Technical Debt Contracts in Edinburgh

Technical Debt
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Technical Debt skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Debt over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 94 109
Rank change year-on-year +26 +15 +4
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 6 8 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.69% 0.68% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.72% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 18
10th Percentile £410 £433 £416
25th Percentile £425 £461 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £492 £472
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% +4.13% +1.23%
75th Percentile £472 £506 £525
90th Percentile £485 £529 £576
Scotland median daily rate £438 £492 £479
% change year-on-year -10.99% +2.61% +4.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Technical Debt 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 739 1,111 1,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 84.94% 93.99% 94.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 775 1,224
10th Percentile £215 £225 £265
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -1.04% +12.94%
75th Percentile £557 £538 £570
90th Percentile £655 £605 £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%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Technical Debt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Debt in Edinburgh

Technical Debt
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Debt in Edinburgh

Technical Debt
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 4 (66.67%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Metadata
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (66.67%) Influencing Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Publishing
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Retail Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Content Designer
1 4 (66.67%) Designer
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
1 4 (66.67%) Senior Content Designer
1 4 (66.67%) Senior Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
1 1 (16.67%) Spring MVC
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Security
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Web Flow
1 1 (16.67%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) Coaching
1 5 (83.33%) Community of Practice
2 4 (66.67%) Content Management
2 4 (66.67%) Content Strategy
2 4 (66.67%) User Stories
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) Code Coverage
4 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) MVC
4 1 (16.67%) Pair Programming
4 1 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana