Software Deployment Contracts in Scotland

Software Deployment
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Software Deployment skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Deployment over the 6 months to 20 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 166 167
Rank change year-on-year +42 +1 -17
Contract jobs citing Software Deployment 7 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.32% 0.28% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.30% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 10
10th Percentile £166 £297 £200
25th Percentile £240 £513 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £431
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +21.74% +7.81%
75th Percentile £488 £539 £448
90th Percentile £513 £539 £450
UK median daily rate £410 £350 £500
% change year-on-year +17.14% -30.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Software Deployment is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,965 2,636 3,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.63% 92.56% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,900 2,343
10th Percentile £247 £263 £244
25th Percentile £400 £408 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 52
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.51 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.11 £28.43
Median % change year-on-year +7.68% -36.29% -34.66%
75th Percentile £46.24 £54.31 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.28 £67.22 £55.61
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% +0.83%

Software Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Deployment in Scotland

Software Deployment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Software Deployment in Scotland

Software Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Deployment in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Deployment in Scotland

Software Deployment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Deployment in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Software Deployment in Scotland

Software Deployment
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 Deployment within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 20 April 2024. 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 +6 3 £475 -9.52%
Dundee +9 2 £166 -
Renfrewshire +1 2 £525 -2.53%
Software Deployment
UK

Software Deployment
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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) DHCP
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Deployment Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Desktop Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Clustering
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 2 (28.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (42.86%) Information Security
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Server Virtualisation
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
3 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
2 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (28.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) McAfee ePO
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Clustering
1 2 (28.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Citrix
2 2 (28.57%) HP
2 2 (28.57%) McAfee
2 2 (28.57%) Symantec
2 2 (28.57%) Veritas
2 2 (28.57%) VMware