Software Delivery Contracts in Edinburgh

Software Delivery
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Software Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Delivery over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 84 94
Rank change year-on-year +25 +10 +8
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 15 18 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.72% 1.52% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 1.62% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 25
10th Percentile £407 £381 £431
25th Percentile £414 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -10.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £500 £528 £538
90th Percentile £518 £588 £575
Scotland median daily rate £490 £444 £475
% change year-on-year +10.42% -6.58% +11.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Software Delivery 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 Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 739 1,111 1,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 84.94% 93.99% 94.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 775 1,224
10th Percentile £215 £225 £265
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -1.04% +12.94%
75th Percentile £557 £538 £570
90th Percentile £655 £605 £638
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 13
10th Percentile £13.30 £11.83 £15.53
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.30 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.17 £19.49 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -25.04% -52.27%
75th Percentile £60.75 £21.57 £48.75
90th Percentile - £37.71 £53.20
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
% change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in Edinburgh

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in Edinburgh

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in Edinburgh

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 9 (60.00%) Azure
1 9 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (33.33%) Serverless
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (13.33%) IaaS
4 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
4 2 (13.33%) PaaS
4 2 (13.33%) SaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (6.67%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) Artifactory
2 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
2 2 (13.33%) Cypress.io
2 2 (13.33%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) GitLab
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Selenium
2 2 (13.33%) Subversion
2 2 (13.33%) TeamCity
2 2 (13.33%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (46.67%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 4 (26.67%) Agile Project Manager
3 3 (20.00%) Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Agile Delivery Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Functional Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Functional Test Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Software Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Test Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Delivery Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) AWS CDK
2 3 (20.00%) Node.js
2 3 (20.00%) React
3 2 (13.33%) .NET
3 2 (13.33%) CSS
3 2 (13.33%) HTML
4 1 (6.67%) Java EE
4 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Client/Server
1 2 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Agile
2 11 (73.33%) DevOps
3 7 (46.67%) Change Control
3 7 (46.67%) Dependency Management
3 7 (46.67%) Project Delivery
3 7 (46.67%) Project Management
3 7 (46.67%) Risk Management
3 7 (46.67%) Supplier Management
3 7 (46.67%) User Research
4 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 5 (33.33%) TDD
5 4 (26.67%) Scrum
6 3 (20.00%) Human-Centred Design
6 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (20.00%) Kanban
6 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (20.00%) Pair Programming
6 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (13.33%) Customer-Centricity
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Bash
1 3 (20.00%) Java
1 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (20.00%) Python
1 3 (20.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (13.33%) C#
2 2 (13.33%) C++
2 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) VBA
2 2 (13.33%) VBScript
3 1 (6.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) ISEB
1 2 (13.33%) ISTQB
1 2 (13.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (13.33%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Ansible
1 2 (13.33%) Grafana
1 2 (13.33%) Kibana
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform