Value Proposition Contracts in Scotland

Value Proposition
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Value Proposition skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Value Proposition over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 135 126
Rank change year-on-year +30 -9 +37
Contract jobs citing Value Proposition 20 25 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.93% 0.92% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.00% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 30
10th Percentile £424 £340 £402
25th Percentile £436 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £418 £473
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -11.64% +14.55%
75th Percentile £459 £435 £534
90th Percentile £500 £438 £581
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.38% - +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Value Proposition 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 1,901 2,502 3,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.38% 92.56% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,165 1,771 2,249
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 £553 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 54 47
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.51 £18.86
Median hourly rate £19.50 £16.25 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -56.59% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £52.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.22 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

Value Proposition
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Value Proposition as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Value Proposition in Scotland

Value Proposition
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Value Proposition in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Value Proposition in Scotland

Value Proposition
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 Value Proposition within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 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 +28 15 £450 +7.78% 3
West Lothian - 2 - -
Glasgow +8 1 - - 5
Value Proposition
UK

Value Proposition
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 4 (20.00%) Confluence
2 3 (15.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Broadband
1 1 (5.00%) DHCP
1 1 (5.00%) DNS
1 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
2 4 (20.00%) Git
2 4 (20.00%) IntelliJ
2 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (20.00%) Postman
3 3 (15.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (15.00%) JUnit
4 1 (5.00%) Maven
General
1 13 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Finance
5 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Analyst
2 9 (45.00%) Business Analyst
3 7 (35.00%) Senior
4 5 (25.00%) Developer
5 4 (20.00%) Java Developer
6 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
6 3 (15.00%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
8 1 (5.00%) Business Engagement Analyst
8 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
8 1 (5.00%) Data Designer
8 1 (5.00%) Designer
8 1 (5.00%) Engagement Analyst
8 1 (5.00%) Python Developer
8 1 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (5.00%) Senior Business Analyst
8 1 (5.00%) Technical Analyst
8 1 (5.00%) Technical Business Analyst
8 1 (5.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) REST
1 4 (20.00%) Spring
1 4 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (15.00%) Apache Camel
2 3 (15.00%) J2EE
2 3 (15.00%) Kafka
3 2 (10.00%) Middleware
3 2 (10.00%) React
3 2 (10.00%) XML
4 1 (5.00%) CSS
4 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.00%) HTML
4 1 (5.00%) Java EE
4 1 (5.00%) Jest
4 1 (5.00%) JSON
4 1 (5.00%) Node.js
4 1 (5.00%) Playwright
4 1 (5.00%) Spring Batch
4 1 (5.00%) Web Services
4 1 (5.00%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 13 (65.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Agile
2 13 (65.00%) Data Protection
3 10 (50.00%) Scrum
4 9 (45.00%) Business Analysis
5 7 (35.00%) Coaching
5 7 (35.00%) Epics
5 7 (35.00%) Roadmaps
5 7 (35.00%) Service Design
5 7 (35.00%) User Experience
5 7 (35.00%) User Stories
6 6 (30.00%) Impact Assessments
6 6 (30.00%) Story Mapping
6 6 (30.00%) User Research
6 6 (30.00%) UX Research
7 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Identification
8 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
8 3 (15.00%) End-to-End Testing
9 2 (10.00%) Mathematical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) SQL
2 5 (25.00%) Java
3 3 (15.00%) Perl
3 3 (15.00%) Python
4 2 (10.00%) Rust
5 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Kibana
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (5.00%) Puppet
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Cadence
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) VMware