Developer Contracts in Scotland

Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Developer daily rate in Scotland is £440 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 294 434 548
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 13.85% 16.19% 16.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.61% 17.00% 16.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 316 361
10th Percentile £325 £400 £384
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £500 £528 £525
90th Percentile £560 £688 £613
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 6
10th Percentile £26.13 £49.99 £43.13
25th Percentile £30.32 £53.38 £47.81
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 £57.06
90th Percentile £50.89 £79.81 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% +18.92%

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 2,012 2,553 3,275
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 95.23% 95.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,227 1,773 2,329
10th Percentile £200 £225 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £473
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +0.48% +11.23%
75th Percentile £557 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £633 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 48 52
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.62 £16.35
25th Percentile £15.75 £14.25 £17.86
Median hourly rate £19.50 £20.22 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year -3.56% -45.98% +7.71%
75th Percentile £57.50 £58.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.22 £55.98
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 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 +5 173 £440 -14.56% 41
Edinburgh -5 94 £450 -5.26% 42
West Lothian +3 4 £580 -5.31% 2
Lanarkshire +2 2 £443 -4.84% 14
Aberdeen 0 2 £419 -6.94% 11
Fife 0 1 £428 -
Midlothian - 1 £428 - 12
Stirling - 1 £350 - 2
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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.

1 117 (39.80%) Java
2 115 (39.12%) Agile
3 108 (36.73%) AWS
4 94 (31.97%) SQL
5 73 (24.83%) Spring
6 71 (24.15%) Public Sector
7 67 (22.79%) Microservices
8 62 (21.09%) Oracle
9 58 (19.73%) React
10 57 (19.39%) JavaScript
11 56 (19.05%) Software Engineering
12 53 (18.03%) Spring Boot
13 52 (17.69%) Python
14 51 (17.35%) CI/CD
15 47 (15.99%) TypeScript
16 46 (15.65%) Azure
17 44 (14.97%) HTML
18 43 (14.63%) Amazon S3
19 42 (14.29%) Serverless
20 40 (13.61%) Finance
21 39 (13.27%) RESTful
22 38 (12.93%) Code Quality
23 37 (12.59%) Social Skills
23 37 (12.59%) CSS
24 36 (12.24%) AWS Lambda
25 35 (11.90%) Oracle Database
25 35 (11.90%) DevOps
25 35 (11.90%) SDLC
26 34 (11.56%) Docker
27 33 (11.22%) Full Stack Development

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 13 (4.42%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.38%) Confluence
3 4 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.36%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.02%) Apache
4 3 (1.02%) GeoServer
4 3 (1.02%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.68%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.68%) JBoss
5 2 (0.68%) StreamWeaver
5 2 (0.68%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.68%) WildFly
6 1 (0.34%) CICS
6 1 (0.34%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.34%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.74%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.68%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Maximo
2 1 (0.34%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 108 (36.73%) AWS
2 46 (15.65%) Azure
3 43 (14.63%) Amazon S3
4 42 (14.29%) Serverless
5 36 (12.24%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (10.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (5.78%) OpenShift
8 15 (5.10%) Power Platform
9 14 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (4.76%) GCP
10 7 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (2.04%) Textract
12 5 (1.70%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.70%) PowerApps
13 4 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.36%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (1.36%) npm
14 3 (1.02%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.04%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.68%) SMS
2 2 (0.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (11.90%) Oracle Database
2 32 (10.88%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (9.86%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (4.42%) Power BI
4 13 (4.42%) Relational Database
5 12 (4.08%) Big Data
6 9 (3.06%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (3.06%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.72%) MySQL
8 7 (2.38%) GIS
8 7 (2.38%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (1.36%) Apache Hive
10 4 (1.36%) Impala
10 4 (1.36%) Metadata
10 4 (1.36%) Parquet
10 4 (1.36%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 30 (10.20%) JIRA
2 27 (9.18%) Jenkins
3 22 (7.48%) Git
4 10 (3.40%) Oracle APEX
5 9 (3.06%) JUnit
6 7 (2.38%) Maven
7 6 (2.04%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.70%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.70%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.36%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (1.36%) Subversion
10 3 (1.02%) Mockito
10 3 (1.02%) webpack
11 2 (0.68%) Selenium
11 2 (0.68%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.34%) Gradle
12 1 (0.34%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.34%) Postman
12 1 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 71 (24.15%) Public Sector
2 40 (13.61%) Finance
3 37 (12.59%) Social Skills
4 19 (6.46%) Banking
5 14 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.06%) Financial Institution
7 5 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.70%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.68%) Retail
9 1 (0.34%) German Language
9 1 (0.34%) Local Government
9 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (24.83%) Spring
2 58 (19.73%) React
3 53 (18.03%) Spring Boot
4 44 (14.97%) HTML
5 39 (13.27%) RESTful
6 37 (12.59%) CSS
7 33 (11.22%) AWS CDK
7 33 (11.22%) REST
8 29 (9.86%) Kafka
9 28 (9.52%) .NET
10 22 (7.48%) Node.js
11 21 (7.14%) AngularJS
12 17 (5.78%) Web Services
13 13 (4.42%) PySpark
14 12 (4.08%) XML
15 11 (3.74%) SpaCy
16 9 (3.06%) JSON
16 9 (3.06%) OAuth
16 9 (3.06%) OAuth2
16 9 (3.06%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.46%) Legacy Systems
2 16 (5.44%) Data Structures
3 12 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.40%) Legacy Applications
5 9 (3.06%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.72%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.72%) Wiki
7 6 (2.04%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.70%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.70%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.36%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.02%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.02%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.68%) CMDB
11 2 (0.68%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.68%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 31 (10.54%) Unix
2 17 (5.78%) Linux
3 2 (0.68%) Android
4 1 (0.34%) AIX
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (39.12%) Agile
2 67 (22.79%) Microservices
3 56 (19.05%) Software Engineering
4 51 (17.35%) CI/CD
5 38 (12.93%) Code Quality
6 35 (11.90%) DevOps
6 35 (11.90%) SDLC
7 33 (11.22%) Full Stack Development
8 30 (10.20%) Test Automation
9 29 (9.86%) Data Modelling
10 28 (9.52%) Unit Testing
10 28 (9.52%) User Experience
11 27 (9.18%) Infrastructure as Code
11 27 (9.18%) Scrum
12 26 (8.84%) Artificial Intelligence
13 24 (8.16%) Machine Learning
14 23 (7.82%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (7.48%) TDD
16 17 (5.78%) Analytics
16 17 (5.78%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 117 (39.80%) Java
2 94 (31.97%) SQL
3 57 (19.39%) JavaScript
4 52 (17.69%) Python
5 47 (15.99%) TypeScript
6 33 (11.22%) PL/SQL
7 25 (8.50%) Shell Script
8 24 (8.16%) Scala
9 21 (7.14%) C#
10 14 (4.76%) Kotlin
11 12 (4.08%) Bash
12 7 (2.38%) C
13 6 (2.04%) Go
13 6 (2.04%) Perl
13 6 (2.04%) PHP
14 3 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.02%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.68%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.34%) COBOL
16 1 (0.34%) JCL
Qualifications
1 23 (7.82%) Degree
2 11 (3.74%) Security Cleared
3 5 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.70%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.50%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.08%) Disclosure Scotland
3 6 (2.04%) QA
4 4 (1.36%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.68%) GDPR
5 2 (0.68%) WCAG
6 1 (0.34%) NCSC
System Software
1 34 (11.56%) Docker
2 9 (3.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (7.48%) Grafana
2 20 (6.80%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.72%) Prometheus
3 8 (2.72%) Zipkin
4 4 (1.36%) Kibana
5 3 (1.02%) Terraform
Vendors
1 62 (21.09%) Oracle
2 11 (3.74%) PayPal
3 9 (3.06%) Avaloq
3 9 (3.06%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.04%) Cadence
4 6 (2.04%) Google
4 6 (2.04%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.36%) CA Agile Central
5 4 (1.36%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.02%) Databricks
6 3 (1.02%) IBM
6 3 (1.02%) Splunk
7 2 (0.68%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.68%) Sage
7 2 (0.68%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.34%) Adobe
8 1 (0.34%) Solace
8 1 (0.34%) Sybase
8 1 (0.34%) VMware
8 1 (0.34%) Xamarin