Senior Contracts in Edinburgh

Senior
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Senior daily rate in Edinburgh is £500 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 10 16 25
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 90 124 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.40% 10.54% 8.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.96% 11.03% 8.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 101 110
10th Percentile £328 £378 £405
25th Percentile £418 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £533
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -10.80% +18.33%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £606
90th Percentile £608 £638 £688
Scotland median daily rate £497 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -0.60% +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £33.06 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £17.72 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +238.60% +1.26% -
75th Percentile £61.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.00 £17.72 £17.50
% change year-on-year +238.60% +1.26% -81.77%

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%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Edinburgh

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Edinburgh

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Edinburgh

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Edinburgh

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in Edinburgh

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Senior 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 in the job title.

1 45 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 28 (31.11%) Social Skills
3 21 (23.33%) Agile
4 18 (20.00%) SQL
4 18 (20.00%) Azure
5 14 (15.56%) Disclosure Scotland
6 13 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (14.44%) .NET
6 13 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (13.33%) Metadata
7 12 (13.33%) Oracle
7 12 (13.33%) Finance
8 11 (12.22%) Content Management
8 11 (12.22%) Degree
8 11 (12.22%) DevOps
9 10 (11.11%) React
9 10 (11.11%) Accessibility
9 10 (11.11%) User Experience
10 9 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (10.00%) Roadmaps
10 9 (10.00%) Oracle Database
10 9 (10.00%) User Stories
10 9 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (10.00%) Computer Science
10 9 (10.00%) Oracle APEX
10 9 (10.00%) CMS
10 9 (10.00%) Management Information System
10 9 (10.00%) PL/SQL
11 8 (8.89%) Information Security

Senior 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 9 (10.00%) CMS
2 1 (1.11%) Apache
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.11%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 18 (20.00%) Azure
2 9 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (4.44%) Amazon S3
4 4 (4.44%) AWS
4 4 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (4.44%) IaaS
4 4 (4.44%) OpenShift
4 4 (4.44%) PaaS
4 4 (4.44%) SaaS
5 3 (3.33%) Serverless
6 2 (2.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.22%) iPaaS
6 2 (2.22%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.11%) AWS CodeCommit
7 1 (1.11%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.11%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.33%) Firewall
2 2 (2.22%) LAN
2 2 (2.22%) SCCP
2 2 (2.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.33%) Metadata
2 9 (10.00%) Oracle Database
3 4 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (4.44%) MongoDB
3 4 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.22%) Informix
4 2 (2.22%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.11%) Big Data
5 1 (1.11%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 9 (10.00%) Oracle APEX
2 4 (4.44%) Selenium
3 2 (2.22%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.22%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.22%) Git
3 2 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.22%) JIRA
3 2 (2.22%) Subversion
3 2 (2.22%) TeamCity
3 2 (2.22%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.11%) Appium
4 1 (1.11%) JMeter
4 1 (1.11%) JUnit
4 1 (1.11%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.11%) Maven
4 1 (1.11%) NUnit
4 1 (1.11%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.11%) SonarQube
General
1 45 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 28 (31.11%) Social Skills
3 13 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (13.33%) Finance
5 8 (8.89%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.44%) Banking
6 4 (4.44%) Publishing
7 2 (2.22%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.11%) Humanities
8 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.11%) Marketing
8 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Social Science
8 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.44%) .NET
2 10 (11.11%) React
3 4 (4.44%) AWS CDK
4 3 (3.33%) Web Services
5 2 (2.22%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.22%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (2.22%) J2EE
5 2 (2.22%) Middleware
6 1 (1.11%) COM+
6 1 (1.11%) REST
6 1 (1.11%) Spring
6 1 (1.11%) Spring Batch
6 1 (1.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 7 (7.78%) Legacy Applications
2 7 (7.78%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.78%) Wiki
3 6 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.44%) Client/Server
5 3 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.33%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.33%) Replication
6 2 (2.22%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.22%) N-Tier
6 2 (2.22%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.22%) Social Media
7 1 (1.11%) Blog
7 1 (1.11%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.11%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.11%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.11%) PKI
7 1 (1.11%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.11%) Android
1 1 (1.11%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.11%) Linux
1 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.11%) Windows
1 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (23.33%) Agile
2 13 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (12.22%) Content Management
3 11 (12.22%) DevOps
4 10 (11.11%) User Experience
5 9 (10.00%) Computer Science
5 9 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (10.00%) Roadmaps
5 9 (10.00%) User Stories
6 8 (8.89%) Data Protection
6 8 (8.89%) Incident Management
6 8 (8.89%) Information Security
6 8 (8.89%) Knowledge Transfer
6 8 (8.89%) Migration
6 8 (8.89%) SQL Optimisation
7 7 (7.78%) Code Quality
7 7 (7.78%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (7.78%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (7.78%) Service Design
7 7 (7.78%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.00%) SQL
2 9 (10.00%) PL/SQL
3 6 (6.67%) TypeScript
4 4 (4.44%) C#
4 4 (4.44%) Java
5 2 (2.22%) C++
5 2 (2.22%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.22%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.22%) VBA
5 2 (2.22%) VBScript
6 1 (1.11%) Perl
6 1 (1.11%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.11%) Python
6 1 (1.11%) R
6 1 (1.11%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (12.22%) Degree
2 9 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.33%) CISSP
3 3 (3.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 3 (3.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 2 (2.22%) CLAS
4 2 (2.22%) ISEB
4 2 (2.22%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (2.22%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.11%) IIBA
5 1 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.11%) MCSE
5 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.11%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.11%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.56%) Disclosure Scotland
2 10 (11.11%) Accessibility
3 8 (8.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (5.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.22%) PMO
6 1 (1.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (3.33%) Hyper-V
1 3 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.44%) Ansible
1 4 (4.44%) Grafana
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (13.33%) Oracle
2 6 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.33%) VMware
4 1 (1.11%) Citrix
4 1 (1.11%) Commvault
4 1 (1.11%) Facebook
4 1 (1.11%) Google
4 1 (1.11%) Instagram
4 1 (1.11%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.11%) Splunk