Computer Science Contracts in Edinburgh

Computer Science
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Computer Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Science over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 108 100
Rank change year-on-year +67 -8 +3
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 30 2 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.71% 0.15% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.20% 0.16% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 0 9
10th Percentile £500 - £321
25th Percentile £513 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £450
75th Percentile £603 - £610
90th Percentile £655 - £616
Scotland median daily rate £550 £520 £413
% change year-on-year +5.77% +26.06% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £26.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +23.81% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Computer Science 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 Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 714 1,236 1,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 88.26% 95.15% 93.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 881 1,249
10th Percentile £227 £253 £260
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.37% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £565
90th Percentile £675 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £470
% change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 11 17
10th Percentile £15.10 £13.16 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.87 £21.26 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.57% -46.85% -26.57%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - £54.50 £53.97
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £36.50
% change year-on-year +9.11% -51.45% -10.99%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in Edinburgh

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in Edinburgh

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in Edinburgh

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in Edinburgh

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (3.33%) Apache
1 1 (3.33%) EPiServer
1 1 (3.33%) IIS
1 1 (3.33%) Tomcat
1 1 (3.33%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) SaaS
2 4 (13.33%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) OCI
3 3 (10.00%) AWS
3 3 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (10.00%) IaaS
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (10.00%) PaaS
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 2 (6.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) 2G
1 1 (3.33%) 5G
1 1 (3.33%) BIG-IP
1 1 (3.33%) DNS
1 1 (3.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (3.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (3.33%) Internet
1 1 (3.33%) Network Security
1 1 (3.33%) SAN
1 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (30.00%) Metadata
1 9 (30.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.67%) Big Data
2 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (30.00%) Oracle APEX
2 3 (10.00%) Git
3 2 (6.67%) Gradle
3 2 (6.67%) JMeter
3 2 (6.67%) JUnit
3 2 (6.67%) LoadRunner
3 2 (6.67%) Selenium
4 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.33%) JIRA
4 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (63.33%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (30.00%) Public Sector
4 6 (20.00%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Automotive
5 1 (3.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Senior
2 7 (23.33%) Architect
3 4 (13.33%) Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Database Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Design Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Lead
4 3 (10.00%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Applications Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Database Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Design Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Database Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Security Architect
5 2 (6.67%) UAT Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Database Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) .NET
1 2 (6.67%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (6.67%) Dagger
1 2 (6.67%) Jetpack Compose
1 2 (6.67%) Retrofit
1 2 (6.67%) Spring
2 1 (3.33%) Guice
2 1 (3.33%) Kafka
2 1 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (10.00%) PKI
2 2 (6.67%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Android
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
1 2 (6.67%) Unix
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (73.33%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 9 (30.00%) SQL Optimisation
4 6 (20.00%) Analytics
5 5 (16.67%) Data Security
5 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (13.33%) Mentoring
6 4 (13.33%) RBAC
7 3 (10.00%) Agile
7 3 (10.00%) Architectural Design
7 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (10.00%) Data Management
7 3 (10.00%) Data Protection
7 3 (10.00%) ERP
7 3 (10.00%) Project Management
7 3 (10.00%) Scrum
8 2 (6.67%) Performance Testing
8 2 (6.67%) Security Testing
8 2 (6.67%) Usability Testing
8 2 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) PL/SQL
1 9 (30.00%) SQL
2 3 (10.00%) Java
3 2 (6.67%) Kotlin
3 2 (6.67%) Perl
4 1 (3.33%) C#
4 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (100.00%) Degree
2 28 (93.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 3 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.33%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.33%) ISO 8583
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (43.33%) Oracle
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) CA
3 1 (3.33%) F5
3 1 (3.33%) Fiserv
3 1 (3.33%) Google