Developer Contracts in Edinburgh

Developer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Developer daily rate in Edinburgh is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 88 208 285
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.17% 17.67% 15.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.72% 18.51% 15.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 167 205
10th Percentile £325 £410 £413
25th Percentile £414 £438 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £492 £503 £538
90th Percentile £575 £593 £638
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £464
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.37% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.25
Median hourly rate - - £54.50
75th Percentile - - £55.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £38.38 £59.03 £54.50
% change year-on-year -34.99% +8.31% +36.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 821 1,124 1,814
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.91% 95.50% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 784 1,246
10th Percentile £179 £220 £230
25th Percentile £340 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £569
90th Percentile £650 £601 £638
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £470
% change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 9 14
10th Percentile £15.38 £12.63 -
25th Percentile £16.44 £17.70 £17.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £17.72 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +153.95% -22.96% -60.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £21.26 £46.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £28.09 £52.64
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £18.50 £37.43
% change year-on-year +5.41% -50.57% +66.36%

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 May 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 May 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 42 (47.73%) Public Sector
2 30 (34.09%) React
3 29 (32.95%) TypeScript
4 26 (29.55%) AWS
4 26 (29.55%) Serverless
4 26 (29.55%) JavaScript
5 25 (28.41%) Java
6 24 (27.27%) Agile
7 23 (26.14%) DevOps
8 22 (25.00%) Amazon S3
9 21 (23.86%) Azure
9 21 (23.86%) .NET
10 20 (22.73%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (22.73%) AWS CDK
11 19 (21.59%) CI/CD
12 18 (20.45%) AWS CloudFormation
13 17 (19.32%) CSS
13 17 (19.32%) Oracle
13 17 (19.32%) PostgreSQL
14 16 (18.18%) HTML
14 16 (18.18%) SQL
15 15 (17.05%) Spring
15 15 (17.05%) Python
15 15 (17.05%) User Experience
15 15 (17.05%) Microservices
15 15 (17.05%) Amazon Aurora
16 14 (15.91%) Infrastructure as Code
16 14 (15.91%) Social Skills
16 14 (15.91%) Code Quality
17 13 (14.77%) Oracle Database

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 3 (3.41%) SharePoint
1 3 (3.41%) Umbraco
2 2 (2.27%) Apache
2 2 (2.27%) Confluence
2 2 (2.27%) GeoServer
2 2 (2.27%) JBoss
2 2 (2.27%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.27%) WildFly
3 1 (1.14%) CICS
3 1 (1.14%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Markit EDM
1 1 (1.14%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 26 (29.55%) AWS
1 26 (29.55%) Serverless
2 22 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 21 (23.86%) Azure
4 20 (22.73%) AWS Lambda
5 18 (20.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (10.23%) OpenShift
7 9 (10.23%) Power Platform
8 4 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (3.41%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.41%) PowerApps
9 3 (3.41%) Textract
10 2 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.27%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.27%) GitHub
10 2 (2.27%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (19.32%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (17.05%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (14.77%) Oracle Database
4 8 (9.09%) Power BI
5 7 (7.95%) SQL Server
6 6 (6.82%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (5.68%) MongoDB
8 4 (4.55%) Metadata
9 3 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (3.41%) GIS
10 2 (2.27%) Oracle Database 11g
11 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
11 1 (1.14%) MySQL
11 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
11 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
11 1 (1.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (11.36%) Jenkins
2 7 (7.95%) Oracle APEX
3 4 (4.55%) Git
4 3 (3.41%) JUnit
4 3 (3.41%) Maven
5 2 (2.27%) JIRA
5 2 (2.27%) Subversion
6 1 (1.14%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.14%) Gradle
6 1 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.14%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.14%) TeamCity
General
1 42 (47.73%) Public Sector
2 14 (15.91%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.68%) Finance
5 2 (2.27%) Retail
6 1 (1.14%) Banking
6 1 (1.14%) German Language
6 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (34.09%) React
2 21 (23.86%) .NET
3 20 (22.73%) AWS CDK
4 17 (19.32%) CSS
5 16 (18.18%) HTML
6 15 (17.05%) Spring
7 12 (13.64%) Node.js
8 11 (12.50%) Spring Boot
9 8 (9.09%) REST
10 7 (7.95%) RESTful
10 7 (7.95%) SpaCy
11 6 (6.82%) AngularJS
11 6 (6.82%) OAuth
11 6 (6.82%) OAuth2
12 5 (5.68%) .NET Core
12 5 (5.68%) Web Services
13 4 (4.55%) .NET Framework
13 4 (4.55%) Spring Security
14 3 (3.41%) Java EE
14 3 (3.41%) Spring Web Flow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.64%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (10.23%) Legacy Applications
3 8 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 8 (9.09%) Wiki
4 4 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.27%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.27%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.27%) Educational Technology
5 2 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.27%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.14%) CMDB
6 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.14%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.55%) Linux
1 4 (4.55%) Unix
2 1 (1.14%) AIX
2 1 (1.14%) Android
2 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (27.27%) Agile
2 23 (26.14%) DevOps
3 19 (21.59%) CI/CD
4 15 (17.05%) Microservices
4 15 (17.05%) User Experience
5 14 (15.91%) Code Quality
5 14 (15.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (12.50%) Scrum
7 10 (11.36%) Full Stack Development
7 10 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (10.23%) Knowledge Transfer
8 9 (10.23%) MVC
9 8 (9.09%) Analytics
9 8 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (9.09%) Machine Learning
10 7 (7.95%) Pair Programming
10 7 (7.95%) TDD
11 6 (6.82%) Kanban
11 6 (6.82%) Migration
11 6 (6.82%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (32.95%) TypeScript
2 26 (29.55%) JavaScript
3 25 (28.41%) Java
4 16 (18.18%) SQL
5 15 (17.05%) Python
6 7 (7.95%) Bash
6 7 (7.95%) C#
6 7 (7.95%) PL/SQL
6 7 (7.95%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.27%) Perl
7 2 (2.27%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.27%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.14%) COBOL
8 1 (1.14%) JCL
8 1 (1.14%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (4.55%) Degree
1 4 (4.55%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (3.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.64%) Accessibility
2 10 (11.36%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.14%) GDPR
3 1 (1.14%) NCSC
3 1 (1.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (11.36%) Docker
2 2 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (10.23%) Grafana
2 3 (3.41%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.27%) Terraform
4 1 (1.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (19.32%) Oracle
2 4 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.41%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.27%) Databricks
4 2 (2.27%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.14%) Google
5 1 (1.14%) IBM
5 1 (1.14%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.14%) Solace
5 1 (1.14%) VMware