Onboarding Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Onboarding
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding over the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 61 79
Rank change year-on-year +19 +18 +34
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 19 10 3
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.23% 1.56% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.52% 4.26% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 1
10th Percentile £153 £184 -
25th Percentile £175 £200 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £361 £298 £700
Median % change year-on-year +21.04% -57.39% +75.00%
75th Percentile £500 £349 £725
90th Percentile £536 £419 -
Scotland median daily rate £500 £375 £700
% change year-on-year +33.33% -46.43% +69.70%

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

Onboarding falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 223 235 323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 37.93% 36.55% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 114 157
10th Percentile £151 £192 £281
25th Percentile £260 £366 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £510 £538 £550
90th Percentile £571 £613 £625
Scotland median daily rate £447 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -0.67% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 15 7
10th Percentile £14.35 £19.90 £14.41
25th Percentile £15.69 £22.36 £16.99
Median hourly rate £23.75 £23.59 £22.87
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% +3.15% +0.82%
75th Percentile £63.75 £24.18 £47.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £26.70 £60.60
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £18.59
% change year-on-year +6.61% +26.90% -5.87%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Onboarding job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Onboarding
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Onboarding.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Onboarding

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Onboarding in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Onboarding in Edinburgh

Onboarding
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 3 (15.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) AWS
3 3 (15.79%) GCP
3 3 (15.79%) SaaS
4 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
4 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 2 (10.53%) Snowflake
5 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Google Workspace
5 1 (5.26%) OCI
5 1 (5.26%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) LAN
1 1 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Metadata
1 2 (10.53%) Power BI
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle APEX
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Forms
General
1 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Finance
3 5 (26.32%) Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Retail Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Mandarin Language
5 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (15.79%) Analyst
1 3 (15.79%) IT Support
1 3 (15.79%) IT Support Specialist
1 3 (15.79%) Support Specialist
2 2 (10.53%) Administrator
2 2 (10.53%) Data Analyst
2 2 (10.53%) Developer
2 2 (10.53%) IT Manager
2 2 (10.53%) Mac Specialist
3 1 (5.26%) DBA
3 1 (5.26%) HR Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Integration Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Network Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle HRMS Project Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Portfolio Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Senior Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Senior Sourcing Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Sourcing Manager
3 1 (5.26%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) RESTful
2 1 (5.26%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) JSON
2 1 (5.26%) OAuth
2 1 (5.26%) OAuth2
2 1 (5.26%) OpenID
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (5.26%) SailPoint
2 1 (5.26%) SAML
2 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Mac OS
2 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.26%) Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Data Protection
2 4 (21.05%) Agile
3 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (15.79%) Decision-Making
3 3 (15.79%) DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) Migration
3 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (15.79%) Workflow
4 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
4 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis
4 2 (10.53%) Data Architecture
4 2 (10.53%) Data Discovery
4 2 (10.53%) Data Integration
4 2 (10.53%) Data Modelling
4 2 (10.53%) Pair Programming
4 2 (10.53%) RBAC
4 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
4 2 (10.53%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Python
1 4 (21.05%) SQL
2 3 (15.79%) Java
3 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.26%) BeanShell
4 1 (5.26%) C#
4 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) HND
1 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
1 1 (5.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) GDPR
2 3 (15.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.26%) PMO
3 1 (5.26%) PSD2
3 1 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) vRealize
2 1 (5.26%) Data Guard
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle ZFS
2 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.26%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Apple
2 2 (10.53%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco
3 1 (5.26%) Delphix
3 1 (5.26%) ForgeRock
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) Meraki
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Ping Identity
3 1 (5.26%) Red Hat