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

 6 months to
5 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 467 427
Rank change year-on-year -125 -40 +17
Contract jobs citing Disclosure Scotland 64 87 147
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.27% 0.34%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.73% 1.68% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 63 80
10th Percentile £188 £234 £156
25th Percentile £413 £372 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £421
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +9.20% -10.85%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £496
90th Percentile £650 £569 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £465 £421
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.39% -9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 26
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 8,730 5,193 5,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.87% 16.36% 13.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,571 3,329 3,679
10th Percentile £340 £280 £282
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £475
% change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 219 431
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.78 £11.07
25th Percentile £19.21 £18.50 £13.52
Median hourly rate £36.04 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +20.12% +26.05% -36.53%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £83.05 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.07 £27.59 £21.73
% change year-on-year +30.76% +26.94% -40.47%

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 5 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 5 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 -138 64 £450 -3.23% 13
Scotland -31 58 £450 -3.23% 7
Work from Home -75 10 £375 -19.27% 5
England -112 6 £600 +109.06% 6
South East - 2 £624 - 2
South West - 2 - - 4
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 3 (4.69%) Apache
1 3 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (4.69%) CMS
1 3 (4.69%) Drupal
2 2 (3.13%) JBoss
2 2 (3.13%) Red Hat Fuse
2 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.56%) iTrent
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.69%) Azure
2 13 (20.31%) AWS
3 6 (9.38%) IaaS
3 6 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (9.38%) PaaS
3 6 (9.38%) Serverless
4 5 (7.81%) SaaS
5 4 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 4 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (6.25%) OCI
5 4 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (4.69%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (4.69%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (4.69%) Dagster
6 3 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (4.69%) Google Analytics
7 2 (3.13%) OneDrive
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 4 (6.25%) WAN
6 3 (4.69%) DNS
6 3 (4.69%) HTTP
6 3 (4.69%) Internet
6 3 (4.69%) Intranet
6 3 (4.69%) SAN
7 1 (1.56%) DHCP
7 1 (1.56%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (1.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) MySQL
1 4 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
1 4 (6.25%) Power BI
2 3 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.69%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.13%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (3.13%) MariaDB
3 2 (3.13%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.13%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.13%) Semantic Layer
3 2 (3.13%) Tableau
4 1 (1.56%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.56%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.56%) GIS
4 1 (1.56%) Metadata
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database 10g
4 1 (1.56%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.69%) JIRA
1 3 (4.69%) MLflow
2 2 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.56%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.56%) Git
3 1 (1.56%) Gradle
3 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.56%) Maven
3 1 (1.56%) webpack
General
1 25 (39.06%) Social Skills
2 16 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 7 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.25%) Finance
5 2 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.13%) Italian Language
5 2 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Back Office
6 1 (1.56%) Banking
6 1 (1.56%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.56%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.56%) Legal
6 1 (1.56%) Local Government
6 1 (1.56%) Marketing
6 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (15.63%) Architect
2 8 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 5 (7.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (6.25%) DBA
4 4 (6.25%) Developer
4 4 (6.25%) Lead
5 3 (4.69%) Analyst
5 3 (4.69%) Content Manager
5 3 (4.69%) Data Protection Officer
5 3 (4.69%) Digital Content Manager
5 3 (4.69%) Python Engineer
5 3 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.69%) SQL DBA
5 3 (4.69%) Support Officer
5 3 (4.69%) Technical Architect
6 2 (3.13%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (3.13%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.13%) Development Manager
6 2 (3.13%) Power Platform Developer
6 2 (3.13%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.25%) AWS CDK
1 4 (6.25%) REST
2 3 (4.69%) AngularJS
2 3 (4.69%) boto
2 3 (4.69%) FastAPI
2 3 (4.69%) Hugging Face
2 3 (4.69%) JWT
2 3 (4.69%) NumPy
2 3 (4.69%) OAuth
2 3 (4.69%) OpenCV
2 3 (4.69%) Pandas
2 3 (4.69%) PyTorch
2 3 (4.69%) SQLAlchemy
2 3 (4.69%) Vue
3 2 (3.13%) PySpark
3 2 (3.13%) RESTful
3 2 (3.13%) Spring
3 2 (3.13%) Spring Boot
3 2 (3.13%) Streamlit
4 1 (1.56%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.06%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.94%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.81%) Data Structures
3 5 (7.81%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.69%) Algorithms
5 3 (4.69%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.69%) NHS
5 3 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.13%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (3.13%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.56%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.56%) NVMe
7 1 (1.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (28.13%) Linux
2 14 (21.88%) Windows
3 3 (4.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.69%) Solaris
3 3 (4.69%) Unix
4 2 (3.13%) Android
4 2 (3.13%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.13%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (29.69%) Agile
2 16 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (23.44%) Roadmaps
4 13 (20.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (20.31%) Migration
5 11 (17.19%) Analytics
5 11 (17.19%) DevOps
6 9 (14.06%) Data Protection
6 9 (14.06%) High Availability
7 8 (12.50%) Data Modelling
8 7 (10.94%) AI
8 7 (10.94%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (10.94%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (10.94%) Decision-Making
8 7 (10.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (10.94%) ITSM
8 7 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (10.94%) Service Management
8 7 (10.94%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (9.38%) Programme Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.19%) Python
2 9 (14.06%) SQL
3 8 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 6 (9.38%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.81%) Java
6 4 (6.25%) Bash
7 3 (4.69%) Bicep
7 3 (4.69%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.13%) C#
8 2 (3.13%) Shell Script
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
1 6 (9.38%) Degree
2 4 (6.25%) CCNA
3 3 (4.69%) DBS Check
4 2 (3.13%) CCNP
4 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.13%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.56%) NCDA
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%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.56%) VCAP
5 1 (1.56%) VCP6
5 1 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.19%) QA
2 5 (7.81%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.81%) GDPR
3 3 (4.69%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.69%) PMO
4 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.56%) NCSC
4 1 (1.56%) NIST
4 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.13%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.56%) Docker
3 1 (1.56%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (9.38%) Terraform
2 4 (6.25%) Grafana
3 3 (4.69%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.13%) Ansible
4 2 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.56%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.56%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.56%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.56%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.56%) Puppet
5 1 (1.56%) SCCM
5 1 (1.56%) SCOM
5 1 (1.56%) vMotion
5 1 (1.56%) vRealize
Vendors
1 16 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.63%) Oracle
3 7 (10.94%) Cisco
4 6 (9.38%) F5
4 6 (9.38%) Palo Alto
5 3 (4.69%) Citrix
5 3 (4.69%) Databricks
5 3 (4.69%) Google
6 2 (3.13%) Commvault
6 2 (3.13%) EnterpriseDB
6 2 (3.13%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.13%) SAP
6 2 (3.13%) VMware
7 1 (1.56%) Avaya
7 1 (1.56%) Brocade
7 1 (1.56%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.56%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.56%) NetApp
7 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.56%) SolarWinds
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