Deployment Automation Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Deployment Automation
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Deployment Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 111 133
Rank change year-on-year +22 +22 +13
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 25 8 10
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 1.59% 0.47% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 0.53% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 1 6
10th Percentile £378 - £371
25th Percentile £475 £459 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £468 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% -10.95% +7.69%
75th Percentile £550 £476 £566
90th Percentile £625 - £638
UK median daily rate £520 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% -4.17%

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 1,386 1,521 2,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.22% 88.43% 91.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 901 1,374
10th Percentile £238 £213 £250
25th Percentile £381 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% -8.63% +3.68%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 46 57
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.11 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.90 £18.77 £16.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year -12.81% +19.59% +3.68%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £52.25 £31.44 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Deployment Automation job vacancy trend in Scotland

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Deployment Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Deployment Automation

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in Scotland

Deployment Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Deployment Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Deployment Automation

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 13 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 - 14 £525 - 1
Glasgow 0 11 £500 +6.95% 2
Deployment Automation
UK

Deployment Automation
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 1 (4.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 15 (60.00%) AWS
2 13 (52.00%) Azure
3 12 (48.00%) GitHub
4 8 (32.00%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (28.00%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (12.00%) OpenShift
7 3 (12.00%) SaaS
8 2 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
8 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (8.00%) IaaS
8 2 (8.00%) Serverless
8 2 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (4.00%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (4.00%) Amazon MSK
9 1 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) Firewall
2 3 (12.00%) VPN
3 1 (4.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.00%) NewSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 10 (40.00%) JIRA
2 9 (36.00%) Jenkins
3 8 (32.00%) Bitbucket
4 7 (28.00%) Git
4 7 (28.00%) IntelliJ
4 7 (28.00%) PyCharm
4 7 (28.00%) Visual Studio
4 7 (28.00%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (4.00%) CocoaPods
5 1 (4.00%) GitLab
5 1 (4.00%) Gradle
5 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (4.00%) Subversion
5 1 (4.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (36.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.00%) Banking
3 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Developer
1 6 (24.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Python Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Site Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (8.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) DevOps Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Java Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Python Developer
4 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (4.00%) React Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) HTML
1 1 (4.00%) Jest
1 1 (4.00%) JSON
1 1 (4.00%) Node.js
1 1 (4.00%) OAuth
1 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (4.00%) React
1 1 (4.00%) React Native
1 1 (4.00%) Redux
1 1 (4.00%) REST
1 1 (4.00%) RESTful
1 1 (4.00%) SOAP
1 1 (4.00%) XML
1 1 (4.00%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (12.00%) Virtual Team
3 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.00%) CMDB
3 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (8.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (56.00%) Linux
2 9 (36.00%) Windows
3 3 (12.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (12.00%) Unix
4 1 (4.00%) Android
4 1 (4.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Agile
1 16 (64.00%) CI/CD
1 16 (64.00%) DevOps
2 9 (36.00%) Test Automation
3 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (28.00%) Containerisation
4 7 (28.00%) SDLC
5 5 (20.00%) Build Automation
5 5 (20.00%) Migration
6 4 (16.00%) Code Quality
6 4 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (16.00%) Issue Tracking
7 3 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (12.00%) High Availability
7 3 (12.00%) Microservices
7 3 (12.00%) Network Load Balancing
7 3 (12.00%) Observability
7 3 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 2 (8.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) Python
2 11 (44.00%) Java
3 8 (32.00%) TypeScript
4 7 (28.00%) C#
5 4 (16.00%) Perl
6 3 (12.00%) Bash
7 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
7 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
7 2 (8.00%) SQL
8 1 (4.00%) Bicep
8 1 (4.00%) C++
8 1 (4.00%) Kotlin
8 1 (4.00%) Objective-C
8 1 (4.00%) Ruby
8 1 (4.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.00%) CISSP
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) KVM
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (44.00%) Terraform
3 10 (40.00%) Ansible
4 3 (12.00%) Grafana
4 3 (12.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (4.00%) Fluentd
6 1 (4.00%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle
2 2 (8.00%) Databricks
2 2 (8.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.00%) Apple
3 1 (4.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.00%) Commvault
3 1 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) Pega