Senior Developer Contracts in Edinburgh

Senior Developer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Senior Developer daily rate in Edinburgh is £480, 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 55 83 125
Rank change year-on-year +28 +42 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 19 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.53% 0.51% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.68% 0.53% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile £389 £360 £531
25th Percentile £416 £413 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% -3.93% +9.05%
75th Percentile £685 £600 £663
90th Percentile - - £730
Scotland median daily rate £500 £395 £560
% change year-on-year +26.58% -29.46% +16.36%

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%

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 31 October 2024.

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 31 October 2024, 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 9 (47.37%) Python
2 8 (42.11%) Agile
2 8 (42.11%) REST
2 8 (42.11%) DevOps
2 8 (42.11%) Code Quality
3 7 (36.84%) Metadata
3 7 (36.84%) PySide
3 7 (36.84%) Public Sector
3 7 (36.84%) PyQt
3 7 (36.84%) Windows
3 7 (36.84%) Oracle
4 6 (31.58%) Java
4 6 (31.58%) SQL
4 6 (31.58%) Data Security
4 6 (31.58%) Data Modelling
4 6 (31.58%) Internet
4 6 (31.58%) TDD
4 6 (31.58%) Pair Programming
4 6 (31.58%) Spring
4 6 (31.58%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (31.58%) Computer Science
4 6 (31.58%) AWS
4 6 (31.58%) Unit Testing
4 6 (31.58%) Test Automation
4 6 (31.58%) Mentoring
4 6 (31.58%) Analytics
4 6 (31.58%) Oracle Database
4 6 (31.58%) OpenShift
4 6 (31.58%) Microservices
4 6 (31.58%) Spring Boot

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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) AWS
1 6 (31.58%) OpenShift
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) Metadata
2 6 (31.58%) Oracle Database
2 6 (31.58%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket
1 2 (10.53%) Firebug
1 2 (10.53%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (36.84%) Public Sector
2 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) REST
2 7 (36.84%) PyQt
2 7 (36.84%) PySide
3 6 (31.58%) Spring
3 6 (31.58%) Spring Boot
4 3 (15.79%) .NET
4 3 (15.79%) React
5 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
5 2 (10.53%) JSON
5 2 (10.53%) RESTful
5 2 (10.53%) XML
6 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK
6 1 (5.26%) CSS
6 1 (5.26%) HTML
6 1 (5.26%) OAuth
6 1 (5.26%) OAuth2
6 1 (5.26%) Spring MVC
6 1 (5.26%) Spring Web Flow
6 1 (5.26%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
1 2 (10.53%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Windows
2 6 (31.58%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Agile
1 8 (42.11%) Code Quality
1 8 (42.11%) DevOps
2 6 (31.58%) Analytics
2 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
2 6 (31.58%) Computer Science
2 6 (31.58%) Conflict Resolution
2 6 (31.58%) Data Modelling
2 6 (31.58%) Data Security
2 6 (31.58%) Human-Centred Design
2 6 (31.58%) Inclusive Design
2 6 (31.58%) Mentoring
2 6 (31.58%) Microservices
2 6 (31.58%) Pair Programming
2 6 (31.58%) TDD
2 6 (31.58%) Technical Leadership
2 6 (31.58%) Test Automation
2 6 (31.58%) Unit Testing
3 3 (15.79%) User Experience
4 2 (10.53%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Python
2 6 (31.58%) Java
2 6 (31.58%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (26.32%) Degree
2 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) SAP