Continuous Delivery Contracts in Scotland

Continuous Delivery
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Continuous Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous 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 89 108 127
Rank change year-on-year +19 +19 -19
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 27 21 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.66% 0.95% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 1.07% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 19 31
10th Percentile £406 £400 £433
25th Percentile £458 £425 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.46%
75th Percentile £575 £553 £600
90th Percentile - £600 -
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £595
% change year-on-year -9.09% -7.56% +3.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Continuous 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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +10 18 £550 +15.18% 10
Edinburgh +7 7 £413 -21.43% 10
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 10 (37.04%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (62.96%) AWS
2 12 (44.44%) Serverless
3 4 (14.81%) Azure
4 3 (11.11%) BlazeMeter
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.41%) PaaS
5 2 (7.41%) SaaS
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) IaaS
6 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) FTP
1 1 (3.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) MongoDB
1 4 (14.81%) NoSQL
2 3 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.70%) MariaDB
4 1 (3.70%) MySQL
4 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (37.04%) Bitbucket
1 10 (37.04%) JIRA
2 4 (14.81%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.81%) JUnit
3 3 (11.11%) webpack
4 1 (3.70%) Git
4 1 (3.70%) Mockito
4 1 (3.70%) MSTest
4 1 (3.70%) NUnit
4 1 (3.70%) Postman
4 1 (3.70%) Ranorex
4 1 (3.70%) Selenium
4 1 (3.70%) Toad
General
1 8 (29.63%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (7.41%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Developer
2 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) Java Developer
4 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 3 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (11.11%) Release Manager
6 2 (7.41%) Applications Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Python Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (3.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) AWS Software Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Core Java Developer
7 1 (3.70%) DevOps Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (37.04%) React
2 8 (29.63%) Spring
3 7 (25.93%) Node.js
4 6 (22.22%) CSS
4 6 (22.22%) REST
5 5 (18.52%) Spring Boot
6 3 (11.11%) AngularJS
6 3 (11.11%) CSS3
6 3 (11.11%) HTML
6 3 (11.11%) HTML5
6 3 (11.11%) Redux
6 3 (11.11%) RESTful
7 2 (7.41%) AWS CDK
8 1 (3.70%) Apache Camel
8 1 (3.70%) JWT
8 1 (3.70%) OAuth
8 1 (3.70%) OpenID
8 1 (3.70%) Playwright
8 1 (3.70%) Vue
8 1 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Agile
2 13 (48.15%) Operational Stability
3 12 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 12 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 11 (40.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (37.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (29.63%) Computer Science
6 8 (29.63%) Design Patterns
6 8 (29.63%) Mathematics
7 7 (25.93%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (25.93%) Microservices
7 7 (25.93%) SDLC
8 6 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (18.52%) Scrum
10 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (14.81%) Front End Development
10 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
10 4 (14.81%) TDD
11 3 (11.11%) Runbook
11 3 (11.11%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Python
2 10 (37.04%) Java
3 7 (25.93%) JavaScript
4 6 (22.22%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.41%) Bash
5 2 (7.41%) SQL
6 1 (3.70%) C#
6 1 (3.70%) Groovy
6 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (37.04%) AWS Certification
2 8 (29.63%) AWS Certified Developer
2 8 (29.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
4 3 (11.11%) Degree
4 3 (11.11%) PMI Certification
4 3 (11.11%) PMP
5 1 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.70%) SLA
2 1 (3.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) Terraform
2 3 (11.11%) Grafana
3 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Dynatrace
1 3 (11.11%) Splunk
2 1 (3.70%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.70%) MuleSoft
2 1 (3.70%) Okta
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle
2 1 (3.70%) Talend