Software Engineering Contracts in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 55 59
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 23 53 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.83% 4.04% 3.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.22% 4.25% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 42 39
10th Percentile £309 £413 £400
25th Percentile £460 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year +27.63% -6.86% +8.51%
75th Percentile £663 £553 £634
90th Percentile £726 £636 £800
Scotland median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile £38.00 £53.50 £48.59
25th Percentile £54.69 £56.88 £49.59
Median hourly rate £60.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +23.81% -
75th Percentile £60.94 £67.50 £54.03
90th Percentile £63.15 - £54.20
Scotland median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% +31.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 715 1,248 1,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 87.95% 95.12% 93.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 900 1,291
10th Percentile £240 £262 £255
25th Percentile £413 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.58% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £550
90th Percentile £663 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.21% +9.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 11 19
10th Percentile £15.91 £17.72 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.31 £19.49 £19.13
Median hourly rate £24.44 £21.26 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.93% -35.58% -39.42%
75th Percentile £60.75 £54.13 £51.25
90th Percentile - £67.50 £53.86
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £17.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year +10.05% -40.93% -28.57%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
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 2 (8.70%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) Apache
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) AWS
2 3 (13.04%) Azure
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (4.35%) GCP
3 1 (4.35%) SaaS
3 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) Internet
2 2 (8.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Big Data
1 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
1 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.35%) Flink
1 1 (4.35%) GIS
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Git
General
1 7 (30.43%) Electronics
2 6 (26.09%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.04%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Software Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Embedded Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Ada Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Ada Software Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Senior
4 3 (13.04%) Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Technical Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Technical Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Administrator
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Python Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) OAuth
1 2 (8.70%) OpenAPI
1 2 (8.70%) OpenID
1 2 (8.70%) REST
1 2 (8.70%) SAML
1 2 (8.70%) SOAP
1 2 (8.70%) Swagger
2 1 (4.35%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.35%) Play Framework
2 1 (4.35%) PostGIS
2 1 (4.35%) PySpark
2 1 (4.35%) React
2 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Device Driver
1 5 (21.74%) IoT
1 5 (21.74%) PCIe
1 5 (21.74%) Verilog
1 5 (21.74%) VHDL
2 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Embedded Linux
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
1 5 (21.74%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Agile
2 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
2 6 (26.09%) Configuration Management
2 6 (26.09%) DevOps
3 5 (21.74%) Code Optimisation
3 5 (21.74%) Continuous Deployment
3 5 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (21.74%) Defect Tracking
3 5 (21.74%) Device Driver Development
3 5 (21.74%) Memory Management
3 5 (21.74%) Requirements Management
4 3 (13.04%) Data Migration
4 3 (13.04%) Data Modelling
4 3 (13.04%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (13.04%) Microservices
4 3 (13.04%) Migration
5 2 (8.70%) Digital Engineering
5 2 (8.70%) Roadmaps
5 2 (8.70%) Software Testing
5 2 (8.70%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) C
2 6 (26.09%) Embedded C
3 5 (21.74%) Ada
4 4 (17.39%) Python
5 3 (13.04%) C++
6 2 (8.70%) Java
6 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.35%) Julia
7 1 (4.35%) Scala
7 1 (4.35%) SQL
7 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
7 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) MISRA
1 5 (21.74%) MISRA C
2 2 (8.70%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (8.70%) QA
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Firmware
2 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Atlassian
2 5 (21.74%) Intel
3 1 (4.35%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft