Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in Scotland

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 14 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Stakeholder Management	4	Up 16 places+16	£500	-	397 16.36%	165
Agile	5	Down 3 places-3	£475	-	393 16.20%	387
Problem-Solving	6	Down 2 places-2	£415	-7.77%	308 12.70%	543
CI/CD	8	No change0	£450	-10.00%	303 12.49%	306
Continuous Improvement	14	Up 7 places+7	£475	-	247 10.18%	384
DevOps	18	Down 8 places-8	£475	-	226 9.32%	166
Stakeholder Engagement	19	Up 15 places+15	£500	+11.11%	225 9.27%	95
AI	20	Up 15 places+15	£484	-3.20%	220 9.07%	718
Migration	24	Down 11 places-11	£483	-3.40%	205 8.45%	106
Validation	28	Up 49 places+49	£467	-8.87%	156 6.43%	224
Project Delivery	30	Up 13 places+13	£450	-	153 6.31%	86
Customer Service	31	Up 32 places+32	£200	+14.28%	150 6.18%	133
Decision-Making	34	Up 13 places+13	£475	+4.62%	139 5.73%	199
Analytics	35	Up 3 places+3	£518	+15.00%	138 5.69%	239
Cybersecurity	36	Down 3 places-3	£550	+11.11%	137 5.65%	278
Risk Management	38	Up 18 places+18	£525	+16.66%	130 5.36%	108
Data Modelling	39	No change0	£484	+4.64%	128 5.28%	90
Infrastructure as Code	42	Down 16 places-16	£475	-5.00%	125 5.15%	133
ITIL	43	Up 5 places+5	£425	-11.27%	124 5.11%	78
Business Intelligence	43	Up 12 places+12	£475	-5.00%	124 5.11%	104
Test Automation	44	Down 2 places-2	£467	-6.60%	123 5.07%	212
Roadmaps	47	Up 5 places+5	£563	+3.02%	119 4.91%	229
Data Protection	48	Down 16 places-16	£440	+10.00%	118 4.86%	53
Microservices	50	Down 12 places-12	£428	-11.67%	114 4.70%	99
Scrum	51	Down 7 places-7	£425	-1.16%	112 4.62%	64
Service Management	55	Up 19 places+19	£581	+24.61%	105 4.33%	86
Change Management	59	Down 11 places-11	£493	+9.44%	97 4.00%	68
Data Governance	59	Up 4 places+4	£513	+13.88%	97 4.00%	77
ERP	60	Up 17 places+17	£513	+2.50%	96 3.96%	69
Observability	60	Up 7 places+7	£425	-15.00%	96 3.96%	137
Workshop Facilitation	62	Up 33 places+33	£494	-1.25%	92 3.79%	28
ITSM	64	Up 2 places+2	£413	+3.12%	90 3.71%	66
Platform Engineering	64	Up 21 places+21	£450	-17.43%	90 3.71%	113
Containerisation	65	Down 20 places-20	£465	-7.00%	89 3.67%	76
Mentoring	65	Down 23 places-23	£525	+5.00%	89 3.67%	302
Technical Leadership	66	Up 17 places+17	£500	-4.76%	87 3.59%	179
Infrastructure Engineering	67	Up 29 places+29	£525	+5.00%	86 3.54%	97
Project Management	68	Down 36 places-36	£475	+8.57%	85 3.50%	96
Software Engineering	68	Down 39 places-39	£475	-2.56%	85 3.50%	502
User Experience	73	Down 16 places-16	£566	+22.43%	79 3.26%	92
Machine Learning	73	Down 18 places-18	£428	-14.92%	79 3.26%	191
Requirements Gathering	76	Up 12 places+12	£450	+5.38%	76 3.13%	32
Asset Management	77	Up 5 places+5	£430	+4.87%	75 3.09%	57
Service Delivery	79	Down 16 places-16	£425	-5.55%	72 2.97%	107
Event-Driven	79	Up 31 places+31	£492	-1.70%	72 2.97%	53
Data Analysis	80	Down 22 places-22	£402	-5.41%	70 2.89%	63
Data Migration	80	Down 9 places-9	£500	-4.76%	70 2.89%	39
Identity Access Management	81	Up 20 places+20	£486	-10.09%	69 2.84%	28
Coaching	84	Down 11 places-11	£514	+2.75%	64 2.64%	192
Business Analysis	84	Down 10 places-10	£431	-4.16%	64 2.64%	37