Disclosure Scotland Contracts in the UK excluding London

Disclosure Scotland
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Disclosure Scotland skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Disclosure Scotland over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 231 235
Rank change year-on-year -15 +4 +58
Contract jobs citing Disclosure Scotland 91 161 237
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.71% 0.78% 0.99%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.40% 5.24% 6.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 90 211
10th Percentile £206 £157 £156
25th Percentile £372 £274 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £449 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% -5.58% +14.46%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £548
90th Percentile £597 £603 £625
UK median daily rate £471 £449 £475
% change year-on-year +5.02% -5.58% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 26 2
10th Percentile - - £21.20
25th Percentile - - £21.50
Median hourly rate - £10.95 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - -50.23% +4.51%
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - £11.32 £22.80
UK median hourly rate - £10.95 £22.00
% change year-on-year - -50.23% +4.51%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

Disclosure Scotland falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,070 3,070 3,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.18% 14.93% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,300 1,800 2,383
10th Percentile £223 £254 £219
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £479
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +1.77% +6.44%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £663 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 307 188
10th Percentile £17.31 £10.95 £12.67
25th Percentile £24.18 £12.53 £18.07
Median hourly rate £46.30 £18.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +157.22% -44.62% +54.43%
75th Percentile £66.56 £45.00 £59.28
90th Percentile £79.51 £67.70 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +64.29% -40.00% +27.27%

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 6 May 2025.

