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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 437 422
Rank change year-on-year -141 -15 +43
Contract jobs citing Disclosure Scotland 57 89 154
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.31% 0.36%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.71% 1.96% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 64 86
10th Percentile £188 £235 £156
25th Percentile £334 £373 £216
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £471 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% +10.71% -8.55%
75th Percentile £589 £538 £499
90th Percentile £650 £568 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -8.11%
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 8,053 4,543 6,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.59% 15.88% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,174 2,922 3,817
10th Percentile £343 £263 £281
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £509
Median % change year-on-year - -1.67% -3.14%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 475 171 394
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.00 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.18
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £21.38
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% +52.03% -38.92%
75th Percentile £67.25 £67.50 £47.81
90th Percentile £81.96 £80.00 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £32.66 £18.27
% change year-on-year +22.49% +78.74% -45.27%

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 May 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 8 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 May 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 -144 57 £450 -5.26% 9
Scotland -32 51 £438 -7.89% 6
Work from Home -76 9 £375 -21.71% 5
England -117 6 £624 +117.42% 3
South East - 3 £648 -
South West - 2 - - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £550 -
North of England - 1 £550 -

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 (5.26%) Apache
1 3 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (5.26%) CMS
1 3 (5.26%) Drupal
1 3 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.75%) Confluence
2 1 (1.75%) JBoss
2 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (3.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.75%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 14 (24.56%) Azure
2 9 (15.79%) AWS
3 5 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (8.77%) Power Platform
3 5 (8.77%) Serverless
4 4 (7.02%) Amazon S3
4 4 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (5.26%) Dagster
5 3 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (5.26%) Google Analytics
5 3 (5.26%) IaaS
5 3 (5.26%) PaaS
5 3 (5.26%) Power Automate
5 3 (5.26%) SaaS
6 2 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (3.51%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.04%) VPN
1 8 (14.04%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (12.28%) Firewall
2 7 (12.28%) LAN
2 7 (12.28%) Network Security
3 6 (10.53%) Cisco Nexus
3 6 (10.53%) IPsec
3 6 (10.53%) SD-WAN
3 6 (10.53%) Unified Communications
4 4 (7.02%) WAN
5 3 (5.26%) HTTP
5 3 (5.26%) Internet
5 3 (5.26%) Intranet
5 3 (5.26%) SAN
6 2 (3.51%) DNS
7 1 (1.75%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (1.75%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.77%) Oracle Reports
1 5 (8.77%) Power BI
2 3 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.51%) MySQL
3 2 (3.51%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.51%) Tableau
4 1 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.75%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.75%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.75%) GIS
4 1 (1.75%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database 10g
4 1 (1.75%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 3 (5.26%) JIRA
1 3 (5.26%) MLflow
2 1 (1.75%) Git
2 1 (1.75%) GitLab
2 1 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (29.82%) Social Skills
2 14 (24.56%) Public Sector
3 6 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.53%) Finance
4 3 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Italian Language
6 1 (1.75%) Back Office
6 1 (1.75%) Banking
6 1 (1.75%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.75%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.75%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.75%) Legal
6 1 (1.75%) Local Government
6 1 (1.75%) Marketing
6 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (14.04%) Architect
2 7 (12.28%) Network Engineer
3 5 (8.77%) Analyst
4 4 (7.02%) DBA
4 4 (7.02%) Lead
5 3 (5.26%) Content Manager
5 3 (5.26%) Data Protection Officer
5 3 (5.26%) Developer
5 3 (5.26%) Digital Content Manager
5 3 (5.26%) Python Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.26%) SQL DBA
5 3 (5.26%) Support Officer
6 2 (3.51%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Azure Architect
6 2 (3.51%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (3.51%) Data Analyst
6 2 (3.51%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (3.51%) Development Manager
6 2 (3.51%) Help Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.77%) REST
2 4 (7.02%) AWS CDK
3 3 (5.26%) boto
3 3 (5.26%) FastAPI
3 3 (5.26%) Hugging Face
3 3 (5.26%) JWT
3 3 (5.26%) NumPy
3 3 (5.26%) OAuth
3 3 (5.26%) OpenCV
3 3 (5.26%) Pandas
3 3 (5.26%) PyTorch
3 3 (5.26%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (1.75%) .NET
4 1 (1.75%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.75%) PostGIS
4 1 (1.75%) React
4 1 (1.75%) RESTful
4 1 (1.75%) SOAP
4 1 (1.75%) Vue
4 1 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.79%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.77%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.02%) Data Structures
3 4 (7.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (7.02%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.26%) Algorithms
4 3 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (5.26%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.26%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.51%) Freedom of Information
5 2 (3.51%) NHS
6 1 (1.75%) CMDB
6 1 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.75%) Derivative
6 1 (1.75%) NVMe
6 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (21.05%) Windows
2 11 (19.30%) Linux
3 3 (5.26%) Solaris
3 3 (5.26%) Unix
4 2 (3.51%) Android
4 2 (3.51%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.51%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (31.58%) Agile
2 16 (28.07%) Roadmaps
3 13 (22.81%) Migration
4 11 (19.30%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (15.79%) Decision-Making
5 9 (15.79%) High Availability
6 8 (14.04%) Analytics
6 8 (14.04%) Data Protection
6 8 (14.04%) DevOps
7 7 (12.28%) AI
7 7 (12.28%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (12.28%) Programme Delivery
7 7 (12.28%) Scrum
8 6 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (10.53%) Digital Innovation
8 6 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (10.53%) ITSM
8 6 (10.53%) Load Balancing
8 6 (10.53%) Network Monitoring
8 6 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.28%) SQL
2 6 (10.53%) PowerShell
2 6 (10.53%) Python
3 3 (5.26%) Bicep
3 3 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.51%) C#
4 2 (3.51%) Java
5 1 (1.75%) Bash
5 1 (1.75%) JCL
5 1 (1.75%) Perl
5 1 (1.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (7.02%) CCNA
3 3 (5.26%) Degree
4 2 (3.51%) CCNP
4 2 (3.51%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.75%) NCDA
5 1 (1.75%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.75%) PhD
5 1 (1.75%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.75%) VCAP
5 1 (1.75%) VCP6
5 1 (1.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (19.30%) QA
2 5 (8.77%) GDPR
3 4 (7.02%) Accessibility
3 4 (7.02%) PMO
4 3 (5.26%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.75%) NCSC
5 1 (1.75%) NIST
5 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.75%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.75%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (8.77%) Grafana
2 4 (7.02%) Terraform
3 3 (5.26%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.75%) Ansible
4 1 (1.75%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.75%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.75%) vMotion
4 1 (1.75%) vRealize
Vendors
1 9 (15.79%) Microsoft
1 9 (15.79%) Oracle
2 7 (12.28%) Cisco
3 6 (10.53%) F5
3 6 (10.53%) Palo Alto
4 3 (5.26%) Google
5 2 (3.51%) Citrix
5 2 (3.51%) Commvault
6 1 (1.75%) Avaya
6 1 (1.75%) Brocade
6 1 (1.75%) EnterpriseDB
6 1 (1.75%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (1.75%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.75%) NetApp
6 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.75%) SAP
6 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.75%) VMware
6 1 (1.75%) Workday