Software Engineering Contracts in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 45 58
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 -10
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 27 44 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.60% 4.47% 4.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.21% 4.91% 5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 27 59
10th Percentile £464 £400 £370
25th Percentile £475 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year +10.05% +3.09% +0.52%
75th Percentile £698 £563 £544
90th Percentile £750 £623 £620
Scotland median daily rate £440 £528 £505
% change year-on-year -16.59% +4.46% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £54.75 £44.99 £44.50
25th Percentile £58.13 £50.59 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.85 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.34% +3.36% -
75th Percentile £70.63 £61.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £73.25 £62.20 £65.50
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £49.86
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.35% -16.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 641 897 1,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.47% 91.16% 95.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 553 1,100
10th Percentile £226 £200 £350
25th Percentile £359 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% +6.67%
75th Percentile £524 £538 £553
90th Percentile £600 £600 £638
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 6 19
10th Percentile £14.04 £12.47 £11.86
25th Percentile £19.28 £20.27 £16.27
Median hourly rate £23.59 £48.10 £18.90
Median % change year-on-year -50.96% +154.50% -16.00%
75th Percentile £24.18 £59.55 £30.63
90th Percentile - £62.00 £51.50
Scotland median hourly rate £22.88 £19.50 £18.75
% change year-on-year +17.31% +4.00% -6.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in Edinburgh

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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 8 (29.63%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) AWS
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
3 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
4 1 (3.70%) Datadog
4 1 (3.70%) GCP
4 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.70%) Serverless
4 1 (3.70%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) BIG-IP
1 1 (3.70%) HTTP
1 1 (3.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Metadata
2 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.70%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Git
1 1 (3.70%) GitLab
1 1 (3.70%) Gradle
1 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.70%) JUnit
1 1 (3.70%) Liquibase
1 1 (3.70%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 6 (22.22%) Banking
3 2 (7.41%) Electronics
4 1 (3.70%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.70%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Retail Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Software Engineer
2 9 (33.33%) Senior
2 9 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Lead
4 3 (11.11%) Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Developer
4 3 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Technical Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Lead Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Technical Leader
6 1 (3.70%) Agile Development Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Agile Project Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Application Development Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Applications Development Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Applications Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Applications Project Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (3.70%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) PyQt
1 5 (18.52%) PySide
2 1 (3.70%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.70%) CSS
2 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
2 1 (3.70%) HTML
2 1 (3.70%) Kafka
2 1 (3.70%) Node.js
2 1 (3.70%) OAuth
2 1 (3.70%) OpenID
2 1 (3.70%) PyTorch
2 1 (3.70%) React
2 1 (3.70%) REST
2 1 (3.70%) SAML
2 1 (3.70%) SOAP
2 1 (3.70%) SpaCy
2 1 (3.70%) Spring
2 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.70%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (7.41%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.70%) IoT
2 1 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.70%) PCIe
2 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) Verilog
2 1 (3.70%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Windows
2 4 (14.81%) Linux
3 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.70%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (3.70%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (22.22%) Agile
2 4 (14.81%) DevOps
2 4 (14.81%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (11.11%) Roadmaps
4 2 (7.41%) API Development
4 2 (7.41%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (7.41%) Containerisation
4 2 (7.41%) Data Protection
4 2 (7.41%) Design Patterns
4 2 (7.41%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (7.41%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (7.41%) Mentoring
4 2 (7.41%) Project Management
4 2 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (7.41%) Test Automation
4 2 (7.41%) Value Proposition
5 1 (3.70%) Data Modelling
5 1 (3.70%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) Python
2 3 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (7.41%) C++
3 2 (7.41%) Perl
3 2 (7.41%) SQL
3 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.70%) ActionScript
4 1 (3.70%) C
4 1 (3.70%) C#
4 1 (3.70%) Embedded C
4 1 (3.70%) Groovy
4 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.70%) Rust
4 1 (3.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 6 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (3.70%) MISRA
1 1 (3.70%) MISRA C
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
1 2 (7.41%) vSphere
2 1 (3.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.11%) Terraform
3 1 (3.70%) Grafana
3 1 (3.70%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Oracle
2 2 (7.41%) Red Hat
2 2 (7.41%) VMware
3 1 (3.70%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.70%) F5
3 1 (3.70%) Intel
3 1 (3.70%) Splunk