Senior Contracts in Edinburgh

Senior
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Senior 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 12 15 23
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 79 100 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.53% 10.16% 9.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.14% 10.68% 9.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 48 112
10th Percentile £362 £329 £400
25th Percentile £400 £422 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £455 £480
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% -5.21% -1.54%
75th Percentile £613 £550 £606
90th Percentile £685 £600 £699
Scotland median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £21.46 - £14.55
25th Percentile £23.21 - £15.04
Median hourly rate £42.59 £17.72 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +140.35% +8.75% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.00 £26.72 £17.12
90th Percentile - £42.91 £17.35
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £17.72 £16.30
% change year-on-year +182.17% +8.75% +2.74%

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
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 October 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 October 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 October 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 31 (39.24%) Public Sector
2 27 (34.18%) Agile
3 22 (27.85%) Social Skills
4 20 (25.32%) Python
5 16 (20.25%) Oracle
6 14 (17.72%) Windows
6 14 (17.72%) AWS
6 14 (17.72%) Metadata
6 14 (17.72%) CI/CD
7 12 (15.19%) PyQt
7 12 (15.19%) DevOps
7 12 (15.19%) PySide
8 11 (13.92%) Disclosure Scotland
8 11 (13.92%) Test Automation
8 11 (13.92%) SQL
9 10 (12.66%) Java
9 10 (12.66%) TDD
9 10 (12.66%) SC Cleared
9 10 (12.66%) Security Cleared
9 10 (12.66%) Analytics
9 10 (12.66%) Mentoring
10 9 (11.39%) Banking
10 9 (11.39%) Software Engineering
10 9 (11.39%) Roadmaps
10 9 (11.39%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (10.13%) Code Quality
11 8 (10.13%) Project Management
11 8 (10.13%) Service Design
11 8 (10.13%) REST
11 8 (10.13%) SaaS

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 5 (6.33%) CMS
2 1 (1.27%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.72%) AWS
2 8 (10.13%) SaaS
3 7 (8.86%) OpenShift
4 6 (7.59%) Azure
5 4 (5.06%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.80%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (2.53%) Datadog
7 2 (2.53%) IaaS
7 2 (2.53%) PaaS
8 1 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.27%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.27%) GCP
8 1 (1.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.59%) Internet
2 1 (1.27%) BGP
2 1 (1.27%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (1.27%) Firewall
2 1 (1.27%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.72%) Metadata
2 6 (7.59%) Oracle Database
2 6 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.27%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 7 (8.86%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.33%) JIRA
3 4 (5.06%) Git
4 3 (3.80%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.53%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.53%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.53%) Firebug
5 2 (2.53%) Selenium
5 2 (2.53%) Subversion
5 2 (2.53%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.53%) WebDriver
General
1 31 (39.24%) Public Sector
2 22 (27.85%) Social Skills
3 9 (11.39%) Banking
4 7 (8.86%) Finance
4 7 (8.86%) Retail Banking
5 3 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.53%) Marketing
6 2 (2.53%) Publishing
7 1 (1.27%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.27%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.27%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.19%) PyQt
1 12 (15.19%) PySide
2 8 (10.13%) REST
3 6 (7.59%) Spring
3 6 (7.59%) Spring Boot
4 5 (6.33%) .NET
5 4 (5.06%) React
6 3 (3.80%) JSON
7 2 (2.53%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.53%) CSS
7 2 (2.53%) HTML
7 2 (2.53%) RESTful
7 2 (2.53%) XML
8 1 (1.27%) AWS CDK
8 1 (1.27%) OAuth
8 1 (1.27%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.27%) Spring MVC
8 1 (1.27%) Spring Web Flow
8 1 (1.27%) Thymeleaf
8 1 (1.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.33%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.80%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.53%) Client/Server
3 2 (2.53%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.53%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (2.53%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.53%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (2.53%) Social Media
3 2 (2.53%) Wiki
4 1 (1.27%) Blog
4 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.27%) Digital Signage
4 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.27%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.72%) Windows
2 6 (7.59%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.80%) Linux
4 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (34.18%) Agile
2 14 (17.72%) CI/CD
3 12 (15.19%) DevOps
4 11 (13.92%) Test Automation
5 10 (12.66%) Analytics
5 10 (12.66%) Mentoring
5 10 (12.66%) TDD
6 9 (11.39%) Roadmaps
6 9 (11.39%) Software Engineering
6 9 (11.39%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (10.13%) Code Quality
7 8 (10.13%) Project Management
7 8 (10.13%) Service Design
8 7 (8.86%) Computer Science
8 7 (8.86%) Data Modelling
8 7 (8.86%) Data Protection
8 7 (8.86%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (7.59%) Pair Programming
9 6 (7.59%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (7.59%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (25.32%) Python
2 11 (13.92%) SQL
3 10 (12.66%) Java
4 4 (5.06%) Perl
4 4 (5.06%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.80%) Bash
5 3 (3.80%) C++
5 3 (3.80%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.80%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.53%) C#
6 2 (2.53%) VBA
6 2 (2.53%) VBScript
7 1 (1.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (12.66%) SC Cleared
1 10 (12.66%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.86%) Degree
3 6 (7.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.53%) IIBA
5 1 (1.27%) CCNA
5 1 (1.27%) CCNP
5 1 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.27%) ISEB
5 1 (1.27%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.92%) Disclosure Scotland
2 7 (8.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.27%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.59%) Grafana
2 4 (5.06%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.06%) Terraform
3 3 (3.80%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (20.25%) Oracle
2 3 (3.80%) IBM
2 3 (3.80%) IBM Sterling
3 2 (2.53%) Google
3 2 (2.53%) HP
3 2 (2.53%) SAP
4 1 (1.27%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.27%) Cisco
4 1 (1.27%) Facebook
4 1 (1.27%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.27%) Instagram
4 1 (1.27%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.27%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.27%) Splunk
4 1 (1.27%) VMware