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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 619 500 465
Rank change year-on-year -119 -35 -32
Contract jobs citing Disclosure Scotland 76 53 105
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.16% 0.28%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.78% 0.91% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 32 76
10th Percentile £390 £332 £153
25th Percentile £420 £411 £212
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £650 £500 £496
90th Percentile £675 £550 £571
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +22.22% +5.88% -5.56%

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 9,696 5,800 5,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.77% 17.51% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,065 3,708 2,949
10th Percentile £325 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £610 £608 £625
90th Percentile £713 £705 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +1.26% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 688 283 240
10th Percentile £13.70 £13.60 £13.26
25th Percentile £16.56 £16.71 £16.17
Median hourly rate £30.27 £30.00 £27.67
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% +8.42% -22.34%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £62.88
90th Percentile £74.25 £80.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.46 £25.11 £27.75
% change year-on-year +25.28% -9.50% -26.00%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -73 75 £550 +22.22% 19
Scotland -13 63 £488 +8.33% 4
England - 13 £600 - 12
Work from Home -70 10 £439 -2.50% 13
South East - 5 £600 - 2
South West - 4 - - 2
East of England - 2 £600 -
North of England - 2 £550 - 2
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 7 (9.21%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.95%) CMS
2 3 (3.95%) Confluence
3 1 (1.32%) Apache
3 1 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.32%) JBoss
3 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (1.32%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.63%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.63%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 20 (26.32%) Azure
2 15 (19.74%) AWS
3 12 (15.79%) Power Platform
4 10 (13.16%) SaaS
5 8 (10.53%) IaaS
6 7 (9.21%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (9.21%) PaaS
7 5 (6.58%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (5.26%) OpenShift
8 4 (5.26%) Serverless
9 3 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (3.95%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (3.95%) OCI
10 2 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (2.63%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.89%) Network Security
2 5 (6.58%) Firewall
2 5 (6.58%) VPN
2 5 (6.58%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (5.26%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (5.26%) DNS
3 4 (5.26%) IPsec
3 4 (5.26%) LAN
3 4 (5.26%) SD-WAN
3 4 (5.26%) Unified Communications
4 3 (3.95%) WAN
5 2 (2.63%) DHCP
6 1 (1.32%) HTTP
6 1 (1.32%) Internet
6 1 (1.32%) SAN
6 1 (1.32%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.16%) Power BI
2 6 (7.89%) MySQL
3 5 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.95%) Power Query
5 3 (3.95%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.63%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.63%) MariaDB
6 2 (2.63%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.63%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.63%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (1.32%) BusinessObjects XI
7 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.32%) Redis
7 1 (1.32%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Git
1 5 (6.58%) Jenkins
1 5 (6.58%) JIRA
2 2 (2.63%) Gradle
2 2 (2.63%) Maven
2 2 (2.63%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (2.63%) webpack
3 1 (1.32%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.32%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.32%) GitLab
3 1 (1.32%) MLflow
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.32%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (38.16%) Public Sector
1 29 (38.16%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.58%) Influencing Skills
3 5 (6.58%) Local Government
3 5 (6.58%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (5.26%) Finance
5 3 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.63%) Back Office
6 2 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Banking
7 1 (1.32%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.32%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.32%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.32%) Italian Language
7 1 (1.32%) Legal
7 1 (1.32%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.32%) Publishing
7 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (18.42%) Architect
2 7 (9.21%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (7.89%) Data Engineer
3 6 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (7.89%) Lead
4 5 (6.58%) Developer
4 5 (6.58%) Network Engineer
4 5 (6.58%) Senior
5 4 (5.26%) Analyst
6 3 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (3.95%) Data Analyst
6 3 (3.95%) Technical Architect
7 2 (2.63%) Coordinator
7 2 (2.63%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (2.63%) Integration Architect
7 2 (2.63%) Programme Coordinator
7 2 (2.63%) Project Manager
7 2 (2.63%) Software Engineer
8 1 (1.32%) Business Analyst
8 1 (1.32%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.21%) REST
1 7 (9.21%) Terraform
2 6 (7.89%) Spring
2 6 (7.89%) Spring Boot
3 4 (5.26%) AngularJS
3 4 (5.26%) Node.js
3 4 (5.26%) PySpark
3 4 (5.26%) React
3 4 (5.26%) Vue
4 3 (3.95%) RESTful
4 3 (3.95%) Streamlit
5 2 (2.63%) AWS CDK
5 2 (2.63%) FHIR
5 2 (2.63%) Jest
5 2 (2.63%) Next.js
5 2 (2.63%) OAuth
5 2 (2.63%) Redux
5 2 (2.63%) Web Services
6 1 (1.32%) JSON
6 1 (1.32%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.16%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.58%) Data Centre
3 5 (6.58%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (6.58%) NHS
4 4 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.63%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.63%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.63%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.63%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.32%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.32%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.32%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.05%) Linux
2 11 (14.47%) Windows
3 4 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.63%) Unix
5 1 (1.32%) AIX
5 1 (1.32%) Android
5 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.32%) macOS
5 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (34.21%) Agile
2 17 (22.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (19.74%) Roadmaps
4 14 (18.42%) DevOps
5 13 (17.11%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (17.11%) CI/CD
5 13 (17.11%) Data Modelling
5 13 (17.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (15.79%) Analytics
7 11 (14.47%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (11.84%) AI
8 9 (11.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (10.53%) Mentoring
9 8 (10.53%) Microservices
9 8 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (9.21%) Data Engineering
10 7 (9.21%) Decision-Making
10 7 (9.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (9.21%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 15 (19.74%) Python
2 14 (18.42%) SQL
3 10 (13.16%) Java
4 7 (9.21%) PowerShell
5 6 (7.89%) Bash
5 6 (7.89%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.89%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (3.95%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.63%) Bicep
7 2 (2.63%) Groovy
7 2 (2.63%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.63%) R
8 1 (1.32%) C
8 1 (1.32%) C++
8 1 (1.32%) Perl
8 1 (1.32%) Scala
8 1 (1.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (7.89%) Degree
2 5 (6.58%) DBS Check
2 5 (6.58%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.95%) CCNA
4 3 (3.95%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.63%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.32%) CCNP
6 1 (1.32%) HND
6 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.32%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.32%) PhD
6 1 (1.32%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.32%) RHCE
6 1 (1.32%) RHCSA
6 1 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.53%) QA
2 6 (7.89%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.95%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.95%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (7.89%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.58%) Docker
3 2 (2.63%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.95%) Ansible
2 3 (3.95%) Grafana
2 3 (3.95%) Progress Chef
2 3 (3.95%) Puppet
2 3 (3.95%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.63%) SCCM
4 1 (1.32%) Argo
4 1 (1.32%) Kibana
4 1 (1.32%) NetBackup
4 1 (1.32%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.32%) Salt
4 1 (1.32%) SCOM
4 1 (1.32%) yum
Vendors
1 24 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.21%) Oracle
3 6 (7.89%) Databricks
4 4 (5.26%) Cisco
4 4 (5.26%) F5
4 4 (5.26%) Palo Alto
5 3 (3.95%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.63%) Citrix
7 1 (1.32%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.32%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.32%) EnterpriseDB
7 1 (1.32%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.32%) SaltStack
7 1 (1.32%) SAP
7 1 (1.32%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.32%) Splunk
7 1 (1.32%) VMware
7 1 (1.32%) Workday