Technical Debt Contracts in Scotland

Technical Debt
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Technical Debt skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Debt over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 154 154
Rank change year-on-year +37 0 0
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 6 10 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.28% 0.37% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.40% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 18
10th Percentile £407 £416 £416
25th Percentile £411 £444 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £489 £483
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +1.35% +8.43%
75th Percentile £459 £503 £536
90th Percentile £475 £521 £576
UK median daily rate £525 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -19.23% +8.33% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Technical Debt 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 1,884 2,495 3,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.04% 92.48% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,766 2,240
10th Percentile £219 £260 £250
25th Percentile £369 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 55 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £17.67
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Debt in Scotland

Technical Debt
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Debt in Scotland

Technical Debt
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 Technical Debt within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 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 +33 3 £450 -7.98% 2
Glasgow +14 3 £425 -
Technical Debt
UK

Technical Debt
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 (33.33%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) Metadata
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Artifactory
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Publishing
4 1 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Content Designer
1 2 (33.33%) Designer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Content Designer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (16.67%) Spring MVC
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Web Flow
2 1 (16.67%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Coaching
1 3 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Content Management
2 2 (33.33%) Content Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 2 (33.33%) Observability
2 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 2 (33.33%) Service-Level Objective
2 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Software Distribution
2 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 2 (33.33%) User Stories
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Grafana
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk