NCDA Contract Job Trends in Scotland

NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator (NCDA)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for NCDA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NCDA 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.13% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.59% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £463 £538 -
% change year-on-year -13.95% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

NCDA 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 340 361 700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.93% 22.44% 30.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 208 376
10th Percentile £193 £173 £189
25th Percentile £358 £363 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +9.17%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £659 £656 £688
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.24% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 23 41
10th Percentile £17.23 £17.10 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.23 £20.97 £22.25
Median hourly rate £19.38 £23.00 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year -15.74% -59.22% +184.13%
75th Percentile £28.15 £31.44 £62.50
90th Percentile £78.12 £69.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £39.52 £47.75
% change year-on-year -36.36% -17.24% +6.11%

NCDA
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NCDA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

NCDA job vacancy trend in Scotland

NCDA
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing NCDA

NCDA
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 NCDA within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 23 January 2026. 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 - 1 £450 - 1
Glasgow - 1 £475 -
NCDA
UK

NCDA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) BCP
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) VCP6
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (50.00%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) vMotion
1 2 (100.00%) vRealize
2 1 (50.00%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Brocade
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Commvault
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
1 2 (100.00%) VMware