GoCD Contract Job Trends in Scotland

GoCD Continuous Delivery Server
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring GoCD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 117 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing GoCD 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.32% 0.059% -
As % of the Development Applications category 2.50% 0.28% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £365 - -
25th Percentile £370 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £377 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% - -
75th Percentile £382 - -
90th Percentile £385 - -
UK median daily rate £377 £465 £450
% change year-on-year -18.92% +3.33% +4.65%

All Development Application Skills
Scotland

GoCD falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 280 352 295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 12.73% 20.89% 15.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 203 196
10th Percentile £313 £319 £361
25th Percentile £363 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.74% - -
75th Percentile £538 £539 £550
90th Percentile £600 £588 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 8
10th Percentile - £16.66 -
25th Percentile - £16.84 -
Median hourly rate £60.91 £17.45 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +249.15% -57.39% -32.08%
75th Percentile - £49.98 -
90th Percentile £61.84 £65.75 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

GoCD
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

GoCD job vacancy trend in Scotland

GoCD
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing GoCD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing GoCD

GoCD
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 GoCD within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 July 2026. 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 0 7 £377 -5.75% 1
GoCD
UK

GoCD
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Git
1 7 (100.00%) Gradle
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 7 (100.00%) JUnit
1 7 (100.00%) Maven
2 6 (85.71%) JProfiler
3 3 (42.86%) Subversion
4 1 (14.29%) Bundler
4 1 (14.29%) IntelliJ
4 1 (14.29%) JIRA
4 1 (14.29%) Leiningen
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Lead
2 4 (57.14%) Lead Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) FreeMarker
1 7 (100.00%) Node.js
1 7 (100.00%) React
1 7 (100.00%) Spring
2 6 (85.71%) REST
2 6 (85.71%) Spring Boot
3 4 (57.14%) JSF
4 3 (42.86%) Jest
4 3 (42.86%) RESTful
4 3 (42.86%) Web Services
5 2 (28.57%) Hibernate
5 2 (28.57%) Redux
6 1 (14.29%) HTML
6 1 (14.29%) JDBC
6 1 (14.29%) JMS
6 1 (14.29%) JPA
6 1 (14.29%) JSP
6 1 (14.29%) Servlets
6 1 (14.29%) Struts
6 1 (14.29%) Tapestry
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 7 (100.00%) Scrum
2 6 (85.71%) Microservices
3 4 (57.14%) TDD
3 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
4 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
4 3 (42.86%) Web Accessibility
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
6 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
3 3 (42.86%) Ruby
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Accessibility
1 3 (42.86%) QA
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (57.14%) MuleSoft