Software Delivery Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Software Delivery
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Software Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 80 84
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 +27
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 19 32 52
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 1.30% 2.05% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 2.27% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 28 31
10th Percentile £397 £430 £413
25th Percentile £413 £488 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £576
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% -8.92% +17.94%
75th Percentile £531 £553 £688
90th Percentile £578 £623 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -13.64% -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £35.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +85.71% -44.00% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

Software 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 1,273 1,408 2,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.01% 90.20% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 722 822 1,271
10th Percentile £246 £230 £259
25th Percentile £383 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £567 £538 £588
90th Percentile £638 £649 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 48 54
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.56 £14.32
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £16.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +4.00%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £56.05
90th Percentile £56.50 £42.96 £74.63
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +16.41%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Software Delivery job vacancy trend in Scotland

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in Scotland over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in Scotland

Software Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Software Delivery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Software Delivery

Software 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 Software Delivery within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
Edinburgh 0 16 £475 -5.00% 4
Glasgow -6 3 £450 -23.40% 1
Software Delivery
UK

Software Delivery
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 (5.26%) Apache
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.26%) Confluence
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (10.53%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (10.53%) GitHub
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (10.53%) Serverless
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
4 1 (5.26%) Dagster
4 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
1 1 (5.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.79%) JIRA
3 2 (10.53%) Subversion
3 2 (10.53%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.26%) Git
4 1 (5.26%) GitLab
4 1 (5.26%) MLflow
4 1 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Delivery Manager
2 4 (21.05%) Technical Manager
3 3 (15.79%) Lead
3 3 (15.79%) Python Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Software Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Python Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.26%) Agile Coach
5 1 (5.26%) Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Migration Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK
1 1 (5.26%) boto
1 1 (5.26%) FastAPI
1 1 (5.26%) Hugging Face
1 1 (5.26%) JWT
1 1 (5.26%) Node.js
1 1 (5.26%) NumPy
1 1 (5.26%) OAuth
1 1 (5.26%) OpenCV
1 1 (5.26%) Pandas
1 1 (5.26%) PyTorch
1 1 (5.26%) REST
1 1 (5.26%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.26%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Linux
1 5 (26.32%) Unix
2 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) Agile
2 11 (57.89%) DevOps
3 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
4 6 (31.58%) Software Engineering
5 5 (26.32%) Project Management
5 5 (26.32%) Scrum
5 5 (26.32%) Test Automation
6 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (21.05%) Project Delivery
6 4 (21.05%) Risk Management
6 4 (21.05%) Software Testing
7 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (15.79%) Microservices
8 2 (10.53%) Change Control
8 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (10.53%) Data Migration
8 2 (10.53%) High Availability
8 2 (10.53%) Kanban
8 2 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (10.53%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) Python
1 5 (26.32%) Shell Script
2 3 (15.79%) Java
3 2 (10.53%) C++
4 1 (5.26%) Perl
4 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.26%) Ruby
4 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
1 2 (10.53%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Kubernetes
2 6 (31.58%) Ansible
2 6 (31.58%) Grafana
2 6 (31.58%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) Pega
2 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow