ISEB Contract Job Trends 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 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 108 138
Rank change year-on-year -5 +30 +29
Contract jobs citing ISEB 5 3 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.31% 0.16% 0.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.24% 0.66% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile £404 £421 £352
25th Percentile £409 £433 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £469 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +10.29% -5.56%
75th Percentile £494 £508 £438
90th Percentile £573 £522 £443
UK median daily rate £450 £423 £495
% change year-on-year +6.51% -14.65% +10.00%

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 402 452 603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 25.11% 24.27% 24.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 290 374
10th Percentile £175 £177 £218
25th Percentile £313 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +2.15%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £576
90th Percentile £603 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 21 18
10th Percentile £16.84 £12.30 £41.25
25th Percentile £19.34 £13.50 £51.86
Median hourly rate £19.69 £18.00 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year +9.39% -69.51% +31.18%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.17 £76.94
90th Percentile £26.06 £52.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £49.50 £54.44
% change year-on-year -49.19% -9.08% +20.98%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing ISEB

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISEB in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISEB in Scotland

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Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing ISEB

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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 17 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 +5 3 £425 -9.33% 1
Glasgow - 2 £513 - 1
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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 (60.00%) SaaS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) IaaS
2 2 (40.00%) PaaS
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (40.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) Postman
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
1 2 (40.00%) TeamCity
1 2 (40.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (20.00%) TestComplete
2 1 (20.00%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (20.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) ATDD
2 2 (40.00%) BDD
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Feature Driven Development
2 2 (40.00%) Kanban
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) SOA
2 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
2 2 (40.00%) V-Model
2 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) C++
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (40.00%) VBA
2 2 (40.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (60.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) HND
3 1 (20.00%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR