Developer Contract Job Trends 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 8 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -14 +2 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 55 112 145
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 8.77% 15.41% 14.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.63% 16.30% 15.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 71 105
10th Percentile £406 £380 £393
25th Percentile £431 £411 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year - -2.70% -1.49%
75th Percentile £550 £488 £495
90th Percentile £605 £563 £545
Scotland median daily rate £463 £443 £474
% change year-on-year +4.52% -6.55% -0.32%

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 571 687 947
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.07% 94.50% 95.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 355 572
10th Percentile £257 £200 £213
25th Percentile £413 £359 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £547 £528 £543
90th Percentile £604 £600 £600
Scotland median daily rate £455 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +1.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 30 18
10th Percentile £30.00 £15.06 £13.24
25th Percentile £35.25 £16.37 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £21.84 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +174.73% +23.25% -2.82%
75th Percentile £73.75 £24.18 £51.21
90th Percentile £75.00 £27.51 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £24.09 £18.69 £18.47
% change year-on-year +28.91% +1.20% +4.20%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Developer job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Edinburgh.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Edinburgh

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Edinburgh

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Edinburgh.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Edinburgh

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 8 November 2025, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 22 (40.00%) Agile
2 17 (30.91%) AWS
2 17 (30.91%) Azure
3 16 (29.09%) Java
3 16 (29.09%) Python
4 15 (27.27%) DevOps
4 15 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (25.45%) JavaScript
6 13 (23.64%) CI/CD
7 12 (21.82%) TypeScript
8 10 (18.18%) .NET
8 10 (18.18%) CRM
9 9 (16.36%) C#
9 9 (16.36%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (16.36%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (16.36%) Microservices
9 9 (16.36%) React
9 9 (16.36%) Spring
9 9 (16.36%) SQL
10 8 (14.55%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (14.55%) Spring Boot
11 7 (12.73%) API Development
11 7 (12.73%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (12.73%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (12.73%) Data Protection
11 7 (12.73%) Dynamics CRM
11 7 (12.73%) Git
11 7 (12.73%) Microsoft
11 7 (12.73%) Migration
11 7 (12.73%) Power Platform

Developer Skill Set
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 2 (3.64%) Apache
1 2 (3.64%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.82%) Apache TomEE
2 1 (1.82%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.82%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.82%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (12.73%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (30.91%) AWS
1 17 (30.91%) Azure
2 9 (16.36%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (12.73%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (12.73%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (12.73%) Power Platform
3 7 (12.73%) Serverless
4 6 (10.91%) Amazon S3
5 5 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (9.09%) OpenShift
5 5 (9.09%) Power Automate
5 5 (9.09%) PowerApps
6 4 (7.27%) GCP
7 3 (5.45%) Textract
8 2 (3.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (3.64%) Boomi
8 2 (3.64%) GitHub
8 2 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.64%) IaaS
8 2 (3.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) HTTP
1 1 (1.82%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.55%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (10.91%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (9.09%) Power BI
4 4 (7.27%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.45%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.64%) GIS
7 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.82%) MySQL
7 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.82%) Spatial Data
7 1 (1.82%) SQLite
7 1 (1.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (12.73%) Git
2 4 (7.27%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.45%) Cypress.io
4 2 (3.64%) GitLab
4 2 (3.64%) JIRA
4 2 (3.64%) Subversion
5 1 (1.82%) Ant
5 1 (1.82%) Capybara
5 1 (1.82%) CocoaPods
5 1 (1.82%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.82%) git-flow
5 1 (1.82%) Gradle
5 1 (1.82%) Maven
General
1 27 (49.09%) Public Sector
2 14 (25.45%) Social Skills
3 12 (21.82%) Finance
4 7 (12.73%) Banking
5 3 (5.45%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Back Office
6 2 (3.64%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (3.64%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.64%) Retail
6 2 (3.64%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.82%) Legal
7 1 (1.82%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.18%) .NET
2 9 (16.36%) React
2 9 (16.36%) Spring
3 8 (14.55%) Spring Boot
4 7 (12.73%) REST
5 6 (10.91%) AWS CDK
5 6 (10.91%) CSS
5 6 (10.91%) HTML
5 6 (10.91%) RESTful
6 4 (7.27%) OAuth
6 4 (7.27%) Spring Web Flow
6 4 (7.27%) Thymeleaf
7 3 (5.45%) AngularJS
7 3 (5.45%) Node.js
7 3 (5.45%) OAuth2
7 3 (5.45%) PyTorch
7 3 (5.45%) SOAP
7 3 (5.45%) SpaCy
7 3 (5.45%) Spring Security
8 2 (3.64%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.73%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (10.91%) Product Ownership
3 5 (9.09%) Wiki
4 4 (7.27%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.64%) CMDB
5 2 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.64%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.82%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.82%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.64%) Linux
2 1 (1.82%) AIX
2 1 (1.82%) Android
2 1 (1.82%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.82%) Unix
2 1 (1.82%) VME
2 1 (1.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (40.00%) Agile
2 15 (27.27%) DevOps
2 15 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (23.64%) CI/CD
4 10 (18.18%) CRM
5 9 (16.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (16.36%) Microservices
6 7 (12.73%) API Development
6 7 (12.73%) Data Protection
6 7 (12.73%) Migration
7 6 (10.91%) AI
7 6 (10.91%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (10.91%) Machine Learning
7 6 (10.91%) User Experience
8 5 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (9.09%) Front End Development
8 5 (9.09%) Scrum
8 5 (9.09%) Software Engineering
8 5 (9.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 16 (29.09%) Java
1 16 (29.09%) Python
2 14 (25.45%) JavaScript
3 12 (21.82%) TypeScript
4 9 (16.36%) C#
4 9 (16.36%) SQL
5 6 (10.91%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.45%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.64%) Apex Code
7 2 (3.64%) Perl
8 1 (1.82%) ABAP
8 1 (1.82%) COBOL
8 1 (1.82%) Groovy
8 1 (1.82%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.82%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.82%) Ruby
8 1 (1.82%) SAS Macro
8 1 (1.82%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (3.64%) Degree
2 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 5 (9.09%) QA
2 4 (7.27%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (3.64%) GDPR
4 1 (1.82%) COREP
4 1 (1.82%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.82%) IFRS
4 1 (1.82%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.82%) NCSC
4 1 (1.82%) PSD2
4 1 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (10.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.27%) Grafana
1 4 (7.27%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.45%) Terraform
3 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (12.73%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.27%) Oracle
3 2 (3.64%) ForgeRock
3 2 (3.64%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.82%) Apple
4 1 (1.82%) dotdigital
4 1 (1.82%) Fujitsu
4 1 (1.82%) Google
4 1 (1.82%) ICL
4 1 (1.82%) Ping Identity
4 1 (1.82%) SAP
4 1 (1.82%) VMware