Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in Scotland

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 31 Oct 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	-	386 16.37%	35
Agile	5	Down 3 places-3	£475	-	383 16.24%	53
Problem-Solving	6	Down 2 places-2	£425	-5.55%	311 13.19%	89
CI/CD	10	Down 2 places-2	£430	-14.00%	284 12.04%	49
Continuous Improvement	14	Up 7 places+7	£475	-5.00%	254 10.77%	63
Stakeholder Engagement	16	Up 21 places+21	£500	+11.11%	227 9.63%	17
DevOps	18	Down 7 places-7	£470	-3.49%	221 9.37%	41
AI	19	Up 19 places+19	£483	-3.50%	211 8.95%	72
Migration	22	Down 8 places-8	£485	-2.95%	197 8.35%	10
Project Delivery	26	Up 18 places+18	£450	-	154 6.53%	20
Validation	27	Up 58 places+58	£459	-16.63%	153 6.49%	35
Customer Service	28	Up 35 places+35	£199	+13.57%	149 6.32%	30
Analytics	29	Up 17 places+17	£525	+16.66%	139 5.89%	39
Cybersecurity	31	Up 1 place+1	£550	+10.11%	132 5.60%	51
Decision-Making	31	Up 22 places+22	£475	+4.62%	132 5.60%	46
ITIL	32	Up 12 places+12	£425	-11.27%	128 5.43%	4
Risk Management	33	Up 22 places+22	£550	+22.22%	125 5.30%	15
Business Intelligence	35	Up 24 places+24	£440	-12.00%	123 5.22%	22
Data Modelling	36	Up 4 places+4	£484	+7.55%	121 5.13%	17
Scrum	36	Up 12 places+12	£425	-5.55%	121 5.13%	3
Infrastructure as Code	38	Down 11 places-11	£475	-5.00%	117 4.96%	25
Data Protection	39	Down 5 places-5	£450	+7.46%	116 4.92%	7
Test Automation	42	Up 3 places+3	£467	-6.60%	112 4.75%	30
Roadmaps	43	Up 11 places+11	£595	+11.21%	107 4.54%	27
Service Management	46	Up 25 places+25	£574	+24.00%	102 4.33%	11
Change Management	46	Up 3 places+3	£493	+9.44%	102 4.33%	12
Microservices	47	Down 6 places-6	£434	-8.68%	101 4.28%	8
Data Governance	50	Up 21 places+21	£513	+13.88%	92 3.90%	12
Observability	50	Up 22 places+22	£425	-15.00%	92 3.90%	23
Infrastructure Engineering	51	Up 50 places+50	£525	+5.00%	91 3.86%	27
Workshop Facilitation	51	Up 47 places+47	£488	-2.50%	91 3.86%	5
ERP	53	Up 34 places+34	£513	+2.50%	87 3.69%	23
Mentoring	55	Down 12 places-12	£530	+9.27%	84 3.56%	46
Containerisation	57	Down 7 places-7	£470	-6.46%	82 3.48%	16
Platform Engineering	57	Up 30 places+30	£425	-22.01%	82 3.48%	18
User Experience	58	Up 1 place+1	£531	+14.86%	81 3.44%	12
Project Management	58	Down 27 places-27	£475	+8.57%	81 3.44%	26
ITSM	60	Up 11 places+11	£407	+1.81%	79 3.35%	11
Machine Learning	60	Down 4 places-4	£418	-16.91%	79 3.35%	22
Software Engineering	61	Down 33 places-33	£475	-1.29%	78 3.31%	73
Service Delivery	64	Up 3 places+3	£413	-8.33%	75 3.18%	7
Asset Management	65	Up 22 places+22	£438	+6.70%	74 3.14%	12
Technical Leadership	65	Up 21 places+21	£483	-8.00%	74 3.14%	13
Identity Access Management	66	Up 37 places+37	£490	-9.25%	73 3.10%	4
Requirements Gathering	67	Up 26 places+26	£455	+7.05%	72 3.05%	6
Data Analysis	67	Down 7 places-7	£401	-5.64%	72 3.05%	14
Coaching	70	Up 4 places+4	£515	+3.00%	68 2.88%	44
Business Analysis	72	Up 3 places+3	£444	+4.41%	66 2.80%	10
Data Migration	73	Up 7 places+7	£513	+5.12%	65 2.76%	5
Event-Driven	73	Up 40 places+40	£492	+12.66%	65 2.76%	11