Digital & IT Contractor Job Market in Scotland

Contract Job Market Index in Scotland

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 23 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Social Skills	1	No change0	£450	-	629 26.08%	569
Finance	2	Up 1 place+1	£465	-2.10%	555 23.01%	686
Microsoft	3	Up 6 places+6	£470	+5.61%	396 16.42%	324
Agile	4	Down 2 places-2	£475	-	389 16.13%	424
Stakeholder Management	5	Up 16 places+16	£500	-	372 15.42%	199
Python	6	Down 1 place-1	£467	-6.60%	319 13.23%	377
Problem-Solving	7	Down 3 places-3	£425	-5.55%	311 12.89%	407
Security Cleared	8	Up 12 places+12	£486	+0.67%	305 12.65%	301
Developer	9	Up 6 places+6	£450	-2.70%	299 12.40%	112
CI/CD	10	Down 2 places-2	£439	-12.25%	296 12.27%	308
Public Sector	11	Down 5 places-5	£475	+5.55%	293 12.15%	124
AWS	12	Down 5 places-5	£450	-10.00%	289 11.98%	324
Azure	13	Down 3 places-3	£500	-	286 11.86%	325
Analyst	14	Down 2 places-2	£425	-5.55%	258 10.70%	164
Continuous Improvement	14	Up 8 places+8	£475	-5.00%	258 10.70%	385
AI	15	Up 25 places+25	£484	-3.20%	239 9.91%	693
SC Cleared	16	Up 12 places+12	£525	-	234 9.70%	237
Analytical Skills	17	Down 4 places-4	£447	-3.08%	232 9.62%	263
Stakeholder Engagement	18	Up 22 places+22	£500	+11.11%	231 9.58%	122
Senior	19	Up 12 places+12	£488	+8.44%	226 9.37%	727
DevOps	20	Down 9 places-9	£475	-4.80%	221 9.16%	172
Banking	21	Down 3 places-3	£450	-10.00%	214 8.87%	98
Architect	22	Up 20 places+20	£600	-	210 8.71%	204
SQL	23	Down 9 places-9	£425	-5.55%	209 8.67%	176
Migration	24	Down 7 places-7	£485	-2.95%	195 8.08%	131
Kubernetes	25	Down 2 places-2	£425	-17.07%	177 7.34%	125
Java	26	Down 10 places-10	£425	-15.00%	176 7.30%	233
Windows	27	Down 5 places-5	£322	-28.44%	156 6.47%	97
Project Delivery	28	Up 17 places+17	£450	-	155 6.43%	99
Lead	28	Up 20 places+20	£500	-3.84%	155 6.43%	656
Validation	29	Up 55 places+55	£475	-13.63%	154 6.38%	254
Analytics	30	Up 16 places+16	£525	+16.66%	152 6.30%	263
Customer Service	31	Up 31 places+31	£175	-	151 6.26%	101
GCP	32	Up 34 places+34	£450	-2.70%	139 5.76%	112
Cloud Native	33	Up 30 places+30	£450	-5.26%	136 5.64%	123
Decision-Making	34	Up 19 places+19	£475	+3.65%	134 5.56%	237
Power Platform	35	Up 26 places+26	£475	-5.00%	133 5.51%	112
Git	35	Up 15 places+15	£400	-20.00%	133 5.51%	84
Linux	36	Down 17 places-17	£459	-8.25%	132 5.47%	93
Business Intelligence	36	Up 24 places+24	£440	-12.00%	132 5.47%	110
Data Modelling	37	Up 4 places+4	£475	+5.55%	129 5.35%	94
ITIL	38	Up 8 places+8	£425	-12.19%	128 5.31%	67
Cybersecurity	38	Down 5 places-5	£545	+9.00%	128 5.31%	268
Risk Management	39	Up 18 places+18	£525	+16.66%	124 5.14%	120
Scrum	40	Up 7 places+7	£425	-5.55%	123 5.10%	58
Active Directory	41	Up 36 places+36	£450	-	122 5.06%	47
Oracle	42	Down 13 places-13	£463	-7.50%	121 5.02%	71
Data Protection	42	Down 12 places-12	£450	+5.88%	121 5.02%	46
JIRA	42	Down 7 places-7	£425	-10.52%	121 5.02%	61
Infrastructure as Code	43	Down 17 places-17	£475	-5.00%	120 4.98%	130