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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 458 443
Rank change year-on-year -55 -15 +153
Contract jobs citing Disclosure Scotland 52 105 199
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.28% 0.42%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.89% 2.08% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 77 132
10th Percentile £330 £154 £155
25th Percentile £409 £213 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £430 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -4.44% -6.05%
75th Percentile £500 £496 £533
90th Percentile £550 £570 £599
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £428 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -6.05%

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 5,857 5,047 6,753
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.60% 13.42% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,746 2,937 4,562
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £400 £398 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £711 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 240 253
10th Percentile £13.60 £13.26 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.71 £17.59 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.67 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -23.14% +45.69%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £79.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year -9.09% -29.03% +72.22%

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 16 October 2025.

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 3 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 16 October 2025. 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
Scotland -30 52 £450 +5.26% 25
UK excluding London -72 52 £450 +5.26% 25
Work from Home -15 18 £452 +6.35% 5

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 2 (3.85%) CMS
1 2 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.92%) Apache
2 1 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.92%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.92%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.92%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 9 (17.31%) Power Platform
2 7 (13.46%) Azure
3 5 (9.62%) AWS
4 4 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.77%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.77%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (5.77%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (3.85%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.85%) Serverless
7 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.92%) GitHub
7 1 (1.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.54%) Firewall
2 3 (5.77%) HTTP
3 2 (3.85%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (3.85%) DNS
3 2 (3.85%) Internet
3 2 (3.85%) IPsec
3 2 (3.85%) LAN
3 2 (3.85%) SD-WAN
3 2 (3.85%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.85%) VPN
3 2 (3.85%) WAN
3 2 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.92%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.92%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.92%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.92%) MQTT
4 1 (1.92%) Network Security
4 1 (1.92%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) Power BI
2 3 (5.77%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (5.77%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.85%) MariaDB
3 2 (3.85%) MySQL
3 2 (3.85%) Power Query
3 2 (3.85%) Redis
3 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.92%) CockroachDB
4 1 (1.92%) Metadata
4 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.92%) NewSQL
4 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.92%) OLTP
4 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Git
1 3 (5.77%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.85%) webpack
3 1 (1.92%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.92%) JIRA
3 1 (1.92%) MLflow
3 1 (1.92%) Selenium
3 1 (1.92%) WebDriver
General
1 20 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 13 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 12 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.62%) Finance
5 2 (3.85%) Digital Health
5 2 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Local Government
5 2 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Back Office
6 1 (1.92%) Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Legal
6 1 (1.92%) Marketing
6 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (15.38%) Developer
2 6 (11.54%) Analyst
3 4 (7.69%) Senior
4 3 (5.77%) Architect
4 3 (5.77%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (5.77%) IT Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) Business Analyst
5 2 (3.85%) Data Analyst
5 2 (3.85%) Field Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) Lead
5 2 (3.85%) Network Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) Network Field Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) Project Manager
5 2 (3.85%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 1 (1.92%) Audio Visual Engineer
6 1 (1.92%) HR Manager
6 1 (1.92%) Information Officer
6 1 (1.92%) Power BI Specialist
6 1 (1.92%) Principal Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.54%) REST
2 5 (9.62%) RESTful
3 4 (7.69%) OAuth
4 3 (5.77%) CSS
4 3 (5.77%) FastAPI
4 3 (5.77%) HTML
4 3 (5.77%) Node.js
4 3 (5.77%) PyTorch
5 2 (3.85%) AWS CDK
5 2 (3.85%) boto
5 2 (3.85%) CSS3
5 2 (3.85%) HTML5
5 2 (3.85%) Hugging Face
5 2 (3.85%) JWT
5 2 (3.85%) OpenCV
5 2 (3.85%) Pandas
5 2 (3.85%) React
5 2 (3.85%) Redux
5 2 (3.85%) SOAP
5 2 (3.85%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.77%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.85%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.85%) NHS
3 2 (3.85%) PKI
3 2 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (3.85%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.85%) Web Conferencing
4 1 (1.92%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.92%) Graphic Design
4 1 (1.92%) Photography
4 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.92%) Social Media
4 1 (1.92%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.23%) Linux
2 8 (15.38%) Windows
3 6 (11.54%) Unix
4 4 (7.69%) Windows Server
5 3 (5.77%) Solaris
6 1 (1.92%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (38.46%) Agile
2 10 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (17.31%) Project Management
4 8 (15.38%) Decision-Making
5 7 (13.46%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (13.46%) CI/CD
5 7 (13.46%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (11.54%) Analytics
6 6 (11.54%) DevOps
6 6 (11.54%) ITIL
6 6 (11.54%) Mentoring
6 6 (11.54%) Service Management
7 5 (9.62%) AI
7 5 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (9.62%) Risk Management
7 5 (9.62%) Service Delivery
7 5 (9.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (9.62%) Time Management
7 5 (9.62%) User Experience
8 4 (7.69%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 12 (23.08%) Python
2 8 (15.38%) SQL
3 7 (13.46%) JavaScript
4 4 (7.69%) Java
4 4 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 4 (7.69%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (3.85%) C#
6 2 (3.85%) Search Processing Language
6 2 (3.85%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.92%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (1.92%) Bash
7 1 (1.92%) Bicep
7 1 (1.92%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) Degree
2 2 (3.85%) CCNA
2 2 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.92%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.69%) GDPR
2 4 (7.69%) QA
3 1 (1.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.92%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.92%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (9.62%) Grafana
1 5 (9.62%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.77%) Terraform
3 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.85%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.85%) SCCM
4 1 (1.92%) Ansible
4 1 (1.92%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.92%) Kibana
4 1 (1.92%) Kustomize
4 1 (1.92%) logstash
4 1 (1.92%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.62%) Oracle
3 3 (5.77%) Cisco
3 3 (5.77%) F5
3 3 (5.77%) Splunk
4 2 (3.85%) ArcSight
4 2 (3.85%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.92%) Avaya
5 1 (1.92%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.92%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.92%) Facebook
5 1 (1.92%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.92%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.92%) Instagram
5 1 (1.92%) Okta
5 1 (1.92%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.92%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.92%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.92%) Twitter