Disclosure Scotland Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Disclosure Scotland
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Disclosure Scotland skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 33 25
Rank change year-on-year -22 -8 +7
Contract jobs citing Disclosure Scotland 60 98 185
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.74% 5.53% 7.78%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.20% 28.82% 41.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 74 124
10th Percentile £200 £152 £158
25th Percentile £406 £213 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -2.78% -3.23%
75th Percentile £538 £494 £533
90th Percentile £600 £550 £578
UK median daily rate £457 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +4.46% -2.78% -5.66%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 283 340 445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.62% 19.19% 18.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 218 318
10th Percentile £206 £189 £200
25th Percentile £400 £319 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £444 £467
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% -4.98% -2.51%
75th Percentile £537 £496 £538
90th Percentile £588 £586 £588
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 3
10th Percentile £13.28 - £22.03
25th Percentile £14.80 £13.52 £35.33
Median hourly rate £35.00 £14.98 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +133.64% -75.03% +242.86%
75th Percentile £61.56 £15.23 £62.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £29.32 £62.30
UK median hourly rate £27.54 £26.68 £39.60
% change year-on-year +3.22% -32.63% +52.31%

Disclosure Scotland
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Disclosure Scotland job vacancy trend in Scotland

Disclosure Scotland
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Disclosure Scotland
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disclosure Scotland in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Disclosure Scotland in Scotland

Disclosure Scotland
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Disclosure Scotland
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 Disclosure Scotland within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 November 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 -8 41 £450 +2.86% 17
Glasgow -8 17 £485 +3.25% 4
West Lothian 0 2 £525 +87.50%
Disclosure Scotland
UK

Disclosure Scotland
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.33%) CMS
3 1 (1.67%) Apache
3 1 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.67%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.67%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.00%) Power Platform
2 8 (13.33%) Azure
3 6 (10.00%) AWS
4 5 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (5.00%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (3.33%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.33%) Serverless
7 1 (1.67%) GitHub
7 1 (1.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.00%) Firewall
2 3 (5.00%) HTTP
3 2 (3.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (3.33%) DNS
3 2 (3.33%) IPsec
3 2 (3.33%) LAN
3 2 (3.33%) SD-WAN
3 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.33%) VPN
3 2 (3.33%) WAN
3 2 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.67%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.67%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.67%) Internet
4 1 (1.67%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.67%) MQTT
4 1 (1.67%) Network Security
4 1 (1.67%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.00%) Power BI
2 3 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.33%) MariaDB
3 2 (3.33%) MySQL
3 2 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (3.33%) Power Query
3 2 (3.33%) Redis
3 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.67%) CockroachDB
4 1 (1.67%) Metadata
4 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.67%) NewSQL
4 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.67%) OLTP
4 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Git
1 3 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.33%) webpack
3 1 (1.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.67%) JIRA
3 1 (1.67%) MLflow
3 1 (1.67%) Selenium
3 1 (1.67%) WebDriver
General
1 25 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 15 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 8 (13.33%) Finance
5 5 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Digital Health
7 2 (3.33%) Local Government
8 1 (1.67%) Back Office
8 1 (1.67%) Banking
8 1 (1.67%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.67%) Legal
8 1 (1.67%) Marketing
8 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (13.33%) Developer
2 6 (10.00%) Analyst
2 6 (10.00%) Lead
3 4 (6.67%) Senior
4 3 (5.00%) Architect
4 3 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (5.00%) Service Manager
5 2 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) Business Analyst
5 2 (3.33%) Data Analyst
5 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Officer
5 2 (3.33%) Field Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) Information Governance Officer
5 2 (3.33%) Information Officer
5 2 (3.33%) Network Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) Network Field Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) PMO Lead
5 2 (3.33%) Project Manager
5 2 (3.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 2 (3.33%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.00%) REST
2 5 (8.33%) RESTful
3 4 (6.67%) OAuth
4 3 (5.00%) CSS
4 3 (5.00%) FastAPI
4 3 (5.00%) HTML
4 3 (5.00%) Node.js
4 3 (5.00%) PyTorch
5 2 (3.33%) AWS CDK
5 2 (3.33%) boto
5 2 (3.33%) CSS3
5 2 (3.33%) HTML5
5 2 (3.33%) Hugging Face
5 2 (3.33%) JWT
5 2 (3.33%) NumPy
5 2 (3.33%) Pandas
5 2 (3.33%) React
5 2 (3.33%) Redux
5 2 (3.33%) SOAP
5 2 (3.33%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.00%) Freedom of Information
2 3 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (5.00%) NHS
3 2 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.33%) PKI
3 2 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (3.33%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.33%) Web Conferencing
4 1 (1.67%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.67%) Graphic Design
4 1 (1.67%) Photography
4 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.67%) Social Media
4 1 (1.67%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.33%) Linux
2 7 (11.67%) Windows
3 4 (6.67%) Unix
4 3 (5.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.67%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (41.67%) Agile
2 11 (18.33%) Project Management
3 10 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 10 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (11.67%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (11.67%) CI/CD
5 7 (11.67%) DevOps
5 7 (11.67%) Mentoring
5 7 (11.67%) Risk Management
6 6 (10.00%) Analytics
6 6 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (10.00%) Data Analysis
6 6 (10.00%) Data Protection
6 6 (10.00%) PRINCE2
6 6 (10.00%) Project Delivery
6 6 (10.00%) Roadmaps
6 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (10.00%) Visualisation
7 5 (8.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.00%) Python
2 8 (13.33%) SQL
3 7 (11.67%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.67%) Java
4 4 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 4 (6.67%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (3.33%) C#
6 2 (3.33%) Search Processing Language
6 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.67%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (1.67%) Bash
7 1 (1.67%) Bicep
7 1 (1.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (3.33%) CCNA
2 2 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.67%) HND
3 1 (1.67%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) Accessibility
2 6 (10.00%) GDPR
3 4 (6.67%) QA
4 2 (3.33%) PMO
5 1 (1.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (8.33%) Grafana
1 5 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.00%) Terraform
3 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.33%) SCCM
4 1 (1.67%) Ansible
4 1 (1.67%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.67%) Kibana
4 1 (1.67%) Kustomize
4 1 (1.67%) logstash
4 1 (1.67%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.67%) Oracle
3 3 (5.00%) Cisco
3 3 (5.00%) F5
3 3 (5.00%) Splunk
4 2 (3.33%) ArcSight
4 2 (3.33%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.67%) Avaya
5 1 (1.67%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.67%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.67%) Facebook
5 1 (1.67%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.67%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.67%) Instagram
5 1 (1.67%) Okta
5 1 (1.67%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.67%) Remedy
5 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.67%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.67%) Twitter