Software Engineering Contracts in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 61 68
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 -23
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 19 41 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.20% 3.48% 3.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.57% 3.71% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 34 35
10th Percentile £420 £427 £463
25th Percentile £426 £438 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% -4.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £554 £640
90th Percentile £723 £625 £800
Scotland median daily rate £475 £500 £519
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.61% +9.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £38.00 - -
25th Percentile £48.88 - £47.93
Median hourly rate £60.50 - £51.12
75th Percentile £60.75 - £54.31
90th Percentile £62.63 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +4.35% +5.50% +36.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 738 1,106 1,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.32% 93.97% 94.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 776 1,224
10th Percentile £214 £225 £272
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -1.04% +12.94%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £570
90th Percentile £656 £604 £638
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 13
10th Percentile £13.30 £11.83 £15.53
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.30 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.17 £19.49 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -25.04% -52.27%
75th Percentile £60.75 £21.57 £48.75
90th Percentile - £37.71 £53.20
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
% change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%

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 May 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 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in Edinburgh

Software Engineering
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 1 (5.26%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
1 2 (10.53%) AWS
1 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (10.53%) Azure
1 2 (10.53%) Serverless
2 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.26%) SaaS
2 1 (5.26%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (5.26%) GIS
1 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) GitLab
1 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.26%) Liquibase
1 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (26.32%) Electronics
2 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Software Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Embedded Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Ada Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Ada Software Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Technical Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Automation Developer
5 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Embedded Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Perl Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.26%) PostGIS
2 1 (5.26%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.26%) SpaCy
2 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.26%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Device Driver
1 4 (21.05%) IoT
1 4 (21.05%) PCIe
1 4 (21.05%) Verilog
1 4 (21.05%) VHDL
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Linux
2 4 (21.05%) Embedded Linux
2 4 (21.05%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Agile
2 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
3 4 (21.05%) Code Optimisation
3 4 (21.05%) Configuration Management
3 4 (21.05%) Continuous Deployment
3 4 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (21.05%) Defect Tracking
3 4 (21.05%) Device Driver Development
3 4 (21.05%) DevOps
3 4 (21.05%) Memory Management
3 4 (21.05%) Migration
3 4 (21.05%) Requirements Management
4 3 (15.79%) Data Migration
5 2 (10.53%) Digital Engineering
5 2 (10.53%) ERP
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (10.53%) Release Management
5 2 (10.53%) Software Testing
5 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) Python
2 4 (21.05%) C
2 4 (21.05%) Embedded C
3 3 (15.79%) Ada
4 2 (10.53%) Perl
4 2 (10.53%) SQL
4 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.26%) Java
5 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.26%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) MISRA
1 4 (21.05%) MISRA C
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Firmware
2 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Grafana
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Atlassian
1 4 (21.05%) Intel
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle