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 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 90 230 267
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 11.10% 17.91% 13.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.64% 18.73% 14.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 186 188
10th Percentile £329 £406 £413
25th Percentile £415 £433 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £485 £503 £540
90th Percentile £575 £600 £650
Scotland median daily rate £458 £475 £473
% change year-on-year -3.53% +0.53% +11.18%
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 £59.03 £54.50
% change year-on-year -34.99% +8.31% +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 773 1,228 1,860
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.31% 95.64% 95.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 876 1,276
10th Percentile £202 £240 £230
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £547 £569
90th Percentile £663 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 12 21
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.62 £14.55
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -18.23% -54.78%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £54.43 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £24.26 £21.75 £26.85
% change year-on-year +11.52% -18.99% -28.40%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 38 (42.22%) Public Sector
2 33 (36.67%) React
3 30 (33.33%) Java
3 30 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 29 (32.22%) AWS
5 28 (31.11%) TypeScript
6 27 (30.00%) Serverless
6 27 (30.00%) Agile
7 25 (27.78%) DevOps
8 23 (25.56%) Amazon S3
9 22 (24.44%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (24.44%) AWS CDK
10 21 (23.33%) Python
11 19 (21.11%) .NET
11 19 (21.11%) Oracle
11 19 (21.11%) PostgreSQL
11 19 (21.11%) Azure
11 19 (21.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (21.11%) CI/CD
12 18 (20.00%) Social Skills
12 18 (20.00%) Microservices
12 18 (20.00%) CSS
12 18 (20.00%) HTML
13 17 (18.89%) SQL
13 17 (18.89%) User Experience
14 16 (17.78%) Spring
14 16 (17.78%) Amazon Aurora
14 16 (17.78%) Code Quality
15 15 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
16 14 (15.56%) Jenkins

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 (4.44%) Apache
2 3 (3.33%) Confluence
3 2 (2.22%) CMS
3 2 (2.22%) GeoServer
3 2 (2.22%) JBoss
3 2 (2.22%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.22%) Umbraco
3 2 (2.22%) WildFly
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.11%) CICS
4 1 (1.11%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Markit EDM
1 1 (1.11%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 29 (32.22%) AWS
2 27 (30.00%) Serverless
3 23 (25.56%) Amazon S3
4 22 (24.44%) AWS Lambda
5 19 (21.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 19 (21.11%) Azure
6 12 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (11.11%) OpenShift
8 6 (6.67%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.33%) iPaaS
10 2 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (1.11%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (1.11%) Azure Functions
11 1 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (1.11%) GCP
11 1 (1.11%) Google Analytics
11 1 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (1.11%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (21.11%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (17.78%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (14.44%) Oracle Database
4 6 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 5 (5.56%) Power BI
6 4 (4.44%) Metadata
6 4 (4.44%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.33%) GIS
8 2 (2.22%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.22%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.11%) Big Data
9 1 (1.11%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.11%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.11%) Flink
9 1 (1.11%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (15.56%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.00%) Oracle APEX
3 5 (5.56%) Cypress.io
4 4 (4.44%) Git
4 4 (4.44%) JIRA
4 4 (4.44%) JUnit
5 3 (3.33%) GitLab
5 3 (3.33%) Maven
6 2 (2.22%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.22%) Subversion
7 1 (1.11%) Gradle
7 1 (1.11%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.11%) Postman
7 1 (1.11%) Selenium
7 1 (1.11%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (42.22%) Public Sector
2 18 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.78%) Finance
4 6 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.44%) Retail
6 1 (1.11%) Automotive
6 1 (1.11%) Banking
6 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (36.67%) React
2 22 (24.44%) AWS CDK
3 19 (21.11%) .NET
4 18 (20.00%) CSS
4 18 (20.00%) HTML
5 16 (17.78%) Spring
6 14 (15.56%) REST
7 13 (14.44%) Spring Boot
8 12 (13.33%) Node.js
9 6 (6.67%) OAuth
9 6 (6.67%) Spring Security
10 5 (5.56%) OAuth2
10 5 (5.56%) Spring MVC
10 5 (5.56%) Spring Web Flow
11 4 (4.44%) .NET Core
11 4 (4.44%) AngularJS
11 4 (4.44%) JSP
11 4 (4.44%) Thymeleaf
12 3 (3.33%) ASP.NET
12 3 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (12.22%) Legacy Applications
3 10 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 10 (11.11%) Wiki
4 6 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.33%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.22%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.22%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.22%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.11%) CMDB
7 1 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.11%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.11%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.44%) Unix
2 3 (3.33%) Linux
3 1 (1.11%) AIX
3 1 (1.11%) Android
3 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (30.00%) Agile
2 25 (27.78%) DevOps
3 19 (21.11%) CI/CD
4 18 (20.00%) Microservices
5 17 (18.89%) User Experience
6 16 (17.78%) Code Quality
7 15 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (12.22%) Human-Centred Design
8 11 (12.22%) Pair Programming
9 10 (11.11%) Analytics
9 10 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
9 10 (11.11%) MVC
10 9 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
10 9 (10.00%) Inclusive Design
10 9 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (10.00%) TDD
10 9 (10.00%) Test Automation
11 8 (8.89%) Data Protection
11 8 (8.89%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (33.33%) Java
1 30 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 28 (31.11%) TypeScript
3 21 (23.33%) Python
4 17 (18.89%) SQL
5 9 (10.00%) PL/SQL
6 7 (7.78%) Bash
6 7 (7.78%) Shell Script
7 5 (5.56%) C#
8 3 (3.33%) PHP
9 2 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.22%) Perl
10 1 (1.11%) COBOL
10 1 (1.11%) JCL
10 1 (1.11%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 5 (5.56%) Degree
2 4 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (4.44%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.56%) Accessibility
2 11 (12.22%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.11%) GDPR
3 1 (1.11%) NCSC
3 1 (1.11%) QA
3 1 (1.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (12.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (10.00%) Grafana
2 4 (4.44%) Terraform
3 2 (2.22%) Kibana
3 2 (2.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (21.11%) Oracle
2 2 (2.22%) Databricks
2 2 (2.22%) Google
2 2 (2.22%) MuleSoft
2 2 (2.22%) Pega
2 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.11%) IBM
3 1 (1.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.11%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.11%) Solace
3 1 (1.11%) VMware