Continuous Delivery Contracts in Scotland

Continuous Delivery
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Continuous Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Delivery over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 135 103
Rank change year-on-year +32 -32 -4
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 20 35 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.93% 1.27% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.37% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 29 55
10th Percentile £400 £452 £413
25th Percentile £419 £500 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £574
90th Percentile £600 - £589
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +12.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Continuous Delivery 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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,907 2,556 3,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.41% 92.51% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,157 1,817 2,272
10th Percentile £225 £260 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £550
90th Percentile £652 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 55 51
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.78 £18.90
Median hourly rate £19.50 £16.50 £39.99
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -58.74% -2.46%
75th Percentile £48.00 £50.74 £49.76
90th Percentile £61.10 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Continuous Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in Scotland

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in Scotland

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in Scotland

Continuous Delivery
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Delivery within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +11 13 £478 -20.42% 6
Edinburgh +31 4 £516 +3.10% 2
Perthshire - 1 £500 -
Continuous Delivery
UK

Continuous Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 7 (35.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (85.00%) AWS
2 8 (40.00%) Azure
3 7 (35.00%) GCP
4 5 (25.00%) OpenShift
5 4 (20.00%) Amazon S3
5 4 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (20.00%) Serverless
6 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (5.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (10.00%) MariaDB
4 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (10.00%) MySQL
4 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.00%) Apache Hive
5 1 (5.00%) Big Data
5 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.00%) DB2
5 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
5 1 (5.00%) HBase
5 1 (5.00%) InfluxDB
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) GitLab
2 2 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.00%) Mockito
3 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (5.00%) Terragrunt
3 1 (5.00%) webpack
General
1 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Developer
2 10 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Backend Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Big Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (5.00%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Software Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Site Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (50.00%) Spring
1 10 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 8 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (40.00%) Kafka
2 8 (40.00%) RESTful
3 7 (35.00%) OpenTracing
4 5 (25.00%) React
5 4 (20.00%) AWS CDK
5 4 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (15.00%) OAuth
6 3 (15.00%) OAuth2
6 3 (15.00%) Spring Security
7 2 (10.00%) CSS
7 2 (10.00%) REST
8 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
8 1 (5.00%) CSS3
8 1 (5.00%) HTML5
8 1 (5.00%) Node.js
8 1 (5.00%) PostGIS
8 1 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (35.00%) Data Structures
3 3 (15.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Linux
2 5 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (70.00%) Agile
3 13 (65.00%) Continuous Integration
3 13 (65.00%) Microservices
4 10 (50.00%) DevOps
5 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (45.00%) Test Automation
6 6 (30.00%) Dependency Injection
6 6 (30.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 6 (30.00%) SDLC
7 5 (25.00%) Analytics
7 5 (25.00%) Kanban
8 4 (20.00%) Configuration Management
8 4 (20.00%) Inclusive Design
8 4 (20.00%) Pair Programming
8 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
9 3 (15.00%) Architecture Roadmap
9 3 (15.00%) Code Quality
9 3 (15.00%) Human-Centred Design
9 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Java
2 8 (40.00%) Python
3 7 (35.00%) Kotlin
3 7 (35.00%) Scala
4 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (10.00%) Bash
6 2 (10.00%) Groovy
6 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
7 1 (5.00%) C
7 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (15.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (60.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (5.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (35.00%) Prometheus
2 7 (35.00%) Zipkin
3 5 (25.00%) Grafana
4 4 (20.00%) Ansible
4 4 (20.00%) Kibana
5 3 (15.00%) Packer
5 3 (15.00%) Terraform
6 1 (5.00%) FreeIPA
6 1 (5.00%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (5.00%) Icinga
6 1 (5.00%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.00%) Splunk
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle