Computer Science Contracts in Edinburgh

Computer Science
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Computer Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Science over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 103 104
Rank change year-on-year +53 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 26 3 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.15% 0.25% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 0.27% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 0 9
10th Percentile £473 - £321
25th Percentile £509 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.26%
75th Percentile £602 - £610
90th Percentile £661 - £616
Scotland median daily rate £525 £525 £425
% change year-on-year - +23.53% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £26.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £26.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Computer Science 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 713 1,125 1,784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 86.32% 94.30% 93.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 793 1,227
10th Percentile £219 £233 £280
25th Percentile £368 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £568
90th Percentile £661 £613 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 6 13
10th Percentile £13.25 £11.83 £15.53
25th Percentile £16.13 £14.30 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.17 £19.49 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -40.94% -39.42%
75th Percentile £60.75 £21.57 £48.75
90th Percentile - £37.71 £53.20
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
% change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in Edinburgh

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in Edinburgh

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in Edinburgh

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in Edinburgh

Computer Science
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 1 (3.85%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (15.38%) OCI
2 3 (11.54%) AWS
2 3 (11.54%) SaaS
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
3 2 (7.69%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) 2G
1 1 (3.85%) 5G
1 1 (3.85%) BGP
1 1 (3.85%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (3.85%) Firewall
1 1 (3.85%) IPv4
1 1 (3.85%) IPv6
1 1 (3.85%) MPLS
1 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (34.62%) Metadata
1 9 (34.62%) Oracle Database
2 2 (7.69%) Big Data
2 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) Oracle APEX
2 3 (11.54%) Git
3 2 (7.69%) Gradle
3 2 (7.69%) JMeter
3 2 (7.69%) JUnit
3 2 (7.69%) LoadRunner
3 2 (7.69%) Selenium
4 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.85%) JIRA
4 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (61.54%) Analytical Skills
1 16 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Public Sector
3 4 (15.38%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Senior
2 4 (15.38%) Developer
3 3 (11.54%) Applications Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Database Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Design Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Lead
3 3 (11.54%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Senior Applications Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Senior Database Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Senior Design Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Database Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Security Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) UAT Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Database Designer
5 1 (3.85%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (7.69%) Dagger
1 2 (7.69%) Jetpack Compose
1 2 (7.69%) Retrofit
1 2 (7.69%) Spring
2 1 (3.85%) .NET
2 1 (3.85%) Guice
2 1 (3.85%) Kafka
2 1 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.69%) PKI
2 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Code
3 1 (3.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Android
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
1 2 (7.69%) Unix
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (76.92%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (38.46%) Performance Tuning
3 9 (34.62%) SQL Optimisation
4 6 (23.08%) Analytics
5 5 (19.23%) Data Security
5 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (15.38%) Data Protection
6 4 (15.38%) RBAC
7 3 (11.54%) Agile
7 3 (11.54%) ERP
7 3 (11.54%) Project Management
7 3 (11.54%) Scrum
8 2 (7.69%) Data Management
8 2 (7.69%) E-Commerce
8 2 (7.69%) Migration
8 2 (7.69%) OO
8 2 (7.69%) Performance Testing
8 2 (7.69%) Security Testing
8 2 (7.69%) Usability Testing
8 2 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) SQL
2 9 (34.62%) PL/SQL
3 3 (11.54%) Perl
4 2 (7.69%) Java
4 2 (7.69%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.85%) C#
5 1 (3.85%) Python
5 1 (3.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 25 (96.15%) Degree
2 23 (88.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (11.54%) Master's Degree
3 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) CCNP
5 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.85%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.85%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.85%) ISO 8583
Vendors
1 13 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (3.85%) Cisco
2 1 (3.85%) Fortinet
2 1 (3.85%) Google