Taxonomies Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Taxonomy
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Taxonomies in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Taxonomies over the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 116 111
Rank change year-on-year -13 -5 +37
Contract jobs citing Taxonomies 9 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.38% 0.063% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.94% 0.15% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £421 - -
25th Percentile £454 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 - -
75th Percentile £564 - -
90th Percentile £633 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £494 £530
% change year-on-year +11.45% -6.89% +14.59%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Taxonomies 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 959 651 649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.06% 40.99% 34.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 323 392
10th Percentile £225 £181 £205
25th Percentile £363 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £460
Median % change year-on-year - -2.17% -8.00%
75th Percentile £543 £538 £588
90th Percentile £650 £600 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £538
% change year-on-year +1.92% -4.26% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 28 26
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.85 £12.30
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.30 £14.68
Median hourly rate £32.00 £21.86 £19.30
Median % change year-on-year +46.39% +13.29% +0.60%
75th Percentile £43.96 £28.49 £24.08
90th Percentile £68.25 £60.75 £34.11
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £29.33 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.86% -41.34% +12.36%

Taxonomies
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Taxonomies job vacancy trend in Scotland

Taxonomies
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Taxonomies

Taxonomies
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Taxonomies in Scotland over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Taxonomies in Scotland

Taxonomies
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Taxonomies

Taxonomies
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 Taxonomies within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 23 September 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 - 8 £467 - 11
Taxonomies
UK

Taxonomies
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 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Anthropic Claude
1 3 (33.33%) ChatGPT
1 3 (33.33%) Collibra
1 3 (33.33%) GitHub
1 3 (33.33%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
2 3 (33.33%) Git
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Data Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Agile Coach
3 1 (11.11%) Business Data Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Business Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Business Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Classification Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Data Modeller
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Project Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 3 (33.33%) JSON
1 3 (33.33%) pydantic
1 3 (33.33%) REST
1 3 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Data Management
2 5 (55.56%) Metadata Management
2 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (44.44%) Regulatory Change
3 4 (44.44%) Waterfall
4 3 (33.33%) AI
4 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (33.33%) Data Lineage
4 3 (33.33%) Data Mapping
4 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 3 (33.33%) Model Validation
4 3 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (33.33%) Service Design
4 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 3 (33.33%) User Stories
4 3 (33.33%) Validation
4 3 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
5 2 (22.22%) User Journey Map
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) GRC
2 1 (11.11%) MiFID
2 1 (11.11%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Databricks
1 1 (11.11%) Informatica
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft