Degree Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Academic Degree
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 13 18
Rank change year-on-year -15 +5 +13
Contract jobs citing Degree 46 70 74
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 5.82% 11.06% 8.47%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.00% 46.05% 38.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 34 48
10th Percentile £282 £278 £156
25th Percentile £469 £400 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -12.20% +20.59%
75th Percentile £650 £497 £575
90th Percentile £686 £581 £647
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 5
10th Percentile £16.90 £29.90 -
25th Percentile £17.23 £35.28 £16.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.02 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.18% +164.79% -
75th Percentile £64.00 £57.90 £17.50
90th Percentile £65.80 £65.16 £22.60
Scotland median hourly rate £17.23 £27.35 £19.50
% change year-on-year -37.00% +40.26% +20.04%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Edinburgh

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 184 152 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.29% 24.01% 21.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 89 118
10th Percentile £340 £224 £156
25th Percentile £405 £389 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £553
90th Percentile £663 £600 £597
Scotland median daily rate £450 £444 £465
% change year-on-year +1.35% -4.52% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 8 18
10th Percentile - - £12.88
25th Percentile £50.00 £21.00 £15.48
Median hourly rate £64.50 £23.77 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year +171.38% +37.78% -20.40%
75th Percentile £70.50 £32.73 £18.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £53.06 £45.00
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £22.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year +150.00% +12.82% -9.15%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Degree relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Degree job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Degree

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 11 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Edinburgh

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Degree

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 11 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in Edinburgh

Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (19.57%) Confluence
2 7 (15.22%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (13.04%) Apache Spark
4 4 (8.70%) Apache
5 1 (2.17%) CMS
5 1 (2.17%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (4.35%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.17%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 15 (32.61%) Azure
2 7 (15.22%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (10.87%) AWS
4 4 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.52%) Figma
5 3 (6.52%) GCP
5 3 (6.52%) GitHub
5 3 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (4.35%) IaaS
6 2 (4.35%) OCI
6 2 (4.35%) PaaS
6 2 (4.35%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.35%) SaaS
7 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.17%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) Firewall
1 4 (8.70%) Network Security
2 2 (4.35%) DNS
2 2 (4.35%) SSL
2 2 (4.35%) WAN
3 1 (2.17%) Intranet
3 1 (2.17%) IPsec
3 1 (2.17%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.22%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (13.04%) Big Data
2 6 (13.04%) Data Lake
3 5 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (8.70%) Metadata
4 4 (8.70%) MySQL
4 4 (8.70%) SQL Server
5 3 (6.52%) Apache Hive
5 3 (6.52%) Hadoop
5 3 (6.52%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.35%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (2.17%) GIS
7 1 (2.17%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 13 (28.26%) JIRA
2 3 (6.52%) GitLab
2 3 (6.52%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.52%) Snyk
3 2 (4.35%) Git
4 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 17 (36.96%) Finance
3 7 (15.22%) Public Sector
4 5 (10.87%) Games
5 4 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (13.04%) Analyst
1 6 (13.04%) Architect
2 5 (10.87%) Administrator
2 5 (10.87%) Business Systems Administrator
2 5 (10.87%) Design Engineer
2 5 (10.87%) Dynamics 365 Administrator
2 5 (10.87%) Project Manager
2 5 (10.87%) Security Engineer
2 5 (10.87%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (8.70%) Data Architect
4 3 (6.52%) Business Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) Data Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Designer
4 3 (6.52%) Developer
4 3 (6.52%) UX Designer
5 2 (4.35%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) ETL Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Information Analyst
5 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.87%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 5 (10.87%) Unreal Engine
2 3 (6.52%) Kafka
2 3 (6.52%) SLSA
3 2 (4.35%) .NET
3 2 (4.35%) CSS
3 2 (4.35%) HTML
4 1 (2.17%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.17%) Google Maps API
4 1 (2.17%) JSON
4 1 (2.17%) React
4 1 (2.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Management Information System
2 5 (10.87%) Animation
3 4 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.52%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Windows
2 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (32.61%) Computer Science
2 9 (19.57%) AI
2 9 (19.57%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (19.57%) Technical Leadership
2 9 (19.57%) UML
3 8 (17.39%) CI/CD
3 8 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (17.39%) ETL
3 8 (17.39%) Prototyping
3 8 (17.39%) User Experience
3 8 (17.39%) UX Design
4 7 (15.22%) Agile
4 7 (15.22%) Data Engineering
4 7 (15.22%) Data Governance
4 7 (15.22%) Data Science
4 7 (15.22%) DevOps
4 7 (15.22%) Knowledge Transfer
4 7 (15.22%) SDLC
4 7 (15.22%) Software Engineering
4 7 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.26%) Python
2 9 (19.57%) SQL
3 6 (13.04%) C++
4 5 (10.87%) Lua
5 3 (6.52%) Java
6 2 (4.35%) C#
7 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 13 (28.26%) Master's Degree
3 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
4 6 (13.04%) CISM
4 6 (13.04%) CISSP
4 6 (13.04%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (6.52%) CBAP
5 3 (6.52%) IBM Certification
5 3 (6.52%) PMP
6 2 (4.35%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.17%) ISEB
7 1 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.17%) MCSE
7 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (2.17%) PhD
7 1 (2.17%) Postgraduate
7 1 (2.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.57%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.70%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (8.70%) QA
3 3 (6.52%) Accessibility
3 3 (6.52%) NIST
3 3 (6.52%) WCAG
4 2 (4.35%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (6.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.04%) BiZZdesign
2 6 (13.04%) Oracle
3 4 (8.70%) Google
3 4 (8.70%) Informatica
3 4 (8.70%) Talend
4 3 (6.52%) Black Duck
4 3 (6.52%) Checkmarx
4 3 (6.52%) CheckPoint
4 3 (6.52%) Fortinet
4 3 (6.52%) IBM
4 3 (6.52%) Tenable