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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 49 106
Rank change year-on-year -6 +57 +3
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 14 24 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.24% 2.91% 0.081%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.29% 14.20% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 0
10th Percentile £463 £494 -
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 £633 -
Scotland median daily rate £475 £560 £525
% change year-on-year -15.18% +6.67% +23.53%
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 136 169 199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.76% 20.48% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 105 122
10th Percentile £240 £158 £163
25th Percentile £400 £240 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.23%
75th Percentile £530 £565 £508
90th Percentile £588 £607 £599
Scotland median daily rate £450 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 16 4
10th Percentile - £12.63 £21.38
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.56 £21.57
Median hourly rate £23.00 £17.25 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -53.17% -22.45%
75th Percentile £28.38 £20.56 £57.75
90th Percentile £50.64 £45.00 £63.60
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £22.95 £21.26
% change year-on-year -4.13% +7.94% -56.39%

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 18 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