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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 472 443
Rank change year-on-year -127 -29 +1
Contract jobs citing Disclosure Scotland 66 83 142
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.25% 0.35%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.73% 1.51% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 60 73
10th Percentile £413 £229 £156
25th Percentile £420 £346 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +22.83% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £650 £534 £500
90th Percentile - £559 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £553 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +22.83% +5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 25
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 9,023 5,486 5,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.10% 16.78% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,779 3,541 3,491
10th Percentile £338 £281 £282
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £623
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £473 £475
% change year-on-year +5.70% -0.42% -4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 243 364
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.60 £11.18
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.67 £14.34
Median hourly rate £40.00 £28.18 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.94% +12.72% -35.42%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.24 £53.81
90th Percentile £82.25 £84.88 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% +0.60% -28.57%

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 24 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 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 24 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 -124 66 £553 +22.83% 10
Scotland -29 56 £530 +17.78% 5
Work from Home -81 10 £375 -12.79% 4
England -103 10 £600 +109.06% 5
South East - 4 £600 - 2
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 (6.06%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.55%) Apache
2 3 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.03%) CMS
3 2 (3.03%) JBoss
3 2 (3.03%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (1.52%) Confluence
4 1 (1.52%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (3.03%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.52%) iTrent
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 21 (31.82%) Azure
2 14 (21.21%) AWS
3 6 (9.09%) IaaS
3 6 (9.09%) PaaS
3 6 (9.09%) SaaS
3 6 (9.09%) Serverless
4 5 (7.58%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (7.58%) Power Platform
5 4 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (6.06%) Amazon S3
5 4 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (6.06%) OCI
6 3 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (4.55%) Dagster
6 3 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (4.55%) OpenShift
6 3 (4.55%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.64%) Network Security
2 8 (12.12%) Firewall
2 8 (12.12%) VPN
2 8 (12.12%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (10.61%) LAN
4 6 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
4 6 (9.09%) IPsec
4 6 (9.09%) SD-WAN
4 6 (9.09%) Unified Communications
5 5 (7.58%) DNS
6 4 (6.06%) WAN
7 3 (4.55%) HTTP
7 3 (4.55%) Internet
8 2 (3.03%) DHCP
8 2 (3.03%) SAN
9 1 (1.52%) Intranet
9 1 (1.52%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.58%) MySQL
2 4 (6.06%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.06%) Power BI
3 2 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.03%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (3.03%) MariaDB
3 2 (3.03%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.03%) Semantic Layer
3 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.03%) Tableau
4 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.52%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.52%) GIS
4 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database 10g
4 1 (1.52%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.55%) JIRA
1 3 (4.55%) MLflow
2 2 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.52%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.52%) Git
3 1 (1.52%) Gradle
3 1 (1.52%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.52%) Maven
3 1 (1.52%) webpack
General
1 29 (43.94%) Social Skills
2 16 (24.24%) Public Sector
3 7 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.06%) Finance
5 2 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.03%) Italian Language
5 2 (3.03%) Local Government
6 1 (1.52%) Back Office
6 1 (1.52%) Banking
6 1 (1.52%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.52%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.52%) Legal
6 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (16.67%) Architect
2 8 (12.12%) Network Engineer
3 6 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (6.06%) Developer
4 4 (6.06%) Lead
4 4 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.55%) Analyst
5 3 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (4.55%) DBA
5 3 (4.55%) Python Engineer
5 3 (4.55%) Technical Architect
6 2 (3.03%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (3.03%) Coordinator
6 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Officer
6 2 (3.03%) Development Manager
6 2 (3.03%) Help Desk Analyst
6 2 (3.03%) Power Platform Developer
6 2 (3.03%) Programme Coordinator
6 2 (3.03%) Senior
6 2 (3.03%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.06%) AWS CDK
1 4 (6.06%) REST
2 3 (4.55%) AngularJS
2 3 (4.55%) boto
2 3 (4.55%) FastAPI
2 3 (4.55%) Hugging Face
2 3 (4.55%) JWT
2 3 (4.55%) NumPy
2 3 (4.55%) OAuth
2 3 (4.55%) OpenCV
2 3 (4.55%) Pandas
2 3 (4.55%) PyTorch
2 3 (4.55%) SQLAlchemy
2 3 (4.55%) Vue
3 2 (3.03%) ARM Templates
3 2 (3.03%) PySpark
3 2 (3.03%) RESTful
3 2 (3.03%) Spring
3 2 (3.03%) Spring Boot
3 2 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.64%) Data Centre
2 8 (12.12%) Cloud Native
3 6 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 5 (7.58%) Data Structures
5 4 (6.06%) Management Information System
5 4 (6.06%) NHS
5 4 (6.06%) Onboarding
6 3 (4.55%) Algorithms
6 3 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (3.03%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.52%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (30.30%) Linux
2 16 (24.24%) Windows
3 4 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.55%) Solaris
4 3 (4.55%) Unix
5 2 (3.03%) Android
5 2 (3.03%) Apple iOS
5 2 (3.03%) Mac OS
5 2 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (28.79%) Agile
2 17 (25.76%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (24.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (24.24%) Roadmaps
4 12 (18.18%) Migration
5 11 (16.67%) DevOps
6 9 (13.64%) Analytics
6 9 (13.64%) Data Modelling
6 9 (13.64%) High Availability
7 8 (12.12%) AI
7 8 (12.12%) CI/CD
7 8 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (12.12%) Service Management
8 7 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (10.61%) Change Management
8 7 (10.61%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (10.61%) ITSM
8 7 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (9.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 12 (18.18%) Python
2 9 (13.64%) PowerShell
2 9 (13.64%) SQL
3 6 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 5 (7.58%) Bash
4 5 (7.58%) Java
5 3 (4.55%) Bicep
5 3 (4.55%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.03%) C#
6 2 (3.03%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.52%) Groovy
7 1 (1.52%) JCL
7 1 (1.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (7.58%) DBS Check
3 4 (6.06%) CCNA
3 4 (6.06%) Degree
4 2 (3.03%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.03%) CCNP
4 2 (3.03%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.03%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.52%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.52%) PhD
5 1 (1.52%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.52%) RHCE
5 1 (1.52%) RHCSA
5 1 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.67%) QA
2 4 (6.06%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.55%) GDPR
4 2 (3.03%) PMO
5 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.52%) NCSC
5 1 (1.52%) NIST
5 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (10.61%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.55%) Docker
3 2 (3.03%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (12.12%) Terraform
2 6 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.06%) Grafana
4 3 (4.55%) Ansible
5 2 (3.03%) Progress Chef
5 2 (3.03%) Puppet
5 2 (3.03%) SCCM
5 2 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.52%) Argo
6 1 (1.52%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.52%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.52%) SCOM
6 1 (1.52%) yum
Vendors
1 20 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.15%) Oracle
3 6 (9.09%) Cisco
3 6 (9.09%) F5
3 6 (9.09%) Palo Alto
4 3 (4.55%) Citrix
4 3 (4.55%) Databricks
4 3 (4.55%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.03%) EnterpriseDB
5 2 (3.03%) SAP
6 1 (1.52%) Avaya
6 1 (1.52%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.52%) Commvault
6 1 (1.52%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (1.52%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.52%) Google
6 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.52%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.52%) VMware
6 1 (1.52%) Workday