Senior Developer Contracts in Edinburgh

Senior Developer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Senior Developer daily rate in Edinburgh is £305, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 67 86
Rank change year-on-year +7 +19 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 6 9 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.92% 1.05% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 1.11% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 14
10th Percentile - £357 £463
25th Percentile £205 £405 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £305 £456 £575
Median % change year-on-year -33.15% -20.65% +5.50%
75th Percentile £400 £501 £634
90th Percentile - £526 £688
Scotland median daily rate £467 £488 £625
% change year-on-year -4.31% -22.00% +31.58%

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 605 810 1,122
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 94.85% 95.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 448 773
10th Percentile £218 £178 £243
25th Percentile £400 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £534 £550 £538
90th Percentile £600 £647 £600
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 57 12
10th Percentile - £13.58 £17.70
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.37 -
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.38 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +19.73% +3.70% -8.89%
75th Percentile £40.04 £60.75 £27.19
90th Percentile £66.50 £63.00 £52.75
Scotland median hourly rate £19.90 £18.38 £17.72
% change year-on-year +8.30% +3.70% -52.66%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Senior Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Edinburgh

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in Edinburgh

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in Edinburgh

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in Edinburgh

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 1 July 2025, Senior 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 Senior Developer in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) User Experience
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) React
2 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 2 (33.33%) Apigee
2 2 (33.33%) API Development
2 2 (33.33%) API Design
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Games
2 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (33.33%) Swagger
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (33.33%) OpenAPI
2 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Java

Senior 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Apigee
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Games
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) OpenAPI
2 2 (33.33%) React
2 2 (33.33%) Spring
2 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 2 (33.33%) Spring Security
2 2 (33.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 2 (33.33%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) API Design
2 2 (33.33%) API Development
2 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes