maven
9 6 (2.11%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.76%) IntelliJ
10 5 (1.76%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (1.41%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.41%) Subversion
12 3 (1.06%) Mockito
12 3 (1.06%) webpack
13 2 (0.70%) Selenium
13 2 (0.70%) WebDriver
14 1 (0.35%) CircleCI
14 1 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
14 1 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 55 (19.37%) Public Sector
2 40 (14.08%) Social Skills
3 39 (13.73%) Finance
4 17 (5.99%) Banking
5 12 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.23%) Financial Institution
6 6 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.06%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.06%) Retail
8 1 (0.35%) Automotive
8 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.35%) German Language
8 1 (0.35%) Law
8 1 (0.35%) Local Government
8 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (25.35%) Spring
2 56 (19.72%) Spring Boot
3 51 (17.96%) React
4 38 (13.38%) HTML
5 37 (13.03%) AWS CDK
6 35 (12.32%) Kafka
6 35 (12.32%) REST
7 34 (11.97%) RESTful
8 31 (10.92%) CSS
9 23 (8.10%) Node.js
10 20 (7.04%) .NET
11 16 (5.63%) AngularJS
12 14 (4.93%) Web Services
13 12 (4.23%) PySpark
14 10 (3.52%) XML
15 9 (3.17%) JSON
16 8 (2.82%) Apache Camel
16 8 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
16 8 (2.82%) OpenTracing
16 8 (2.82%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.69%) Legacy Systems
2 16 (5.63%) Data Structures
3 13 (4.58%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (3.52%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.82%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.82%) Legacy Applications
7 7 (2.46%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (2.11%) Wiki
9 5 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.76%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.70%) CMDB
10 2 (0.70%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.70%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.70%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.70%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.35%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.75%) Linux
2 21 (7.39%) Unix
3 2 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.35%) AIX
4 1 (0.35%) Android
4 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (39.79%) Agile
2 64 (22.54%) Microservices
3 56 (19.72%) Software Engineering
4 47 (16.55%) CI/CD
5 46 (16.20%) Code Quality
6 38 (13.38%) Artificial Intelligence
7 33 (11.62%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (11.27%) SDLC
9 31 (10.92%) Test Automation
10 29 (10.21%) DevOps
10 29 (10.21%) Scrum
11 27 (9.51%) Unit Testing
12 26 (9.15%) Data Modelling
12 26 (9.15%) User Experience
13 24 (8.45%) Machine Learning
13 24 (8.45%) TDD
14 23 (8.10%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (7.39%) Continuous Integration
15 21 (7.39%) End-to-End Testing
16 20 (7.04%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 119 (41.90%) Java
2 82 (28.87%) SQL
3 61 (21.48%) Python
4 50 (17.61%) JavaScript
5 49 (17.25%) TypeScript
6 28 (9.86%) Scala
7 27 (9.51%) PL/SQL
8 19 (6.69%) C#
8 19 (6.69%) Shell Script
9 13 (4.58%) Bash
9 13 (4.58%) Kotlin
10 7 (2.46%) C
11 6 (2.11%) Go
11 6 (2.11%) Perl
12 4 (1.41%) PHP
13 3 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.35%) COBOL
14 1 (0.35%) JCL
14 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (10.56%) Degree
2 9 (3.17%) Security Cleared
3 5 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.80%) Accessibility
2 11 (3.87%) Disclosure Scotland
3 6 (2.11%) QA
4 4 (1.41%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.70%) GDPR
5 2 (0.70%) WCAG
6 1 (0.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 39 (13.73%) Docker
2 7 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (9.51%) Kubernetes
2 24 (8.45%) Grafana
3 8 (2.82%) Prometheus
3 8 (2.82%) Zipkin
4 7 (2.46%) Kibana
4 7 (2.46%) Terraform
5 2 (0.70%) Ansible
6 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 54 (19.01%) Oracle
2 20 (7.04%) PayPal
3 9 (3.17%) Avaloq
4 6 (2.11%) Cadence
4 6 (2.11%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.11%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.41%) Google
6 3 (1.06%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (1.06%) Databricks
6 3 (1.06%) IBM
6 3 (1.06%) Splunk
6 3 (1.06%) VMware
7 2 (0.70%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.70%) Sage
7 2 (0.70%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.35%) Adobe
8 1 (0.35%) F5
8 1 (0.35%) Greenplum
8 1 (0.35%) Sybase
8 1 (0.35%) Xamarin