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 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 98 112
Rank change year-on-year 0 +14 +24
Contract jobs citing Knowledge Transfer 24 20 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.39% 1.05% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.21% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 32
10th Percentile - £420 £271
25th Percentile £450 £450 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% -7.77%
75th Percentile £576 £575 £506
90th Percentile £607 - £566
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £24.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - +36.46% +11.73%
UK median hourly rate £33.54 £24.22 £19.39
% change year-on-year +38.47% +24.93% +23.16%

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 1,581 1,653 2,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.76% 87.00% 91.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 881 1,016 1,627
10th Percentile £263 £208 £249
25th Percentile £375 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £540 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 59 55
10th Percentile £16.59 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.25 £13.16
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +3.49% -29.50%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £56.25
90th Percentile £28.19 £54.00 £64.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.41 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.77% -4.91% +61.02%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 +15 16 £463 +2.78% 6
Glasgow -12 5 £590 -12.59% 4
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 (4.17%) SharePoint
1 1 (4.17%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) AWS
1 4 (16.67%) Azure
1 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (8.33%) GitHub
2 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (8.33%) OCI
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.17%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (4.17%) AWS CodeCommit
3 1 (4.17%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (4.17%) AWS KMS
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) MySQL
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) CircleCI
1 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Forms
General
1 15 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
3 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (25.00%) Finance
5 1 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Consultant
1 7 (29.17%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Migration Consultant
3 4 (16.67%) Network Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Lead
5 2 (8.33%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) React Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Senior .NET Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior React Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Solutions Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Applications Support Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Business Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Development Team Leader
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (8.33%) .NET Core
2 2 (8.33%) .NET Framework
2 2 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (8.33%) Ajax
2 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (8.33%) CSS
2 2 (8.33%) Entity Framework
2 2 (8.33%) HTML
2 2 (8.33%) JMS
2 2 (8.33%) Middleware
2 2 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (8.33%) React
2 2 (8.33%) Spring
2 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.17%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Product Ownership
2 4 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (16.67%) Wiki
3 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) AIX
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) DevOps
2 8 (33.33%) Agile
3 6 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (20.83%) Migration
5 4 (16.67%) Code Quality
5 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 4 (16.67%) Data Management
5 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.67%) SDLC
5 4 (16.67%) User Experience
5 4 (16.67%) Wealth Management
6 3 (12.50%) Business Analysis
6 3 (12.50%) Case Management
6 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (12.50%) Data Migration
6 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (8.33%) TDD
7 2 (8.33%) Time Management
7 2 (8.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (12.50%) TypeScript
3 2 (8.33%) Java
3 2 (8.33%) PL/SQL
3 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (8.33%) SQL
4 1 (4.17%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (8.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) Grafana
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (8.33%) VMware
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft