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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 461 429
Rank change year-on-year -132 -32 +18
Contract jobs citing Disclosure Scotland 68 84 151
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.26% 0.36%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.76% 1.56% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 61 80
10th Percentile £353 £210 £156
25th Percentile £420 £335 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £416
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £649 £534 £496
90th Percentile £650 £557 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £450 £416
% change year-on-year +22.22% +8.11% -7.50%
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 8,930 5,392 5,830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.96% 16.58% 13.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,710 3,472 3,594
10th Percentile £338 £279 £281
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £615
90th Percentile £700 £716 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £475
% change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% -4.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 541 240 403
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.59 £11.48
25th Percentile £19.22 £17.75 £13.69
Median hourly rate £36.07 £30.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +20.23% +24.07% -38.66%
75th Percentile £69.00 £62.24 £51.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.30 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £26.93 £24.18
% change year-on-year +43.81% +11.35% -30.91%

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 17 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 17 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 -111 68 £550 +22.22% 9
Scotland -27 59 £475 +5.56% 6
Work from Home -82 10 £425 -1.16% 2
England -114 9 £600 +109.06% 3
South East - 4 £600 -
South West - 3 - - 2
North of England - 2 £550 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 1
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 (4.41%) Apache
1 3 (4.41%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (4.41%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.94%) CMS
2 2 (2.94%) JBoss
2 2 (2.94%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (1.47%) Confluence
3 1 (1.47%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.47%) iTrent
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 22 (32.35%) Azure
2 15 (22.06%) AWS
3 6 (8.82%) IaaS
3 6 (8.82%) PaaS
3 6 (8.82%) SaaS
3 6 (8.82%) Serverless
4 5 (7.35%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (7.35%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (5.88%) OCI
6 3 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (4.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.41%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (4.41%) Dagster
6 3 (4.41%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (4.41%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.24%) Network Security
2 8 (11.76%) Firewall
2 8 (11.76%) VPN
2 8 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (10.29%) LAN
4 6 (8.82%) Cisco Nexus
4 6 (8.82%) IPsec
4 6 (8.82%) SD-WAN
4 6 (8.82%) Unified Communications
5 5 (7.35%) DNS
6 4 (5.88%) WAN
7 3 (4.41%) HTTP
7 3 (4.41%) Internet
7 3 (4.41%) SAN
8 2 (2.94%) DHCP
9 1 (1.47%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (1.47%) Intranet
9 1 (1.47%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.35%) MySQL
2 4 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.88%) Power BI
3 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.94%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (2.94%) MariaDB
4 2 (2.94%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.94%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.94%) Semantic Layer
4 2 (2.94%) Tableau
5 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.47%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.47%) GIS
5 1 (1.47%) Metadata
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (1.47%) Power Query
5 1 (1.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (4.41%) JIRA
1 3 (4.41%) MLflow
2 2 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.47%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.47%) Git
3 1 (1.47%) Gradle
3 1 (1.47%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.47%) Maven
3 1 (1.47%) webpack
General
1 29 (42.65%) Social Skills
2 18 (26.47%) Public Sector
3 8 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.88%) Finance
5 2 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Italian Language
5 2 (2.94%) Local Government
5 2 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Back Office
6 1 (1.47%) Banking
6 1 (1.47%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.47%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.47%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.47%) Legal
6 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (16.18%) Architect
2 8 (11.76%) Network Engineer
3 6 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (5.88%) DBA
4 4 (5.88%) Developer
4 4 (5.88%) Lead
4 4 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.41%) Analyst
5 3 (4.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (4.41%) Data Protection Officer
5 3 (4.41%) Python Engineer
5 3 (4.41%) SQL DBA
5 3 (4.41%) Support Officer
5 3 (4.41%) Technical Architect
6 2 (2.94%) Azure Architect
6 2 (2.94%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (2.94%) Development Manager
6 2 (2.94%) Help Desk Analyst
6 2 (2.94%) IT Analyst
6 2 (2.94%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.88%) AWS CDK
1 4 (5.88%) REST
2 3 (4.41%) AngularJS
2 3 (4.41%) boto
2 3 (4.41%) FastAPI
2 3 (4.41%) Hugging Face
2 3 (4.41%) JWT
2 3 (4.41%) NumPy
2 3 (4.41%) OAuth
2 3 (4.41%) OpenCV
2 3 (4.41%) Pandas
2 3 (4.41%) PyTorch
2 3 (4.41%) SQLAlchemy
2 3 (4.41%) Vue
3 2 (2.94%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.94%) FHIR
3 2 (2.94%) PySpark
3 2 (2.94%) RESTful
3 2 (2.94%) Spring
3 2 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.71%) Data Centre
2 8 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.82%) Product Ownership
4 5 (7.35%) Data Structures
5 4 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (5.88%) Management Information System
5 4 (5.88%) NHS
5 4 (5.88%) Onboarding
6 3 (4.41%) Algorithms
6 3 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (4.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.94%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.47%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.47%) CMDB
8 1 (1.47%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (1.47%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (30.88%) Linux
2 17 (25.00%) Windows
3 5 (7.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.41%) Solaris
4 3 (4.41%) Unix
5 2 (2.94%) Android
5 2 (2.94%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.94%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (29.41%) Agile
2 17 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 17 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (23.53%) Roadmaps
4 14 (20.59%) Migration
5 13 (19.12%) DevOps
6 9 (13.24%) Analytics
6 9 (13.24%) Data Modelling
6 9 (13.24%) High Availability
7 8 (11.76%) AI
7 8 (11.76%) CI/CD
7 8 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (11.76%) Data Protection
7 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (11.76%) Service Management
8 7 (10.29%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (10.29%) Decision-Making
8 7 (10.29%) ITSM
8 7 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (19.12%) Python
2 11 (16.18%) PowerShell
3 10 (14.71%) SQL
4 6 (8.82%) Bash
4 6 (8.82%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.35%) Java
6 4 (5.88%) Bicep
7 3 (4.41%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.94%) C#
8 2 (2.94%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.47%) Groovy
9 1 (1.47%) JCL
9 1 (1.47%) Perl
9 1 (1.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (8.82%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (5.88%) CCNA
2 4 (5.88%) DBS Check
2 4 (5.88%) Degree
3 2 (2.94%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.94%) CCNP
3 2 (2.94%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.94%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.47%) NCDA
4 1 (1.47%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.47%) PhD
4 1 (1.47%) Postgraduate
4 1 (1.47%) RHCE
4 1 (1.47%) RHCSA
4 1 (1.47%) VCAP
4 1 (1.47%) VCP6
4 1 (1.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.18%) QA
2 5 (7.35%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.88%) GDPR
4 3 (4.41%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.94%) PMO
6 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.47%) NCSC
6 1 (1.47%) NIST
6 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (10.29%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.41%) Docker
3 2 (2.94%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (13.24%) Terraform
2 6 (8.82%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.35%) Grafana
4 4 (5.88%) Ansible
5 2 (2.94%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.94%) Puppet
5 2 (2.94%) SCCM
5 2 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.47%) Argo
6 1 (1.47%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.47%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.47%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.47%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.47%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.47%) SCOM
6 1 (1.47%) vMotion
6 1 (1.47%) vRealize
6 1 (1.47%) yum
Vendors
1 19 (27.94%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.71%) Oracle
3 7 (10.29%) Cisco
4 6 (8.82%) F5
4 6 (8.82%) Palo Alto
5 3 (4.41%) Citrix
5 3 (4.41%) Databricks
5 3 (4.41%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.94%) Commvault
6 2 (2.94%) EnterpriseDB
6 2 (2.94%) SAP
6 2 (2.94%) VMware
7 1 (1.47%) Avaya
7 1 (1.47%) Brocade
7 1 (1.47%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.47%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.47%) Google
7 1 (1.47%) NetApp
7 1 (1.47%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.47%) SolarWinds