Senior Contracts in Edinburgh

Senior
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Senior daily rate in Edinburgh is £510 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 18 16
Rank change year-on-year +8 -2 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 96 134 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 11.87% 10.39% 8.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.44% 10.87% 9.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 112 122
10th Percentile £345 £380 £366
25th Percentile £425 £409 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £588
90th Percentile £663 £636 £650
Scotland median daily rate £500 £503 £475
% change year-on-year -0.60% +5.89% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £24.08 - -
25th Percentile £37.55 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £17.72 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +238.60% -66.25% -
75th Percentile - £26.73 £53.75
90th Percentile - £42.94 -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.00 £17.72 £35.00
% change year-on-year +238.60% -49.37% -63.54%

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 772 1,233 1,868
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.43% 95.58% 96.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 880 1,282
10th Percentile £204 £249 £230
25th Percentile £404 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £542 £555
90th Percentile £663 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £460
% change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 13 23
10th Percentile £16.10 £14.07 £11.98
25th Percentile £17.86 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -1.12% -62.61%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £64.90 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £33.25 £23.86 £25.55
% change year-on-year +39.35% -6.60% -36.14%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Edinburgh

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Edinburgh

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Edinburgh

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Edinburgh

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Senior 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 in the job title.

1 51 (53.13%) Public Sector
2 27 (28.13%) Social Skills
3 23 (23.96%) Azure
4 17 (17.71%) Agile
4 17 (17.71%) SQL
4 17 (17.71%) Disclosure Scotland
5 16 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (15.63%) .NET
6 15 (15.63%) Oracle
7 13 (13.54%) User Experience
7 13 (13.54%) DevOps
7 13 (13.54%) Roadmaps
8 12 (12.50%) React
8 12 (12.50%) Oracle Database
9 11 (11.46%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (10.42%) Metadata
10 10 (10.42%) Knowledge Transfer
10 10 (10.42%) Product Ownership
10 10 (10.42%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (10.42%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (10.42%) Degree
10 10 (10.42%) Finance
11 9 (9.38%) Management Information System
11 9 (9.38%) Migration
11 9 (9.38%) PL/SQL
11 9 (9.38%) Wiki
11 9 (9.38%) Oracle APEX
11 9 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (9.38%) Code Quality

Senior 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 4 (4.17%) CMS
2 3 (3.13%) Confluence
3 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.04%) Apache
4 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.04%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 23 (23.96%) Azure
2 11 (11.46%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (5.21%) AWS
5 4 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (4.17%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (4.17%) IaaS
5 4 (4.17%) OpenShift
5 4 (4.17%) PaaS
6 3 (3.13%) SaaS
6 3 (3.13%) Serverless
7 2 (2.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.08%) iPaaS
7 2 (2.08%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.04%) AWS CodeCommit
8 1 (1.04%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.04%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.17%) Firewall
2 3 (3.13%) WAN
3 2 (2.08%) LAN
3 2 (2.08%) SCCP
4 1 (1.04%) BGP
4 1 (1.04%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.04%) HTTP
4 1 (1.04%) Network Security
4 1 (1.04%) OSPF
4 1 (1.04%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.04%) VXLAN
4 1 (1.04%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.50%) Oracle Database
2 10 (10.42%) Metadata
3 4 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 4 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.13%) Oracle Database 10g
4 3 (3.13%) Oracle Database 11g
4 3 (3.13%) Oracle Discoverer
5 2 (2.08%) Informix
5 2 (2.08%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.04%) Big Data
6 1 (1.04%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 9 (9.38%) Oracle APEX
2 5 (5.21%) JIRA
3 4 (4.17%) Selenium
4 3 (3.13%) Cucumber
4 3 (3.13%) Git
4 3 (3.13%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.08%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.08%) JUnit
5 2 (2.08%) Subversion
5 2 (2.08%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.08%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.04%) Appium
6 1 (1.04%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.04%) JMeter
6 1 (1.04%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.04%) Maven
6 1 (1.04%) NUnit
6 1 (1.04%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.04%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.04%) SonarQube
General
1 51 (53.13%) Public Sector
2 27 (28.13%) Social Skills
3 16 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.42%) Finance
5 5 (5.21%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Banking
6 3 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Legal
7 2 (2.08%) Marketing
7 2 (2.08%) Publishing
8 1 (1.04%) Humanities
8 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.04%) Social Science
8 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.63%) .NET
2 12 (12.50%) React
3 4 (4.17%) AWS CDK
4 3 (3.13%) J2EE
4 3 (3.13%) REST
4 3 (3.13%) Web Services
5 2 (2.08%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.08%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (2.08%) Middleware
5 2 (2.08%) Spring
5 2 (2.08%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.04%) Apache Camel
6 1 (1.04%) COM+
6 1 (1.04%) Kafka
6 1 (1.04%) OAuth
6 1 (1.04%) OpenID
6 1 (1.04%) SAML
6 1 (1.04%) SOAP
6 1 (1.04%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.42%) Product Ownership
2 9 (9.38%) Legacy Applications
2 9 (9.38%) Management Information System
2 9 (9.38%) Wiki
3 5 (5.21%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.17%) Client/Server
5 3 (3.13%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.13%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.13%) Replication
6 2 (2.08%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.08%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.08%) N-Tier
6 2 (2.08%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.04%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.04%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.04%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.04%) PKI
7 1 (1.04%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.13%) Unix
2 2 (2.08%) Windows
3 1 (1.04%) Android
3 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.04%) Linux
3 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.04%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (17.71%) Agile
2 15 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (13.54%) DevOps
3 13 (13.54%) Roadmaps
3 13 (13.54%) User Experience
4 10 (10.42%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (10.42%) Knowledge Transfer
4 10 (10.42%) Performance Tuning
5 9 (9.38%) Code Quality
5 9 (9.38%) Migration
5 9 (9.38%) Service Design
5 9 (9.38%) User Research
6 8 (8.33%) Computer Science
6 8 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (8.33%) Incident Management
6 8 (8.33%) Information Security
6 8 (8.33%) Prototyping
6 8 (8.33%) SQL Optimisation
7 7 (7.29%) Data Protection
7 7 (7.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (17.71%) SQL
2 9 (9.38%) PL/SQL
3 6 (6.25%) TypeScript
4 5 (5.21%) Java
5 4 (4.17%) C#
6 2 (2.08%) C++
6 2 (2.08%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.08%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.08%) VBA
6 2 (2.08%) VBScript
7 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.04%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (10.42%) Degree
2 8 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.13%) CISSP
3 3 (3.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 3 (3.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 2 (2.08%) CLAS
4 2 (2.08%) IIBA
4 2 (2.08%) ISEB
4 2 (2.08%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (2.08%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.04%) CCNP
5 1 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.04%) MCSE
5 1 (1.04%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.04%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.71%) Disclosure Scotland
2 9 (9.38%) Accessibility
3 8 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (5.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.04%) PMO
6 1 (1.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (3.13%) Hyper-V
1 3 (3.13%) Oracle RAC
1 3 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.17%) Ansible
1 4 (4.17%) Grafana
2 3 (3.13%) Data Guard
2 3 (3.13%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 3 (3.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (3.13%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (2.08%) SCCM
4 1 (1.04%) Kibana
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (15.63%) Oracle
2 7 (7.29%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.17%) VMware
4 2 (2.08%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.04%) Arista
5 1 (1.04%) Blue Coat
5 1 (1.04%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.04%) Cisco
5 1 (1.04%) Citrix
5 1 (1.04%) Commvault
5 1 (1.04%) F5
5 1 (1.04%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.04%) Google
5 1 (1.04%) Infoblox
5 1 (1.04%) McAfee
5 1 (1.04%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.04%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.04%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.04%) Splunk