RDF Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Resource Description Framework (RDF)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring RDF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RDF 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.067% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £540 £463 -
% change year-on-year +16.76% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

RDF 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 1,276 1,456 2,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 85.87% 90.83% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 707 859 1,267
10th Percentile £233 £227 £259
25th Percentile £400 £364 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £653 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 44 76
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.30 £12.15
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £16.19
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.30 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.14% +19.46% +12.54%
75th Percentile £28.15 £24.18 £59.27
90th Percentile £60.92 £40.10 £74.38
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £36.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -10.55% +16.41%

RDF
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

RDF job vacancy trend in Scotland

RDF
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing RDF

RDF
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 RDF within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 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
Glasgow - 1 - - 3
RDF
UK

RDF
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 1 (100.00%) Amazon Neptune
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SPARQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle