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 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 608 488 434
Rank change year-on-year -120 -54 +17
Contract jobs citing Disclosure Scotland 64 82 135
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.25% 0.34%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.70% 1.47% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 59 69
10th Percentile £414 £208 £156
25th Percentile £439 £340 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +23.44% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £650 £540 £500
90th Percentile £653 £575 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £556 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +23.44% +5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 24
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £10.95
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £11.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £10.95

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 9,163 5,589 5,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.18% 16.88% 13.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,871 3,603 3,304
10th Percentile £331 £281 £296
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year - -0.10% -4.67%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +4.21% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 560 252 327
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.60 £11.29
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.43 £14.49
Median hourly rate £39.50 £26.93 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +46.70% +4.50% -34.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.94 £83.37 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £24.83 £25.30
% change year-on-year +61.10% -1.86% -28.73%

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 August 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 9 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 August 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 -114 64 £556 +23.44% 8
Scotland -29 54 £556 +23.44% 5
England -104 10 £600 +109.06% 3
Work from Home -91 9 £426 -1.33% 3
South East - 4 £600 -
South West - 4 - - 3
North of England - 2 £550 -
Yorkshire - 1 £550 -
North West - 1 - -

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 4 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.13%) Apache
2 2 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.13%) JBoss
2 2 (3.13%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (1.56%) CMS
3 1 (1.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (3.13%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.56%) iTrent
1 1 (1.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 22 (34.38%) Azure
2 12 (18.75%) AWS
3 7 (10.94%) IaaS
4 6 (9.38%) PaaS
4 6 (9.38%) SaaS
5 5 (7.81%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (7.81%) Power Platform
5 5 (7.81%) Serverless
6 4 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 4 (6.25%) OCI
6 4 (6.25%) OpenShift
7 3 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.69%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (3.13%) Dagster
8 2 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (3.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.06%) Network Security
2 8 (12.50%) Firewall
2 8 (12.50%) VPN
2 8 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (10.94%) LAN
4 6 (9.38%) Cisco Nexus
4 6 (9.38%) IPsec
4 6 (9.38%) SD-WAN
4 6 (9.38%) Unified Communications
5 5 (7.81%) DNS
6 4 (6.25%) WAN
7 3 (4.69%) Internet
8 2 (3.13%) DHCP
8 2 (3.13%) HTTP
8 2 (3.13%) SAN
9 1 (1.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.25%) MySQL
2 4 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (6.25%) Power BI
3 3 (4.69%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.13%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.13%) Oracle Database
4 2 (3.13%) Power Query
4 2 (3.13%) Semantic Layer
4 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.13%) Tableau
5 1 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.56%) GIS
5 1 (1.56%) Metadata
5 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (1.56%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Jenkins
1 3 (4.69%) JIRA
2 2 (3.13%) Git
2 2 (3.13%) MLflow
2 2 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.56%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.56%) GitLab
3 1 (1.56%) Gradle
3 1 (1.56%) Maven
3 1 (1.56%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.56%) webpack
General
1 28 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 17 (26.56%) Public Sector
3 7 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.25%) Finance
5 3 (4.69%) Local Government
6 2 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Italian Language
7 1 (1.56%) Back Office
7 1 (1.56%) Banking
7 1 (1.56%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.56%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.56%) Legal
7 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (17.19%) Architect
2 8 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 6 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (7.81%) Developer
5 4 (6.25%) Lead
5 4 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.69%) Analyst
6 3 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Technical Architect
7 2 (3.13%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Azure Architect
7 2 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (3.13%) Coordinator
7 2 (3.13%) Data Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Development Manager
7 2 (3.13%) Help Desk Analyst
7 2 (3.13%) IT Analyst
7 2 (3.13%) IT Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Programme Coordinator
7 2 (3.13%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.25%) REST
2 3 (4.69%) AngularJS
2 3 (4.69%) AWS CDK
2 3 (4.69%) OAuth
2 3 (4.69%) Spring
2 3 (4.69%) Spring Boot
2 3 (4.69%) Vue
3 2 (3.13%) ARM Templates
3 2 (3.13%) boto
3 2 (3.13%) FastAPI
3 2 (3.13%) FHIR
3 2 (3.13%) Hugging Face
3 2 (3.13%) JWT
3 2 (3.13%) OpenCV
3 2 (3.13%) Pandas
3 2 (3.13%) PySpark
3 2 (3.13%) PyTorch
3 2 (3.13%) React
3 2 (3.13%) RESTful
3 2 (3.13%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.06%) Data Centre
2 8 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.81%) Product Ownership
4 4 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 4 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.25%) NHS
4 4 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.13%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.13%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.56%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.56%) CMDB
7 1 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.56%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (32.81%) Linux
2 16 (25.00%) Windows
3 5 (7.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (6.25%) Unix
5 3 (4.69%) Solaris
6 2 (3.13%) Android
6 2 (3.13%) Apple iOS
6 2 (3.13%) Mac OS
6 2 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (28.13%) Agile
2 17 (26.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (23.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (23.44%) Roadmaps
4 12 (18.75%) DevOps
5 11 (17.19%) Migration
6 10 (15.63%) Data Modelling
7 9 (14.06%) Analytics
7 9 (14.06%) CI/CD
8 8 (12.50%) High Availability
8 8 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (12.50%) Service Management
9 7 (10.94%) AI
9 7 (10.94%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (10.94%) Change Management
9 7 (10.94%) ITSM
10 6 (9.38%) Load Balancing
10 6 (9.38%) Network Management
10 6 (9.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (9.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.31%) Python
2 9 (14.06%) SQL
3 8 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 6 (9.38%) Java
4 6 (9.38%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.81%) Bash
6 4 (6.25%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.69%) Bicep
8 2 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (3.13%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.56%) C
9 1 (1.56%) C#
9 1 (1.56%) C++
9 1 (1.56%) Groovy
9 1 (1.56%) JCL
9 1 (1.56%) Perl
9 1 (1.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (9.38%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (7.81%) DBS Check
3 4 (6.25%) CCNA
3 4 (6.25%) Degree
4 2 (3.13%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.13%) CCNP
4 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.13%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.56%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.56%) PhD
5 1 (1.56%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.56%) RHCE
5 1 (1.56%) RHCSA
5 1 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.63%) QA
2 5 (7.81%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.69%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.69%) GDPR
4 2 (3.13%) PMO
5 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.56%) NCSC
5 1 (1.56%) NIST
5 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (10.94%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.69%) Docker
3 2 (3.13%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (12.50%) Terraform
2 5 (7.81%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.25%) Grafana
4 3 (4.69%) Ansible
4 3 (4.69%) Progress Chef
4 3 (4.69%) Puppet
5 2 (3.13%) SCCM
5 2 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.56%) Argo
6 1 (1.56%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.56%) Kibana
6 1 (1.56%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.56%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.56%) Salt
6 1 (1.56%) SCOM
6 1 (1.56%) yum
Vendors
1 20 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.06%) Oracle
3 6 (9.38%) Cisco
3 6 (9.38%) F5
3 6 (9.38%) Palo Alto
4 4 (6.25%) Red Hat
5 3 (4.69%) Citrix
5 3 (4.69%) Databricks
6 2 (3.13%) EnterpriseDB
6 2 (3.13%) SAP
7 1 (1.56%) Avaya
7 1 (1.56%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.56%) Commvault
7 1 (1.56%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (1.56%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.56%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.56%) Splunk
7 1 (1.56%) VMware
7 1 (1.56%) Workday