Developer Contracts in Edinburgh

Developer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Developer daily rate in Edinburgh is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 12 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 -7 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 68 92 232
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.88% 11.29% 17.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.70% 11.83% 18.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 75 188
10th Percentile £400 £340 £406
25th Percentile £406 £415 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £500 £494 £501
90th Percentile £538 £575 £600
Scotland median daily rate £461 £460 £479
% change year-on-year +0.27% -3.97% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.32 - -
Median hourly rate £27.35 - -
75th Percentile £28.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £26.93 £38.38 £62.02
% change year-on-year -29.84% -38.12% +13.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 581 778 1,245
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 95.46% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 441 887
10th Percentile £211 £206 £247
25th Percentile £400 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £479 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% +0.84% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £545
90th Percentile £638 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 55 12
10th Percentile - £16.10 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.86 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £50.00 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -55.13% +135.18% -10.48%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 £66.00 £54.43
Scotland median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
% change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Edinburgh

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Edinburgh

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Edinburgh

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Developer in the job title.

1 36 (52.94%) Agile
2 30 (44.12%) Public Sector
3 22 (32.35%) DevOps
4 21 (30.88%) React
4 21 (30.88%) Java
4 21 (30.88%) CI/CD
5 20 (29.41%) Azure
6 19 (27.94%) JavaScript
7 16 (23.53%) AWS
7 16 (23.53%) TypeScript
8 15 (22.06%) RESTful
9 14 (20.59%) Spring Boot
9 14 (20.59%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (19.12%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (19.12%) Serverless
10 13 (19.12%) Spring
10 13 (19.12%) CSS
11 12 (17.65%) Social Skills
12 11 (16.18%) Code Quality
12 11 (16.18%) Finance
12 11 (16.18%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (16.18%) SQL
12 11 (16.18%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (16.18%) User Experience
12 11 (16.18%) Node.js
12 11 (16.18%) Amazon S3
13 10 (14.71%) .NET
13 10 (14.71%) Oracle
13 10 (14.71%) Scrum
13 10 (14.71%) Git

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.41%) WordPress
2 2 (2.94%) CMS
2 2 (2.94%) GeoServer
2 2 (2.94%) Headless CMS
2 2 (2.94%) OpenROAD
3 1 (1.47%) Camunda
3 1 (1.47%) Confluence
3 1 (1.47%) JBoss
3 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.94%) iTrent
1 2 (2.94%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 20 (29.41%) Azure
2 16 (23.53%) AWS
3 13 (19.12%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (19.12%) Serverless
4 11 (16.18%) Amazon S3
4 11 (16.18%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (5.88%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.41%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (4.41%) Apigee
7 3 (4.41%) GCP
7 3 (4.41%) GitHub
7 3 (4.41%) Google Analytics
7 3 (4.41%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (2.94%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (2.94%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.94%) PaaS
8 2 (2.94%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.18%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.82%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (5.88%) Oracle Database
4 3 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (4.41%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.41%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.94%) GIS
5 2 (2.94%) Tableau
6 1 (1.47%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.47%) Metadata
6 1 (1.47%) MySQL
6 1 (1.47%) OLAP
6 1 (1.47%) Power BI
6 1 (1.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (14.71%) Git
2 6 (8.82%) Cypress.io
2 6 (8.82%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.41%) Storybook
4 2 (2.94%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (1.47%) Ant
5 1 (1.47%) Appium
5 1 (1.47%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (1.47%) JIRA
5 1 (1.47%) Toad
5 1 (1.47%) webpack
General
1 30 (44.12%) Public Sector
2 12 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 11 (16.18%) Finance
4 8 (11.76%) Banking
5 4 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.94%) Back Office
6 2 (2.94%) Games
6 2 (2.94%) Retail
7 1 (1.47%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.47%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (30.88%) React
2 15 (22.06%) RESTful
3 14 (20.59%) Spring Boot
4 13 (19.12%) CSS
4 13 (19.12%) Spring
5 11 (16.18%) Node.js
6 10 (14.71%) .NET
7 9 (13.24%) AWS CDK
7 9 (13.24%) HTML
8 8 (11.76%) REST
9 7 (10.29%) AngularJS
9 7 (10.29%) JSON
10 6 (8.82%) XML
11 5 (7.35%) Next.js
12 4 (5.88%) GraphQL
12 4 (5.88%) Spring Security
13 3 (4.41%) ASP.NET
13 3 (4.41%) OAuth
13 3 (4.41%) Swagger
13 3 (4.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.82%) Legacy Applications
1 6 (8.82%) Product Ownership
1 6 (8.82%) Wiki
2 5 (7.35%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.88%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.94%) CMDB
4 2 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.47%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.47%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.41%) Apple iOS
1 3 (4.41%) Linux
2 1 (1.47%) AIX
2 1 (1.47%) Android
2 1 (1.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (52.94%) Agile
2 22 (32.35%) DevOps
3 21 (30.88%) CI/CD
4 14 (20.59%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (16.18%) Code Quality
5 11 (16.18%) User Experience
6 10 (14.71%) Scrum
7 9 (13.24%) Microservices
7 9 (13.24%) TDD
8 8 (11.76%) API Development
8 8 (11.76%) Coaching
8 8 (11.76%) Front End Development
8 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (11.76%) Web Development
9 7 (10.29%) Analytics
9 7 (10.29%) Kanban
9 7 (10.29%) Knowledge Transfer
9 7 (10.29%) Service Delivery
9 7 (10.29%) Test Automation
10 6 (8.82%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.88%) Java
2 19 (27.94%) JavaScript
3 16 (23.53%) TypeScript
4 11 (16.18%) SQL
5 8 (11.76%) Python
6 6 (8.82%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.41%) Bash
7 3 (4.41%) C#
7 3 (4.41%) Shell Script
7 3 (4.41%) Swift
8 2 (2.94%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.47%) COBOL
9 1 (1.47%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 4 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.29%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (8.82%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.88%) WCAG
4 3 (4.41%) NCSC
4 3 (4.41%) PERC
5 2 (2.94%) GRC
6 1 (1.47%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (4.41%) Docker
2 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (10.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.41%) Ansible
3 2 (2.94%) Grafana
3 2 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.47%) Istio
4 1 (1.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (14.71%) Oracle
2 7 (10.29%) ServiceNow
3 6 (8.82%) Google
4 2 (2.94%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.47%) Avaloq
5 1 (1.47%) Fujitsu
5 1 (1.47%) ICL
5 1 (1.47%) Okta
5 1 (1.47%) VMware