Senior Developer Contracts in Scotland

Senior Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Senior Developer daily rate in Scotland is £511 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 121 120
Rank change year-on-year +31 -1 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 32 49 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.48% 1.80% 1.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 1.89% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 39 29
10th Percentile £378 £445 £380
25th Percentile £418 £518 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £625 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.20% +38.89% -
75th Percentile £575 £713 £525
90th Percentile £588 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +11.63%

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 2,037 2,596 3,267
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 95.44% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,254 1,845 2,317
10th Percentile £200 £231 £215
25th Percentile £360 £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 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 42 52
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.79 £15.51
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.31 £17.67
Median hourly rate £24.29 £22.13 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +9.79% -17.60% -28.40%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.17 £47.97
90th Percentile £66.00 £68.63 £55.83
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Scotland

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in Scotland

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Scotland over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in Scotland

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in Scotland

Senior 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 Senior Developer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 15 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
Edinburgh +29 13 £475 -17.39% 9
Glasgow +5 12 £480 -36.00% 12
West Lothian - 7 £558 -
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Developer in the job title.

1 18 (56.25%) Spring
1 18 (56.25%) Java
2 17 (53.13%) Spring Boot
3 16 (50.00%) Agile
4 15 (46.88%) SQL
5 13 (40.63%) React
6 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
6 11 (34.38%) REST
7 10 (31.25%) Oracle
8 9 (28.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (28.13%) RESTful
8 9 (28.13%) AWS
8 9 (28.13%) Microservices
9 8 (25.00%) Public Sector
9 8 (25.00%) Azure
9 8 (25.00%) Kafka
9 8 (25.00%) Git
9 8 (25.00%) .NET
10 7 (21.88%) JUnit
10 7 (21.88%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (21.88%) User Experience
11 6 (18.75%) DevOps
11 6 (18.75%) Cloud Native
11 6 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (18.75%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (18.75%) Code Quality
11 6 (18.75%) Knowledge Transfer
11 6 (18.75%) End-to-End Testing
11 6 (18.75%) Product Ownership
11 6 (18.75%) JIRA

Senior 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 6 (18.75%) Confluence
2 2 (6.25%) Apache
2 2 (6.25%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) AWS
2 8 (25.00%) Azure
3 6 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.25%) Metadata
2 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Git
2 7 (21.88%) JUnit
3 6 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 6 (18.75%) JIRA
4 5 (15.63%) Cucumber
4 5 (15.63%) Postman
5 4 (12.50%) IntelliJ
5 4 (12.50%) Maven
6 3 (9.38%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (6.25%) Subversion
General
1 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (3.13%) Banking
4 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (56.25%) Spring
2 17 (53.13%) Spring Boot
3 13 (40.63%) React
4 11 (34.38%) REST
5 9 (28.13%) RESTful
6 8 (25.00%) .NET
6 8 (25.00%) Kafka
7 6 (18.75%) Apache Camel
7 6 (18.75%) J2EE
8 3 (9.38%) Spring Batch
8 3 (9.38%) Web Services
9 2 (6.25%) ASP.NET
9 2 (6.25%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (6.25%) JSON
9 2 (6.25%) XML
10 1 (3.13%) CSS
10 1 (3.13%) HTML
10 1 (3.13%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Cloud Native
1 6 (18.75%) Legacy Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Product Ownership
1 6 (18.75%) Wiki
2 3 (9.38%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Agile
2 9 (28.13%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (28.13%) Microservices
3 7 (21.88%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (21.88%) User Experience
4 6 (18.75%) Code Quality
4 6 (18.75%) DevOps
4 6 (18.75%) End-to-End Testing
4 6 (18.75%) Knowledge Transfer
5 4 (12.50%) Clean Code
5 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (9.38%) Data Protection
6 3 (9.38%) MVC
6 3 (9.38%) Scrum
6 3 (9.38%) TDD
6 3 (9.38%) Value Proposition
7 2 (6.25%) Coaching
7 2 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (6.25%) Component Testing
7 2 (6.25%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (56.25%) Java
2 15 (46.88%) SQL
3 4 (12.50%) PL/SQL
4 2 (6.25%) C#
4 2 (6.25%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Kibana
2 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) Oracle
2 2 (6.25%) IBM