Records Management Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Records Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Records Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 117 128
Rank change year-on-year +5 +11 +46
Contract jobs citing Records Management 7 3 8
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.44% 0.16% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.19% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £266 £315 -
25th Percentile £272 £338 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £400 £406
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% -1.54% -26.14%
75th Percentile £297 £450 £439
90th Percentile £299 £465 £476
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £511
% change year-on-year +11.11% -11.98% -5.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Records Management 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 1,436 1,587 2,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 90.09% 86.34% 91.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 798 923 1,362
10th Percentile £259 £211 £230
25th Percentile £391 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £575
90th Percentile £625 £670 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 41 53
10th Percentile £15.29 £12.50 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.22 £13.16
Median hourly rate £20.00 £21.59 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -7.36% +14.05% +0.96%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £41.16 £44.04 £77.15
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £38.75 £43.17
% change year-on-year -35.29% -10.23% +28.85%

Records Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Records Management job vacancy trend in Scotland

Records Management
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Records Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Records Management

Records Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Records Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Records Management

Records Management
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 Records Management within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 23 October 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 +13 5 - - 2
Glasgow -6 2 £288 -4.17%
Records Management
UK

Records Management
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 2 (28.57%) Alfresco
1 2 (28.57%) Apache Solr
2 1 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) FileNet
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MySQL
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Information Governance Officer
1 2 (28.57%) Information Officer
2 1 (14.29%) Governance Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Information Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Information Governance Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Portfolio Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
1 3 (42.86%) Information Governance
1 3 (42.86%) Workflow
2 2 (28.57%) Content Management
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Content Management
2 2 (28.57%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) CRM
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Data Validation
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Email Migration
3 1 (14.29%) ERP
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
3 1 (14.29%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (14.29%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) IBM
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft