ISEB Contracts in Scotland

Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for ISEB qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 122 160
Rank change year-on-year +12 +38 +5
Contract jobs citing ISEB 6 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 0.32% 0.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.87% 1.16% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 3
10th Percentile £308 £378 £284
25th Percentile £308 £400 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £469 £380
Median % change year-on-year -14.67% +23.36% -9.25%
75th Percentile - £538 £462
90th Percentile £483 £550 £511
UK median daily rate £410 £460 £460
% change year-on-year -10.86% -0.01% +2.22%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

ISEB falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Scotland.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 321 606 591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 19.75% 27.33% 20.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 326 408
10th Percentile £200 £188 £163
25th Percentile £363 £346 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £550 £600 £538
90th Percentile £600 £675 £632
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 47 14
10th Percentile £17.01 £12.95 £13.65
25th Percentile £19.73 £16.50 £15.99
Median hourly rate £22.88 £40.94 £21.47
Median % change year-on-year -44.13% +90.73% -49.57%
75th Percentile £28.07 £60.00 £57.90
90th Percentile £61.16 £64.70 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for ISEB in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for ISEB in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISEB in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISEB in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for ISEB in Scotland

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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 ISEB within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +3 4 £400 -21.95%
Glasgow +3 1 £316 -15.87%
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UK

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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 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) IaaS
1 3 (50.00%) PaaS
1 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (50.00%) PowerApps
1 3 (50.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
1 3 (50.00%) Postman
1 3 (50.00%) Selenium
1 3 (50.00%) Subversion
1 3 (50.00%) TeamCity
1 3 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) QA Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Release Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 3 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) ATDD
2 3 (50.00%) BDD
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Feature Driven Development
2 3 (50.00%) Kanban
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Project Management
2 3 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) SOA
2 3 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (50.00%) TDD
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Validation
2 3 (50.00%) V-Model
2 3 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (33.33%) Release Management
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
1 3 (50.00%) C++
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
1 3 (50.00%) VBA
1 3 (50.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) PMO