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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 450 426
Rank change year-on-year -54 -24 +131
Contract jobs citing Disclosure Scotland 66 101 204
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.28% 0.44%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.05% 2.07% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 75 135
10th Percentile £196 £153 £167
25th Percentile £400 £206 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -2.78% -6.05%
75th Percentile £539 £497 £543
90th Percentile £624 £564 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £454 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +3.77% -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 6,264 4,871 6,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.64% 13.30% 14.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,011 2,841 4,480
10th Percentile £305 £270 £313
25th Percentile £402 £387 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £606 £625 £645
90th Percentile £700 £730 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £471 £500
% change year-on-year +2.28% -5.90% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 218 255
10th Percentile £13.57 £13.26 £14.72
25th Percentile £16.93 £15.50 £20.29
Median hourly rate £25.15 £27.43 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% -23.03% +45.43%
75th Percentile £60.00 £52.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.90 £70.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.14 £26.50 £36.75
% change year-on-year -16.45% -27.89% +75.00%

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 15 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 15 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 66 £454 +3.77% 19
Scotland -20 65 £454 +3.77% 11
Work from Home -22 19 £454 +0.89% 2
England -31 1 £648 -4.00% 8
South East - 1 £648 - 6

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 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.03%) CMS
3 1 (1.52%) Apache
3 1 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.52%) Apache TomEE
3 1 (1.52%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.03%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (3.03%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.52%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.64%) Power Platform
2 8 (12.12%) Azure
3 6 (9.09%) AWS
4 4 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.55%) SaaS
6 2 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (3.03%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.03%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.03%) Serverless
7 1 (1.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.52%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.09%) Firewall
2 3 (4.55%) HTTP
3 2 (3.03%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (3.03%) DNS
3 2 (3.03%) IPsec
3 2 (3.03%) LAN
3 2 (3.03%) SD-WAN
3 2 (3.03%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.03%) VPN
3 2 (3.03%) WAN
3 2 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.52%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.52%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.52%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.52%) MQTT
4 1 (1.52%) Network Security
4 1 (1.52%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.61%) Power BI
2 3 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.52%) BusinessObjects XI
4 1 (1.52%) CockroachDB
4 1 (1.52%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.52%) Metadata
4 1 (1.52%) MySQL
4 1 (1.52%) NewSQL
4 1 (1.52%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.52%) OLTP
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.52%) Power Query
4 1 (1.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.55%) Git
2 3 (4.55%) JIRA
3 2 (3.03%) webpack
4 1 (1.52%) Ant
4 1 (1.52%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.52%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.52%) Maven
4 1 (1.52%) MLflow
4 1 (1.52%) Selenium
4 1 (1.52%) WebDriver
General
1 25 (37.88%) Social Skills
2 15 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (21.21%) Public Sector
4 12 (18.18%) Finance
5 6 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (7.58%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.03%) Local Government
8 1 (1.52%) Back Office
8 1 (1.52%) Banking
8 1 (1.52%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.52%) Legal
8 1 (1.52%) Marketing
8 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (13.64%) Developer
2 7 (10.61%) Analyst
2 7 (10.61%) Lead
3 4 (6.06%) Architect
3 4 (6.06%) Senior
4 3 (4.55%) Data Analyst
4 3 (4.55%) Data Protection Officer
4 3 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (4.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (4.55%) Information Governance Officer
4 3 (4.55%) Information Officer
4 3 (4.55%) Service Manager
4 3 (4.55%) Support Officer
5 2 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (3.03%) Business Analyst
5 2 (3.03%) Java Developer
5 2 (3.03%) Network Field Engineer
5 2 (3.03%) PMO Lead
5 2 (3.03%) Project Manager
5 2 (3.03%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.09%) REST
2 5 (7.58%) RESTful
3 4 (6.06%) OAuth
4 3 (4.55%) CSS
4 3 (4.55%) FastAPI
4 3 (4.55%) HTML
4 3 (4.55%) Node.js
4 3 (4.55%) PyTorch
5 2 (3.03%) AWS CDK
5 2 (3.03%) boto
5 2 (3.03%) CSS3
5 2 (3.03%) HTML5
5 2 (3.03%) Hugging Face
5 2 (3.03%) JWT
5 2 (3.03%) NumPy
5 2 (3.03%) OpenCV
5 2 (3.03%) Pandas
5 2 (3.03%) React
5 2 (3.03%) SOAP
5 2 (3.03%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.12%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.06%) Freedom of Information
3 3 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.55%) NHS
4 2 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.03%) PKI
4 2 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (3.03%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.03%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (1.52%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.52%) Digital Signage
5 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.52%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.61%) Linux
2 6 (9.09%) Windows
3 3 (4.55%) Unix
4 2 (3.03%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.52%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (42.42%) Agile
2 12 (18.18%) Project Management
3 11 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 10 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (12.12%) Data Protection
6 8 (12.12%) Risk Management
7 7 (10.61%) CI/CD
7 7 (10.61%) Mentoring
7 7 (10.61%) Roadmaps
7 7 (10.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (10.61%) Waterfall
8 6 (9.09%) AI
8 6 (9.09%) Business Case
8 6 (9.09%) Data Analysis
8 6 (9.09%) DevOps
8 6 (9.09%) Project Delivery
8 6 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.67%) Python
2 7 (10.61%) JavaScript
2 7 (10.61%) SQL
3 4 (6.06%) Java
3 4 (6.06%) TypeScript
4 3 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.03%) C#
5 2 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (3.03%) Search Processing Language
5 2 (3.03%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.52%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (1.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (10.61%) Degree
2 2 (3.03%) CCNA
2 2 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.52%) HND
3 1 (1.52%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.61%) Accessibility
1 7 (10.61%) GDPR
2 4 (6.06%) QA
3 2 (3.03%) PMO
4 1 (1.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.52%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.52%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (7.58%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.06%) Grafana
3 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.03%) SCCM
3 2 (3.03%) Terraform
4 1 (1.52%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.52%) Kibana
4 1 (1.52%) Kustomize
4 1 (1.52%) logstash
4 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.06%) Oracle
3 3 (4.55%) Cisco
3 3 (4.55%) F5
3 3 (4.55%) Splunk
4 2 (3.03%) ArcSight
4 2 (3.03%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.52%) Avaya
5 1 (1.52%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.52%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.52%) Facebook
5 1 (1.52%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.52%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.52%) Instagram
5 1 (1.52%) Okta
5 1 (1.52%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.52%) Remedy
5 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.52%) SolarWinds