Senior Developer Contracts in Edinburgh

Senior Developer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Senior Developer daily rate in Edinburgh is £456 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 92 107
Rank change year-on-year +36 +15 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 15 20 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.84% 1.53% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.93% 1.61% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 13
10th Percentile £325 £463 £420
25th Percentile £405 £518 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.65% +9.52% +17.32%
75th Percentile £551 £631 £688
90th Percentile £575 £688 -
Scotland median daily rate £475 £625 £450
% change year-on-year -24.00% +38.89% +0.56%

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 778 1,245 1,873
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.46% 95.55% 96.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 887 1,280
10th Percentile £205 £247 £230
25th Percentile £406 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £561
90th Percentile £664 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £455
% change year-on-year - +4.40% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 12 22
10th Percentile £16.10 £13.62 £11.66
25th Percentile £17.86 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -10.48% -58.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £54.43 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £33.25 £23.18 £25.91
% change year-on-year +43.44% -10.53% -33.14%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Edinburgh

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in Edinburgh

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in Edinburgh

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Developer in the job title.

1 11 (73.33%) React
2 10 (66.67%) Azure
2 10 (66.67%) .NET
3 9 (60.00%) Public Sector
4 8 (53.33%) Legacy Applications
4 8 (53.33%) Knowledge Transfer
4 8 (53.33%) User Experience
4 8 (53.33%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (53.33%) DevOps
4 8 (53.33%) Wiki
4 8 (53.33%) Code Quality
4 8 (53.33%) Product Ownership
5 4 (26.67%) Oracle
5 4 (26.67%) SQL
6 3 (20.00%) PL/SQL
6 3 (20.00%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
6 3 (20.00%) Oracle Database
7 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
7 2 (13.33%) REST
7 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
7 2 (13.33%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (13.33%) SQL Optimisation
7 2 (13.33%) Metadata
7 2 (13.33%) Full Stack Development
7 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (13.33%) Value Proposition
7 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act

Senior 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 1 (6.67%) Apache
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
2 8 (53.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (13.33%) Metadata
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) IntelliJ
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) JUnit
2 1 (6.67%) Maven
2 1 (6.67%) Postman
General
1 9 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (73.33%) React
2 10 (66.67%) .NET
3 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET
3 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (13.33%) REST
3 2 (13.33%) Spring
3 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.67%) Apache Camel
4 1 (6.67%) J2EE
4 1 (6.67%) Kafka
4 1 (6.67%) Spring Batch
4 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Legacy Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Product Ownership
1 8 (53.33%) Wiki
2 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Code Quality
1 8 (53.33%) DevOps
1 8 (53.33%) Knowledge Transfer
1 8 (53.33%) User Experience
2 2 (13.33%) Agile
2 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
2 2 (13.33%) Full Stack Development
2 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Optimisation
2 2 (13.33%) Value Proposition
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (6.67%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (6.67%) MVC
3 1 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (6.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (13.33%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) Java
3 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle