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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 453 433
Rank change year-on-year -46 -20 +183
Contract jobs citing Disclosure Scotland 58 108 225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.28% 0.45%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.04% 2.11% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 72 161
10th Percentile £200 £151 £150
25th Percentile £376 £206 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £437 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile £532 £505 £525
90th Percentile £551 £600 £590
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £437 £450
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -2.28%

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 5,567 5,111 7,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.15% 13.40% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,561 3,049 4,816
10th Percentile £300 £281 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £606 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 261 253
10th Percentile £13.60 £12.36 £14.06
25th Percentile £17.19 £15.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -22.54% +54.35%
75th Percentile £58.75 £58.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.10 £70.00 £78.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.86 £26.59 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.78% -24.03% +66.67%

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
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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -34 58 £450 +3.09% 3
UK excluding London -46 58 £450 +3.09% 3
Work from Home -3 23 £450 +9.09%

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 4 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.45%) CMS
3 1 (1.72%) Apache
3 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.72%) JBoss
3 1 (1.72%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.72%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.72%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.72%) iTrent
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.97%) Power Platform
2 8 (13.79%) Azure
3 5 (8.62%) AWS
4 4 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.17%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.17%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (5.17%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (3.45%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.45%) Serverless
7 1 (1.72%) GitHub
7 1 (1.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.62%) Firewall
2 3 (5.17%) HTTP
2 3 (5.17%) Internet
3 2 (3.45%) DNS
3 2 (3.45%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.72%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.72%) IPsec
4 1 (1.72%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.72%) LAN
4 1 (1.72%) MQTT
4 1 (1.72%) Network Security
4 1 (1.72%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.72%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.72%) VPN
4 1 (1.72%) WAN
4 1 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.79%) Power BI
2 4 (6.90%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (5.17%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (5.17%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.45%) MariaDB
4 2 (3.45%) MySQL
4 2 (3.45%) Power Query
4 2 (3.45%) Redis
4 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.72%) CockroachDB
5 1 (1.72%) DB2
5 1 (1.72%) Metadata
5 1 (1.72%) NewSQL
5 1 (1.72%) OLTP
5 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.45%) Git
2 2 (3.45%) webpack
3 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.72%) JIRA
3 1 (1.72%) JUnit
3 1 (1.72%) MLflow
3 1 (1.72%) Selenium
3 1 (1.72%) WebDriver
General
1 25 (43.10%) Social Skills
2 15 (25.86%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (25.86%) Public Sector
3 8 (13.79%) Finance
4 4 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.72%) Back Office
6 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.72%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.72%) Legal
6 1 (1.72%) Local Government
6 1 (1.72%) Marketing
6 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (13.79%) Developer
2 7 (12.07%) Analyst
2 7 (12.07%) Senior
3 3 (5.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (5.17%) IT Engineer
3 3 (5.17%) Lead
4 2 (3.45%) Administrator
4 2 (3.45%) Architect
4 2 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (3.45%) Business Analyst
4 2 (3.45%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (3.45%) Data Analyst
4 2 (3.45%) Data Engineer
4 2 (3.45%) Project Manager
4 2 (3.45%) Security Analyst
4 2 (3.45%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 2 (3.45%) Unix Engineer
5 1 (1.72%) PMO Lead
5 1 (1.72%) Senior Technician
5 1 (1.72%) Senior UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.07%) REST
2 4 (6.90%) OAuth
2 4 (6.90%) RESTful
3 3 (5.17%) CSS
3 3 (5.17%) FastAPI
3 3 (5.17%) HTML
3 3 (5.17%) Node.js
3 3 (5.17%) PyTorch
3 3 (5.17%) React
4 2 (3.45%) AWS CDK
4 2 (3.45%) boto
4 2 (3.45%) CSS3
4 2 (3.45%) HTML5
4 2 (3.45%) Hugging Face
4 2 (3.45%) JWT
4 2 (3.45%) NumPy
4 2 (3.45%) Pandas
4 2 (3.45%) Redux
4 2 (3.45%) SOAP
4 2 (3.45%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.79%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.90%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (5.17%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.45%) NHS
4 2 (3.45%) PKI
4 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (3.45%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.72%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.72%) CMDB
5 1 (1.72%) Equities
5 1 (1.72%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.72%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.72%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.72%) Photography
5 1 (1.72%) Social Media
5 1 (1.72%) Video Editing
5 1 (1.72%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.41%) Linux
2 8 (13.79%) Windows
3 7 (12.07%) Unix
4 3 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (5.17%) Solaris
4 3 (5.17%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.72%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (34.48%) Agile
2 10 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (15.52%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (13.79%) Decision-Making
5 7 (12.07%) Analytics
5 7 (12.07%) CI/CD
5 7 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (12.07%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (12.07%) DevOps
5 7 (12.07%) ITIL
5 7 (12.07%) Project Management
5 7 (12.07%) Service Management
6 6 (10.34%) Mentoring
6 6 (10.34%) Time Management
6 6 (10.34%) User Experience
7 5 (8.62%) Customer Service
7 5 (8.62%) Data Modelling
7 5 (8.62%) ITSM
7 5 (8.62%) Scrum
7 5 (8.62%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.41%) Python
2 9 (15.52%) SQL
3 6 (10.34%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.90%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (5.17%) Java
5 3 (5.17%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.17%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.45%) Bash
6 2 (3.45%) C#
6 2 (3.45%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (1.72%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (1.72%) Bicep
7 1 (1.72%) Perl
7 1 (1.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (17.24%) Degree
2 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.72%) CCNA
3 1 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.72%) CISM
3 1 (1.72%) CISSP
3 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.72%) HND
3 1 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.07%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.17%) GDPR
3 2 (3.45%) QA
4 1 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.72%) PMO
4 1 (1.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.72%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.72%) KVM
1 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (10.34%) Grafana
2 5 (8.62%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.17%) Terraform
4 2 (3.45%) Ansible
4 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.72%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.72%) Kibana
5 1 (1.72%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.72%) logstash
5 1 (1.72%) Nagios
5 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.72%) SCCM
5 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (18.97%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.07%) Oracle
3 2 (3.45%) ArcSight
3 2 (3.45%) F5
3 2 (3.45%) Palo Alto
3 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.45%) Splunk
4 1 (1.72%) Cisco
4 1 (1.72%) Commvault
4 1 (1.72%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.72%) Facebook
4 1 (1.72%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.72%) IBM
4 1 (1.72%) Instagram
4 1 (1.72%) Okta
4 1 (1.72%) Ping Identity
4 1 (1.72%) Qualys
4 1 (1.72%) Snow
4 1 (1.72%) Sybase
4 1 (1.72%) Twitter