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 6 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
6 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 297 440 553
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 13.88% 16.36% 16.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.67% 17.16% 16.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 324 364
10th Percentile £325 £400 £384
25th Percentile £400 £435 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £475 £464
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% +2.37% +9.18%
75th Percentile £500 £532 £525
90th Percentile £575 £688 £600
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% +15.18%

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 2,024 2,564 3,298
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 95.32% 95.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,234 1,784 2,341
10th Percentile £200 £225 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £472
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +0.64% +11.06%
75th Percentile £558 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 45 51
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.00 £14.25 £17.81
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -50.57% +37.36%
75th Percentile £58.75 £58.75 £48.38
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.88 £55.84
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.70%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +6 175 £440 -16.19% 41
Edinburgh -5 92 £450 -5.26% 46
West Lothian +3 7 £580 -5.31% 1
Lanarkshire +2 2 £443 -4.84% 12
Aberdeen 0 2 £419 -6.94% 14
Fife 0 1 £428 -
Midlothian - 1 £428 - 14
Stirling - 1 £350 - 2
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 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.

1 120 (40.40%) Java
2 117 (39.39%) Agile
3 108 (36.36%) AWS
4 96 (32.32%) SQL
5 74 (24.92%) Spring
6 70 (23.57%) Public Sector
7 67 (22.56%) Microservices
8 63 (21.21%) Oracle
9 59 (19.87%) React
10 57 (19.19%) JavaScript
10 57 (19.19%) Software Engineering
11 56 (18.86%) Spring Boot
12 52 (17.51%) CI/CD
12 52 (17.51%) Python
13 47 (15.82%) TypeScript
14 46 (15.49%) Azure
15 44 (14.81%) HTML
16 43 (14.48%) Amazon S3
17 42 (14.14%) Serverless
18 41 (13.80%) Finance
19 40 (13.47%) RESTful
20 39 (13.13%) Social Skills
21 38 (12.79%) Code Quality
22 37 (12.46%) CSS
23 36 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
23 36 (12.12%) Docker
24 35 (11.78%) DevOps
24 35 (11.78%) Oracle Database
24 35 (11.78%) SDLC
24 35 (11.78%) REST

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 (4.38%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.37%) Confluence
3 5 (1.68%) Apache
4 4 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.35%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.01%) GeoServer
5 3 (1.01%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.67%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.67%) JBoss
6 2 (0.67%) StreamWeaver
6 2 (0.67%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.67%) WildFly
7 1 (0.34%) CICS
7 1 (0.34%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.34%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.70%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.67%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Maximo
2 1 (0.34%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 108 (36.36%) AWS
2 46 (15.49%) Azure
3 43 (14.48%) Amazon S3
4 42 (14.14%) Serverless
5 36 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (10.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (5.72%) OpenShift
8 15 (5.05%) Power Platform
9 14 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (4.71%) GCP
10 7 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (2.02%) Textract
12 5 (1.68%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.68%) PowerApps
13 4 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.35%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (1.35%) npm
14 3 (1.01%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.02%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.67%) SMS
2 2 (0.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (11.78%) Oracle Database
2 32 (10.77%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (9.76%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (4.38%) Power BI
4 13 (4.38%) Relational Database
5 12 (4.04%) Big Data
6 9 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (3.03%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.69%) MySQL
8 7 (2.36%) GIS
8 7 (2.36%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (2.02%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (1.35%) Apache Hive
10 4 (1.35%) Impala
10 4 (1.35%) Metadata
10 4 (1.35%) Parquet
10 4 (1.35%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 33 (11.11%) JIRA
2 30 (10.10%) Jenkins
3 25 (8.42%) Git
4 12 (4.04%) JUnit
5 10 (3.37%) Oracle APEX
6 8 (2.69%) Cucumber
7 7 (2.36%) Maven
8 6 (2.02%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.68%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.35%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (1.35%) Postman
10 4 (1.35%) Subversion
11 3 (1.01%) IntelliJ
11 3 (1.01%) Mockito
11 3 (1.01%) webpack
12 2 (0.67%) Selenium
12 2 (0.67%) WebDriver
13 1 (0.34%) Gradle
13 1 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
13 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 70 (23.57%) Public Sector
2 41 (13.80%) Finance
3 39 (13.13%) Social Skills
4 19 (6.40%) Banking
5 14 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.37%) Financial Institution
7 5 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.68%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.67%) Retail
9 1 (0.34%) German Language
9 1 (0.34%) Local Government
9 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (24.92%) Spring
2 59 (19.87%) React
3 56 (18.86%) Spring Boot
4 44 (14.81%) HTML
5 40 (13.47%) RESTful
6 37 (12.46%) CSS
7 35 (11.78%) REST
8 33 (11.11%) AWS CDK
9 32 (10.77%) Kafka
10 28 (9.43%) .NET
11 22 (7.41%) Node.js
12 20 (6.73%) AngularJS
13 17 (5.72%) Web Services
14 13 (4.38%) PySpark
15 12 (4.04%) XML
16 10 (3.37%) SpaCy
17 9 (3.03%) JSON
17 9 (3.03%) OAuth
17 9 (3.03%) OAuth2
17 9 (3.03%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.40%) Legacy Systems
2 16 (5.39%) Data Structures
3 12 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.37%) Legacy Applications
5 9 (3.03%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.69%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.69%) Wiki
7 6 (2.02%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.02%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.68%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.68%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.35%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.01%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.01%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.67%) CMDB
11 2 (0.67%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.67%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 31 (10.44%) Unix
2 17 (5.72%) Linux
3 2 (0.67%) 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
1 117 (39.39%) Agile
2 67 (22.56%) Microservices
3 57 (19.19%) Software Engineering
4 52 (17.51%) CI/CD
5 38 (12.79%) Code Quality
6 35 (11.78%) DevOps
6 35 (11.78%) SDLC
7 32 (10.77%) Full Stack Development
8 30 (10.10%) Test Automation
9 29 (9.76%) Data Modelling
10 28 (9.43%) Unit Testing
10 28 (9.43%) User Experience
11 27 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
11 27 (9.09%) Scrum
12 26 (8.75%) Artificial Intelligence
13 23 (7.74%) Machine Learning
13 23 (7.74%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (7.74%) TDD
14 18 (6.06%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (5.72%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 120 (40.40%) Java
2 96 (32.32%) SQL
3 57 (19.19%) JavaScript
4 52 (17.51%) Python
5 47 (15.82%) TypeScript
6 34 (11.45%) PL/SQL
7 25 (8.42%) Scala
7 25 (8.42%) Shell Script
8 21 (7.07%) C#
9 14 (4.71%) Kotlin
10 12 (4.04%) Bash
11 7 (2.36%) C
12 6 (2.02%) Go
12 6 (2.02%) Perl
12 6 (2.02%) PHP
13 3 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.01%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.67%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.34%) COBOL
15 1 (0.34%) JCL
Qualifications
1 23 (7.74%) Degree
2 11 (3.70%) Security Cleared
3 5 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.68%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.01%) 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 (8.42%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.04%) Disclosure Scotland
3 6 (2.02%) QA
4 4 (1.35%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.67%) GDPR
5 2 (0.67%) WCAG
6 1 (0.34%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (12.12%) Docker
2 9 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (7.41%) Grafana
2 20 (6.73%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.69%) Prometheus
3 8 (2.69%) Zipkin
4 5 (1.68%) Kibana
5 3 (1.01%) Terraform
Vendors
1 63 (21.21%) Oracle
2 11 (3.70%) PayPal
3 9 (3.03%) Avaloq
3 9 (3.03%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.02%) Cadence
4 6 (2.02%) Google
4 6 (2.02%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.35%) CA Agile Central
5 4 (1.35%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.01%) Databricks
6 3 (1.01%) IBM
6 3 (1.01%) Splunk
7 2 (0.67%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.67%) Sage
7 2 (0.67%) 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