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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 498 454
Rank change year-on-year -117 -44 -37
Contract jobs citing Disclosure Scotland 74 59 108
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.18% 0.28%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.77% 1.05% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 38 73
10th Percentile £403 £200 £151
25th Percentile £420 £376 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £433
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +3.93% -3.78%
75th Percentile £650 £528 £500
90th Percentile £675 £550 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £553 £450 £433
% change year-on-year +22.83% +3.93% -3.78%

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 9,649 5,645 5,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.59% 17.13% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,083 3,621 3,067
10th Percentile £325 £300 £281
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +2.95% -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 631 267 259
10th Percentile £13.88 £13.60 £12.42
25th Percentile £16.60 £16.92 £15.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -22.82%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £59.38
90th Percentile £76.00 £81.10 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 £27.54 £27.09
% change year-on-year +19.83% +1.66% -29.73%

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 19 September 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 11 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 19 September 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 -98 73 £553 +22.83% 11
Scotland -17 61 £510 +13.33% 10
England - 13 £600 - 2
Work from Home -80 9 £439 -2.50% 1
South East - 5 £600 - 1
South West - 4 - -
East of England - 2 £600 -
North of England - 2 £550 -
London - 1 £400 - 1
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 6 (8.11%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.05%) CMS
3 2 (2.70%) Apache
3 2 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.70%) Confluence
4 1 (1.35%) JBoss
4 1 (1.35%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (1.35%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.70%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.70%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.35%) iTrent
1 1 (1.35%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 21 (28.38%) Azure
2 15 (20.27%) AWS
3 10 (13.51%) Power Platform
4 8 (10.81%) IaaS
4 8 (10.81%) SaaS
5 7 (9.46%) PaaS
6 6 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (6.76%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (6.76%) Serverless
8 4 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (5.41%) Amazon S3
8 4 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (5.41%) OpenShift
9 3 (4.05%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (4.05%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.05%) Entra ID
9 3 (4.05%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.46%) Firewall
1 7 (9.46%) Network Security
1 7 (9.46%) VPN
1 7 (9.46%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (8.11%) LAN
3 5 (6.76%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (6.76%) DNS
3 5 (6.76%) IPsec
3 5 (6.76%) SD-WAN
3 5 (6.76%) Unified Communications
4 3 (4.05%) Internet
4 3 (4.05%) WAN
5 2 (2.70%) DHCP
5 2 (2.70%) HTTP
5 2 (2.70%) SAN
6 1 (1.35%) TETRA
6 1 (1.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.16%) Power BI
2 6 (8.11%) MySQL
3 5 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.41%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (4.05%) Power Query
5 3 (4.05%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.70%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.70%) MariaDB
6 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.70%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (2.70%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.70%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (2.70%) Tableau
7 1 (1.35%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.35%) Metadata
7 1 (1.35%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.35%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (6.76%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.41%) Git
2 4 (5.41%) JIRA
3 2 (2.70%) Gradle
3 2 (2.70%) Maven
3 2 (2.70%) MLflow
3 2 (2.70%) webpack
4 1 (1.35%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.35%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.35%) GitLab
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.35%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 24 (32.43%) Public Sector
3 8 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.76%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.41%) Finance
5 4 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (5.41%) Local Government
6 3 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.70%) Italian Language
8 1 (1.35%) Back Office
8 1 (1.35%) Banking
8 1 (1.35%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.35%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (1.35%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.35%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.35%) Legal
8 1 (1.35%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.35%) Publishing
8 1 (1.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (16.22%) Architect
