Developer Contracts in Edinburgh

Developer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Developer daily rate in Edinburgh is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 92 232 262
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 11.37% 17.98% 13.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.92% 18.82% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 188 186
10th Percentile £340 £406 £408
25th Percentile £415 £430 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £494 £501 £540
90th Percentile £575 £600 £638
Scotland median daily rate £460 £477 £475
% change year-on-year -3.56% +0.42% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.25
Median hourly rate - - £54.50
75th Percentile - - £55.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £38.38 £62.02 £54.50
% change year-on-year -38.12% +13.79% +36.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 772 1,233 1,868
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.43% 95.58% 96.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 880 1,282
10th Percentile £204 £249 £230
25th Percentile £404 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £542 £555
90th Percentile £663 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £460
% change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 13 23
10th Percentile £16.10 £14.07 £11.98
25th Percentile £17.86 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -1.12% -62.61%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £64.90 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £33.25 £23.86 £25.55
% change year-on-year +39.35% -6.60% -36.14%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024, 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 41 (44.57%) Public Sector
2 32 (34.78%) React
3 30 (32.61%) AWS
3 30 (32.61%) Java
4 29 (31.52%) JavaScript
5 27 (29.35%) Agile
5 27 (29.35%) Serverless
6 26 (28.26%) TypeScript
6 26 (28.26%) DevOps
7 23 (25.00%) Amazon S3
8 22 (23.91%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (23.91%) Oracle
8 22 (23.91%) .NET
8 22 (23.91%) AWS CDK
9 21 (22.83%) Python
10 20 (21.74%) SQL
10 20 (21.74%) Social Skills
11 19 (20.65%) CI/CD
11 19 (20.65%) PostgreSQL
11 19 (20.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (20.65%) Azure
12 18 (19.57%) User Experience
12 18 (19.57%) Microservices
13 17 (18.48%) HTML
13 17 (18.48%) CSS
13 17 (18.48%) Code Quality
14 16 (17.39%) Spring
14 16 (17.39%) Amazon Aurora
15 15 (16.30%) Infrastructure as Code
16 14 (15.22%) Accessibility

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 4 (4.35%) Apache
2 3 (3.26%) Confluence
3 2 (2.17%) CMS
3 2 (2.17%) GeoServer
3 2 (2.17%) JBoss
3 2 (2.17%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.17%) WildFly
4 1 (1.09%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.09%) CICS
4 1 (1.09%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.09%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.09%) Markit EDM
2 1 (1.09%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 30 (32.61%) AWS
2 27 (29.35%) Serverless
3 23 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 22 (23.91%) AWS Lambda
5 19 (20.65%) AWS CloudFormation
5 19 (20.65%) Azure
6 13 (14.13%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (10.87%) OpenShift
8 6 (6.52%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.26%) iPaaS
10 2 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.17%) OCI
11 1 (1.09%) Azure AKS
11 1 (1.09%) Azure API Management
11 1 (1.09%) Azure Functions
11 1 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (1.09%) Rekognition
11 1 (1.09%) Snowflake
11 1 (1.09%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (20.65%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (17.39%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (14.13%) Oracle Database
4 6 (6.52%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (5.43%) MongoDB
5 5 (5.43%) Power BI
6 4 (4.35%) Metadata
6 4 (4.35%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.26%) GIS
8 2 (2.17%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.17%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (2.17%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.09%) Big Data
9 1 (1.09%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.09%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.09%) Flink
9 1 (1.09%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (15.22%) Jenkins
2 10 (10.87%) Oracle APEX
3 5 (5.43%) Cypress.io
4 4 (4.35%) Git
4 4 (4.35%) JIRA
4 4 (4.35%) JUnit
5 3 (3.26%) GitLab
5 3 (3.26%) Maven
6 2 (2.17%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.17%) Subversion
7 1 (1.09%) Gradle
7 1 (1.09%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.09%) Postman
7 1 (1.09%) Selenium
7 1 (1.09%) TeamCity
General
1 41 (44.57%) Public Sector
2 20 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.70%) Finance
5 5 (5.43%) Retail
6 1 (1.09%) Automotive
6 1 (1.09%) Banking
6 1 (1.09%) Games
6 1 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (34.78%) React
2 22 (23.91%) .NET
2 22 (23.91%) AWS CDK
3 17 (18.48%) CSS
3 17 (18.48%) HTML
4 16 (17.39%) Spring
5 14 (15.22%) REST
6 13 (14.13%) Spring Boot
7 12 (13.04%) Node.js
8 6 (6.52%) OAuth
8 6 (6.52%) Spring Security
9 5 (5.43%) OAuth2
9 5 (5.43%) Spring MVC
9 5 (5.43%) Spring Web Flow
10 4 (4.35%) .NET Core
10 4 (4.35%) JSP
10 4 (4.35%) Thymeleaf
11 3 (3.26%) ASP.NET
11 3 (3.26%) Django
11 3 (3.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.04%) Legacy Applications
1 12 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
1 12 (13.04%) Wiki
2 11 (11.96%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.43%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.26%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.17%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.17%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.09%) CMDB
6 1 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.09%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.09%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.35%) Unix
2 3 (3.26%) Linux
3 1 (1.09%) AIX
3 1 (1.09%) Android
3 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (29.35%) Agile
2 26 (28.26%) DevOps
3 19 (20.65%) CI/CD
4 18 (19.57%) Microservices
4 18 (19.57%) User Experience
5 17 (18.48%) Code Quality
6 15 (16.30%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (11.96%) Human-Centred Design
8 11 (11.96%) Knowledge Transfer
8 11 (11.96%) Pair Programming
9 10 (10.87%) Analytics
9 10 (10.87%) MVC
9 10 (10.87%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (9.78%) Full Stack Development
10 9 (9.78%) Inclusive Design
10 9 (9.78%) TDD
10 9 (9.78%) Test Automation
11 8 (8.70%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (32.61%) Java
2 29 (31.52%) JavaScript
3 26 (28.26%) TypeScript
4 21 (22.83%) Python
5 20 (21.74%) SQL
6 12 (13.04%) PL/SQL
7 7 (7.61%) Bash
7 7 (7.61%) Shell Script
8 5 (5.43%) C#
9 3 (3.26%) PHP
10 2 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.09%) COBOL
11 1 (1.09%) JCL
11 1 (1.09%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.09%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (5.43%) Degree
2 4 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (4.35%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.22%) Accessibility
2 12 (13.04%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.09%) GDPR
3 1 (1.09%) NCSC
3 1 (1.09%) QA
3 1 (1.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (11.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (9.78%) Grafana
2 4 (4.35%) Terraform
3 2 (2.17%) Kibana
3 2 (2.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (23.91%) Oracle
2 2 (2.17%) Databricks
2 2 (2.17%) Google
2 2 (2.17%) MuleSoft
2 2 (2.17%) Pega
3 1 (1.09%) IBM
3 1 (1.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.09%) Okta
3 1 (1.09%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.09%) Solace
3 1 (1.09%) VMware