Continuous Delivery Contracts in Scotland

Continuous Delivery
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Continuous Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Delivery over the 6 months to 15 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 128 110
Rank change year-on-year +16 -18 -8
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 26 44 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.15% 1.52% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.64% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 39 55
10th Percentile £400 £432 £407
25th Percentile £422 £461 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% -5.46% +11.01%
75th Percentile £561 £600 £584
90th Percentile £600 - £623
UK median daily rate £572 £595 £573
% change year-on-year -3.87% +3.84% +14.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Continuous 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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,006 2,681 3,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.53% 92.48% 92.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,228 1,931 2,374
10th Percentile £250 £269 £240
25th Percentile £400 £406 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £545
90th Percentile £675 £650 £619
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 56 53
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.81 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £17.72 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.05% -40.93% -28.57%
75th Percentile £48.00 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.35 £67.03 £55.46
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £36.25 £24.82
% change year-on-year -6.21% +46.05% -0.72%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Continuous Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in Scotland

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in Scotland

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in Scotland over the 6 months to 15 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in Scotland

Continuous Delivery
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Delivery within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 15 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -4 15 £450 -25.00% 3
Edinburgh +26 5 £525 +5.16% 4
Renfrewshire -3 1 - -
Perthshire - 1 £500 -
Continuous Delivery
UK

Continuous Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (11.54%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 21 (80.77%) AWS
2 7 (26.92%) AWS CloudFormation
2 7 (26.92%) OpenShift
3 6 (23.08%) Amazon S3
3 6 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (23.08%) Serverless
4 5 (19.23%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (19.23%) Azure
5 4 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (11.54%) GCP
7 2 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (3.85%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (3.85%) Route 53
8 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) Relational Database
2 6 (23.08%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (11.54%) RDBMS
5 2 (7.69%) MariaDB
5 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
5 2 (7.69%) MySQL
5 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.85%) Apache Hive
6 1 (3.85%) Big Data
6 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.85%) DB2
6 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.85%) HBase
6 1 (3.85%) InfluxDB
6 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
2 4 (15.38%) Selenium
3 3 (11.54%) Cucumber
3 3 (11.54%) GitLab
4 2 (7.69%) Cypress.io
4 2 (7.69%) Git
5 1 (3.85%) Artifactory
5 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.85%) JIRA
5 1 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.85%) Terragrunt
5 1 (3.85%) webpack
General
1 7 (26.92%) Public Sector
2 4 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Java Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Java Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Lead
5 2 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Technical Leader
6 1 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Developer
6 1 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Backend Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Big Data Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Full Stack Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (38.46%) Spring
2 8 (30.77%) Kafka
3 7 (26.92%) RESTful
4 6 (23.08%) AWS CDK
4 6 (23.08%) React
4 6 (23.08%) REST
4 6 (23.08%) Spring Boot
5 4 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (15.38%) JDBC
5 4 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (15.38%) Web Services
6 3 (11.54%) CSS
6 3 (11.54%) DOM
6 3 (11.54%) EJB
6 3 (11.54%) Hibernate
6 3 (11.54%) HTML
6 3 (11.54%) Java EE
6 3 (11.54%) JSON
6 3 (11.54%) OAuth2
6 3 (11.54%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (11.54%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.85%) Blog
4 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (26.92%) Linux
2 6 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.85%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (76.92%) Agile
2 18 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 15 (57.69%) Microservices
4 13 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 13 (50.00%) DevOps
4 13 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (26.92%) Architectural Patterns
5 7 (26.92%) Kanban
5 7 (26.92%) Test Automation
6 6 (23.08%) Configuration Management
6 6 (23.08%) Data Protection
6 6 (23.08%) Inclusive Design
6 6 (23.08%) Roadmaps
7 5 (19.23%) Analytics
7 5 (19.23%) Architecture Roadmap
7 5 (19.23%) Business Continuity
7 5 (19.23%) Capacity Planning
7 5 (19.23%) Clean Code
7 5 (19.23%) Human-Centred Design
7 5 (19.23%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) Java
2 10 (38.46%) Python
3 9 (34.62%) JavaScript
4 5 (19.23%) TypeScript
5 4 (15.38%) SQL
6 3 (11.54%) Kotlin
6 3 (11.54%) PL/SQL
6 3 (11.54%) Scala
7 2 (7.69%) Bash
7 2 (7.69%) Groovy
7 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
8 1 (3.85%) C
8 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) Accessibility
2 3 (11.54%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.85%) QA
3 1 (3.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (3.85%) HDFS
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Ansible
1 6 (23.08%) Grafana
2 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
3 4 (15.38%) Kibana
3 4 (15.38%) Packer
3 4 (15.38%) Terraform
4 3 (11.54%) Prometheus
4 3 (11.54%) Zipkin
5 1 (3.85%) FreeIPA
5 1 (3.85%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (3.85%) Icinga
5 1 (3.85%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Oracle
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) Splunk