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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 598 492 461
Rank change year-on-year -106 -31 -17
Contract jobs citing Disclosure Scotland 69 62 122
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.19% 0.32%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.74% 1.11% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 40 70
10th Percentile £413 £200 £155
25th Percentile £424 £373 £211
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £650 £500 £515
90th Percentile £675 £550 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +22.22% +5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 17
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 9,333 5,565 5,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.40% 16.99% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,913 3,574 3,154
10th Percentile £325 £288 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.39% -2.43%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £625
90th Percentile £700 £714 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £483
% change year-on-year +3.16% -1.71% -3.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 583 256 282
10th Percentile £13.86 £13.60 £11.81
25th Percentile £17.29 £16.92 £14.46
Median hourly rate £36.07 £30.00 £25.30
Median % change year-on-year +20.23% +18.58% -26.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.31 £56.88
90th Percentile £79.80 £82.98 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.07 £25.83 £24.18
% change year-on-year +39.67% +6.80% -28.76%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -89 69 £550 +22.22% 15
Scotland -21 59 £510 +13.33% 9
England - 10 £600 - 9
Work from Home -67 9 £439 +1.56% 12
South East - 4 £600 -
South West - 4 - - 1
North of England - 2 £550 - 5
Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 2
North West - 1 - - 2

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 (5.80%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.35%) CMS
3 2 (2.90%) Apache
3 2 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.45%) Confluence
4 1 (1.45%) JBoss
4 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.90%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.45%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 19 (27.54%) Azure
2 15 (21.74%) AWS
3 7 (10.14%) IaaS
3 7 (10.14%) SaaS
4 6 (8.70%) PaaS
4 6 (8.70%) Power Platform
5 5 (7.25%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (7.25%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (7.25%) Serverless
6 4 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (5.80%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (5.80%) OpenShift
7 3 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (4.35%) OCI
8 2 (2.90%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.90%) Dagster
8 2 (2.90%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.14%) Firewall
1 7 (10.14%) Network Security
1 7 (10.14%) VPN
1 7 (10.14%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (8.70%) LAN
3 5 (7.25%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (7.25%) DNS
3 5 (7.25%) IPsec
3 5 (7.25%) SD-WAN
3 5 (7.25%) Unified Communications
4 3 (4.35%) Internet
4 3 (4.35%) WAN
5 2 (2.90%) DHCP
5 2 (2.90%) HTTP
5 2 (2.90%) SAN
6 1 (1.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.70%) MySQL
2 5 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.25%) Power BI
3 4 (5.80%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (4.35%) Power Query
5 2 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.90%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.90%) MariaDB
5 2 (2.90%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.90%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.90%) Semantic Layer
5 2 (2.90%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.90%) Tableau
6 1 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.45%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.45%) Redis
6 1 (1.45%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.35%) JIRA
3 2 (2.90%) Git
3 2 (2.90%) Gradle
3 2 (2.90%) Maven
3 2 (2.90%) MLflow
3 2 (2.90%) webpack
4 1 (1.45%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.45%) GitLab
4 1 (1.45%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 23 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 8 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.80%) Local Government
4 4 (5.80%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.35%) Finance
5 3 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Italian Language
7 1 (1.45%) Back Office
7 1 (1.45%) Banking
7 1 (1.45%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.45%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.45%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.45%) Legal
7 1 (1.45%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (15.94%) Architect
2 7 (10.14%) Network Engineer
3 6 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (7.25%) Developer
4 5 (7.25%) Lead
4 5 (7.25%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.35%) Analyst
5 3 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (4.35%) Data Engineer
5 3 (4.35%) Senior
5 3 (4.35%) Technical Architect
6 2 (2.90%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (2.90%) Coordinator
6 2 (2.90%) Development Manager
6 2 (2.90%) Help Desk Analyst
6 2 (2.90%) IT Analyst
6 2 (2.90%) IT Engineer
6 2 (2.90%) Programme Coordinator
6 2 (2.90%) Python Engineer
6 2 (2.90%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.14%) Terraform
2 6 (8.70%) REST
2 6 (8.70%) Spring
2 6 (8.70%) Spring Boot
3 4 (5.80%) React
3 4 (5.80%) Vue
4 3 (4.35%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.35%) AWS CDK
4 3 (4.35%) Node.js
4 3 (4.35%) OAuth
4 3 (4.35%) PySpark
4 3 (4.35%) RESTful
4 3 (4.35%) Streamlit
5 2 (2.90%) FastAPI
5 2 (2.90%) FHIR
5 2 (2.90%) Hugging Face
5 2 (2.90%) JWT
5 2 (2.90%) NumPy
5 2 (2.90%) Redux
5 2 (2.90%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.59%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.70%) Data Centre
3 5 (7.25%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.80%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.80%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.80%) NHS
4 4 (5.80%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.35%) Freedom of Information
5 3 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.35%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.90%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.90%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.45%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (27.54%) Linux
2 14 (20.29%) Windows
3 4 (5.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (5.80%) Unix
4 2 (2.90%) Android
4 2 (2.90%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.90%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.90%) Solaris
4 2 (2.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (33.33%) Agile
2 17 (24.64%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (21.74%) Roadmaps
4 14 (20.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (17.39%) DevOps
6 11 (15.94%) CI/CD
6 11 (15.94%) Data Modelling
7 9 (13.04%) Analytics
7 9 (13.04%) Service Management
8 8 (11.59%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (11.59%) Change Management
9 7 (10.14%) AI
9 7 (10.14%) Containerisation
9 7 (10.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (10.14%) ITSM
9 7 (10.14%) Microservices
9 7 (10.14%) Migration
9 7 (10.14%) Service Delivery
9 7 (10.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (21.74%) Python
2 11 (15.94%) SQL
3 8 (11.59%) Java
3 8 (11.59%) PowerShell
4 6 (8.70%) Bash
4 6 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 6 (8.70%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.35%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.90%) Bicep
6 2 (2.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.90%) Groovy
7 1 (1.45%) C
7 1 (1.45%) C#
7 1 (1.45%) C++
7 1 (1.45%) Perl
7 1 (1.45%) R
7 1 (1.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (7.25%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (7.25%) DBS Check
2 4 (5.80%) Degree
2 4 (5.80%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.35%) CCNA
3 3 (4.35%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.90%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.90%) CCNP
5 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.45%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.45%) PhD
5 1 (1.45%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.45%) RHCE
5 1 (1.45%) RHCSA
5 1 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.04%) QA
2 6 (8.70%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.80%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.90%) GDPR
5 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (10.14%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.25%) Docker
3 2 (2.90%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (7.25%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.80%) Grafana
3 3 (4.35%) Ansible
3 3 (4.35%) Progress Chef
3 3 (4.35%) Puppet
4 2 (2.90%) SCCM
5 1 (1.45%) Argo
5 1 (1.45%) Kibana
5 1 (1.45%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.45%) Salt
5 1 (1.45%) SCOM
5 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.45%) yum
Vendors
1 21 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.14%) Oracle
3 5 (7.25%) Cisco
3 5 (7.25%) F5
3 5 (7.25%) Palo Alto
4 4 (5.80%) Databricks
5 3 (4.35%) Citrix
5 3 (4.35%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.90%) SAP
7 1 (1.45%) Avaya
7 1 (1.45%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.45%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.45%) EnterpriseDB
7 1 (1.45%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (1.45%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.45%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.45%) SaltStack
7 1 (1.45%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.45%) Splunk
7 1 (1.45%) VMware