Software Delivery Contracts in Edinburgh

Software Delivery
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Software Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Delivery over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 91 103
Rank change year-on-year +30 +12 -6
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 13 19 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.59% 1.48% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 1.56% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 17
10th Percentile £413 £387 £413
25th Percentile £415 £428 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% -2.17%
75th Percentile £500 £527 £500
90th Percentile £520 £571 £589
Scotland median daily rate £500 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +8.11% +2.78% +5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Software 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 Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 725 1,219 1,845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 88.85% 94.94% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 865 1,275
10th Percentile £228 £250 £261
25th Percentile £410 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £568
90th Percentile £675 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £470
% change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 11 16
10th Percentile £13.66 £13.16 £16.27
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £19.94
Median hourly rate £21.02 £21.26 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% -47.18% -26.11%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - £54.50 £54.03
Scotland median hourly rate £18.79 £17.21 £40.00
% change year-on-year +9.18% -56.98% -

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in Edinburgh

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in Edinburgh

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in Edinburgh

Software Delivery
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 7 (53.85%) Azure
1 7 (53.85%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) Amazon S3
2 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (38.46%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (38.46%) Serverless
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (15.38%) IaaS
4 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
4 2 (15.38%) PaaS
4 2 (15.38%) SaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (7.69%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) Artifactory
2 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
2 2 (15.38%) Cypress.io
2 2 (15.38%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) GitLab
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Selenium
2 2 (15.38%) Subversion
2 2 (15.38%) TeamCity
2 2 (15.38%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (76.92%) Public Sector
2 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
3 5 (38.46%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Project Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Agile Delivery Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Agile Project Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Functional Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Functional Test Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Test Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Test Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Delivery Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) AWS CDK
2 3 (23.08%) Node.js
2 3 (23.08%) React
3 2 (15.38%) .NET
3 2 (15.38%) CSS
3 2 (15.38%) HTML
4 1 (7.69%) Java EE
4 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Client/Server
1 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Agile
2 9 (69.23%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Change Control
3 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) Dependency Management
3 5 (38.46%) Project Delivery
3 5 (38.46%) Project Management
3 5 (38.46%) Risk Management
3 5 (38.46%) Supplier Management
3 5 (38.46%) TDD
3 5 (38.46%) User Research
4 3 (23.08%) Human-Centred Design
4 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (23.08%) Kanban
4 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
4 3 (23.08%) Pair Programming
4 3 (23.08%) Scrum
4 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Customer-Centricity
5 2 (15.38%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Bash
1 3 (23.08%) Java
1 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
1 3 (23.08%) Python
1 3 (23.08%) TypeScript
2 2 (15.38%) C#
2 2 (15.38%) C++
2 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) VBA
2 2 (15.38%) VBScript
3 1 (7.69%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) ISEB
1 2 (15.38%) ISTQB
1 2 (15.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Accessibility
2 2 (15.38%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
1 2 (15.38%) Grafana
1 2 (15.38%) Kibana
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform