Developer Contracts in Edinburgh

Developer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Developer daily rate in Edinburgh is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 7 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 111 144 262
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.80% 14.63% 15.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.66% 15.38% 15.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 103 208
10th Percentile £380 £390 £406
25th Percentile £412 £414 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £470
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -1.54% +4.39%
75th Percentile £488 £493 £500
90th Percentile £560 £548 £572
Scotland median daily rate £448 £472 £475
% change year-on-year -5.14% -0.68% +5.56%

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 709 936 1,640
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.53% 95.12% 95.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 566 1,118
10th Percentile £181 £210 £349
25th Percentile £340 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £550
90th Percentile £588 £600 £638
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 15 19
10th Percentile £15.45 £13.21 £13.78
25th Percentile £16.37 £17.71 £16.59
Median hourly rate £20.29 £17.72 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +14.48% -5.49% -12.79%
75th Percentile £24.18 £57.60 £31.75
90th Percentile - £62.50 £51.50
Scotland median hourly rate £18.38 £18.93 £17.72
% change year-on-year -2.93% +6.83% -8.09%

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 31 October 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 31 October 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 49 (44.14%) Public Sector
2 40 (36.04%) Agile
3 35 (31.53%) Java
4 34 (30.63%) TypeScript
5 33 (29.73%) AWS
6 32 (28.83%) JavaScript
7 30 (27.03%) SQL
7 30 (27.03%) React
8 29 (26.13%) DevOps
9 28 (25.23%) CI/CD
10 27 (24.32%) Microservices
11 26 (23.42%) PostgreSQL
11 26 (23.42%) Code Quality
12 25 (22.52%) .NET
12 25 (22.52%) Spring
12 25 (22.52%) User Experience
13 24 (21.62%) Azure
13 24 (21.62%) Serverless
14 23 (20.72%) Amazon S3
14 23 (20.72%) REST
14 23 (20.72%) Spring Boot
14 23 (20.72%) Python
15 22 (19.82%) CSS
15 22 (19.82%) Social Skills
16 21 (18.92%) AWS Lambda
17 20 (18.02%) AWS CloudFormation
17 20 (18.02%) AWS CDK
18 19 (17.12%) Scrum
19 18 (16.22%) Oracle
19 18 (16.22%) Unit Testing

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 5 (4.50%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.60%) CMS
2 4 (3.60%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.80%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.80%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.90%) Drupal
4 1 (0.90%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.80%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.80%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 33 (29.73%) AWS
2 24 (21.62%) Azure
2 24 (21.62%) Serverless
3 23 (20.72%) Amazon S3
4 21 (18.92%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (18.02%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (14.41%) OpenShift
7 13 (11.71%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.60%) GitHub
9 3 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.70%) OCI
9 3 (2.70%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.70%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.70%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.70%) Textract
10 2 (1.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.80%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (1.80%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.80%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.41%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (23.42%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (14.41%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (6.31%) Metadata
3 7 (6.31%) Oracle Database
4 6 (5.41%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.60%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.70%) Informix
6 3 (2.70%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.70%) Power BI
7 2 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.80%) GIS
7 2 (1.80%) MySQL
7 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.80%) Oracle Discoverer
8 1 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.90%) DB2
8 1 (0.90%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (11.71%) Jenkins
2 12 (10.81%) Git
3 6 (5.41%) Cypress.io
4 4 (3.60%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.70%) Firebug
6 2 (1.80%) JIRA
6 2 (1.80%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.80%) webpack
7 1 (0.90%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.90%) JUnit
7 1 (0.90%) Maven
7 1 (0.90%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.90%) Postman
7 1 (0.90%) Selenium
7 1 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.90%) WebDriver
General
1 49 (44.14%) Public Sector
2 22 (19.82%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.21%) Finance
4 5 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.80%) Banking
5 2 (1.80%) Games
6 1 (0.90%) Front Office
6 1 (0.90%) German Language
6 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.90%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (27.03%) React
2 25 (22.52%) .NET
2 25 (22.52%) Spring
3 23 (20.72%) REST
3 23 (20.72%) Spring Boot
4 22 (19.82%) CSS
5 20 (18.02%) AWS CDK
6 17 (15.32%) HTML
7 14 (12.61%) AngularJS
8 13 (11.71%) RESTful
9 11 (9.91%) SOAP
10 9 (8.11%) OAuth
10 9 (8.11%) SpaCy
11 8 (7.21%) OAuth2
11 8 (7.21%) PyQt
11 8 (7.21%) PySide
12 6 (5.41%) .NET Framework
12 6 (5.41%) Middleware
12 6 (5.41%) Next.js
12 6 (5.41%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.11%) Legacy Applications
2 7 (6.31%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.31%) Wiki
3 6 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.50%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.70%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.80%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.80%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.80%) Virtual Reality
7 1 (0.90%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.90%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.90%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.01%) Windows
2 6 (5.41%) Windows 10
3 5 (4.50%) Linux
4 3 (2.70%) Unix
5 2 (1.80%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (36.04%) Agile
2 29 (26.13%) DevOps
3 28 (25.23%) CI/CD
4 27 (24.32%) Microservices
5 26 (23.42%) Code Quality
6 25 (22.52%) User Experience
7 19 (17.12%) Scrum
8 18 (16.22%) Unit Testing
9 17 (15.32%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (14.41%) Inclusive Design
10 16 (14.41%) Test Automation
11 15 (13.51%) Human-Centred Design
11 15 (13.51%) Pair Programming
11 15 (13.51%) TDD
12 13 (11.71%) Analytics
12 13 (11.71%) Mentoring
13 12 (10.81%) Full-Stack Development
13 12 (10.81%) Migration
14 11 (9.91%) Code Coverage
15 10 (9.01%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 35 (31.53%) Java
2 34 (30.63%) TypeScript
3 32 (28.83%) JavaScript
4 30 (27.03%) SQL
5 23 (20.72%) Python
6 15 (13.51%) C#
7 5 (4.50%) PHP
8 4 (3.60%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.70%) Bash
9 3 (2.70%) Perl
10 2 (1.80%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.90%) COBOL
11 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (6.31%) Degree
2 6 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (5.41%) SC Cleared
2 6 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.90%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.51%) Disclosure Scotland
2 14 (12.61%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (11.71%) Docker
2 2 (1.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (15.32%) Grafana
2 8 (7.21%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.70%) Ansible
4 1 (0.90%) Kibana
4 1 (0.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (16.22%) Oracle
2 4 (3.60%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.70%) SAP
4 2 (1.80%) ServiceNow