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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 521 466 425
Rank change year-on-year -55 -41 +121
Contract jobs citing Disclosure Scotland 60 98 187
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.28% 0.42%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.95% 2.01% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 72 124
10th Percentile £166 £192 £164
25th Percentile £400 £245 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £545 £498 £544
90th Percentile £648 £563 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +4.44% - -5.06%

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 6,314 4,869 6,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.33% 14.08% 14.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,080 2,866 4,319
10th Percentile £313 £263 £313
25th Percentile £406 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £623 £643
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 189 234
10th Percentile £13.98 £14.70 £14.21
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.00 £19.60
Median hourly rate £25.15 £27.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.55% -22.54% +57.78%
75th Percentile £60.46 £62.24 £64.88
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £82.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.72 £26.75 £35.95
% change year-on-year -22.54% -25.59% +71.19%

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 14 December 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 14 December 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 -82 60 £470 +4.44% 9
Scotland -24 55 £454 +0.89% 4
Work from Home -12 14 £454 +0.89% 7
England -34 5 £648 -4.00% 5
South East - 5 £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 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.33%) Apache TomEE
2 2 (3.33%) CMS
3 1 (1.67%) Apache
3 1 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.67%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (3.33%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.67%) AWS
1 7 (11.67%) Azure
2 6 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (8.33%) SaaS
4 4 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (5.00%) Serverless
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.33%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.67%) GitHub
7 1 (1.67%) IaaS
7 1 (1.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) HTTP
2 2 (3.33%) DNS
2 2 (3.33%) Firewall
2 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.67%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (1.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.67%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.67%) IPsec
3 1 (1.67%) LAN
3 1 (1.67%) MQTT
3 1 (1.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.67%) VPN
3 1 (1.67%) WAN
3 1 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) Power BI
2 3 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.67%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.67%) BusinessObjects XI
4 1 (1.67%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.67%) MySQL
4 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.67%) Redis
4 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.00%) Git
2 3 (5.00%) JIRA
3 2 (3.33%) Ant
3 2 (3.33%) Eclipse
3 2 (3.33%) Maven
4 1 (1.67%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.67%) GitLab
4 1 (1.67%) MLflow
4 1 (1.67%) Selenium
4 1 (1.67%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.67%) webpack
General
1 23 (38.33%) Social Skills
2 15 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (23.33%) Public Sector
4 13 (21.67%) Finance
5 7 (11.67%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Local Government
8 1 (1.67%) Back Office
8 1 (1.67%) Banking
8 1 (1.67%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (18.33%) Developer
2 9 (15.00%) Lead
3 4 (6.67%) Analyst
3 4 (6.67%) Data Protection Officer
3 4 (6.67%) Java Developer
3 4 (6.67%) Support Officer
4 3 (5.00%) Architect
4 3 (5.00%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (5.00%) Information Governance Officer
4 3 (5.00%) Information Officer
4 3 (5.00%) PMO Lead
4 3 (5.00%) Service Manager
4 3 (5.00%) Service Transition Leader
5 2 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) Business Analyst
5 2 (3.33%) Data Analyst
5 2 (3.33%) Data Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.67%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.67%) REST
2 4 (6.67%) RESTful
2 4 (6.67%) Spring
3 3 (5.00%) AWS CDK
3 3 (5.00%) FastAPI
3 3 (5.00%) OAuth
3 3 (5.00%) PyTorch
4 2 (3.33%) CSS
4 2 (3.33%) Hibernate
4 2 (3.33%) HTML
4 2 (3.33%) Hugging Face
4 2 (3.33%) JPA
4 2 (3.33%) JSP
4 2 (3.33%) JSTL
4 2 (3.33%) JWT
4 2 (3.33%) NumPy
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (3.33%) SOAP
4 2 (3.33%) Spring Security
4 2 (3.33%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.67%) Freedom of Information
2 4 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.33%) NHS
4 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (3.33%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.67%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.67%) Derivative
5 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.67%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.67%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.33%) Linux
2 4 (6.67%) Windows
3 3 (5.00%) Unix
4 1 (1.67%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (36.67%) Agile
2 10 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 10 (16.67%) Decision-Making
2 10 (16.67%) Project Management
3 9 (15.00%) Risk Management
4 8 (13.33%) CI/CD
4 8 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (13.33%) DevOps
4 8 (13.33%) Migration
4 8 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 8 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (11.67%) AI
5 7 (11.67%) ITIL
5 7 (11.67%) PRINCE2
6 6 (10.00%) ERP
6 6 (10.00%) Project Delivery
6 6 (10.00%) Roadmaps
6 6 (10.00%) Scrum
6 6 (10.00%) Service Management
6 6 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.67%) Python
2 7 (11.67%) SQL
3 6 (10.00%) Java
4 4 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.33%) Search Processing Language
6 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.67%) Bicep
7 1 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (3.33%) PMI Certification
2 2 (3.33%) PMP
3 1 (1.67%) CCNA
3 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.00%) GDPR
2 5 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 4 (6.67%) PMO
4 3 (5.00%) QA
5 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.67%) Docker
1 1 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (8.33%) Grafana
2 4 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.00%) Terraform
4 1 (1.67%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.67%) Kibana
4 1 (1.67%) Kustomize
4 1 (1.67%) logstash
4 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.67%) SCCM
4 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.33%) Oracle
3 3 (5.00%) Splunk
4 2 (3.33%) ArcSight
4 2 (3.33%) Cisco
4 2 (3.33%) F5
5 1 (1.67%) Avaya
5 1 (1.67%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.67%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.67%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.67%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.67%) Okta
5 1 (1.67%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.67%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.67%) Remedy
5 1 (1.67%) SolarWinds