Lead Developer Contracts in Edinburgh

Lead Developer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Lead Developer daily rate in Edinburgh is £533 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 111 122
Rank change year-on-year +43 +11 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 3 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.37% 0.078% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.081% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £472 - £525
25th Percentile £493 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £545 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -12.80% +14.68%
75th Percentile £568 - £725
90th Percentile £587 - £740
Scotland median daily rate £465 £498 £563
% change year-on-year -6.53% -11.56% +38.04%

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 773 1,228 1,860
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.31% 95.64% 95.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 876 1,276
10th Percentile £202 £240 £230
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £547 £569
90th Percentile £663 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 12 21
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.62 £14.55
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -18.23% -54.78%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £54.43 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £24.26 £21.75 £26.85
% change year-on-year +11.52% -18.99% -28.40%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in Edinburgh

Lead Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Developer in Edinburgh

Lead Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead Developer in Edinburgh

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 14 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Lead 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 Lead Developer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (66.67%) Wiki
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) User Experience
1 2 (66.67%) React
2 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft

Lead 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
1 2 (66.67%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) User Experience
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft