Digital Engineering Contracts in Scotland

Digital Engineering
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Digital Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Digital Engineering over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 162 170
Rank change year-on-year +40 +8 -1
Contract jobs citing Digital Engineering 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.19% 0.037% 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.040% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £763 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% - -
75th Percentile £788 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £625 £513 £650
% change year-on-year +21.95% -21.15% +36.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Digital Engineering 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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,869 2,473 3,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.21% 92.38% 93.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,156 1,727 2,243
10th Percentile £219 £250 £250
25th Percentile £363 £401 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £566 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 52
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.09
25th Percentile £15.24 £11.25 £17.67
Median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%
75th Percentile £40.94 £35.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £55.98
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Digital Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Engineering in Scotland

Digital Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Engineering in Scotland

Digital Engineering
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 Digital Engineering within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +17 2 - -
Edinburgh - 2 £775 -
Digital Engineering
UK

Digital Engineering
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Technical Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Installations Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (50.00%) ERP
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk