Software Deployment Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Software Deployment
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Software Deployment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software Deployment 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.27% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £500 £193 £475
% change year-on-year +159.74% -59.47% -9.52%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Software Deployment 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 634 596 716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.79% 95.67% 86.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 328 422
10th Percentile £325 £237 £219
25th Percentile £413 £406 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £469 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% -1.32% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £573
90th Percentile £650 £613 £662
Scotland median daily rate £455 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -1.62% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 20 31
10th Percentile £17.23 - £13.25
25th Percentile £50.00 £17.30 £16.13
Median hourly rate £53.75 £22.00 £19.17
Median % change year-on-year +144.32% +14.76% -10.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £25.59 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £47.22 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.83 £19.50
% change year-on-year +0.86% +1.69% +21.95%

Software Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Software Deployment job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Software Deployment
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Software Deployment
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Software Deployment.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Software Deployment

Software Deployment
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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) IBM UrbanCode
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Deskside Support
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Break/Fix
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Process Management
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) REXX
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Nagios
1 1 (50.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Apple
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft