Regulatory Change Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Regulatory Change
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Regulatory Change skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 111 137
Rank change year-on-year +12 +26 +22
Contract jobs citing Regulatory Change 6 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.39% 0.43% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.47% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 3
10th Percentile - £495 £398
25th Percentile £415 - £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £467
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +17.77% +6.74%
75th Percentile £525 £579 £476
90th Percentile £555 £622 -
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £625
% change year-on-year -5.00% -20.00% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

Regulatory Change 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 1,305 1,481 2,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 85.35% 91.31% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 712 877 1,302
10th Percentile £232 £227 £263
25th Percentile £381 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £674 £627 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 43 80
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.23 £11.99
25th Percentile £17.23 £20.62 £16.19
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +12.54%
75th Percentile £43.30 £24.18 £60.19
90th Percentile £64.00 £40.90 £73.88
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%

Regulatory Change
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Regulatory Change job vacancy trend in Scotland

Regulatory Change
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Regulatory Change.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Regulatory Change

Regulatory Change
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Regulatory Change in Scotland over the 6 months to 5 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Regulatory Change in Scotland

Regulatory Change
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 Regulatory Change within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 5 February 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 +3 5 £440 -20.00%
Edinburgh - 1 £525 - 2
Regulatory Change
UK

Regulatory Change
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 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) git-flow
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Scrum Master
2 1 (16.67%) Agile Coach
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
1 1 (16.67%) Express.js
1 1 (16.67%) Jest
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) NestJS
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) Redux
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Credit Risk
2 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (50.00%) Coaching
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
4 2 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
5 1 (16.67%) Agile Coaching
5 1 (16.67%) Business Process Modelling
5 1 (16.67%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 1 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Kanban
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Basel III
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow