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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 17 10
Rank change year-on-year -16 -7 +12
Contract jobs citing Disclosure Scotland 38 71 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.07% 8.66% 11.63%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 28.79% 42.77% 45.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 42 92
10th Percentile £222 £156 £201
25th Percentile £400 £229 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £451
Median % change year-on-year - -0.28% +8.73%
75th Percentile £493 £515 £503
90th Percentile £550 £600 £590
Scotland median daily rate £450 £440 £450
% change year-on-year +2.27% -2.22% +7.14%

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 132 166 281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.09% 20.24% 25.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 96 205
10th Percentile £241 £167 £218
25th Percentile £413 £307 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -3.23% -0.96%
75th Percentile £500 £565 £526
90th Percentile £560 £619 £588
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £464
% change year-on-year - -2.96% -0.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 1
10th Percentile £24.27 £16.50 -
25th Percentile £32.50 £18.07 £57.50
Median hourly rate £48.75 £18.27 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +166.83% -69.55% +217.46%
75th Percentile £60.94 £18.95 £62.50
90th Percentile £66.88 £47.09 -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £14.98 £21.75
% change year-on-year +133.64% -31.13% +6.36%

Disclosure Scotland
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Disclosure Scotland as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Disclosure Scotland in Edinburgh

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disclosure Scotland in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 7 September 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 and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.53%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.26%) CMS
3 1 (2.63%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (5.26%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.63%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (2.63%) iTrent
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.05%) Power Platform
2 6 (15.79%) Azure
3 4 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (7.89%) Power Automate
5 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (5.26%) OpenShift
5 2 (5.26%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.63%) AWS
6 1 (2.63%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.63%) OCI
6 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) Firewall
2 2 (5.26%) Internet
3 1 (2.63%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (2.63%) Intranet
3 1 (2.63%) IPsec
3 1 (2.63%) Kerberos
3 1 (2.63%) LAN
3 1 (2.63%) MQTT
3 1 (2.63%) Network Security
3 1 (2.63%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.63%) Unified Communications
3 1 (2.63%) VPN
3 1 (2.63%) WAN
3 1 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) Power BI
2 4 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.89%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (5.26%) Metadata
4 2 (5.26%) Oracle Database
4 2 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (5.26%) Redis
4 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.63%) CockroachDB
5 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.63%) MySQL
5 1 (2.63%) NewSQL
5 1 (2.63%) OLTP
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (2.63%) Power Query
5 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Git
1 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 16 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 10 (26.32%) Public Sector
3 7 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.16%) Finance
5 2 (5.26%) Digital Health
5 2 (5.26%) Publishing
6 1 (2.63%) Back Office
6 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.63%) Legal
6 1 (2.63%) Marketing
6 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (15.79%) Analyst
2 3 (7.89%) Lead
2 3 (7.89%) Senior
3 2 (5.26%) Administrator
3 2 (5.26%) Architect
3 2 (5.26%) Business Analyst
3 2 (5.26%) Data Analyst
3 2 (5.26%) Data Architect
3 2 (5.26%) Data Engineer
3 2 (5.26%) Designer
3 2 (5.26%) Developer
3 2 (5.26%) Unix Engineer
4 1 (2.63%) Content Manager
4 1 (2.63%) Data Analytics Consultant
4 1 (2.63%) Development Engineer
4 1 (2.63%) Information Governance Specialist
4 1 (2.63%) Information Specialist
4 1 (2.63%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (2.63%) Senior Designer
4 1 (2.63%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.26%) OAuth
1 2 (5.26%) React
1 2 (5.26%) REST
2 1 (2.63%) .NET
2 1 (2.63%) EDI
2 1 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.63%) Flask
2 1 (2.63%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (2.63%) JSON
2 1 (2.63%) Kafka
2 1 (2.63%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.63%) OpenID
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.63%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.63%) RESTful
2 1 (2.63%) SAML
2 1 (2.63%) Spring
2 1 (2.63%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.63%) TypeORM
2 1 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.89%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (5.26%) PKI
4 1 (2.63%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.63%) CMDB
4 1 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.63%) Digital Signage
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (2.63%) Graphic Design
4 1 (2.63%) NHS
4 1 (2.63%) Photography
4 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.63%) Social Media
4 1 (2.63%) Video Editing
4 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.63%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Linux
2 4 (10.53%) Windows
3 3 (7.89%) Unix
4 1 (2.63%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.63%) Solaris
4 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (39.47%) Agile
2 7 (18.42%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (15.79%) Data Modelling
3 6 (15.79%) DevOps
4 5 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (13.16%) Decision-Making
4 5 (13.16%) Mentoring
4 5 (13.16%) Project Management
4 5 (13.16%) Time Management
5 4 (10.53%) Analytics
5 4 (10.53%) Service Delivery
5 4 (10.53%) User Experience
6 3 (7.89%) Coaching
6 3 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (7.89%) ITIL
6 3 (7.89%) Kanban
6 3 (7.89%) PRINCE2
6 3 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (7.89%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.05%) SQL
2 7 (18.42%) Python
3 3 (7.89%) JavaScript
3 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.26%) Bash
4 2 (5.26%) C#
4 2 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (5.26%) Java
5 1 (2.63%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (2.63%) Bicep
5 1 (2.63%) Perl
5 1 (2.63%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) Degree
2 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) CCNA
3 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.63%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.26%) GDPR
3 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.63%) PMO
3 1 (2.63%) QA
3 1 (2.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.63%) Docker
1 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.63%) KVM
1 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (2.63%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) Grafana
2 2 (5.26%) Ansible
2 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.26%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.63%) HAProxy
3 1 (2.63%) Kibana
3 1 (2.63%) Kustomize
3 1 (2.63%) logstash
3 1 (2.63%) Nagios
3 1 (2.63%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (2.63%) SCCM
3 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.16%) Oracle
3 2 (5.26%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.63%) Cisco
4 1 (2.63%) Commvault
4 1 (2.63%) F5
4 1 (2.63%) Facebook
4 1 (2.63%) Instagram
4 1 (2.63%) NetApp
4 1 (2.63%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.63%) Twitter