Onboarding Contract Job Trends 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 16 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 93 114
Rank change year-on-year +26 +21 +40
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 42 20 25
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.72% 1.20% 1.06%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.08% 3.34% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 12 17
10th Percentile £175 £195 £320
25th Percentile £234 £316 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £700
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -46.43% +69.70%
75th Percentile £538 £528 £725
90th Percentile £579 £718 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.13 - -
Median hourly rate £23.75 - -
75th Percentile £24.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £27.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year -22.52% +11.00% -36.71%

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 593 599 868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.46% 35.80% 36.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 327 506
10th Percentile £175 £192 £250
25th Percentile £350 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £596 £651 £700
UK median daily rate £501 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.88% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 23 26
10th Percentile £14.72 £19.60 £15.42
25th Percentile £16.19 £21.30 £16.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% +26.90% -5.87%
75th Percentile £53.13 £24.18 £54.38
90th Percentile £69.67 £40.91 £60.75
UK median hourly rate £27.11 £33.54 £42.50
% change year-on-year -19.19% -21.08% +21.43%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Onboarding job vacancy trend in Scotland

Onboarding
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Onboarding

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Onboarding in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Onboarding in Scotland

Onboarding
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Onboarding

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 16 December 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 +19 19 £361 +21.04% 10
Glasgow +5 17 £525 -23.64% 10
Ayrshire - 2 - - 1
South Lanarkshire - 2 - -
Onboarding
UK

Onboarding
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) iTrent
1 1 (2.38%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.81%) Azure
2 7 (16.67%) AWS
3 5 (11.90%) GCP
4 4 (9.52%) Apigee
5 3 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (7.14%) SaaS
6 2 (4.76%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.76%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.38%) Google Workspace
7 1 (2.38%) Lucidchart
7 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.38%) OCI
7 1 (2.38%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) DHCP
1 4 (9.52%) DNS
1 4 (9.52%) HTTP
1 4 (9.52%) SSL
1 4 (9.52%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.38%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) Metadata
2 2 (4.76%) Power BI
3 1 (2.38%) Big Data
3 1 (2.38%) DB2
3 1 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 4 (9.52%) Git
3 2 (4.76%) GitLab
3 2 (4.76%) Gradle
3 2 (4.76%) JIRA
3 2 (4.76%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle Forms
General
1 20 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 14 (33.33%) Finance
3 10 (23.81%) Banking
4 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
5 4 (9.52%) Retail Banking
6 3 (7.14%) Investment Banking
6 3 (7.14%) Retail
7 2 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.76%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.38%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (19.05%) IT Support
2 7 (16.67%) Developer
3 5 (11.90%) Java Developer
3 5 (11.90%) Support Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Analyst
4 4 (9.52%) Senior
5 3 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 3 (7.14%) IT Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) IT Support Specialist
5 3 (7.14%) Support Specialist
6 2 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) IT Support Technician
6 2 (4.76%) IT Technician
6 2 (4.76%) Mac Specialist
6 2 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Site Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) REST
1 5 (11.90%) RESTful
1 5 (11.90%) SOAP
2 4 (9.52%) AngularJS
3 3 (7.14%) .NET
4 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.38%) J2EE
4 1 (2.38%) JSON
4 1 (2.38%) Kafka
4 1 (2.38%) OAuth
4 1 (2.38%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.38%) OpenID
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.38%) SailPoint
4 1 (2.38%) SAML
4 1 (2.38%) Spring
4 1 (2.38%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.38%) Digital Signage
4 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.29%) Linux
2 5 (11.90%) Unix
3 4 (9.52%) Windows
4 3 (7.14%) Mac OS
5 2 (4.76%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.19%) Agile
2 10 (23.81%) CI/CD
3 8 (19.05%) Migration
4 7 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (14.29%) Data Protection
6 5 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (11.90%) DevOps
6 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (11.90%) Software Engineering
7 3 (7.14%) Decision-Making
7 3 (7.14%) Investment Management
7 3 (7.14%) Mentoring
7 3 (7.14%) Operational Stability
7 3 (7.14%) Problem Management
7 3 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (7.14%) Unit Testing
7 3 (7.14%) Validation
7 3 (7.14%) Wealth Management
7 3 (7.14%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 12 (28.57%) Python
2 10 (23.81%) Java
3 6 (14.29%) Bash
3 6 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 5 (11.90%) SQL
5 4 (9.52%) Perl
6 2 (4.76%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.76%) Rust
6 2 (4.76%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.76%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.38%) BeanShell
7 1 (2.38%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (4.76%) A+ Certification
1 2 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.38%) CIPD
2 1 (2.38%) HND
2 1 (2.38%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.38%) PMP
2 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) Data Quality
1 4 (9.52%) GDPR
2 1 (2.38%) PMO
2 1 (2.38%) PSD2
2 1 (2.38%) QA
2 1 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.76%) Docker
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.76%) Ansible
2 2 (4.76%) Terraform
2 2 (4.76%) vRealize
3 1 (2.38%) Data Guard
3 1 (2.38%) Kibana
3 1 (2.38%) logstash
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle ZFS
3 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.38%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 4 (9.52%) F5
1 4 (9.52%) Infoblox
1 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
1 4 (9.52%) MuleSoft
2 3 (7.14%) Google
2 3 (7.14%) Oracle
3 2 (4.76%) Apple
3 2 (4.76%) SOTI
3 2 (4.76%) VMware
4 1 (2.38%) Cisco
4 1 (2.38%) Delphix
4 1 (2.38%) DocuSign
4 1 (2.38%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.38%) Meraki
4 1 (2.38%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.38%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.38%) SAP
4 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow