Developer Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Developer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Developer daily rate in Edinburgh is £468, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 59 112 140
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 9.67% 14.16% 14.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.65% 14.95% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 71 100
10th Percentile £408 £380 £387
25th Percentile £431 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £450 £466
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% -3.43% -0.85%
75th Percentile £550 £489 £496
90th Percentile £596 £563 £550
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £474
% change year-on-year +2.78% -4.96% -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 554 749 946
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.82% 94.69% 94.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 393 572
10th Percentile £266 £191 £208
25th Percentile £413 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -7.37% -
75th Percentile £545 £525 £542
90th Percentile £606 £588 £600
Scotland median daily rate £454 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +0.89% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 32 14
10th Percentile £30.00 £13.51 £13.16
25th Percentile £42.12 £16.37 £14.39
Median hourly rate £60.00 £18.38 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +226.53% +3.70% -
75th Percentile £73.75 £23.96 £37.24
90th Percentile £75.00 £51.92 £59.86
Scotland median hourly rate £20.80 £18.13 £17.72
% change year-on-year +14.70% +2.31% -

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 22 October 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 22 October 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 (37.29%) AWS
2 18 (30.51%) Agile
3 17 (28.81%) TypeScript
4 16 (27.12%) CI/CD
4 16 (27.12%) DevOps
4 16 (27.12%) Python
5 15 (25.42%) Azure
5 15 (25.42%) Java
5 15 (25.42%) React
6 13 (22.03%) Serverless
7 12 (20.34%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (20.34%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (20.34%) JavaScript
7 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (18.64%) Amazon Aurora
8 11 (18.64%) CSS
9 10 (16.95%) Amazon S3
9 10 (16.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (16.95%) User Experience
10 9 (15.25%) .NET
10 9 (15.25%) AWS CDK
10 9 (15.25%) Full-Stack Development
10 9 (15.25%) Microservices
10 9 (15.25%) SQL
11 8 (13.56%) AI
11 8 (13.56%) API Development
11 8 (13.56%) Cypress.io
11 8 (13.56%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (13.56%) REST
11 8 (13.56%) RESTful

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 (3.39%) Apache
1 2 (3.39%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.69%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.69%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.69%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (37.29%) AWS
2 15 (25.42%) Azure
3 13 (22.03%) Serverless
4 12 (20.34%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (16.95%) Amazon S3
5 10 (16.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (10.17%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (10.17%) GitHub
6 6 (10.17%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (8.47%) Amazon Cognito
7 5 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (8.47%) OpenShift
8 4 (6.78%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (6.78%) Power Platform
9 3 (5.08%) Firebase
9 3 (5.08%) GCP
9 3 (5.08%) Textract
10 2 (3.39%) Apigee
10 2 (3.39%) Boomi
10 2 (3.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) HTTP
1 1 (1.69%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.64%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (13.56%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (10.17%) Relational Database
4 4 (6.78%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.39%) GIS
5 2 (3.39%) Power BI
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.69%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.69%) MySQL
6 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.69%) Spatial Data
6 1 (1.69%) SQLite
6 1 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (13.56%) Cypress.io
2 7 (11.86%) Git
3 6 (10.17%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.17%) Storybook
4 2 (3.39%) GitLab
4 2 (3.39%) JIRA
4 2 (3.39%) Subversion
5 1 (1.69%) Appium
5 1 (1.69%) Capybara
5 1 (1.69%) CocoaPods
5 1 (1.69%) git-flow
5 1 (1.69%) Gradle
General
1 23 (38.98%) Public Sector
2 13 (22.03%) Social Skills
3 11 (18.64%) Finance
4 6 (10.17%) Banking
5 3 (5.08%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.39%) Back Office
6 2 (3.39%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (3.39%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.39%) Retail
6 2 (3.39%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.69%) Legal
7 1 (1.69%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.42%) React
2 11 (18.64%) CSS
3 9 (15.25%) .NET
3 9 (15.25%) AWS CDK
4 8 (13.56%) REST
4 8 (13.56%) RESTful
4 8 (13.56%) Spring
5 7 (11.86%) Jest
5 7 (11.86%) Spring Boot
6 6 (10.17%) HTML
7 5 (8.47%) Tailwind CSS
8 4 (6.78%) AngularJS
8 4 (6.78%) GraphQL
8 4 (6.78%) OAuth
8 4 (6.78%) Spring Security
8 4 (6.78%) Spring Web Flow
8 4 (6.78%) Thymeleaf
9 3 (5.08%) Node.js
9 3 (5.08%) OAuth2
9 3 (5.08%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.86%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (10.17%) Product Ownership
3 5 (8.47%) Wiki
4 4 (6.78%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (5.08%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.39%) CMDB
6 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.39%) Mobile App
6 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.39%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.69%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.69%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.39%) Linux
2 1 (1.69%) AIX
2 1 (1.69%) Android
2 1 (1.69%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.69%) Unix
2 1 (1.69%) VME
2 1 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (30.51%) Agile
2 16 (27.12%) CI/CD
2 16 (27.12%) DevOps
3 12 (20.34%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (16.95%) User Experience
5 9 (15.25%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (15.25%) Microservices
6 8 (13.56%) AI
6 8 (13.56%) API Development
7 7 (11.86%) CRM
7 7 (11.86%) Data Protection
7 7 (11.86%) Secure Coding
8 6 (10.17%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (10.17%) Machine Learning
8 6 (10.17%) Migration
9 5 (8.47%) Clean Code
9 5 (8.47%) Knowledge Transfer
9 5 (8.47%) Scrum
9 5 (8.47%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 17 (28.81%) TypeScript
2 16 (27.12%) Python
3 15 (25.42%) Java
4 12 (20.34%) JavaScript
5 9 (15.25%) SQL
6 5 (8.47%) C#
7 3 (5.08%) PL/SQL
7 3 (5.08%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.39%) Apex Code
8 2 (3.39%) COBOL
8 2 (3.39%) Perl
9 1 (1.69%) ABAP
9 1 (1.69%) Groovy
9 1 (1.69%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.69%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.69%) Ruby
9 1 (1.69%) SAS Macro
9 1 (1.69%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (3.39%) Degree
2 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.17%) Accessibility
2 4 (6.78%) QA
3 3 (5.08%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (3.39%) GDPR
5 1 (1.69%) COREP
5 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.69%) IFRS
5 1 (1.69%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.69%) NCSC
5 1 (1.69%) PSD2
5 1 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.69%) SLA
5 1 (1.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (10.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.78%) Grafana
1 4 (6.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.08%) Terraform
3 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft
1 4 (6.78%) Oracle
2 2 (3.39%) ForgeRock
2 2 (3.39%) Fujitsu
2 2 (3.39%) ICL
2 2 (3.39%) Salesforce
2 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.69%) Apple
3 1 (1.69%) dotdigital
3 1 (1.69%) Google
3 1 (1.69%) Ping Identity
3 1 (1.69%) SAP
3 1 (1.69%) VMware