Continuous Delivery Contracts in Scotland

Continuous Delivery
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Continuous Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Delivery over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 127 108
Rank change year-on-year +22 -19 -3
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 17 34 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.80% 1.25% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.36% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 27 58
10th Percentile £400 £447 £417
25th Percentile £413 £500 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £532
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -1.32% +7.47%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £570
90th Percentile £600 - £588
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +12.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Continuous 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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,881 2,508 3,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.02% 92.44% 93.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,773 2,247
10th Percentile £219 £260 £250
25th Percentile £369 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 55 50
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £17.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in Scotland

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in Scotland

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in Scotland

Continuous 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 Continuous Delivery within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 May 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 +5 11 £475 -20.83% 4
Edinburgh +26 4 £516 +3.10% 3
Continuous Delivery
UK

Continuous 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (41.18%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (88.24%) AWS
2 8 (47.06%) Azure
3 7 (41.18%) GCP
4 5 (29.41%) OpenShift
5 4 (23.53%) Amazon S3
5 4 (23.53%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (23.53%) Serverless
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (5.88%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (5.88%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) Relational Database
2 4 (23.53%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
4 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.88%) InfluxDB
5 1 (5.88%) MariaDB
5 1 (5.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) GitLab
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) Artifactory
3 1 (5.88%) Mockito
3 1 (5.88%) webpack
General
1 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Developer
2 10 (58.82%) Java Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Backend Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (5.88%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Java Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (58.82%) Spring
1 10 (58.82%) Spring Boot
2 8 (47.06%) RESTful
3 7 (41.18%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (41.18%) Kafka
3 7 (41.18%) OpenTracing
4 5 (29.41%) React
5 4 (23.53%) AWS CDK
5 4 (23.53%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (17.65%) OAuth
6 3 (17.65%) OAuth2
6 3 (17.65%) Spring Security
7 2 (11.76%) CSS
7 2 (11.76%) REST
8 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
8 1 (5.88%) CSS3
8 1 (5.88%) HTML
8 1 (5.88%) HTML5
8 1 (5.88%) Node.js
8 1 (5.88%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Data Structures
1 7 (41.18%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (17.65%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
1 4 (23.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) CI/CD
2 13 (76.47%) Agile
3 11 (64.71%) Continuous Integration
3 11 (64.71%) Microservices
4 8 (47.06%) DevOps
4 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (47.06%) Test Automation
5 6 (35.29%) Dependency Injection
5 6 (35.29%) End-to-End Testing
5 6 (35.29%) SDLC
6 5 (29.41%) Kanban
7 4 (23.53%) Analytics
7 4 (23.53%) Inclusive Design
7 4 (23.53%) Pair Programming
7 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
8 3 (17.65%) Business Continuity
8 3 (17.65%) Code Quality
8 3 (17.65%) Human-Centred Design
8 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
8 3 (17.65%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) Java
2 7 (41.18%) Kotlin
2 7 (41.18%) Python
2 7 (41.18%) Scala
3 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
4 3 (17.65%) TypeScript
5 2 (11.76%) Bash
6 1 (5.88%) C
6 1 (5.88%) Groovy
6 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.88%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Accessibility
1 3 (17.65%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (70.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Kubernetes
2 7 (41.18%) Prometheus
2 7 (41.18%) Zipkin
3 5 (29.41%) Grafana
4 4 (23.53%) Ansible
4 4 (23.53%) Kibana
5 3 (17.65%) Packer
6 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft