Software Delivery Job Trends in Scotland

Software Delivery
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Software Delivery skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 185 143
Rank change year-on-year +49 -42 +31
Permanent jobs citing Software Delivery 11 19 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.44% 0.43% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.50% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 14
10th Percentile £48,500 - £41,500
25th Percentile £51,875 £40,000 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £49,500 £72,316
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -31.55% +7.29%
75th Percentile £83,750 £69,063 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,500 £71,514 -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -

All Process and 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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,253 3,780 2,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.83% 85.71% 95.85%
Number of salaries quoted 986 1,604 2,002
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,209 £41,938 £37,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,850 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in Scotland

Software Delivery
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Software Delivery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Software Delivery

Software Delivery
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in Scotland over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Delivery in Scotland

Software Delivery
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Delivery within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +77 6 £100,000 +150.00%
Edinburgh +7 4 £60,000 -14.29% 5
Fife - 1 £47,500 -
Software Delivery
UK

Software Delivery
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) GitLab
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (54.55%) Banking
2 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (45.45%) Law
3 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
5 1 (9.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Payments Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior IT Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) AS400
1 2 (18.18%) iSeries
2 1 (9.09%) Credit Risk
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
1 7 (63.64%) Software Engineering
2 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (45.45%) Roadmaps
4 4 (36.36%) Code Quality
4 4 (36.36%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
4 4 (36.36%) Product Requirements
5 3 (27.27%) DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
6 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 2 (18.18%) Coaching
6 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
6 2 (18.18%) High Availability
6 2 (18.18%) Project Management
6 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) TDD
6 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
7 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) RPG
2 2 (18.18%) RPG IV
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) Go
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 3 (27.27%) Terraform
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Argo
3 1 (9.09%) Grafana
3 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
3 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
3 1 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) IBM