Digital Identity Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Digital Identity
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Digital Identity skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 111 141
Rank change year-on-year -3 +30 +30
Contract jobs citing Digital Identity 1 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.062% 0.21% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.068% 0.25% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £459 £553
25th Percentile - £502 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £594 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.92% +3.26% -2.13%
75th Percentile - £677 £588
90th Percentile - £713 -
UK median daily rate £484 £750 £566
% change year-on-year -35.53% +32.45% -3.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Digital Identity falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,472 1,631 2,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.37% 86.48% 92.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 809 982 1,444
10th Percentile £258 £205 £250
25th Percentile £388 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £613 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 47 57
10th Percentile £16.67 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.07 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.97 £19.59 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +2.14% -3.38%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £59.03
90th Percentile £44.64 £43.12 £75.45
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +47.06%

Digital Identity
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Digital Identity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Identity in Scotland

Digital Identity
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Digital Identity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Digital Identity

Digital Identity
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Identity within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh -2 1 £523 -11.92% 2
Digital Identity
UK

Digital Identity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) ForgeRock Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Compliance Audit
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) PSD2
1 1 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ForgeRock
1 1 (100.00%) Ping Identity