Disclosure Scotland Contract Job Trends

Disclosure Scotland
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Disclosure Scotland skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 595 449 443
Rank change year-on-year -146 -6 +10
Contract jobs citing Disclosure Scotland 60 87 145
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.28% 0.33%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.69% 1.72% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 63 80
10th Percentile £188 £234 £155
25th Percentile £338 £372 £212
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £416
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +10.51% -12.37%
75th Percentile £619 £538 £487
90th Percentile £650 £569 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £465 £416
% change year-on-year -3.23% +11.71% -12.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 26
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £10.95
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £11.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £10.95
% change year-on-year - - -52.39%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 8,659 5,068 5,942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.83% 16.37% 13.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,537 3,252 3,690
10th Percentile £340 £279 £282
25th Percentile £413 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £473 £475
% change year-on-year +5.70% -0.42% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 533 211 433
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.78 £11.07
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.50 £13.50
Median hourly rate £36.07 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +20.23% +26.05% -38.52%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.52 £83.41 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.07 £28.18 £21.64
% change year-on-year +28.00% +30.22% -42.29%

Disclosure Scotland
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Disclosure Scotland job vacancy trend in the UK

Disclosure Scotland
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Disclosure Scotland.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Disclosure Scotland

Disclosure Scotland
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disclosure Scotland over the 6 months to 2 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Disclosure Scotland in the UK

Disclosure Scotland
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Disclosure Scotland.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Disclosure Scotland

Disclosure Scotland
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 July 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
UK excluding London -143 60 £450 -3.23% 13
Scotland -29 55 £450 -3.23% 7
Work from Home -85 9 £375 -19.27% 5
England -113 5 £600 +109.06% 6
South East - 2 £624 - 2
South West - 2 - - 4
Yorkshire - 1 £550 -
North of England - 1 £550 -

Disclosure Scotland
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (5.00%) Apache
1 3 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (5.00%) CMS
1 3 (5.00%) Drupal
2 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.67%) Confluence
3 1 (1.67%) JBoss
3 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.67%) iTrent
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 19 (31.67%) Azure
2 10 (16.67%) AWS
3 6 (10.00%) IaaS
3 6 (10.00%) PaaS
4 5 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (8.33%) SaaS
4 5 (8.33%) Serverless
5 4 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 4 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (6.67%) OCI
5 4 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (5.00%) Dagster
6 3 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (5.00%) Google Analytics
7 2 (3.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.00%) Network Security
2 8 (13.33%) Firewall
2 8 (13.33%) VPN
2 8 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (11.67%) LAN
4 6 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 6 (10.00%) IPsec
4 6 (10.00%) SD-WAN
4 6 (10.00%) Unified Communications
5 4 (6.67%) WAN
6 3 (5.00%) DNS
6 3 (5.00%) HTTP
6 3 (5.00%) Internet
6 3 (5.00%) Intranet
6 3 (5.00%) SAN
7 1 (1.67%) DHCP
7 1 (1.67%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (1.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
1 4 (6.67%) Power BI
2 3 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.33%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (3.33%) MySQL
3 2 (3.33%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.33%) Semantic Layer
3 2 (3.33%) Tableau
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.67%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.67%) GIS
4 1 (1.67%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.67%) Metadata
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database 10g
4 1 (1.67%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) MLflow
2 2 (3.33%) JIRA
3 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.67%) Git
3 1 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (23.33%) Public Sector
3 7 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Finance
5 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Italian Language
5 2 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Back Office
6 1 (1.67%) Banking
6 1 (1.67%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.67%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.67%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.67%) Legal
6 1 (1.67%) Local Government
6 1 (1.67%) Marketing
6 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (15.00%) Architect
2 8 (13.33%) Network Engineer
3 5 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (6.67%) DBA
4 4 (6.67%) Developer
5 3 (5.00%) Analyst
5 3 (5.00%) Content Manager
5 3 (5.00%) Data Protection Officer
5 3 (5.00%) Digital Content Manager
5 3 (5.00%) Lead
5 3 (5.00%) Python Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.00%) SQL DBA
5 3 (5.00%) Support Officer
6 2 (3.33%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) Help Desk Analyst
6 2 (3.33%) IT Analyst
6 2 (3.33%) Power Platform Developer
6 2 (3.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.67%) AWS CDK
1 4 (6.67%) REST
2 3 (5.00%) boto
2 3 (5.00%) FastAPI
2 3 (5.00%) Hugging Face
2 3 (5.00%) JWT
2 3 (5.00%) NumPy
2 3 (5.00%) OAuth
2 3 (5.00%) OpenCV
2 3 (5.00%) Pandas
2 3 (5.00%) PyTorch
2 3 (5.00%) SQLAlchemy
3 2 (3.33%) PySpark
3 2 (3.33%) Streamlit
4 1 (1.67%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.67%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.67%) Kafka
4 1 (1.67%) Play Framework
4 1 (1.67%) RESTful
4 1 (1.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 5 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (6.67%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.00%) Algorithms
5 3 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (5.00%) NHS
5 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
5 3 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.33%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.67%) CMDB
7 1 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.67%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.67%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 16 (26.67%) Linux
2 14 (23.33%) Windows
3 3 (5.00%) Solaris
3 3 (5.00%) Unix
4 2 (3.33%) Android
4 2 (3.33%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.33%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (30.00%) Agile
2 16 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 13 (21.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (20.00%) Migration
6 11 (18.33%) DevOps
7 10 (16.67%) Analytics
8 9 (15.00%) Data Protection
8 9 (15.00%) High Availability
9 8 (13.33%) Data Modelling
10 7 (11.67%) AI
10 7 (11.67%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (11.67%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (11.67%) Decision-Making
10 7 (11.67%) ITSM
10 7 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (11.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (10.00%) Programme Delivery
11 6 (10.00%) Project Delivery
11 6 (10.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.33%) Python
2 9 (15.00%) SQL
3 8 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 4 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.00%) Bash
5 3 (5.00%) Bicep
6 2 (3.33%) C#
6 2 (3.33%) Java
7 1 (1.67%) JCL
7 1 (1.67%) Perl
7 1 (1.67%) Scala
7 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (10.00%) Degree
2 4 (6.67%) CCNA
3 2 (3.33%) CCNP
3 2 (3.33%) DBS Check
3 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.67%) NCDA
4 1 (1.67%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.67%) PhD
4 1 (1.67%) Postgraduate
4 1 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.67%) VCAP
4 1 (1.67%) VCP6
4 1 (1.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.33%) QA
2 5 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.33%) GDPR
3 3 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.00%) PMO
4 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.67%) NCSC
4 1 (1.67%) NIST
4 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (8.33%) Terraform
2 4 (6.67%) Grafana
3 3 (5.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.33%) Ansible
5 1 (1.67%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.67%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.67%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.67%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.67%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.67%) Puppet
5 1 (1.67%) SCCM
5 1 (1.67%) SCOM
5 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.67%) vMotion
5 1 (1.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 15 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.67%) Oracle
3 7 (11.67%) Cisco
4 6 (10.00%) F5
4 6 (10.00%) Palo Alto
5 3 (5.00%) Citrix
5 3 (5.00%) Databricks
5 3 (5.00%) Google
6 2 (3.33%) Commvault
6 2 (3.33%) SAP
6 2 (3.33%) VMware
7 1 (1.67%) Avaya
7 1 (1.67%) Brocade
7 1 (1.67%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.67%) EnterpriseDB
7 1 (1.67%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.67%) NetApp
7 1 (1.67%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.67%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.67%) Splunk