Continuous Delivery Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Continuous Delivery
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Continuous Delivery skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 100 93
Rank change year-on-year +23 -7 -23
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 38 16 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.38% 0.85% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 0.98% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 16 45
10th Percentile £420 £400 £422
25th Percentile £425 £419 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.98% -4.50% -5.21%
75th Percentile £694 £538 £538
90th Percentile £734 £572 £588
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -2.33% -10.42% +4.35%

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 1,458 1,628 2,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.30% 86.50% 91.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 802 987 1,469
10th Percentile £263 £212 £250
25th Percentile £391 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £606 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 49 59
10th Percentile £16.84 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.00 £13.71
Median hourly rate £20.00 £20.29 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.76% -10.79%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £58.89
90th Percentile £37.00 £49.40 £74.60
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +53.66%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Continuous Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Continuous Delivery

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 September 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 20 September 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 +4 29 £497 +4.53% 2
Edinburgh +12 9 £465 -11.43% 7
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 7 (18.42%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.63%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (57.89%) AWS
2 10 (26.32%) GitHub
3 9 (23.68%) BlazeMeter
4 7 (18.42%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (15.79%) Serverless
6 4 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (10.53%) Azure
6 4 (10.53%) GCP
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.63%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (34.21%) NoSQL
2 10 (26.32%) MongoDB
3 9 (23.68%) Apache Cassandra
4 8 (21.05%) SQL Server
5 6 (15.79%) Oracle Database
6 4 (10.53%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (5.26%) MariaDB
7 2 (5.26%) MySQL
7 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (34.21%) Jenkins
2 9 (23.68%) JUnit
3 7 (18.42%) CircleCI
3 7 (18.42%) webpack
4 6 (15.79%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (7.89%) GitLab
5 3 (7.89%) Liquibase
6 2 (5.26%) Cypress.io
6 2 (5.26%) Snyk
7 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.63%) Git
7 1 (2.63%) JIRA
7 1 (2.63%) Mockito
General
1 10 (26.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 10 (26.32%) Public Sector
2 6 (15.79%) Finance
2 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) Developer
2 10 (26.32%) Lead
3 9 (23.68%) Technical Leader
4 8 (21.05%) Architect
4 8 (21.05%) Technical Architect
5 7 (18.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 7 (18.42%) Java Developer
5 7 (18.42%) Lead Architect
6 4 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (10.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Java Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Release Manager
7 3 (7.89%) Senior
7 3 (7.89%) Software Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Software Manager
7 3 (7.89%) Software Release Manager
8 2 (5.26%) Core Java Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (47.37%) CSS
1 18 (47.37%) React
2 11 (28.95%) RESTful
2 11 (28.95%) Spring
3 9 (23.68%) AngularJS
3 9 (23.68%) HTML
4 8 (21.05%) Node.js
5 7 (18.42%) CSS3
5 7 (18.42%) HTML5
5 7 (18.42%) Redux
6 4 (10.53%) Kafka
6 4 (10.53%) REST
7 3 (7.89%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (5.26%) AWS CDK
8 2 (5.26%) Spring Boot
8 2 (5.26%) Vue
9 1 (2.63%) Next.js
9 1 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.68%) Algorithms
2 8 (21.05%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (13.16%) Cloud Native
4 4 (10.53%) Public Cloud
5 3 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (7.89%) Product Ownership
6 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.63%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (2.63%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Linux
2 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (89.47%) CI/CD
2 23 (60.53%) Continuous Integration
3 22 (57.89%) Microservices
4 21 (55.26%) Agile
5 17 (44.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (39.47%) Front End Development
7 14 (36.84%) SDLC
8 12 (31.58%) Software Engineering
9 10 (26.32%) Roadmaps
9 10 (26.32%) Unit Testing
10 9 (23.68%) Artificial Intelligence
10 9 (23.68%) Community of Practice
10 9 (23.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (23.68%) DevOps
10 9 (23.68%) Machine Learning
10 9 (23.68%) Micro Frontends
10 9 (23.68%) Operational Stability
10 9 (23.68%) Performance Testing
10 9 (23.68%) Visualisation
11 8 (21.05%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 26 (68.42%) TypeScript
2 17 (44.74%) JavaScript
3 15 (39.47%) Java
4 4 (10.53%) Bash
4 4 (10.53%) Python
5 3 (7.89%) Go
6 2 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 8 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 6 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (15.79%) Degree
4 5 (13.16%) Master's Degree
5 4 (10.53%) AWS Certification
6 3 (7.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) Accessibility
1 4 (10.53%) QA
2 3 (7.89%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (5.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (52.63%) Grafana
2 14 (36.84%) Terraform
3 13 (34.21%) Kubernetes
4 10 (26.32%) Prometheus
5 5 (13.16%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (31.58%) Splunk
2 9 (23.68%) Dynatrace
3 6 (15.79%) Oracle
4 2 (5.26%) Google