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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 433 428
Rank change year-on-year -96 -5 +88
Contract jobs citing Disclosure Scotland 64 85 177
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.27% 0.40%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.97% 1.89% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 67 122
10th Percentile £145 £192 £159
25th Percentile £250 £340 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £455 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% +1.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £496 £521
90th Percentile £648 £554 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £454 £453 £450
% change year-on-year +0.33% +0.56% -4.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £10.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £10.95
% change year-on-year - - -47.86%

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 6,574 4,504 6,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.13% 14.39% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,230 2,640 4,212
10th Percentile £318 £250 £300
25th Percentile £410 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 174 310
10th Percentile £15.29 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.08 £21.01 £14.55
Median hourly rate £26.34 £29.00 £27.90
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +3.94% +7.31%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £55.80
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.27 £28.00 £27.17
% change year-on-year -6.18% +3.07% +8.66%

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 28 January 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 5 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 28 January 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 -73 64 £454 +0.33% 4
Scotland -13 59 £450 - 2
Work from Home -44 13 £487 +2.53% 3
England -72 5 £648 -4.00% 2
South East - 5 £648 -

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%) CMS
2 2 (3.13%) Apache TomEE
2 2 (3.13%) Drupal
2 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.56%) Apache
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.56%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (3.13%) MS Visio
3 2 (3.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (3.13%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.94%) Azure
2 6 (9.38%) AWS
3 5 (7.81%) Power Platform
3 5 (7.81%) SaaS
4 3 (4.69%) Amazon S3
4 3 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (4.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.69%) Serverless
5 2 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.13%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.56%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.56%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) HTTP
2 2 (3.13%) DNS
2 2 (3.13%) Firewall
2 2 (3.13%) Intranet
2 2 (3.13%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.56%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (1.56%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.56%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.56%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.56%) IPsec
3 1 (1.56%) LAN
3 1 (1.56%) SAN
3 1 (1.56%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.56%) VPN
3 1 (1.56%) WAN
3 1 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) Power BI
2 3 (4.69%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (4.69%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.56%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.56%) BusinessObjects XI
4 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (6.25%) JIRA
2 3 (4.69%) Git
3 2 (3.13%) Ant
3 2 (3.13%) Eclipse
3 2 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.13%) Maven
4 1 (1.56%) GitLab
4 1 (1.56%) MLflow
General
1 23 (35.94%) Social Skills
2 16 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 15 (23.44%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (21.88%) Finance
5 9 (14.06%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (4.69%) Local Government
8 1 (1.56%) Back Office
8 1 (1.56%) Banking
8 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (15.63%) Lead
2 9 (14.06%) Developer
3 6 (9.38%) Data Protection Officer
3 6 (9.38%) Support Officer
4 5 (7.81%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (6.25%) Architect
5 4 (6.25%) Information Governance Officer
5 4 (6.25%) Information Officer
5 4 (6.25%) Java Developer
6 3 (4.69%) Analyst
6 3 (4.69%) PMO Lead
6 3 (4.69%) Service Transition Leader
6 3 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.13%) Content Manager
7 2 (3.13%) Data Analyst
7 2 (3.13%) DBA
7 2 (3.13%) Digital Content Manager
7 2 (3.13%) Project Manager
7 2 (3.13%) Service Manager
7 2 (3.13%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.38%) REST
2 4 (6.25%) Spring
3 3 (4.69%) AWS CDK
4 2 (3.13%) boto
4 2 (3.13%) FastAPI
4 2 (3.13%) Hibernate
4 2 (3.13%) Hugging Face
4 2 (3.13%) JPA
4 2 (3.13%) JSP
4 2 (3.13%) JSTL
4 2 (3.13%) JWT
4 2 (3.13%) NumPy
4 2 (3.13%) OAuth
4 2 (3.13%) OpenCV
4 2 (3.13%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (3.13%) Pandas
4 2 (3.13%) PyTorch
4 2 (3.13%) SOAP
4 2 (3.13%) Spring Security
4 2 (3.13%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.81%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (6.25%) Freedom of Information
2 4 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.69%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.69%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.13%) NHS
4 2 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (3.13%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.56%) Derivative
5 1 (1.56%) Digital Signage
5 1 (1.56%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.81%) Linux
1 5 (7.81%) Windows
2 3 (4.69%) Unix
3 1 (1.56%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (34.38%) Agile
2 13 (20.31%) Data Protection
3 11 (17.19%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (17.19%) Project Management
4 10 (15.63%) Decision-Making
4 10 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (14.06%) DevOps
5 9 (14.06%) Risk Management
6 8 (12.50%) Migration
7 7 (10.94%) Project Delivery
7 7 (10.94%) Roadmaps
7 7 (10.94%) Waterfall
8 6 (9.38%) AI
8 6 (9.38%) Analytics
8 6 (9.38%) Business Case
8 6 (9.38%) ERP
8 6 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (9.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (7.81%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.06%) Python
2 6 (9.38%) SQL
3 5 (7.81%) Java
4 4 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.13%) Bicep
5 2 (3.13%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.13%) Search Processing Language
5 2 (3.13%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.56%) Bash
6 1 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.56%) Perl
6 1 (1.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (9.38%) Degree
2 2 (3.13%) PMI Certification
2 2 (3.13%) PMP
3 1 (1.56%) CCNA
3 1 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.56%) NCDA
3 1 (1.56%) VCAP
3 1 (1.56%) VCP6
3 1 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.94%) GDPR
2 5 (7.81%) PMO
3 4 (6.25%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.56%) Docker
1 1 (1.56%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (6.25%) Grafana
2 3 (4.69%) Terraform
3 2 (3.13%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.56%) Ansible
4 1 (1.56%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.56%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.56%) SCCM
4 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.56%) vMotion
4 1 (1.56%) vRealize
Vendors
1 9 (14.06%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.94%) Oracle
3 3 (4.69%) Cisco
3 3 (4.69%) Splunk
4 2 (3.13%) ArcSight
4 2 (3.13%) F5
4 2 (3.13%) Google
5 1 (1.56%) Avaya
5 1 (1.56%) Brocade
5 1 (1.56%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.56%) Commvault
5 1 (1.56%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.56%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.56%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.56%) NetApp
5 1 (1.56%) Okta
5 1 (1.56%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.56%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.56%) Remedy
5 1 (1.56%) SolarWinds