Onboarding Contracts in Scotland

Onboarding
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding 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 97 104 143
Rank change year-on-year +7 +39 +6
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 19 25 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.17% 1.13% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.07% 3.42% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 13
10th Percentile £209 £311 -
25th Percentile £363 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £429
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +16.55% -10.16%
75th Percentile £510 £609 £550
90th Percentile £704 £731 £670
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.25
Median hourly rate £13.90 £12.30 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.01% -33.51% +60.87%
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £20.25 £44.00
% change year-on-year +39.51% -53.98% +120.00%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Onboarding falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 618 732 1,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.03% 33.02% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 426 712
10th Percentile £221 £203 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £560
90th Percentile £600 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 36 23
10th Percentile - £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%
75th Percentile £24.66 £38.25 £28.81
90th Percentile £42.00 £60.38 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Onboarding in Scotland

Onboarding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Onboarding in Scotland

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Onboarding in Scotland

Onboarding
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Onboarding in Scotland

Onboarding
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 Onboarding 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 +11 12 £475 -28.30% 49
Glasgow +5 5 £725 +54.26% 16
Perthshire -1 2 £375 -21.05%
Onboarding
UK

Onboarding
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 6 (31.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (15.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.26%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) OCI
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle CX
2 3 (15.79%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
2 3 (15.79%) PowerApps
3 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.26%) Asana
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) MariaDB
1 2 (10.53%) MySQL
1 2 (10.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
General
1 10 (52.63%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Analyst
2 2 (10.53%) Business Analyst
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Financial Analyst
2 2 (10.53%) Head of Engineering
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle Analyst
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle Business Analyst
2 2 (10.53%) Splunk Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Business Analytics Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Consultant
3 1 (5.26%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (5.26%) Incident Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Major Incident Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Portfolio Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Power Platform Consultant
3 1 (5.26%) Project Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Technical Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) Middleware
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (10.53%) Spring
2 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Clustering
1 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Mainframe
1 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Low-Code
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Unix
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) CRM
2 6 (31.58%) ERP
2 6 (31.58%) Human Resource Management
2 6 (31.58%) SOA
3 4 (21.05%) Analytics
3 4 (21.05%) Business Analytics
3 4 (21.05%) DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) Agile
4 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (10.53%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
5 2 (10.53%) High Availability
5 2 (10.53%) Human-Centred Design
5 2 (10.53%) Mentoring
5 2 (10.53%) Microservices
5 2 (10.53%) Risk Management
5 2 (10.53%) Runbook
5 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering
5 2 (10.53%) Task Automation
5 2 (10.53%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Java
2 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) CyberArk
2 2 (10.53%) Splunk
2 2 (10.53%) Thycotic