Computer Science Degree Contracts in Edinburgh

Computer Science Degree
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 44 111
Rank change year-on-year -9 +67 +4
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 14 28 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.24% 3.44% 0.077%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.02% 17.61% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 21 0
10th Percentile £463 £500 -
25th Percentile £481 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 -
90th Percentile £638 £625 -
Scotland median daily rate £475 £550 £605
% change year-on-year -13.64% -9.09% +42.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £26.00 -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Edinburgh

Computer Science Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 127 159 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 20.32% 19.51% 15.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 89 126
10th Percentile £237 £179 £166
25th Percentile £400 £370 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £513
90th Percentile £600 £646 £606
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 18 5
10th Percentile £21.00 £15.43 £21.42
25th Percentile £21.61 £16.31 £21.67
Median hourly rate £23.00 £17.75 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.58% -65.87% +9.47%
75th Percentile £28.38 £45.00 £54.50
90th Percentile £45.80 £60.00 £62.30
Scotland median hourly rate £22.88 £40.94 £21.47
% change year-on-year -44.13% +90.73% -49.57%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Computer Science Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in Edinburgh

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Computer Science Degree in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in Edinburgh

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in Edinburgh

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Computer Science Degree in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in Edinburgh

Computer Science Degree
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 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 13 (92.86%) Amazon S3
1 13 (92.86%) AWS
2 9 (64.29%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (64.29%) Serverless
3 6 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (7.14%) Azure
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) SaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) Oracle Database
2 6 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (35.71%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (21.43%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (7.14%) PowerCenter
5 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 6 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) DBA
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle Licensing
2 2 (14.29%) Replication
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 9 (64.29%) Migration
3 7 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (50.00%) ETL
4 6 (42.86%) Data Engineering
5 5 (35.71%) Cost Optimisation
6 4 (28.57%) Data Migration
6 4 (28.57%) Data Transformation
7 3 (21.43%) Analytics
7 3 (21.43%) Data Analytics
7 3 (21.43%) Data Cleansing
7 3 (21.43%) Data Ingestion
7 3 (21.43%) Database Migration
7 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (21.43%) High Availability
7 3 (21.43%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (21.43%) Workflow
7 3 (21.43%) Workflow Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 7 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Perl
3 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Degree
2 7 (50.00%) AWS Certification
3 5 (35.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Informatica
2 1 (7.14%) Teradata
2 1 (7.14%) TSYS