Disclosure Scotland Contracts in the UK excluding London

Disclosure Scotland
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Disclosure Scotland skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Disclosure Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 225 242 288
Rank change year-on-year +17 +46 -55
Contract jobs citing Disclosure Scotland 169 236 240
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.82% 0.98% 0.77%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.40% 6.61% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 213 184
10th Percentile £157 £160 £230
25th Percentile £277 £366 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £415
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +14.39% +0.06%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £538
90th Percentile £625 £625 £600
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 2 6
10th Percentile - £21.20 £21.00
25th Percentile - £21.50 £21.01
Median hourly rate £10.95 £22.00 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -50.23% +4.51% -
75th Percentile - £22.50 -
90th Percentile £11.32 £22.80 £22.28
UK median hourly rate £10.95 £22.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -50.23% +4.51% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

Disclosure Scotland is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,130 3,568 4,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.15% 14.80% 14.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,819 2,402 3,071
10th Percentile £252 £213 £200
25th Percentile £363 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £569
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 180 195
10th Percentile £10.95 £12.50 £11.36
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.09 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £35.00 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -48.57% +66.27% +0.24%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £67.38 £77.50 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £20.61 £37.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -45.05% +31.58% +35.71%

Disclosure Scotland
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Disclosure Scotland as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Disclosure Scotland in the UK excluding London

Disclosure Scotland
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Disclosure Scotland in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Disclosure Scotland in the UK excluding London

Disclosure Scotland
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disclosure Scotland in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Disclosure Scotland in the UK excluding London

Disclosure Scotland
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Disclosure Scotland in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Disclosure Scotland in the UK excluding London

Disclosure Scotland
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Disclosure Scotland within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Scotland 0 138 £444 -3.59% 3
North of England +57 30 £550 -6.38% 2
North West +40 29 £500 -20.00% 1
North East +20 2 £660 +5.60%
Yorkshire +19 1 £720 +15.20% 1
South East +17 1 £700 +34.62%
Midlands - 1 £500 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £500 - 2
Disclosure Scotland
UK

Disclosure Scotland
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.14%) Confluence
2 6 (3.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.78%) CMS
4 2 (1.18%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.59%) Apache
5 1 (0.59%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.59%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.59%) JBoss
5 1 (0.59%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.59%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.59%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.59%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.59%) WildFly
Applications
1 30 (17.75%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (12.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (6.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.59%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.59%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.59%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.59%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.59%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.59%) Lectora
Business Applications
1 4 (2.37%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.18%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (1.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 19 (11.24%) AWS
2 17 (10.06%) Azure
3 12 (7.10%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (5.92%) OCI
5 7 (4.14%) Amazon S3
5 7 (4.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (4.14%) SaaS
5 7 (4.14%) Serverless
6 6 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (3.55%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.96%) OpenShift
8 4 (2.37%) IaaS
8 4 (2.37%) PaaS
9 3 (1.78%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.18%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (1.18%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 2 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.18%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.55%) Firewall
2 3 (1.78%) HTTP
2 3 (1.78%) LAN
3 2 (1.18%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (1.18%) DHCP
3 2 (1.18%) DNS
3 2 (1.18%) Internet
3 2 (1.18%) SSL
3 2 (1.18%) VPN
3 2 (1.18%) WLAN
4 1 (0.59%) ATM
4 1 (0.59%) Broadband
4 1 (0.59%) Intranet
4 1 (0.59%) IPsec
4 1 (0.59%) SCCP
4 1 (0.59%) SMTP
4 1 (0.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.33%) Oracle Reports
1 9 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.96%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (2.96%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.78%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (1.78%) Power BI
3 3 (1.78%) Tableau
4 2 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.18%) GIS
4 2 (1.18%) MariaDB
4 2 (1.18%) MySQL
4 2 (1.18%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.59%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.59%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 15 (8.88%) JIRA
2 10 (5.92%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.78%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.18%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.18%) GitLab
4 2 (1.18%) Maven
4 2 (1.18%) Selenium
4 2 (1.18%) Subversion
4 2 (1.18%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.18%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.59%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.59%) Git
5 1 (0.59%) Gradle
5 1 (0.59%) gulp
5 1 (0.59%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.59%) JUnit
5 1 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.59%) Travis CI
General
1 90 (53.25%) Public Sector
2 45 (26.63%) Social Skills
3 19 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.47%) Finance
5 7 (4.14%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (4.14%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.78%) Back Office
8 2 (1.18%) Banking
8 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.59%) Law
9 1 (0.59%) Legal
9 1 (0.59%) Marketing
9 1 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (25.44%) Analyst
2 23 (13.61%) Senior
3 16 (9.47%) Service Analyst
3 16 (9.47%) Service Desk Analyst
4 15 (8.88%) Developer
4 15 (8.88%) Lead
5 13 (7.69%) IT Support
6 12 (7.10%) IT Analyst
7 10 (5.92%) Project Manager
8 9 (5.33%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
8 9 (5.33%) Architect
9 8 (4.73%) Business Analyst
9 8 (4.73%) Designer
10 6 (3.55%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (2.96%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (2.96%) IT Support Analyst
11 5 (2.96%) Support Analyst
12 4 (2.37%) Support Officer
12 4 (2.37%) Technical Architect
13 3 (1.78%) Content Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.33%) REST
2 8 (4.73%) React
3 7 (4.14%) AWS CDK
4 6 (3.55%) .NET
4 6 (3.55%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (2.96%) CSS
5 5 (2.96%) HTML
5 5 (2.96%) OAuth
5 5 (2.96%) Spring
6 4 (2.37%) SOAP
6 4 (2.37%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.78%) OAuth2
7 3 (1.78%) OpenID
7 3 (1.78%) PostGIS
7 3 (1.78%) SAML
7 3 (1.78%) Spring Security
8 2 (1.18%) Middleware
8 2 (1.18%) Node.js
8 2 (1.18%) Spring Web Flow
8 2 (1.18%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.28%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.33%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.73%) PKI
4 4 (2.37%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (2.37%) Wiki
5 3 (1.78%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.18%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.18%) Clustering
6 2 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.18%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.18%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.18%) Video Editing
7 1 (0.59%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.59%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.59%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (21.89%) Windows
2 28 (16.57%) Windows 10
3 7 (4.14%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.55%) Linux
5 4 (2.37%) Unix
6 3 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.18%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.59%) AIX
8 1 (0.59%) Android
8 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.59%) Solaris
8 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (24.85%) Agile
1 42 (24.85%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (19.53%) Customer Service
2 33 (19.53%) Decision-Making
3 28 (16.57%) Time Management
4 20 (11.83%) Project Delivery
4 20 (11.83%) Roadmaps
5 19 (11.24%) Project Management
6 17 (10.06%) DevOps
7 15 (8.88%) CI/CD
8 14 (8.28%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (7.69%) PRINCE2
10 12 (7.10%) ITIL
10 12 (7.10%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (6.51%) Analytics
11 11 (6.51%) Business Case
12 10 (5.92%) Business Analysis
12 10 (5.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (5.92%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (9.47%) Java
2 13 (7.69%) Python
3 12 (7.10%) JavaScript
4 8 (4.73%) SQL
5 7 (4.14%) TypeScript
6 5 (2.96%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.18%) Bash
7 2 (1.18%) C#
7 2 (1.18%) PHP
7 2 (1.18%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.59%) C++
8 1 (0.59%) Go
8 1 (0.59%) Groovy
8 1 (0.59%) Ruby
8 1 (0.59%) VBA
8 1 (0.59%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 34 (20.12%) Security Cleared
2 29 (17.16%) SC Cleared
3 17 (10.06%) Degree
4 10 (5.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.78%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.18%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.18%) CISSP
8 2 (1.18%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.18%) ISEB
8 2 (1.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 2 (1.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 2 (1.18%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.18%) MCP
8 2 (1.18%) MCSE
8 2 (1.18%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.59%) APMP
9 1 (0.59%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 11 (6.51%) SLA
3 8 (4.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (4.14%) QA
5 3 (1.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.78%) GDPR
6 2 (1.18%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (1.18%) NCSC
6 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.59%) COBIT
7 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.59%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.59%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 1 (0.59%) ISO17020
7 1 (0.59%) NIST
7 1 (0.59%) PMO
7 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (6.51%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.55%) Hyper-V
3 5 (2.96%) Docker
4 2 (1.18%) BitLocker
4 2 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.59%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.59%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (4.73%) Ansible
2 7 (4.14%) Grafana
2 7 (4.14%) Terraform
3 5 (2.96%) SCCM
4 3 (1.78%) Packer
5 2 (1.18%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.59%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (0.59%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.59%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.59%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.59%) vMotion
Vendors
1 48 (28.40%) Microsoft
2 22 (13.02%) Oracle
3 5 (2.96%) VMware
4 4 (2.37%) Fortinet
5 3 (1.78%) HP
5 3 (1.78%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.18%) Adobe
6 2 (1.18%) Avaya
6 2 (1.18%) Cisco
6 2 (1.18%) Citrix
6 2 (1.18%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (1.18%) IBM
6 2 (1.18%) Okta
6 2 (1.18%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.18%) Symantec
6 2 (1.18%) Veritas
7 1 (0.59%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.59%) Instagram
7 1 (0.59%) McAfee
7 1 (0.59%) Zscaler