Software Delivery Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Software Delivery
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Software Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 59 65
Rank change year-on-year +12 +6 +24
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 17 14 19
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.76% 1.73% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 2.01% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 15
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £406 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £435
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +14.94% -13.00%
75th Percentile £475 £525 £456
90th Percentile £575 £537 £518
Scotland median daily rate £475 £518 £576
% change year-on-year -8.21% -10.22% +15.28%

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 582 695 903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.63% 86.12% 91.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 370 551
10th Percentile £303 £213 £208
25th Percentile £413 £342 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £538
90th Percentile £600 £601 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 23 7
10th Percentile £17.30 £13.27 £12.56
25th Percentile - £16.50 £13.22
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -48.24% +125.76%
75th Percentile £45.80 £24.18 £53.73
90th Percentile £65.00 £48.84 £57.25
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.94 £18.93
% change year-on-year +0.31% +5.32% +0.56%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Software Delivery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Software Delivery job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Software Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Software Delivery

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in Edinburgh

Software Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Apache
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
1 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (5.88%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.88%) Dagster
4 1 (5.88%) IaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) PaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Jenkins
2 3 (17.65%) JIRA
2 3 (17.65%) Subversion
3 2 (11.76%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.88%) Git
4 1 (5.88%) MLflow
4 1 (5.88%) Postman
4 1 (5.88%) Selenium
4 1 (5.88%) TeamCity
4 1 (5.88%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (35.29%) Public Sector
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Games
2 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Delivery Manager
1 5 (29.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Python Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Software Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 3 (17.65%) Technical Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Python Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Leader
4 1 (5.88%) Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Digital Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Migration Manager
4 1 (5.88%) QA Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
1 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
1 1 (5.88%) boto
1 1 (5.88%) FastAPI
1 1 (5.88%) Hugging Face
1 1 (5.88%) JWT
1 1 (5.88%) NumPy
1 1 (5.88%) OAuth
1 1 (5.88%) OpenCV
1 1 (5.88%) Pandas
1 1 (5.88%) PyTorch
1 1 (5.88%) REST
1 1 (5.88%) RESTful
1 1 (5.88%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.88%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.88%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Unix
2 4 (23.53%) Linux
3 2 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Agile
2 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
2 9 (52.94%) DevOps
3 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
4 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) Project Delivery
5 4 (23.53%) Scrum
5 4 (23.53%) Software Testing
6 3 (17.65%) Risk Management
6 3 (17.65%) SOA
7 2 (11.76%) Change Control
7 2 (11.76%) Change Management
7 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
7 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (11.76%) Kanban
7 2 (11.76%) Migration
7 2 (11.76%) Project Management
7 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (11.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Shell Script
2 4 (23.53%) Java
2 4 (23.53%) Python
3 3 (17.65%) C++
4 2 (11.76%) SQL
5 1 (5.88%) C#
5 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.88%) VBA
5 1 (5.88%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) ISEB
2 1 (5.88%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
1 2 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Kubernetes
2 6 (35.29%) Grafana
3 5 (29.41%) Ansible
3 5 (29.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft