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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 551 435 429
Rank change year-on-year -116 -6 +54
Contract jobs citing Disclosure Scotland 69 93 169
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.32% 0.39%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.87% 2.04% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 70 95
10th Percentile £146 £200 £157
25th Percentile £234 £343 £277
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £471 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.01% +4.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £558 £547 £500
90th Percentile £649 £591 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -7.89% +5.56% -5.26%
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 - - -50.23%

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 7,938 4,552 6,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.90% 15.51% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,136 2,918 3,926
10th Percentile £333 £265 £297
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 458 179 383
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.04 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.21 £13.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% +64.29% -44.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £83.01 £67.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.50 £40.78 £18.00
% change year-on-year -12.94% +126.53% -48.57%

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 28 April 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 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 28 April 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 -118 69 £438 -7.89% 3
Scotland -22 63 £425 -9.77% 1
Work from Home -63 8 £375 -21.71% 2
England -95 6 £648 +125.78% 2
South East - 6 £648 -

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 (4.35%) Apache
1 3 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (4.35%) CMS
1 3 (4.35%) Drupal
1 3 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.90%) Apache TomEE
3 1 (1.45%) Confluence
3 1 (1.45%) JBoss
3 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.45%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (10.14%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.90%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.45%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.94%) Azure
2 8 (11.59%) AWS
3 6 (8.70%) Power Platform
4 5 (7.25%) Serverless
5 4 (5.80%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.80%) SaaS
6 3 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (4.35%) Dagster
6 3 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (4.35%) Google Analytics
6 3 (4.35%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (2.90%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.90%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.90%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.14%) VPN
1 7 (10.14%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (8.70%) Firewall
2 6 (8.70%) LAN
2 6 (8.70%) Network Security
3 5 (7.25%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (7.25%) IPsec
3 5 (7.25%) SD-WAN
3 5 (7.25%) Unified Communications
4 4 (5.80%) WAN
5 3 (4.35%) HTTP
5 3 (4.35%) Intranet
6 2 (2.90%) DNS
6 2 (2.90%) Internet
6 2 (2.90%) SAN
7 1 (1.45%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (1.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.14%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (8.70%) Power BI
3 3 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.90%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (2.90%) MySQL
4 2 (2.90%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.90%) Tableau
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.45%) BusinessObjects XI
5 1 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.45%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.45%) GIS
5 1 (1.45%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (1.45%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (7.25%) JIRA
2 3 (4.35%) MLflow
3 2 (2.90%) Ant
3 2 (2.90%) Eclipse
3 2 (2.90%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.90%) Maven
4 1 (1.45%) Git
4 1 (1.45%) GitLab
4 1 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 18 (26.09%) Public Sector
3 12 (17.39%) Finance
4 10 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (10.14%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Italian Language
7 1 (1.45%) Back Office
7 1 (1.45%) Banking
7 1 (1.45%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.45%) Legal
7 1 (1.45%) Local Government
7 1 (1.45%) Marketing
7 1 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (10.14%) Data Protection Officer
1 7 (10.14%) Lead
1 7 (10.14%) Support Officer
2 6 (8.70%) Analyst
2 6 (8.70%) Architect
2 6 (8.70%) Developer
2 6 (8.70%) Network Engineer
3 4 (5.80%) DBA
3 4 (5.80%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (4.35%) Content Manager
4 3 (4.35%) Data Analyst
4 3 (4.35%) Digital Content Manager
4 3 (4.35%) Information Governance Officer
4 3 (4.35%) Information Officer
4 3 (4.35%) Java Developer
4 3 (4.35%) Python Engineer
4 3 (4.35%) Service Transition Leader
4 3 (4.35%) SQL DBA
5 2 (2.90%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (2.90%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.25%) REST
2 4 (5.80%) AWS CDK
3 3 (4.35%) boto
3 3 (4.35%) FastAPI
3 3 (4.35%) Hugging Face
3 3 (4.35%) JWT
3 3 (4.35%) NumPy
3 3 (4.35%) OAuth
3 3 (4.35%) OpenCV
3 3 (4.35%) Pandas
3 3 (4.35%) PyTorch
3 3 (4.35%) Spring
3 3 (4.35%) SQLAlchemy
4 2 (2.90%) Hibernate
4 2 (2.90%) JPA
4 2 (2.90%) JSP
4 2 (2.90%) JSTL
4 2 (2.90%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (2.90%) Spring Security
5 1 (1.45%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.59%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.25%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (7.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (7.25%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.80%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.80%) Freedom of Information
3 4 (5.80%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.45%) CMDB
5 1 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.45%) Derivative
5 1 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.45%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.45%) NVMe
5 1 (1.45%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.49%) Linux
1 10 (14.49%) Windows
2 3 (4.35%) Solaris
2 3 (4.35%) Unix
3 2 (2.90%) Android
3 2 (2.90%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.90%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (27.54%) Agile
2 15 (21.74%) Roadmaps
3 14 (20.29%) Migration
4 13 (18.84%) Data Protection
5 12 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (17.39%) Decision-Making
6 10 (14.49%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (13.04%) Project Management
8 8 (11.59%) Analytics
8 8 (11.59%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (11.59%) DevOps
8 8 (11.59%) ITSM
8 8 (11.59%) Programme Delivery
9 7 (10.14%) AI
9 7 (10.14%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (10.14%) ERP
9 7 (10.14%) High Availability
9 7 (10.14%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (10.14%) Risk Management
10 6 (8.70%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.70%) Python
1 6 (8.70%) SQL
2 5 (7.25%) Java
2 5 (7.25%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.35%) Bicep
3 3 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.90%) C#
5 1 (1.45%) Bash
5 1 (1.45%) JCL
5 1 (1.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (7.25%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (5.80%) CCNA
3 2 (2.90%) Degree
3 2 (2.90%) PMI Certification
3 2 (2.90%) PMP
4 1 (1.45%) CCNP
4 1 (1.45%) NCDA
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.45%) VCAP
4 1 (1.45%) VCP6
4 1 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.49%) QA
2 7 (10.14%) GDPR
3 6 (8.70%) PMO
4 4 (5.80%) Accessibility
5 3 (4.35%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.45%) NCSC
6 1 (1.45%) NIST
6 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.45%) Docker
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (7.25%) Grafana
2 4 (5.80%) Terraform
3 3 (4.35%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.45%) Ansible
4 1 (1.45%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.45%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.45%) vMotion
4 1 (1.45%) vRealize
Vendors
1 13 (18.84%) Oracle
2 10 (14.49%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.70%) Cisco
4 5 (7.25%) F5
4 5 (7.25%) Palo Alto
5 3 (4.35%) Google
6 2 (2.90%) Citrix
6 2 (2.90%) Commvault
7 1 (1.45%) Avaya
7 1 (1.45%) Brocade
7 1 (1.45%) EnterpriseDB
7 1 (1.45%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (1.45%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.45%) NetApp
7 1 (1.45%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.45%) SAP
7 1 (1.45%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.45%) VMware