Dependency Management Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Dependency Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Dependency Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 107 130
Rank change year-on-year +12 +23 +22
Contract jobs citing Dependency Management 15 9 10
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.97% 0.54% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.60% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 9
10th Percentile £352 £430 £405
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% +25.00%
75th Percentile - £575 £538
90th Percentile £568 - £550
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Dependency Management 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 1,350 1,502 2,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.38% 89.35% 91.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 777 887 1,319
10th Percentile £239 £229 £250
25th Percentile £381 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 44 54
10th Percentile £13.97 £15.07 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £19.59 £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.58%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £49.66 £32.66 £70.38
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%

Dependency Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Dependency Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Dependency Management job vacancy trend in Scotland

Dependency Management
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Dependency Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Dependency Management

Dependency Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dependency Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Dependency Management in Scotland

Dependency Management
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 Dependency Management within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Edinburgh +13 8 £500 +11.42% 1
Glasgow +5 6 £394 -25.05%
Dependency Management
UK

Dependency Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) GCP
2 4 (26.67%) OCI
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (66.67%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Banking
3 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Legal
3 4 (26.67%) Retail
3 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Retail Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Analyst
1 4 (26.67%) Business Analyst
1 4 (26.67%) Implementation Specialist
2 3 (20.00%) Implementation Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Implementation Project Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Project Implementation Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) PMO Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Release Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Service Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
1 1 (6.67%) Next.js
1 1 (6.67%) OAuth
1 1 (6.67%) OAuth2
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (6.67%) React
1 1 (6.67%) REST
1 1 (6.67%) Spring
1 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
1 1 (6.67%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership
3 3 (20.00%) CMDB
4 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (46.67%) ITIL
3 7 (46.67%) Migration
4 6 (40.00%) Incident Response
4 6 (40.00%) Runbook
5 5 (33.33%) Change Control
5 5 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (33.33%) Decision-Making
5 5 (33.33%) DevOps
5 5 (33.33%) Incident Management
5 5 (33.33%) Project Management
6 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
6 4 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (26.67%) PRINCE2
6 4 (26.67%) Requirements Management
6 4 (26.67%) Risk Assessment
6 4 (26.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (26.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Java
1 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (6.67%) Python
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) PMI Certification
1 4 (26.67%) PMP
2 3 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) COBIT
2 2 (13.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (13.33%) PMO
3 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Ansible
1 4 (26.67%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Oracle
2 4 (26.67%) CheckPoint
2 4 (26.67%) Dell
2 4 (26.67%) Dynatrace
2 4 (26.67%) F5
2 4 (26.67%) HP
3 3 (20.00%) IBM
3 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft