Trunk-Based Development Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Trunk-Based Development
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Trunk-Based Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 118 140
Rank change year-on-year +4 +22 +30
Contract jobs citing Trunk-Based Development 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.13% 0.054% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.062% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £575 - £538
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -5.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Trunk-Based Development 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 1,424 1,601 2,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 90.01% 86.45% 91.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 784 939 1,359
10th Percentile £252 £209 £232
25th Percentile £384 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £569
90th Percentile £613 £670 £657
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 42 54
10th Percentile £15.34 £12.57 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.06 £13.19
Median hourly rate £19.97 £20.94 £19.06
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +9.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £40.00 £43.89 £76.73
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £40.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -37.31% -9.60% +35.03%

Trunk-Based Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Trunk-Based Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Trunk-Based Development job vacancy trend in Scotland

Trunk-Based Development
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Trunk-Based Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Trunk-Based Development

Trunk-Based Development
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 Trunk-Based Development within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 October 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 -10 2 £550 +10.00%
Trunk-Based Development
UK

Trunk-Based Development
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:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Gradle
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Rust
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes