Impact Assessments Contracts in Scotland

Impact Assessments
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Impact Assessments skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Impact Assessments over the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 98 126
Rank change year-on-year +5 +28 +18
Contract jobs citing Impact Assessments 28 24 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.61% 1.19% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.36% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 17 30
10th Percentile £278 £186 £167
25th Percentile £315 £318 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% -2.86% -7.89%
75th Percentile £563 £488 £497
90th Percentile £575 £560 £504
UK median daily rate £540 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +8.00% -4.76% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Impact Assessments 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 1,598 1,764 2,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 92.05% 87.33% 92.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 902 1,097 1,731
10th Percentile £250 £213 £250
25th Percentile £367 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £626
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 67 56
10th Percentile £16.59 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.30 £13.82 £13.15
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £18.33
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +6.90% -51.04%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £49.24
90th Percentile £28.19 £60.75 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £42.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -10.31% +60.38%

Impact Assessments
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Impact Assessments as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Impact Assessments in Scotland

Impact Assessments
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Impact Assessments in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Impact Assessments in Scotland

Impact Assessments
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Impact Assessments in Scotland over the 6 months to 21 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Impact Assessments in Scotland

Impact Assessments
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Impact Assessments in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Impact Assessments in Scotland

Impact Assessments
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 Impact Assessments within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
Glasgow -9 15 £375 +8.70% 4
Edinburgh +2 7 £438 +2.94% 6
Aberdeen - 2 - -
Lanarkshire - 1 £525 - 1
Impact Assessments
UK

Impact Assessments
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (17.86%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (7.14%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (10.71%) Amazon S3
2 3 (10.71%) AWS
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (7.14%) Serverless
3 2 (7.14%) Snowflake
3 2 (7.14%) Yammer
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub
4 1 (3.57%) IaaS
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (3.57%) PaaS
4 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.57%) Parquet
2 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (7.14%) Toad
General
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Banking
2 7 (25.00%) Finance
3 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.71%) Back Office
4 3 (10.71%) Investment Banking
5 2 (7.14%) Military
5 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.57%) Legal
6 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Analyst
2 5 (17.86%) Business Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Information Governance Specialist
3 3 (10.71%) Information Specialist
3 3 (10.71%) Lead
3 3 (10.71%) Senior
3 3 (10.71%) Support Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Applications Support
4 2 (7.14%) Applications Support Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Business Systems Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Change Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Developer
4 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Report Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 2 (7.14%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Development Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) Kafka
1 2 (7.14%) Middleware
2 1 (3.57%) .NET
2 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.57%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.57%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (3.57%) Ajax
2 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.57%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.57%) CSS
2 1 (3.57%) Entity Framework
2 1 (3.57%) HTML
2 1 (3.57%) JMS
2 1 (3.57%) JSON
2 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.71%) Operational Technology
3 2 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.14%) Social Media
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.57%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) AIX
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Agile
2 9 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (21.43%) Change Management
4 5 (17.86%) User Stories
5 4 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
5 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 4 (14.29%) DevOps
5 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (14.29%) Use Case
6 3 (10.71%) Business Case
6 3 (10.71%) Coaching
6 3 (10.71%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (10.71%) Decision-Making
6 3 (10.71%) Due Diligence
6 3 (10.71%) Incident Response
6 3 (10.71%) Regulatory Change
6 3 (10.71%) SDLC
6 3 (10.71%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) SQL
2 3 (10.71%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (10.71%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) IBM
2 2 (7.14%) StreamSets
2 2 (7.14%) Sun
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle
3 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.57%) VMware
3 1 (3.57%) Workday