RIMES Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

RIMES
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring knowledge or experience of RIMES products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RIMES over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the RIMES Technologies Corporation.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RIMES 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.14% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Scotland median daily rate - - -

All Vendors
Edinburgh

RIMES falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 281 278 312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 40.14% 44.34% 38.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 139 177
10th Percentile £258 £187 £212
25th Percentile £406 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £489 £494
Median % change year-on-year +1.23% -1.01% +4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £555 £600
90th Percentile £680 £640 £725
Scotland median daily rate £488 £465 £465
% change year-on-year +4.95% -0.11% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 22 24
10th Percentile £15.70 £17.30 £15.37
25th Percentile £24.13 £20.47 £16.25
Median hourly rate £59.50 £22.94 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year +159.40% +30.25% -17.17%
75th Percentile £73.50 £24.18 £32.15
90th Percentile £75.00 £28.38 £60.75
Scotland median hourly rate £17.36 £22.44 £17.50
% change year-on-year -22.63% +28.21% -69.57%

RIMES
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RIMES relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

RIMES job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

RIMES
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Forms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Support Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle