Disclosure Scotland Contracts

Disclosure Scotland
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Disclosure Scotland skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Disclosure Scotland over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 426 431 473
Rank change year-on-year +5 +42 +118
Contract jobs citing Disclosure Scotland 93 171 243
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.39% 0.41%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.04% 2.74% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 96 217
10th Percentile £200 £157 £160
25th Percentile £343 £270 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.56% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £547 £500 £550
90th Percentile £591 £625 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +14.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 26 2
10th Percentile - - £21.20
25th Percentile - - £21.50
Median hourly rate - £10.95 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - -50.23% +4.51%
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - £11.32 £22.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £10.95 £22.00
% change year-on-year - -50.23% +4.51%

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 4,558 6,250 7,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.59% 14.34% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,921 3,951 5,482
10th Percentile £265 £295 £275
25th Percentile £400 £402 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 383 225
10th Percentile £18.04 £10.95 £13.21
25th Percentile £22.21 £13.18 £18.70
Median hourly rate £34.50 £21.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -44.00% +33.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £83.01 £67.38 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.78 £18.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year +126.53% -50.34% +72.21%

Disclosure Scotland
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Disclosure Scotland as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Disclosure Scotland in the UK

Disclosure Scotland
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Disclosure Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Disclosure Scotland in the UK

Disclosure Scotland
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disclosure Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Disclosure Scotland in the UK

Disclosure Scotland
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Disclosure Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Disclosure Scotland in the UK

Disclosure Scotland
Top 7 Contract 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 30 April 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
UK excluding London -18 91 £475 +5.56% 7
Scotland -11 90 £471 +7.05% 6
Work from Home +20 43 £479 +13.71% 3
England +35 3 £287 -52.17% 2
London - 2 £287 -
Yorkshire +15 1 £750 +4.17%
North of England -1 1 £750 +36.36%

Disclosure Scotland
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.15%) CMS
3 1 (1.08%) JBoss
3 1 (1.08%) nginx
3 1 (1.08%) Traefik
3 1 (1.08%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.08%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.08%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (6.45%) iTrent
2 3 (3.23%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 21 (22.58%) Azure
2 14 (15.05%) Power Platform
3 12 (12.90%) AWS
4 8 (8.60%) Amazon S3
5 7 (7.53%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (7.53%) Serverless
6 5 (5.38%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (4.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (4.30%) Entra ID
7 4 (4.30%) OpenShift
8 3 (3.23%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (3.23%) SaaS
9 2 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.15%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.15%) PaaS
9 2 (2.15%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.30%) Firewall
2 2 (2.15%) Internet
3 1 (1.08%) ATM
3 1 (1.08%) DNS
3 1 (1.08%) Intranet
3 1 (1.08%) NAS
3 1 (1.08%) Network Security
3 1 (1.08%) SAN
3 1 (1.08%) SSL
3 1 (1.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.68%) MongoDB
1 9 (9.68%) Oracle Database
1 9 (9.68%) Relational Database
2 8 (8.60%) Power BI
3 7 (7.53%) DB2
4 6 (6.45%) SQL Server
5 5 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (4.30%) Tableau
7 3 (3.23%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.15%) InfluxDB
8 2 (2.15%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.08%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.08%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 7 (7.53%) Git
2 6 (6.45%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.45%) JUnit
3 2 (2.15%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.15%) GitLab
3 2 (2.15%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (2.15%) webpack
4 1 (1.08%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.08%) GCC
4 1 (1.08%) JIRA
General
1 40 (43.01%) Social Skills
2 23 (24.73%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (23.66%) Public Sector
4 21 (22.58%) Finance
5 6 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (5.38%) Back Office
6 5 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.23%) Marketing
7 3 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.15%) Banking
8 2 (2.15%) Publishing
9 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.08%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.08%) Local Government
9 1 (1.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (21.51%) Developer
2 14 (15.05%) Analyst
3 9 (9.68%) Senior
4 7 (7.53%) Java Developer
5 6 (6.45%) Administrator
5 6 (6.45%) Lead
6 5 (5.38%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.30%) Architect
7 4 (4.30%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 4 (4.30%) Security Analyst
7 4 (4.30%) Systems Administrator
8 3 (3.23%) Business Analyst
8 3 (3.23%) Designer
8 3 (3.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (3.23%) Report Analyst
9 2 (2.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (2.15%) Security Specialist
9 2 (2.15%) Systems Analyst
9 2 (2.15%) Team Leader
9 2 (2.15%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.68%) Spring
2 8 (8.60%) HTML
2 8 (8.60%) REST
3 7 (7.53%) CSS
3 7 (7.53%) Node.js
4 6 (6.45%) Kafka
4 6 (6.45%) React
5 4 (4.30%) AWS CDK
5 4 (4.30%) JMS
5 4 (4.30%) Middleware
5 4 (4.30%) Spring Boot
6 3 (3.23%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.23%) JSON
6 3 (3.23%) XML
7 2 (2.15%) CSS3
7 2 (2.15%) Express.js
7 2 (2.15%) HTML5
7 2 (2.15%) Redux
7 2 (2.15%) RESTful
7 2 (2.15%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.83%) Management Information System
2 7 (7.53%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.38%) CMDB
3 5 (5.38%) PKI
3 5 (5.38%) Security Posture
4 4 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.23%) Cyber Security Posture
5 3 (3.23%) Equities
5 3 (3.23%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.15%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.15%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.15%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.15%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.15%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.15%) Wiki
7 1 (1.08%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.08%) Digital Media
7 1 (1.08%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.28%) Linux
2 9 (9.68%) Windows
3 8 (8.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (8.60%) Unix
4 5 (5.38%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.08%) AIX
5 1 (1.08%) CentOS
5 1 (1.08%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.08%) Solaris
5 1 (1.08%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.08%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (35.48%) Agile
2 21 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (15.05%) CI/CD
4 13 (13.98%) DevOps
5 12 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
6 11 (11.83%) SDLC
7 9 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (9.68%) Microservices
7 9 (9.68%) User Experience
8 8 (8.60%) Analytics
8 8 (8.60%) ITIL
8 8 (8.60%) Mentoring
9 7 (7.53%) Customer Service
9 7 (7.53%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (7.53%) Project Management
9 7 (7.53%) Scrum
9 7 (7.53%) Service Management
9 7 (7.53%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (6.45%) Data Analysis
10 6 (6.45%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (22.58%) SQL
2 20 (21.51%) Python
3 14 (15.05%) JavaScript
4 11 (11.83%) Java
5 9 (9.68%) Shell Script
6 7 (7.53%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.38%) Bash
8 4 (4.30%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.15%) C#
9 2 (2.15%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.08%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.08%) Go
10 1 (1.08%) Groovy
10 1 (1.08%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (11.83%) Degree
2 3 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (3.23%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.15%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.08%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.08%) CISM
4 1 (1.08%) CISSP
4 1 (1.08%) MCSE
4 1 (1.08%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.53%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.38%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.30%) QA
4 3 (3.23%) PMO
5 2 (2.15%) SLA
5 2 (2.15%) WCAG
6 1 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.08%) GDPR
6 1 (1.08%) GRC
6 1 (1.08%) NCSC
6 1 (1.08%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (4.30%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.23%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.15%) Docker
3 2 (2.15%) RACF
4 1 (1.08%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (1.08%) KVM
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.08%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (5.38%) Grafana
1 5 (5.38%) Terraform
2 4 (4.30%) Ansible
3 3 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.23%) SCCM
4 2 (2.15%) HAProxy
4 2 (2.15%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.08%) Consul
5 1 (1.08%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.08%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.08%) Istio
5 1 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.08%) Kibana
5 1 (1.08%) linkerd
5 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.08%) Oracle Flashback
5 1 (1.08%) Packer
5 1 (1.08%) Rancher
5 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 14 (15.05%) Oracle
2 11 (11.83%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.53%) ServiceNow
4 6 (6.45%) Sybase
5 4 (4.30%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.23%) VMware
7 2 (2.15%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.15%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.15%) IBM
7 2 (2.15%) Splunk
7 2 (2.15%) Veritas
8 1 (1.08%) Apple
8 1 (1.08%) Cisco
8 1 (1.08%) Databricks
8 1 (1.08%) DocuSign
8 1 (1.08%) ESET
8 1 (1.08%) Okta
8 1 (1.08%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.08%) Snow