Software Delivery Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Software Delivery
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow 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 78 62 59
Rank change year-on-year -16 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 4 4 14
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.54% 0.57% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.64% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 9
10th Percentile - £574 £382
25th Percentile - £583 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £638 £675
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% -5.56% +29.81%
75th Percentile £519 £675 £700
90th Percentile £553 - -
Scotland median daily rate £475 £518 £576
% change year-on-year -8.21% -10.22% +15.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate - - £60.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 660 623 728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 89.19% 89.26% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 418 489
10th Percentile £300 £274 £342
25th Percentile £381 £356 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £588
90th Percentile £613 £673 £700
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 19
10th Percentile £15.09 £15.39 £11.70
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.11 £12.13
Median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +35.10% -61.26%
75th Percentile £26.21 £26.76 £17.72
90th Percentile £57.50 £41.70 £27.64
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 Glasgow

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

Software Delivery job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Software Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Coach
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Kanban
3 1 (25.00%) Lean Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Genesys