Developer Contracts in Edinburgh

Developer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Developer daily rate in Edinburgh is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 May 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 81 216 279
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.82% 17.46% 14.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.37% 18.23% 15.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 172 201
10th Percentile £325 £406 £413
25th Percentile £414 £435 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £494 £503 £540
90th Percentile £575 £599 £638
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £465
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.26% +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.25
Median hourly rate - - £54.50
75th Percentile - - £55.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £38.38 £59.03 £54.50
% change year-on-year -34.99% +8.31% +36.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 781 1,185 1,841
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.67% 95.80% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 834 1,259
10th Percentile £199 £233 £230
25th Percentile £340 £405 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £563 £541 £563
90th Percentile £651 £624 £638
Scotland median daily rate £473 £475 £463
% change year-on-year -0.53% +2.70% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 10 18
10th Percentile £15.55 £12.89 £13.04
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.71 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £19.49 £20.09
Median % change year-on-year +156.54% -3.00% -65.06%
75th Percentile £60.75 £45.73 £40.56
90th Percentile £66.00 £55.80 £50.42
Scotland median hourly rate £24.29 £21.67 £33.00
% change year-on-year +12.09% -34.33% -12.00%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Edinburgh

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Edinburgh

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Edinburgh

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 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 Edinburgh region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 32 (39.51%) Public Sector
2 30 (37.04%) TypeScript
3 29 (35.80%) AWS
4 28 (34.57%) Serverless
5 25 (30.86%) Amazon S3
6 24 (29.63%) AWS Lambda
6 24 (29.63%) AWS CDK
7 23 (28.40%) React
7 23 (28.40%) Agile
8 21 (25.93%) Java
8 21 (25.93%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (24.69%) Python
9 20 (24.69%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (23.46%) JavaScript
11 18 (22.22%) Oracle
11 18 (22.22%) Amazon Aurora
12 17 (20.99%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (20.99%) DevOps
13 15 (18.52%) .NET
14 14 (17.28%) Azure
14 14 (17.28%) Microservices
14 14 (17.28%) CI/CD
15 13 (16.05%) Social Skills
15 13 (16.05%) User Experience
15 13 (16.05%) Oracle Database
15 13 (16.05%) SQL
16 12 (14.81%) HTML
16 12 (14.81%) Node.js
16 12 (14.81%) Accessibility
16 12 (14.81%) Legacy Systems

Developer Skill Set
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 3 (3.70%) Apache
1 3 (3.70%) Umbraco
2 2 (2.47%) Confluence
2 2 (2.47%) GeoServer
2 2 (2.47%) JBoss
2 2 (2.47%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.47%) WildFly
3 1 (1.23%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.23%) CICS
3 1 (1.23%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Markit EDM
1 1 (1.23%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 29 (35.80%) AWS
2 28 (34.57%) Serverless
3 25 (30.86%) Amazon S3
4 24 (29.63%) AWS Lambda
5 21 (25.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (17.28%) Azure
7 9 (11.11%) OpenShift
8 8 (9.88%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (7.41%) Power Platform
10 4 (4.94%) Textract
11 2 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (1.23%) Amazon SageMaker
12 1 (1.23%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (1.23%) GCP
12 1 (1.23%) Google Analytics
12 1 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (1.23%) Sumo Logic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (24.69%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (22.22%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (16.05%) Oracle Database
4 6 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (6.17%) MongoDB
5 5 (6.17%) Power BI
5 5 (6.17%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.94%) Metadata
7 3 (3.70%) GIS
8 2 (2.47%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.23%) Big Data
9 1 (1.23%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.23%) Flink
9 1 (1.23%) MySQL
9 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 8 (9.88%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (3.70%) Git
3 3 (3.70%) JUnit
3 3 (3.70%) Maven
4 2 (2.47%) JIRA
4 2 (2.47%) Subversion
5 1 (1.23%) Gradle
5 1 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.23%) TeamCity
General
1 32 (39.51%) Public Sector
2 13 (16.05%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.64%) Finance
4 5 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.70%) Retail
6 1 (1.23%) Automotive
6 1 (1.23%) Banking
6 1 (1.23%) German Language
6 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (29.63%) AWS CDK
2 23 (28.40%) React
3 15 (18.52%) .NET
4 12 (14.81%) HTML
4 12 (14.81%) Node.js
5 11 (13.58%) CSS
5 11 (13.58%) Spring
6 8 (9.88%) Spring Boot
7 6 (7.41%) SpaCy
8 5 (6.17%) AngularJS
8 5 (6.17%) REST
9 4 (4.94%) .NET Core
10 3 (3.70%) ASP.NET
10 3 (3.70%) Java EE
10 3 (3.70%) OAuth
10 3 (3.70%) OAuth2
10 3 (3.70%) PostGIS
10 3 (3.70%) PyTorch
10 3 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (3.70%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.81%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (8.64%) Legacy Applications
3 6 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.41%) Wiki
4 4 (4.94%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.70%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.47%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.47%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.47%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.23%) CMDB
7 1 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.23%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.23%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.23%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.94%) Unix
2 3 (3.70%) Linux
3 1 (1.23%) AIX
3 1 (1.23%) Android
3 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (28.40%) Agile
2 17 (20.99%) DevOps
2 17 (20.99%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (17.28%) CI/CD
3 14 (17.28%) Microservices
4 13 (16.05%) User Experience
5 12 (14.81%) Code Quality
6 11 (13.58%) Machine Learning
6 11 (13.58%) Scrum
7 10 (12.35%) Kanban
8 9 (11.11%) Natural Language Processing
9 8 (9.88%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (8.64%) Analytics
10 7 (8.64%) Artificial Intelligence
10 7 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (8.64%) Knowledge Transfer
10 7 (8.64%) MVC
10 7 (8.64%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (7.41%) Pair Programming
11 6 (7.41%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 30 (37.04%) TypeScript
2 21 (25.93%) Java
3 20 (24.69%) Python
4 19 (23.46%) JavaScript
5 13 (16.05%) SQL
6 8 (9.88%) PL/SQL
7 7 (8.64%) Bash
7 7 (8.64%) Shell Script
8 5 (6.17%) C#
9 2 (2.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.47%) Perl
10 1 (1.23%) COBOL
10 1 (1.23%) JCL
10 1 (1.23%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (4.94%) Degree
1 4 (4.94%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.81%) Accessibility
2 9 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.23%) GDPR
3 1 (1.23%) NCSC
3 1 (1.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (12.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (13.58%) Grafana
2 5 (6.17%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.94%) Terraform
4 1 (1.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (22.22%) Oracle
2 3 (3.70%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.47%) Databricks
3 2 (2.47%) Google
3 2 (2.47%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.23%) IBM
4 1 (1.23%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.23%) Solace
4 1 (1.23%) VMware