Knowledge Transfer Contracts in Scotland

Knowledge Transfer
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Knowledge Transfer skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Knowledge Transfer 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 94 93 130
Rank change year-on-year -1 +37 +1
Contract jobs citing Knowledge Transfer 22 36 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.35% 1.62% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 1.83% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 25 27
10th Percentile £413 £260 £345
25th Percentile £441 £410 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.53% -5.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £555
90th Percentile £735 £573 £602
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £530
% change year-on-year +4.76% -0.94% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £24.26 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - +36.88% +11.73%
UK median hourly rate £37.04 £50.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +194.12% +7.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Knowledge Transfer 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 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Knowledge Transfer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Knowledge Transfer in Scotland

Knowledge Transfer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Knowledge Transfer in Scotland

Knowledge Transfer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Knowledge Transfer in Scotland

Knowledge Transfer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Knowledge Transfer in Scotland

Knowledge Transfer
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 Knowledge Transfer 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
Glasgow +8 12 £581 +4.59% 3
Edinburgh -8 9 £438 -7.89% 9
Knowledge Transfer
UK

Knowledge Transfer
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 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) AWS
2 7 (31.82%) Azure
3 6 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.55%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) BGP
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
1 1 (4.55%) LAN
1 1 (4.55%) OSPF
1 1 (4.55%) VPN
1 1 (4.55%) WAN
1 1 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) MySQL
2 3 (13.64%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
1 1 (4.55%) TestRail
General
1 19 (86.36%) Public Sector
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Developer
2 7 (31.82%) .NET Developer
3 6 (27.27%) Lead
4 4 (18.18%) Lead Developer
4 4 (18.18%) React Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Senior
4 4 (18.18%) Senior Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Senior .NET Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Senior React Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Team Leader
6 2 (9.09%) Head of Engineering
7 1 (4.55%) Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Consultant
7 1 (4.55%) Development Team Leader
7 1 (4.55%) HR Consultant
7 1 (4.55%) Network Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Oracle Consultant
7 1 (4.55%) Oracle HRMS Consultant
7 1 (4.55%) Systems Manager
7 1 (4.55%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) Spring
1 9 (40.91%) Spring Boot
2 7 (31.82%) .NET
3 5 (22.73%) React
4 1 (4.55%) .NET Core
4 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.55%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (4.55%) Ajax
4 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.55%) CSS
4 1 (4.55%) Entity Framework
4 1 (4.55%) HTML
4 1 (4.55%) JMS
4 1 (4.55%) Middleware
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Public Cloud
2 6 (27.27%) Legacy Applications
2 6 (27.27%) Product Ownership
2 6 (27.27%) Wiki
3 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (31.82%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 9 (40.91%) Microservices
2 9 (40.91%) TDD
3 8 (36.36%) DevOps
4 6 (27.27%) Code Quality
4 6 (27.27%) Cost Reduction
4 6 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (27.27%) User Experience
5 5 (22.73%) Agile
6 4 (18.18%) Migration
6 4 (18.18%) SOA
7 2 (9.09%) Human-Centred Design
7 2 (9.09%) Inclusive Design
7 2 (9.09%) Runbook
7 2 (9.09%) Software Engineering
8 1 (4.55%) Business Case
8 1 (4.55%) Case Management
8 1 (4.55%) Conflict Resolution
8 1 (4.55%) Contract Management
8 1 (4.55%) Deployment Diagram
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) JavaScript
2 9 (40.91%) Java
3 6 (27.27%) Shell Script
3 6 (27.27%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.55%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.55%) CCNA
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.55%) PMP
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.55%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco
2 1 (4.55%) Fortinet
2 1 (4.55%) VMware