Software Developer Contracts in Edinburgh

Software Developer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Software Developer daily rate in Edinburgh is £430 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 75 118
Rank change year-on-year +9 +43 -28
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 6 29 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.74% 2.24% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 2.35% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 23 5
10th Percentile £403 £400 £430
25th Percentile £408 £411 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £455 £470
Median % change year-on-year -5.49% -3.19% +10.59%
75th Percentile £445 £488 £475
90th Percentile - £580 £490
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £470
% change year-on-year -2.63% +1.06% +10.59%
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 - £59.03 £56.00
% change year-on-year - +5.41% -

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 1,235 1,867
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.31% 95.59% 96.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 883 1,284
10th Percentile £200 £257 £230
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £544 £550
90th Percentile £663 £625 £635
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £460
% change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 14 24
10th Percentile £16.08 £14.53 £12.30
25th Percentile £17.79 £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 £63.60 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £33.25 £23.18 £25.82
% change year-on-year +43.44% -10.21% -35.46%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in Edinburgh

Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Software Developer in Edinburgh

Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Developer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
1 4 (66.67%) CSS
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) AWS CDK
3 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) OpenAPI
3 2 (33.33%) Human-Centred Design
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 2 (33.33%) Laravel
3 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (33.33%) React
3 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) iPaaS
3 2 (33.33%) Swagger
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 2 (33.33%) Yii

Software 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 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (33.33%) iPaaS
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) CSS
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) AWS CDK
2 2 (33.33%) Django
2 2 (33.33%) Laravel
2 2 (33.33%) Node.js
2 2 (33.33%) OpenAPI
2 2 (33.33%) React
2 2 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) Swagger
2 2 (33.33%) Yii
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Human-Centred Design
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Pair Programming
2 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Black-Box Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) OO
3 1 (16.67%) OOD
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) PHP
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Okta
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