Software Delivery Contracts in Edinburgh

Software Delivery
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Software Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 59 92
Rank change year-on-year +7 +33 +13
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 15 13 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.40% 1.60% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 1.81% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 16
10th Percentile - £413 £389
25th Percentile £400 £415 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £481
Median % change year-on-year - -6.49% +6.94%
75th Percentile £463 £500 £531
90th Percentile £542 £520 £594
Scotland median daily rate £488 £500 £468
% change year-on-year -2.50% +6.89% +3.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Software Delivery 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 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

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 1 May 2025.

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Confluence
1 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
1 6 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
1 6 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (26.67%) PaaS
2 4 (26.67%) SaaS
3 3 (20.00%) IaaS
3 3 (20.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (13.33%) AWS
4 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
4 2 (13.33%) Serverless
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (6.67%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.67%) InfluxDB
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) JIRA
2 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (26.67%) Git
4 3 (20.00%) Cucumber
4 3 (20.00%) Cypress.io
4 3 (20.00%) Postman
4 3 (20.00%) Selenium
4 3 (20.00%) Subversion
4 3 (20.00%) TeamCity
4 3 (20.00%) WebDriver
5 1 (6.67%) Artifactory
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (26.67%) Finance
4 3 (20.00%) Banking
4 3 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Analyst
1 3 (20.00%) Business Data Analyst
1 3 (20.00%) Data Analyst
1 3 (20.00%) Developer
1 3 (20.00%) ETL Analyst
1 3 (20.00%) QA Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Re-Platforming Analyst
1 3 (20.00%) Senior
1 3 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Lead
2 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Scrum Master
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Developer
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) AWS CDK
2 2 (13.33%) RESTful
3 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Client/Server
1 3 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Agile
2 10 (66.67%) DevOps
3 9 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
5 6 (40.00%) Migration
5 6 (40.00%) Test Automation
6 5 (33.33%) Kanban
6 5 (33.33%) Scrum
7 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
7 4 (26.67%) Project Management
8 3 (20.00%) ATDD
8 3 (20.00%) Change Control
8 3 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
8 3 (20.00%) Data Transformation
8 3 (20.00%) Dependency Management
8 3 (20.00%) Feature Driven Development
8 3 (20.00%) Re-Platforming
8 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
8 3 (20.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) C#
2 3 (20.00%) C++
2 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) VBA
2 3 (20.00%) VBScript
3 2 (13.33%) Bash
3 2 (13.33%) Groovy
3 2 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) ISEB
1 3 (20.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Ansible
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Fiserv
2 1 (6.67%) Imperva