PSD2 Contract Job Trends in Scotland

EU Revised Directive on Payment Services (PSD2)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring PSD2 skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 - 143
Rank change year-on-year - - +33
Contract jobs citing PSD2 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.062% - 0.083%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.37% - 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 - £429
75th Percentile - - £444
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £474 £500 £429
% change year-on-year -5.20% +16.55% -50.97%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

PSD2 falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 269 352 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.70% 18.66% 20.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 215 358
10th Percentile £223 £183 £200
25th Percentile £400 £315 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year - -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £537 £523 £529
90th Percentile £575 £600 £588
UK median daily rate £500 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% -4.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 18 5
10th Percentile £14.05 - £13.70
25th Percentile £15.77 £13.52 £14.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £14.98 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +133.64% -31.13% +15.08%
75th Percentile £61.56 £15.23 £47.73
90th Percentile £71.50 £26.86 £56.59
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year +9.09% -22.54% +57.78%

PSD2
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing PSD2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for PSD2 in Scotland

PSD2
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PSD2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PSD2

PSD2
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 PSD2 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 September 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 - 1 £523 -
PSD2
UK

PSD2
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) ForgeRock Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Compliance Audit
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Identity
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ForgeRock
1 1 (100.00%) Ping Identity