2 7 (9.46%) Network Engineer
3 6 (8.11%) Data Engineer
3 6 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (8.11%) Lead
3 6 (8.11%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (6.76%) Developer
5 4 (5.41%) Senior
6 3 (4.05%) Analyst
6 3 (4.05%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (4.05%) Technical Architect
7 2 (2.70%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (2.70%) Coordinator
7 2 (2.70%) Help Desk Analyst
7 2 (2.70%) IT Analyst
7 2 (2.70%) IT Engineer
7 2 (2.70%) Programme Coordinator
7 2 (2.70%) Python Engineer
7 2 (2.70%) Software Engineer
8 1 (1.35%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.46%) Terraform
2 6 (8.11%) REST
2 6 (8.11%) Spring
2 6 (8.11%) Spring Boot
3 4 (5.41%) PySpark
3 4 (5.41%) React
3 4 (5.41%) Vue
4 3 (4.05%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.05%) AWS CDK
4 3 (4.05%) Node.js
4 3 (4.05%) OAuth
4 3 (4.05%) RESTful
4 3 (4.05%) Streamlit
5 2 (2.70%) FastAPI
5 2 (2.70%) FHIR
5 2 (2.70%) Hugging Face
5 2 (2.70%) NumPy
5 2 (2.70%) OpenCV
5 2 (2.70%) SQLAlchemy
5 2 (2.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.16%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.11%) Data Centre
3 5 (6.76%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.41%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.41%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.41%) NHS
4 4 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.05%) Freedom of Information
5 3 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.05%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.70%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.70%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.35%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.35%) EPoS
7 1 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.35%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.35%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (25.68%) Linux
2 14 (18.92%) Windows
3 4 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (5.41%) Unix
4 2 (2.70%) Android
4 2 (2.70%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.70%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.70%) Solaris
4 2 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (32.43%) Agile
2 17 (22.97%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (21.62%) Roadmaps
4 14 (18.92%) Data Modelling
4 14 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (17.57%) DevOps
6 12 (16.22%) Analytics
6 12 (16.22%) Business Intelligence
6 12 (16.22%) CI/CD
7 10 (13.51%) AI
8 9 (12.16%) Change Management
8 9 (12.16%) Migration
8 9 (12.16%) Service Management
9 8 (10.81%) Mentoring
9 8 (10.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (9.46%) Containerisation
10 7 (9.46%) Data Engineering
10 7 (9.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (9.46%) Microservices
10 7 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 16 (21.62%) Python
2 13 (17.57%) SQL
3 9 (12.16%) Java
4 8 (10.81%) PowerShell
5 6 (8.11%) Bash
5 6 (8.11%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.11%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (4.05%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.70%) Bicep
7 2 (2.70%) Groovy
8 1 (1.35%) C
8 1 (1.35%) C#
8 1 (1.35%) C++
8 1 (1.35%) Perl
8 1 (1.35%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.35%) R
8 1 (1.35%) Scala
8 1 (1.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (6.76%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (6.76%) DBS Check
1 5 (6.76%) Degree
2 4 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.05%) CCNA
3 3 (4.05%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.70%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.70%) CCNP
5 1 (1.35%) HND
5 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.35%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.35%) PhD
5 1 (1.35%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.35%) RHCE
5 1 (1.35%) RHCSA
5 1 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.51%) QA
2 7 (9.46%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.05%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.70%) GDPR
5 1 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (9.46%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.76%) Docker
3 2 (2.70%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (6.76%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.41%) Grafana
3 3 (4.05%) Ansible
3 3 (4.05%) Progress Chef
3 3 (4.05%) Puppet
4 2 (2.70%) SCCM
4 2 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.35%) Argo
5 1 (1.35%) Kibana
5 1 (1.35%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.35%) Salt
5 1 (1.35%) SCOM
5 1 (1.35%) yum
Vendors
1 24 (32.43%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.81%) Oracle
3 6 (8.11%) Databricks
4 5 (6.76%) Cisco
4 5 (6.76%) F5
4 5 (6.76%) Palo Alto
5 3 (4.05%) Citrix
5 3 (4.05%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.70%) SAP
7 1 (1.35%) Avaya
7 1 (1.35%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.35%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.35%) EnterpriseDB
7 1 (1.35%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (1.35%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.35%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.35%) SaltStack
7 1 (1.35%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.35%) Splunk
7 1 (1.35%) VMware