Degree Contracts in Edinburgh

Academic Degree
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 42 43
Rank change year-on-year +28 +1 -10
Contract jobs citing Degree 78 80 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.64% 6.20% 5.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 49.68% 41.24% 39.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 44 58
10th Percentile £160 £157 £176
25th Percentile £419 £177 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -5.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £474 £528
90th Percentile £646 £578 £594
Scotland median daily rate £475 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +18.75% -5.88% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.50 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £17.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile £21.53 - £53.75
90th Percentile £24.44 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £16.00 £54.50
% change year-on-year +21.88% -70.64% +91.23%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Edinburgh

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 157 194 257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.41% 15.04% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 124 153
10th Percentile £179 £165 £315
25th Percentile £385 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -3.23% +9.41%
75th Percentile £575 £511 £575
90th Percentile £633 £600 £635
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 6 5
10th Percentile £15.43 £21.47 £17.01
25th Percentile £16.31 £28.63 £25.50
Median hourly rate £17.75 £52.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.03% +10.00% +171.43%
75th Percentile £45.00 £64.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £40.94 £21.67 £39.99
% change year-on-year +88.92% -45.81% +8.82%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Edinburgh

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in Edinburgh

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Edinburgh

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in Edinburgh

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 5 (6.41%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.85%) CMS
3 1 (1.28%) Apache
3 1 (1.28%) Drupal
3 1 (1.28%) EPiServer
3 1 (1.28%) IIS
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.28%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.28%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (8.97%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.28%) Acrobat
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.28%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.28%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (3.85%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.28%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 22 (28.21%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (11.54%) Azure
3 8 (10.26%) Power Platform
4 6 (7.69%) SaaS
5 4 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (5.13%) OCI
5 4 (5.13%) Power Automate
5 4 (5.13%) PowerApps
6 3 (3.85%) AWS
6 3 (3.85%) IaaS
6 3 (3.85%) PaaS
7 2 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.56%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.56%) GCP
8 1 (1.28%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.28%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.28%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (1.28%) iPaaS
8 1 (1.28%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.69%) Firewall
2 3 (3.85%) SSL
2 3 (3.85%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.56%) FabricPath
3 2 (2.56%) Intranet
3 2 (2.56%) LAN
3 2 (2.56%) NX-OS
3 2 (2.56%) VPN
3 2 (2.56%) VSAN
4 1 (1.28%) 2G
4 1 (1.28%) 5G
4 1 (1.28%) BIG-IP
4 1 (1.28%) DNS
4 1 (1.28%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (1.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (1.28%) Internet
4 1 (1.28%) Network Security
4 1 (1.28%) SAN
4 1 (1.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.54%) Metadata
1 9 (11.54%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.56%) Big Data
2 2 (2.56%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.28%) Looker
Development Applications
1 9 (11.54%) Oracle APEX
2 6 (7.69%) JIRA
3 3 (3.85%) Git
4 2 (2.56%) Gradle
4 2 (2.56%) JMeter
4 2 (2.56%) JUnit
4 2 (2.56%) LoadRunner
4 2 (2.56%) Selenium
5 1 (1.28%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.28%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 48 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 32 (41.03%) Public Sector
3 22 (28.21%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.82%) Banking
5 8 (10.26%) Finance
6 7 (8.97%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (6.41%) Mandarin Language
9 4 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.56%) Billing
11 1 (1.28%) Automotive
11 1 (1.28%) Humanities
11 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.28%) Marketing
11 1 (1.28%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 11 (14.10%) Coordinator
2 10 (12.82%) Architect
2 10 (12.82%) Senior
3 7 (8.97%) IT Support
4 6 (7.69%) Analyst
4 6 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 6 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (7.69%) Support Officer
5 5 (6.41%) Consultant
5 5 (6.41%) Developer
5 5 (6.41%) Lead
6 4 (5.13%) Cisco Consultant
6 4 (5.13%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 4 (5.13%) Security Specialist
6 4 (5.13%) VMware Consultant
7 3 (3.85%) Applications Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) Database Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) Senior Applications Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) Senior Database Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) Senior Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.56%) .NET
1 2 (2.56%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (2.56%) Dagger
1 2 (2.56%) Jetpack Compose
1 2 (2.56%) Retrofit
1 2 (2.56%) Spring
2 1 (1.28%) CSS
2 1 (1.28%) Django
2 1 (1.28%) Guice
2 1 (1.28%) HTML
2 1 (1.28%) Kafka
2 1 (1.28%) Laravel
2 1 (1.28%) OpenAPI
2 1 (1.28%) OpenID
2 1 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.28%) REST
2 1 (1.28%) SAML
2 1 (1.28%) Swagger
2 1 (1.28%) Web Services
2 1 (1.28%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.97%) PKI
2 4 (5.13%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (5.13%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.56%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.56%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.56%) Equities
4 2 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.56%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.56%) VxBlock/Vblock
5 1 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.28%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.28%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.28%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.69%) Windows
2 4 (5.13%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.56%) Android
3 2 (2.56%) Linux
3 2 (2.56%) Unix
4 1 (1.28%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (41.03%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (38.46%) Computer Science
3 16 (20.51%) Agile
4 13 (16.67%) Migration
5 10 (12.82%) Performance Tuning
5 10 (12.82%) Project Management
6 9 (11.54%) Decision-Making
6 9 (11.54%) SQL Optimisation
7 7 (8.97%) Analytics
7 7 (8.97%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (8.97%) Time Management
8 6 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (7.69%) Data Protection
8 6 (7.69%) Mentoring
8 6 (7.69%) Performance Metrics
8 6 (7.69%) Project Delivery
8 6 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (6.41%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (6.41%) Knowledge Transfer
9 5 (6.41%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.82%) SQL
2 9 (11.54%) PL/SQL
3 3 (3.85%) Java
4 2 (2.56%) Kotlin
4 2 (2.56%) Perl
5 1 (1.28%) C#
5 1 (1.28%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.28%) PHP
5 1 (1.28%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.28%) Python
5 1 (1.28%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (35.90%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (5.13%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (5.13%) Master's Degree
2 4 (5.13%) MCSE
2 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.85%) Azure Certification
3 3 (3.85%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.56%) ISEB
4 2 (2.56%) ISEB Practitioner
4 2 (2.56%) Postgraduate
4 2 (2.56%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.28%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.10%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (5.13%) PMO
3 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.28%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.28%) ISO 8583
3 1 (1.28%) QA
3 1 (1.28%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (8.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.41%) VMware NSX
4 4 (5.13%) Hyper-V
4 4 (5.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (6.41%) SCCM
2 2 (2.56%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (2.56%) vCenter Server
2 2 (2.56%) VxRail
3 1 (1.28%) Ansible
3 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (29.49%) Microsoft
2 14 (17.95%) Oracle
3 8 (10.26%) VMware
4 5 (6.41%) Cisco
5 4 (5.13%) Dell
5 4 (5.13%) Nintex
6 2 (2.56%) Google
7 1 (1.28%) Adobe
7 1 (1.28%) CA
7 1 (1.28%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.28%) F5
7 1 (1.28%) Fiserv
7 1 (1.28%) Okta
7 1 (1.28%) Zscaler