Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in Scotland

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 24 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Agile	4	Down 2 places-2	£475	-	385 16.06%	433
Stakeholder Management	5	Up 15 places+15	£500	-	375 15.64%	191
Problem-Solving	6	Down 2 places-2	£425	-5.55%	309 12.89%	396
CI/CD	9	Down 1 place-1	£430	-14.00%	291 12.14%	312
Continuous Improvement	13	Up 8 places+8	£475	-5.00%	254 10.59%	372
AI	15	Up 21 places+21	£484	-3.20%	233 9.72%	686
Stakeholder Engagement	16	Up 21 places+21	£500	+8.69%	228 9.51%	115
DevOps	19	Down 8 places-8	£475	-4.80%	220 9.17%	174
Migration	23	Down 7 places-7	£485	-2.95%	196 8.17%	134
Project Delivery	27	Up 14 places+14	£450	-	154 6.42%	93
Validation	28	Up 51 places+51	£475	-13.63%	152 6.34%	251
Customer Service	29	Up 28 places+28	£175	-	151 6.30%	99
Analytics	30	Up 13 places+13	£525	+16.66%	148 6.17%	261
Decision-Making	33	Up 16 places+16	£475	+3.65%	134 5.59%	231
Cybersecurity	34	Down 2 places-2	£550	+10.00%	132 5.50%	262
Risk Management	36	Up 16 places+16	£525	+16.66%	128 5.34%	118
Business Intelligence	36	Up 19 places+19	£440	-12.00%	128 5.34%	104
ITIL	37	Up 5 places+5	£425	-12.19%	127 5.30%	66
Data Modelling	38	No change0	£480	+6.55%	126 5.25%	92
Scrum	39	Up 4 places+4	£425	-5.55%	121 5.05%	59
Infrastructure as Code	40	Down 15 places-15	£475	-5.00%	118 4.92%	133
Data Protection	41	Down 11 places-11	£450	+5.88%	116 4.84%	47
Test Automation	43	Down 4 places-4	£475	-5.00%	111 4.63%	207
Roadmaps	45	Up 7 places+7	£575	+6.48%	108 4.50%	268
Service Management	51	Up 17 places+17	£581	+25.62%	99 4.13%	69
Change Management	51	No change0	£488	+8.44%	99 4.13%	72
Microservices	52	Down 15 places-15	£428	-10.00%	97 4.05%	99
Data Governance	53	Up 14 places+14	£513	+13.88%	93 3.88%	72
Observability	53	Up 16 places+16	£425	-15.00%	93 3.88%	145
Infrastructure Engineering	54	Up 42 places+42	£525	+5.00%	92 3.84%	104
Machine Learning	55	Down 3 places-3	£463	-7.96%	91 3.79%	177
User Experience	57	Down 6 places-6	£531	+15.48%	88 3.67%	103
Platform Engineering	57	Up 24 places+24	£450	-17.43%	88 3.67%	114
Workshop Facilitation	58	Up 36 places+36	£488	-2.50%	86 3.59%	38
Containerisation	59	Down 13 places-13	£475	-5.00%	85 3.54%	73
Mentoring	60	Down 22 places-22	£530	+11.57%	84 3.50%	267
ERP	61	Up 19 places+19	£513	+2.50%	82 3.42%	105
Project Management	62	Down 28 places-28	£475	+11.76%	81 3.38%	119
Software Engineering	62	Down 36 places-36	£475	-	81 3.38%	495
ITSM	64	Up 1 place+1	£413	+3.12%	78 3.25%	54
Technical Leadership	66	Up 13 places+13	£500	-4.76%	75 3.13%	163
Identity Access Management	66	Up 32 places+32	£481	-10.92%	75 3.13%	30
Service Delivery	67	Down 5 places-5	£413	-8.33%	74 3.09%	95
Asset Management	69	Up 16 places+16	£500	+25.00%	72 3.00%	53
Generative AI	69	Up 14 places+14	£513	+22.02%	72 3.00%	86
Requirements Gathering	70	Up 20 places+20	£450	+5.88%	71 2.96%	32
Data Analysis	71	Down 16 places-16	£400	-5.88%	70 2.92%	65
Coaching	72	Down 5 places-5	£514	+8.15%	69 2.88%	187
User Acceptance Testing	75	Up 14 places+14	£450	+20.00%	66 2.75%	36
Business Analysis	76	Down 4 places-4	£444	-1.38%	64 2.67%	30