Disclosure Scotland Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Disclosure Scotland
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Disclosure Scotland skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 15 9
Rank change year-on-year -13 -6 +12
Contract jobs citing Disclosure Scotland 39 67 121
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 6.52% 10.17% 12.89%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 27.66% 43.51% 49.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 44 72
10th Percentile £145 £184 £173
25th Percentile £268 £230 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £444 £480
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% -7.55% +6.67%
75th Percentile £487 £489 £544
90th Percentile £550 £541 £598
Scotland median daily rate £454 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +0.89% - -1.64%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Edinburgh

Disclosure Scotland falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 141 154 245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.58% 23.37% 26.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 92 162
10th Percentile £146 £150 £232
25th Percentile £403 £306 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £461
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -2.28% -3.05%
75th Percentile £528 £500 £543
90th Percentile £590 £618 £600
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 4
10th Percentile £26.64 £17.26 £19.27
25th Percentile £30.50 £20.66 £21.58
Median hourly rate £57.50 £27.35 £41.44
Median % change year-on-year +110.24% -33.99% +82.65%
75th Percentile £72.50 £51.69 £61.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.68 £62.20
Scotland median hourly rate £40.00 £15.00 £17.22
% change year-on-year +166.67% -12.87% +30.81%

Disclosure Scotland
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Disclosure Scotland relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Disclosure Scotland job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Disclosure Scotland
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Disclosure Scotland.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Disclosure Scotland

Disclosure Scotland
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disclosure Scotland in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Disclosure Scotland in Edinburgh

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Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Disclosure Scotland.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Disclosure Scotland

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.13%) Apache TomEE
1 2 (5.13%) CMS
1 2 (5.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.56%) Apache
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.56%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.13%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.38%) Azure
1 6 (15.38%) Power Platform
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.69%) AWS
4 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
4 2 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.13%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (5.13%) OpenShift
4 2 (5.13%) Serverless
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.56%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (2.56%) Dagster
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (2.56%) HTTP
2 1 (2.56%) IPsec
2 1 (2.56%) LAN
2 1 (2.56%) MQTT
2 1 (2.56%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.56%) VPN
2 1 (2.56%) WAN
2 1 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) Power BI
2 2 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.56%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.56%) BusinessObjects XI
3 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.56%) Redis
3 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Git
1 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.13%) Ant
2 2 (5.13%) Eclipse
2 2 (5.13%) JIRA
2 2 (5.13%) Maven
3 1 (2.56%) GitLab
3 1 (2.56%) MLflow
General
1 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.64%) Public Sector
3 9 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (17.95%) Finance
5 5 (12.82%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Back Office
7 1 (2.56%) Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Marketing
7 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (17.95%) Developer
2 6 (15.38%) Lead
3 4 (10.26%) Analyst
3 4 (10.26%) Data Protection Officer
3 4 (10.26%) Java Developer
3 4 (10.26%) Support Officer
4 3 (7.69%) Information Governance Officer
4 3 (7.69%) Information Officer
5 2 (5.13%) Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (5.13%) PMO Lead
6 1 (2.56%) .NET Developer
6 1 (2.56%) Consultant
6 1 (2.56%) Field Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Network Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.56%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) REST
1 4 (10.26%) Spring
2 2 (5.13%) AWS CDK
2 2 (5.13%) FastAPI
2 2 (5.13%) Hibernate
2 2 (5.13%) JPA
2 2 (5.13%) JSP
2 2 (5.13%) JSTL
2 2 (5.13%) OAuth
2 2 (5.13%) PyTorch
2 2 (5.13%) RESTful
2 2 (5.13%) Spring Security
3 1 (2.56%) .NET
3 1 (2.56%) CSS
3 1 (2.56%) HTML
3 1 (2.56%) Hugging Face
3 1 (2.56%) JWT
3 1 (2.56%) LangChain
3 1 (2.56%) LangGraph
3 1 (2.56%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Freedom of Information
1 4 (10.26%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.13%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.13%) PKI
3 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.56%) Derivative
4 1 (2.56%) Digital Signage
4 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Graphic Design
4 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.56%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Windows
2 2 (5.13%) Linux
3 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) Agile
2 9 (23.08%) Data Protection
3 8 (20.51%) Decision-Making
4 7 (17.95%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (15.38%) AI
5 6 (15.38%) Project Management
5 6 (15.38%) Risk Management
6 5 (12.82%) CI/CD
6 5 (12.82%) DevOps
6 5 (12.82%) Information Governance
6 5 (12.82%) Mentoring
6 5 (12.82%) Migration
6 5 (12.82%) PRINCE2
7 4 (10.26%) Business Case
7 4 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (10.26%) Data Sharing
7 4 (10.26%) Impact Assessments
7 4 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (10.26%) Roadmaps
7 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.38%) Python
2 5 (12.82%) Java
2 5 (12.82%) SQL
3 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (2.56%) CCNA
2 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.56%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) Accessibility
2 5 (12.82%) GDPR
3 2 (5.13%) PMO
3 2 (5.13%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
1 1 (2.56%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Grafana
2 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.56%) Kibana
3 1 (2.56%) Kustomize
3 1 (2.56%) logstash
3 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.56%) SCCM
3 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle
3 1 (2.56%) Cisco
3 1 (2.56%) F5
3 1 (2.56%) Facebook
3 1 (2.56%) Instagram
3 1 (2.56%) Palo Alto
3 1 (2.56%) Remedy