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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 447 428
Rank change year-on-year -66 -19 +159
Contract jobs citing Disclosure Scotland 64 100 199
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.27% 0.42%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.04% 2.06% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 75 130
10th Percentile £206 £153 £163
25th Percentile £413 £230 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.14% -2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £543 £496 £543
90th Percentile £634 £559 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +5.14% -2.78% -5.26%

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 6,160 4,845 6,699
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.60% 13.24% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,948 2,841 4,486
10th Percentile £304 £275 £311
25th Percentile £402 £391 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £473 £500
% change year-on-year +1.06% -5.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 215 255
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.26 £14.72
25th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £20.07
Median hourly rate £27.53 £27.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -26.67% +44.23%
75th Percentile £60.00 £54.68 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.14 £26.59 £40.00
% change year-on-year -16.74% -33.53% +66.67%

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 8 November 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 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 8 November 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 -66 64 £460 +5.14% 26
Scotland -19 63 £457 +4.46% 22
Work from Home -22 19 £454 +3.18% 1
England -19 1 £648 +8.00% 5
South East - 1 £648 - 3

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 (4.69%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.13%) CMS
3 1 (1.56%) Apache
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.56%) Apache TomEE
3 1 (1.56%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.56%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (3.13%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.56%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.06%) Azure
1 9 (14.06%) Power Platform
2 6 (9.38%) AWS
3 5 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (4.69%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.69%) Power Automate
5 3 (4.69%) SaaS
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (3.13%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.13%) Serverless
7 1 (1.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.38%) Firewall
2 3 (4.69%) HTTP
3 2 (3.13%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (3.13%) DNS
3 2 (3.13%) IPsec
3 2 (3.13%) LAN
3 2 (3.13%) SD-WAN
3 2 (3.13%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.13%) VPN
3 2 (3.13%) WAN
3 2 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.56%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.56%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.56%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.56%) MQTT
4 1 (1.56%) Network Security
4 1 (1.56%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.38%) Power BI
2 3 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.13%) MariaDB
3 2 (3.13%) MySQL
3 2 (3.13%) Power Query
3 2 (3.13%) Redis
3 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.56%) CockroachDB
4 1 (1.56%) Metadata
4 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.56%) NewSQL
4 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.56%) OLTP
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.69%) Git
3 2 (3.13%) JIRA
3 2 (3.13%) webpack
4 1 (1.56%) Ant
4 1 (1.56%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.56%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.56%) Maven
4 1 (1.56%) MLflow
4 1 (1.56%) Selenium
4 1 (1.56%) WebDriver
General
1 25 (39.06%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (21.88%) Public Sector
3 10 (15.63%) Finance
4 5 (7.81%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (7.81%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.13%) Digital Health
5 2 (3.13%) Local Government
6 1 (1.56%) Back Office
6 1 (1.56%) Banking
6 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.56%) Legal
6 1 (1.56%) Marketing
6 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (14.06%) Developer
2 7 (10.94%) Lead
3 6 (9.38%) Analyst
4 4 (6.25%) Architect
4 4 (6.25%) Senior
5 3 (4.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (4.69%) Service Manager
6 2 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (3.13%) Business Analyst
6 2 (3.13%) Data Analyst
6 2 (3.13%) Data Protection Officer
6 2 (3.13%) Field Engineer
6 2 (3.13%) Information Governance Officer
6 2 (3.13%) Information Officer
6 2 (3.13%) Network Engineer
6 2 (3.13%) Network Field Engineer
6 2 (3.13%) PMO Lead
6 2 (3.13%) Project Manager
6 2 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.13%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.38%) REST
2 5 (7.81%) RESTful
3 4 (6.25%) OAuth
4 3 (4.69%) CSS
4 3 (4.69%) FastAPI
4 3 (4.69%) HTML
4 3 (4.69%) Node.js
4 3 (4.69%) PyTorch
5 2 (3.13%) AWS CDK
5 2 (3.13%) boto
5 2 (3.13%) CSS3
5 2 (3.13%) HTML5
5 2 (3.13%) Hugging Face
5 2 (3.13%) JWT
5 2 (3.13%) NumPy
5 2 (3.13%) Pandas
5 2 (3.13%) React
5 2 (3.13%) SOAP
5 2 (3.13%) Spring
5 2 (3.13%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.69%) Freedom of Information
2 3 (4.69%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (4.69%) NHS
3 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.13%) Low-Code
3 2 (3.13%) PKI
3 2 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (3.13%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.13%) Web Conferencing
4 1 (1.56%) Graphic Design
4 1 (1.56%) Photography
4 1 (1.56%) Social Media
4 1 (1.56%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.94%) Linux
2 6 (9.38%) Windows
3 3 (4.69%) Unix
4 2 (3.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.19%) Agile
2 11 (17.19%) Project Management
3 10 (15.63%) Decision-Making
3 10 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (14.06%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 8 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 7 (10.94%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (10.94%) DevOps
6 7 (10.94%) Risk Management
6 7 (10.94%) Roadmaps
6 7 (10.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (9.38%) AI
7 6 (9.38%) Analytics
7 6 (9.38%) Data Analysis
7 6 (9.38%) PRINCE2
7 6 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (9.38%) Visualisation
7 6 (9.38%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 12 (18.75%) Python
2 8 (12.50%) SQL
3 7 (10.94%) JavaScript
4 5 (7.81%) Java
5 4 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 4 (6.25%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (3.13%) C#
7 2 (3.13%) Search Processing Language
7 2 (3.13%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.56%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (1.56%) Bash
8 1 (1.56%) Bicep
8 1 (1.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (10.94%) Degree
2 2 (3.13%) CCNA
2 2 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.56%) HND
3 1 (1.56%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.94%) Accessibility
2 6 (9.38%) GDPR
3 4 (6.25%) QA
4 2 (3.13%) PMO
5 1 (1.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.56%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (7.81%) Grafana
1 5 (7.81%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.69%) Terraform
3 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.13%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.13%) SCCM
4 1 (1.56%) Ansible
4 1 (1.56%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.56%) Kibana
4 1 (1.56%) Kustomize
4 1 (1.56%) logstash
4 1 (1.56%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (17.19%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.25%) Oracle
3 3 (4.69%) Cisco
3 3 (4.69%) F5
3 3 (4.69%) Splunk
4 2 (3.13%) ArcSight
4 2 (3.13%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.56%) Avaya
5 1 (1.56%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.56%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.56%) Facebook
5 1 (1.56%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.56%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.56%) Instagram
5 1 (1.56%) Okta
5 1 (1.56%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.56%) Remedy
5 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.56%) SolarWinds