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 6 May 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
Scotland -10 90 £475 +8.57% 4
Yorkshire +19 1 £750 +4.17%
North of England -12 1 £750 +36.36%
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 6 (6.59%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.20%) CMS
3 1 (1.10%) JBoss
3 1 (1.10%) nginx
3 1 (1.10%) Traefik
3 1 (1.10%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (5.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.10%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (6.59%) iTrent
2 3 (3.30%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 21 (23.08%) Azure
2 12 (13.19%) AWS
3 11 (12.09%) Power Platform
4 8 (8.79%) Amazon S3
5 7 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (7.69%) Serverless
6 5 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (4.40%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (4.40%) Entra ID
7 4 (4.40%) OpenShift
8 3 (3.30%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (3.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.30%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (3.30%) SaaS
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (2.20%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.40%) Firewall
2 3 (3.30%) Internet
3 1 (1.10%) ATM
3 1 (1.10%) DNS
3 1 (1.10%) Intranet
3 1 (1.10%) NAS
3 1 (1.10%) Network Security
3 1 (1.10%) SAN
3 1 (1.10%) SSL
3 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.89%) MongoDB
1 9 (9.89%) Oracle Database
1 9 (9.89%) Relational Database
2 7 (7.69%) DB2
3 6 (6.59%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.49%) Power BI
5 4 (4.40%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (3.30%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.20%) InfluxDB
7 2 (2.20%) Tableau
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.10%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.10%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 7 (7.69%) Git
2 6 (6.59%) JUnit
3 5 (5.49%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.20%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.20%) GitLab
4 2 (2.20%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (1.10%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.10%) GCC
5 1 (1.10%) JIRA
5 1 (1.10%) webpack
General
1 38 (41.76%) Social Skills
2 25 (27.47%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (24.18%) Public Sector
4 21 (23.08%) Finance
5 6 (6.59%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (5.49%) Back Office
7 3 (3.30%) Marketing
7 3 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.20%) Banking
8 2 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.20%) Publishing
9 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.10%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.10%) Local Government
9 1 (1.10%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (20.88%) Developer
2 12 (13.19%) Analyst
3 9 (9.89%) Senior
4 7 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 6 (6.59%) Administrator
5 6 (6.59%) Lead
6 5 (5.49%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Architect
7 4 (4.40%) Systems Administrator
8 3 (3.30%) Business Analyst
8 3 (3.30%) Designer
9 2 (2.20%) .NET Developer
9 2 (2.20%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 2 (2.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (2.20%) Security Analyst
9 2 (2.20%) Security Specialist
9 2 (2.20%) Systems Analyst
9 2 (2.20%) Team Leader
9 2 (2.20%) Technical Analyst
9 2 (2.20%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.89%) Spring
2 8 (8.79%) REST
3 7 (7.69%) HTML
4 6 (6.59%) CSS
4 6 (6.59%) Kafka
4 6 (6.59%) Node.js
5 5 (5.49%) React
6 4 (4.40%) AWS CDK
6 4 (4.40%) JMS
6 4 (4.40%) Middleware
6 4 (4.40%) Spring Boot
7 3 (3.30%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.30%) JSON
7 3 (3.30%) XML
8 2 (2.20%) .NET
8 2 (2.20%) Express.js
8 2 (2.20%) SOAP
9 1 (1.10%) IBM Integration Bus
9 1 (1.10%) J2EE
9 1 (1.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.09%) Management Information System
2 7 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.49%) CMDB
3 5 (5.49%) PKI
3 5 (5.49%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.30%) Equities
4 3 (3.30%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.30%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.20%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.20%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.20%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.20%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.20%) Wiki
6 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.10%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.10%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.88%) Linux
2 10 (10.99%) Unix
2 10 (10.99%) Windows
3 8 (8.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (6.59%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.30%) Solaris
6 1 (1.10%) AIX
6 1 (1.10%) CentOS
6 1 (1.10%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (1.10%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.10%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (35.16%) Agile
2 20 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 13 (14.29%) DevOps
4 11 (12.09%) SDLC
5 10 (10.99%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (10.99%) ITIL
6 9 (9.89%) Mentoring
7 8 (8.79%) Microservices
7 8 (8.79%) Project Management
7 8 (8.79%) User Experience
8 7 (7.69%) Coaching
8 7 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (7.69%) Scrum
8 7 (7.69%) Service Management
9 6 (6.59%) Analytics
9 6 (6.59%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (6.59%) ITSM
9 6 (6.59%) Service Delivery
9 6 (6.59%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (20.88%) SQL
2 18 (19.78%) Python
3 12 (13.19%) JavaScript
4 11 (12.09%) Java
5 9 (9.89%) Shell Script
6 6 (6.59%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.49%) Bash
8 4 (4.40%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.10%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.10%) C#
9 1 (1.10%) Go
9 1 (1.10%) Groovy
9 1 (1.10%) Perl
9 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (14.29%) Degree
2 3 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (3.30%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (3.30%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.20%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.10%) CISM
4 1 (1.10%) CISSP
4 1 (1.10%) MCSE
4 1 (1.10%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.49%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.40%) QA
4 3 (3.30%) PMO
5 2 (2.20%) SLA
5 2 (2.20%) WCAG
6 1 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.10%) GDPR
6 1 (1.10%) GRC
6 1 (1.10%) NCSC
6 1 (1.10%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (4.40%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.30%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.20%) Docker
3 2 (2.20%) RACF
4 1 (1.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (1.10%) KVM
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (5.49%) Grafana
1 5 (5.49%) Terraform
2 4 (4.40%) Ansible
3 3 (3.30%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.30%) SCCM
4 2 (2.20%) HAProxy
4 2 (2.20%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.10%) Consul
5 1 (1.10%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.10%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.10%) Istio
5 1 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.10%) Kibana
5 1 (1.10%) linkerd
5 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.10%) Oracle Flashback
5 1 (1.10%) Packer
5 1 (1.10%) Rancher
5 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 16 (17.58%) Oracle
2 10 (10.99%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 6 (6.59%) Sybase
5 4 (4.40%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.30%) VMware
7 2 (2.20%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.20%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.20%) IBM
7 2 (2.20%) Splunk
7 2 (2.20%) Veritas
8 1 (1.10%) Apple
8 1 (1.10%) Cisco
8 1 (1.10%) Databricks
8 1 (1.10%) DocuSign
8 1 (1.10%) ESET
8 1 (1.10%) Okta
8 1 (1.10%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.10%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.10%) Snow