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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 495 464
Rank change year-on-year -110 -31 -29
Contract jobs citing Disclosure Scotland 73 57 107
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.17% 0.28%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.76% 1.00% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 35 75
10th Percentile £404 £200 £152
25th Percentile £424 £400 £192
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +22.83% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £500 £496
90th Percentile £675 £550 £573
UK excluding London median daily rate £556 £450 £400
% change year-on-year +23.44% +12.50% -11.11%

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 9,667 5,681 5,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.62% 17.17% 13.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,089 3,642 3,011
10th Percentile £325 £300 £276
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £504
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -0.79% -4.00%
75th Percentile £601 £606 £625
90th Percentile £700 £706 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 641 269 249
10th Percentile £13.86 £13.60 £12.69
25th Percentile £16.60 £16.92 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.40 £30.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.98% +9.09% -22.54%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.25 £62.24
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.55 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.40 £27.86 £27.50
% change year-on-year +16.28% +1.31% -23.61%

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 26 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 26 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 -86 72 £556 +23.44% 6
Scotland -21 60 £520 +15.56% 5
England - 13 £600 - 2
Work from Home -64 8 £439 -2.50% 2
South East - 5 £600 -
South West - 4 - - 1
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 (8.22%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.11%) CMS
3 2 (2.74%) Apache
3 2 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.74%) Confluence
4 1 (1.37%) JBoss
4 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (1.37%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.74%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.74%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.37%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 20 (27.40%) Azure
2 16 (21.92%) AWS
3 10 (13.70%) Power Platform
4 9 (12.33%) SaaS
5 8 (10.96%) IaaS
6 7 (9.59%) PaaS
7 6 (8.22%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (6.85%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (6.85%) Serverless
9 4 (5.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (5.48%) Amazon S3
9 4 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.48%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (5.48%) OpenShift
10 3 (4.11%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (4.11%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (4.11%) OCI
11 2 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.59%) Network Security
2 6 (8.22%) Firewall
2 6 (8.22%) VPN
2 6 (8.22%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (6.85%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (6.85%) IPsec
3 5 (6.85%) LAN
3 5 (6.85%) SD-WAN
3 5 (6.85%) Unified Communications
4 4 (5.48%) DNS
5 3 (4.11%) WAN
6 2 (2.74%) DHCP
6 2 (2.74%) HTTP
6 2 (2.74%) Internet
7 1 (1.37%) SAN
7 1 (1.37%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.33%) Power BI
2 6 (8.22%) MySQL
3 5 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.48%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (4.11%) Power Query
5 3 (4.11%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.74%) MariaDB
6 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.74%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (1.37%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.37%) Metadata
7 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.37%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.37%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (1.37%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (6.85%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.48%) Git
2 4 (5.48%) JIRA
3 2 (2.74%) Gradle
3 2 (2.74%) Maven
3 2 (2.74%) MLflow
3 2 (2.74%) webpack
4 1 (1.37%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.37%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.37%) GitLab
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (38.36%) Social Skills
2 25 (34.25%) Public Sector
3 8 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.85%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.48%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (5.48%) Local Government
6 3 (4.11%) Finance
6 3 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Back Office
8 1 (1.37%) Banking
8 1 (1.37%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.37%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (1.37%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.37%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.37%) Italian Language
8 1 (1.37%) Legal
8 1 (1.37%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.37%) Publishing
8 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (17.81%) Architect
2 6 (8.22%) Data Engineer
2 6 (8.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (8.22%) Lead
2 6 (8.22%) Network Engineer
2 6 (8.22%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (6.85%) Developer
4 4 (5.48%) Senior
5 3 (4.11%) Analyst
5 3 (4.11%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (4.11%) Technical Architect
6 2 (2.74%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (2.74%) Coordinator
6 2 (2.74%) Data Analyst
6 2 (2.74%) Integration Architect
6 2 (2.74%) IT Engineer
6 2 (2.74%) Programme Coordinator
6 2 (2.74%) Python Engineer
6 2 (2.74%) Software Engineer
7 1 (1.37%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.59%) REST
1 7 (9.59%) Terraform
2 6 (8.22%) Spring
2 6 (8.22%) Spring Boot
3 4 (5.48%) PySpark
3 4 (5.48%) React
3 4 (5.48%) Vue
4 3 (4.11%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.11%) AWS CDK
4 3 (4.11%) Node.js
4 3 (4.11%) OAuth
4 3 (4.11%) RESTful
4 3 (4.11%) Streamlit
5 2 (2.74%) FastAPI
5 2 (2.74%) FHIR
5 2 (2.74%) Hugging Face
5 2 (2.74%) NumPy
5 2 (2.74%) OpenCV
5 2 (2.74%) SQLAlchemy
5 2 (2.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.70%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.22%) Data Centre
3 5 (6.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (6.85%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.48%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.48%) NHS
4 4 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.11%) Data Structures
5 3 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.11%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.74%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.74%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (2.74%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.74%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.74%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (1.37%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.37%) EPoS
7 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (24.66%) Linux
2 12 (16.44%) Windows
3 4 (5.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.11%) Unix
5 1 (1.37%) Android
5 1 (1.37%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.37%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.37%) Solaris
5 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (34.25%) Agile
2 17 (23.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 17 (23.29%) Roadmaps
3 14 (19.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (17.81%) Data Modelling
4 13 (17.81%) DevOps
5 12 (16.44%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (16.44%) CI/CD
6 11 (15.07%) Analytics
7 10 (13.70%) AI
8 9 (12.33%) Mentoring
9 8 (10.96%) Change Management
9 8 (10.96%) Microservices
9 8 (10.96%) Migration
9 8 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (10.96%) Service Management
9 8 (10.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (10.96%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (9.59%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (9.59%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 16 (21.92%) Python
2 13 (17.81%) SQL
3 9 (12.33%) Java
4 8 (10.96%) PowerShell
5 6 (8.22%) Bash
5 6 (8.22%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.22%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (4.11%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.74%) Bicep
7 2 (2.74%) Groovy
7 2 (2.74%) R
8 1 (1.37%) C
8 1 (1.37%) C#
8 1 (1.37%) C++
8 1 (1.37%) Perl
8 1 (1.37%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.37%) Scala
8 1 (1.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (6.85%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (6.85%) DBS Check
1 5 (6.85%) Degree
2 4 (5.48%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.11%) CCNA
3 3 (4.11%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.74%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.74%) CCNP
5 1 (1.37%) HND
5 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.37%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.37%) PhD
5 1 (1.37%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.37%) RHCE
5 1 (1.37%) RHCSA
5 1 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.33%) QA
2 6 (8.22%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.11%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.11%) GDPR
4 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (8.22%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.85%) Docker
3 2 (2.74%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (6.85%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.48%) Grafana
3 3 (4.11%) Ansible
3 3 (4.11%) Progress Chef
3 3 (4.11%) Puppet
4 2 (2.74%) SCCM
4 2 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.37%) Argo
5 1 (1.37%) Kibana
5 1 (1.37%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.37%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.37%) Salt
5 1 (1.37%) SCOM
5 1 (1.37%) yum
Vendors
1 24 (32.88%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.59%) Oracle
3 6 (8.22%) Databricks
4 5 (6.85%) Cisco
4 5 (6.85%) F5
4 5 (6.85%) Palo Alto
5 3 (4.11%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.74%) Citrix
7 1 (1.37%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.37%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.37%) EnterpriseDB
7 1 (1.37%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.37%) SaltStack
7 1 (1.37%) SAP
7 1 (1.37%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.37%) Splunk
7 1 (1.37%) VMware
7 1 (1.37%) Workday