Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in Scotland

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 7 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Stakeholder Management	4	Up 17 places+17	£500	-	396 16.65%	50
Agile	5	Down 3 places-3	£475	-	389 16.36%	77
Problem-Solving	6	Down 2 places-2	£423	-6.00%	309 12.99%	134
CI/CD	10	Down 1 place-1	£440	-12.00%	293 12.32%	61
Continuous Improvement	14	Up 8 places+8	£475	-2.56%	250 10.51%	85
DevOps	17	Down 6 places-6	£475	-5.00%	226 9.50%	47
Stakeholder Engagement	18	Up 14 places+14	£500	+11.11%	222 9.34%	26
AI	21	Up 14 places+14	£484	-3.20%	216 9.08%	82
Migration	24	Down 9 places-9	£475	-5.00%	200 8.41%	20
Validation	28	Up 50 places+50	£471	-13.33%	155 6.52%	39
Project Delivery	30	Up 10 places+10	£450	-	152 6.39%	35
Customer Service	31	Up 28 places+28	£199	+13.57%	149 6.27%	49
Decision-Making	33	Up 17 places+17	£475	+5.55%	139 5.85%	55
Analytics	33	Up 5 places+5	£525	+16.66%	139 5.85%	55
Cybersecurity	35	Down 5 places-5	£550	+10.22%	137 5.76%	78
Risk Management	36	Up 17 places+17	£525	+16.66%	130 5.47%	18
ITIL	38	Up 7 places+7	£425	-12.00%	126 5.30%	5
Data Modelling	38	Down 2 places-2	£484	+7.55%	126 5.30%	20
Business Intelligence	39	Up 17 places+17	£475	-5.00%	123 5.17%	39
Infrastructure as Code	39	Down 13 places-13	£475	-5.00%	123 5.17%	36
Test Automation	41	Down 1 place-1	£467	-6.60%	120 5.05%	32
Data Protection	42	Down 13 places-13	£440	+5.07%	118 4.96%	9
Scrum	43	No change0	£425	-3.40%	117 4.92%	13
Roadmaps	45	Up 4 places+4	£575	+6.48%	111 4.67%	34
Microservices	46	Down 9 places-9	£434	-12.01%	110 4.63%	9
Service Management	52	Up 17 places+17	£581	+24.61%	102 4.29%	16
Change Management	53	Down 6 places-6	£493	+9.44%	99 4.16%	17
ERP	55	Up 22 places+22	£513	+2.50%	95 4.00%	10
Data Governance	55	Up 10 places+10	£511	+13.50%	95 4.00%	14
Workshop Facilitation	56	Up 37 places+37	£494	-1.25%	92 3.87%	17
Observability	57	Up 8 places+8	£425	-15.21%	91 3.83%	23
Infrastructure Engineering	60	Up 32 places+32	£525	+5.00%	88 3.70%	30
Mentoring	62	Down 23 places-23	£525	+5.00%	85 3.57%	76
Containerisation	63	Down 17 places-17	£470	-6.46%	84 3.53%	17
Platform Engineering	63	Up 18 places+18	£438	-19.72%	84 3.53%	24
Project Management	64	Down 33 places-33	£475	+5.55%	83 3.49%	35
ITSM	64	Up 1 place+1	£413	+3.12%	83 3.49%	15
Software Engineering	65	Down 37 places-37	£475	-2.56%	81 3.41%	70
User Experience	67	Down 13 places-13	£538	+16.21%	79 3.32%	20
Machine Learning	67	Down 13 places-13	£425	-15.42%	79 3.32%	26
Technical Leadership	69	Up 10 places+10	£500	-4.76%	77 3.24%	32
Asset Management	71	Up 7 places+7	£434	+5.79%	75 3.15%	9
Service Delivery	72	Down 11 places-11	£413	-8.33%	74 3.11%	11
Requirements Gathering	72	Up 14 places+14	£450	+5.38%	74 3.11%	10
Data Analysis	75	Down 20 places-20	£402	-5.41%	71 2.99%	22
Identity Access Management	76	Up 21 places+21	£490	-9.25%	70 2.94%	7
Event-Driven	78	Up 29 places+29	£483	+10.71%	68 2.86%	9
Data Migration	79	Down 4 places-4	£500	-4.76%	67 2.82%	6
Coaching	81	Down 14 places-14	£514	+2.75%	64 2.69%	72
Business Analysis	81	Down 10 places-10	£431	-1.42%	64 2.69%	24