UAG Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring UAG skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing UAG 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.13% - -
As % of the System Software category 1.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £700 £488 £650
% change year-on-year +43.59% -25.00% +44.44%

All System Software Skills
Scotland

UAG falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 251 139 222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 10.63% 8.58% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 78 166
10th Percentile £205 £209 £186
25th Percentile £375 £407 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -10.90%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £500
90th Percentile £650 £588 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 6
10th Percentile £13.97 - £15.70
25th Percentile £14.43 £23.13 £18.55
Median hourly rate £15.81 £23.75 £22.23
Median % change year-on-year -33.43% +6.83% -60.48%
75th Percentile - £24.38 £24.18
90th Percentile £75.00 - £49.59
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £33.39 £24.35
% change year-on-year +87.21% +37.10% -51.30%

UAG
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

UAG job vacancy trend in Scotland

UAG
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing UAG

UAG
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 UAG within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 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
South Lanarkshire - 2 - -
Glasgow - 1 - - 1
UAG
UK

UAG
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 (66.67%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Application Virtualisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) ITSM
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Management
2 2 (66.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) vSphere
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft