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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 426 416
Rank change year-on-year -139 -10 +65
Contract jobs citing Disclosure Scotland 65 99 177
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.34% 0.40%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.84% 2.21% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 77 103
10th Percentile £146 £200 £150
25th Percentile £242 £375 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £568 £538 £531
90th Percentile £694 £593 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -3.43%
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 - - -50.23%

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 7,718 4,475 6,342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.32% 15.28% 14.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,972 2,899 4,037
10th Percentile £336 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £385 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £625
90th Percentile £700 £716 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £484
% change year-on-year +5.26% -1.86% +1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 177 373
10th Percentile £15.31 £17.26 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.25
Median hourly rate £30.58 £32.00 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +47.87% -44.51%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £82.03 £80.40 £66.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.43 £31.88 £18.00
% change year-on-year -1.41% +77.11% -48.57%

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 29 March 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 29 March 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 -127 65 £450 -5.26% 7
Scotland -18 59 £438 -7.89% 7
Work from Home -53 10 £438 -8.66% 2
England -101 6 £648 +46.11%
South East - 6 £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 3 (4.62%) CMS
1 3 (4.62%) Drupal
1 3 (4.62%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.08%) Apache TomEE
3 1 (1.54%) Apache
3 1 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.54%) Confluence
3 1 (1.54%) JBoss
3 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (10.77%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (3.08%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.54%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 12 (18.46%) Azure
2 6 (9.23%) AWS
3 5 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (6.15%) SaaS
5 3 (4.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.62%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (4.62%) Google Analytics
5 3 (4.62%) Serverless
6 2 (3.08%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.08%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.08%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.54%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.54%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.54%) IaaS
7 1 (1.54%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.62%) Firewall
1 3 (4.62%) Intranet
1 3 (4.62%) LAN
1 3 (4.62%) Network Security
1 3 (4.62%) VPN
1 3 (4.62%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (3.08%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (3.08%) Internet
2 2 (3.08%) IPsec
2 2 (3.08%) SAN
2 2 (3.08%) SD-WAN
2 2 (3.08%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.54%) DNS
3 1 (1.54%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.54%) HTTP
3 1 (1.54%) WAN
3 1 (1.54%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.23%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (6.15%) Power BI
3 3 (4.62%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.08%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.54%) BusinessObjects XI
5 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.54%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.54%) MySQL
5 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (6.15%) JIRA
2 2 (3.08%) Ant
2 2 (3.08%) Eclipse
2 2 (3.08%) Git
2 2 (3.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.08%) Maven
3 1 (1.54%) GitLab
3 1 (1.54%) MLflow
3 1 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (35.38%) Social Skills
2 18 (27.69%) Public Sector
3 14 (21.54%) Finance
4 11 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (12.31%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (6.15%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Back Office
7 1 (1.54%) Italian Language
7 1 (1.54%) Legal
7 1 (1.54%) Local Government
7 1 (1.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (15.38%) Lead
2 7 (10.77%) Data Protection Officer
2 7 (10.77%) Developer
2 7 (10.77%) Support Officer
3 5 (7.69%) Analyst
3 5 (7.69%) Architect
4 4 (6.15%) DBA
4 4 (6.15%) Delivery Manager
4 4 (6.15%) Java Developer
5 3 (4.62%) Content Manager
5 3 (4.62%) Data Analyst
5 3 (4.62%) Digital Content Manager
5 3 (4.62%) Information Governance Officer
5 3 (4.62%) Information Officer
5 3 (4.62%) Network Engineer
5 3 (4.62%) PMO Lead
5 3 (4.62%) Service Transition Leader
5 3 (4.62%) SQL DBA
6 2 (3.08%) Service Manager
6 2 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.15%) Spring
2 3 (4.62%) REST
3 2 (3.08%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.08%) AWS CDK
3 2 (3.08%) Hibernate
3 2 (3.08%) JPA
3 2 (3.08%) JSP
3 2 (3.08%) JSTL
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (3.08%) Spring Security
4 1 (1.54%) .NET
4 1 (1.54%) boto
4 1 (1.54%) CSS
4 1 (1.54%) Express.js
4 1 (1.54%) HTML
4 1 (1.54%) Pandas
4 1 (1.54%) React
4 1 (1.54%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.54%) Vue
4 1 (1.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 5 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.15%) Freedom of Information
2 4 (6.15%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.62%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.62%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.08%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.08%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.08%) NHS
5 1 (1.54%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.54%) CMDB
5 1 (1.54%) Derivative
5 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.54%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.54%) NVMe
5 1 (1.54%) Replication
5 1 (1.54%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.23%) Windows
2 5 (7.69%) Linux
3 2 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.08%) Solaris
4 1 (1.54%) Android
4 1 (1.54%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.54%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.54%) Unix
4 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (29.23%) Agile
2 14 (21.54%) Data Protection
3 13 (20.00%) Migration
4 11 (16.92%) Decision-Making
5 10 (15.38%) DevOps
5 10 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (13.85%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (13.85%) Project Management
6 9 (13.85%) Roadmaps
7 7 (10.77%) ERP
7 7 (10.77%) Project Delivery
7 7 (10.77%) Risk Management
8 6 (9.23%) Analytics
8 6 (9.23%) Data Analysis
8 6 (9.23%) Programme Delivery
8 6 (9.23%) Waterfall
9 5 (7.69%) Information Governance
9 5 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
9 5 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.77%) SQL
2 5 (7.69%) Java
3 4 (6.15%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.62%) Bicep
4 3 (4.62%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.62%) Python
5 1 (1.54%) Bash
5 1 (1.54%) C#
5 1 (1.54%) JCL
5 1 (1.54%) Perl
5 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (4.62%) Degree
2 2 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (3.08%) PMI Certification
2 2 (3.08%) PMP
3 1 (1.54%) CCNA
3 1 (1.54%) CCNP
3 1 (1.54%) NCDA
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (1.54%) VCAP
3 1 (1.54%) VCP6
3 1 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.31%) GDPR
2 7 (10.77%) PMO
3 5 (7.69%) QA
4 4 (6.15%) Accessibility
5 3 (4.62%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.54%) NCSC
6 1 (1.54%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.54%) Docker
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (6.15%) Terraform
2 3 (4.62%) Grafana
3 1 (1.54%) Ansible
3 1 (1.54%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.54%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.54%) PowerCLI
3 1 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.54%) vMotion
3 1 (1.54%) vRealize
Vendors
1 11 (16.92%) Oracle
2 8 (12.31%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.62%) Cisco
3 3 (4.62%) Google
4 2 (3.08%) Commvault
4 2 (3.08%) F5
4 2 (3.08%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.54%) Avaya
5 1 (1.54%) Brocade
5 1 (1.54%) Citrix
5 1 (1.54%) EnterpriseDB
5 1 (1.54%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.54%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.54%) NetApp
5 1 (1.54%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.54%) Remedy
5 1 (1.54%) SAP
5 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.54%) VMware