Deployment Automation Contracts in Scotland

Deployment Automation
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Deployment Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Deployment Automation 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 93 113 153
Rank change year-on-year +20 +40 +5
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 23 16 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.42% 0.72% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 0.82% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 5
10th Percentile £200 £415 £503
25th Percentile £300 £440 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £450 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% -13.46% +9.47%
75th Percentile £550 £634 £563
90th Percentile - - £569
UK median daily rate £537 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.61% -4.17% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Deployment Automation 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%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Deployment Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in Scotland

Deployment Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in Scotland

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in Scotland

Deployment Automation
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 Deployment Automation 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 +15 18 £468 +6.25% 8
Edinburgh 0 4 £550 -11.65% 5
Aberdeen - 1 £200 - 2
Deployment Automation
UK

Deployment Automation
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) SaaS
2 5 (21.74%) AWS
2 5 (21.74%) GitHub
2 5 (21.74%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (17.39%) Azure
3 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.35%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.35%) Firebase
4 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
1 1 (4.35%) IPsec
1 1 (4.35%) LAN
1 1 (4.35%) MPLS
1 1 (4.35%) Network Security
1 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.35%) VPN
1 1 (4.35%) WAN
1 1 (4.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) DB2
1 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
1 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Jenkins
2 4 (17.39%) Bitbucket
3 3 (13.04%) JIRA
4 2 (8.70%) JUnit
5 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
5 1 (4.35%) Storybook
General
1 13 (56.52%) Finance
2 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Legal
5 2 (8.70%) Banking
5 2 (8.70%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 16 (69.57%) Developer
2 14 (60.87%) Python Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Automation Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Automation Test Lead
3 2 (8.70%) Deployment Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Lead
3 2 (8.70%) Test Leader
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Developer
4 1 (4.35%) C# Developer
4 1 (4.35%) CyberArk Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) DevOps Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Java Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Java Server Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Linux Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Network Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) React Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Server Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) JMS
1 2 (8.70%) Kafka
1 2 (8.70%) Spring
2 1 (4.35%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Amplify
2 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.35%) CSS
2 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
2 1 (4.35%) Java EE
2 1 (4.35%) Jest
2 1 (4.35%) React
2 1 (4.35%) RESTful
2 1 (4.35%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (43.48%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.70%) Equities
2 2 (8.70%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.35%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 8 (34.78%) Linux
2 7 (30.43%) Windows
3 1 (4.35%) Unix
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) SDLC
2 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (30.43%) Test Automation
4 5 (21.74%) Agile
5 4 (17.39%) Build Automation
5 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
5 4 (17.39%) DevOps
5 4 (17.39%) Issue Tracking
6 3 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (13.04%) Software Distribution
7 2 (8.70%) Code Quality
7 2 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (8.70%) CRM
7 2 (8.70%) Mentoring
7 2 (8.70%) Multithreading
7 2 (8.70%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (8.70%) Test Strategy
8 1 (4.35%) Containerisation
8 1 (4.35%) Responsive Web Design
8 1 (4.35%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 16 (69.57%) Python
2 6 (26.09%) Java
3 5 (21.74%) C#
3 5 (21.74%) TypeScript
4 3 (13.04%) SQL
5 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
1 1 (4.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Ansible
2 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 4 (17.39%) Terraform
3 2 (8.70%) SCCM
4 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Sybase
3 1 (4.35%) BeyondTrust
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco
3 1 (4.35%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.35%) Meraki