Disclosure Scotland Contracts with Work from Home Options

Disclosure Scotland
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Disclosure Scotland skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Disclosure Scotland over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 272 322 446
Rank change year-on-year +50 +124 -65
Contract jobs citing Disclosure Scotland 65 147 180
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.43% 0.57% 0.40%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.96% 4.70% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 130 148
10th Percentile £179 £228 £230
25th Percentile £280 £384 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £479 £415
Median % change year-on-year -11.27% +15.42% -7.37%
75th Percentile £482 £550 £550
90th Percentile £510 £600 £633
UK median daily rate £449 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.58% +11.76% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

Disclosure Scotland is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,195 3,128 5,933
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.49% 12.23% 13.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,517 2,285 4,218
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £420 £420 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £600
90th Percentile £750 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 66 118
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.60 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £23.67 £18.50
Median hourly rate £21.94 £39.80 £44.23
Median % change year-on-year -44.89% -10.01% +118.18%
75th Percentile £46.56 £59.82 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.13 £66.45
UK median hourly rate £20.80 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -40.56% +27.27% +30.95%

Disclosure Scotland
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Disclosure Scotland as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Disclosure Scotland trend for jobs with a WFH option

Disclosure Scotland
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Disclosure Scotland.

Disclosure Scotland daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Disclosure Scotland
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Disclosure Scotland over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Disclosure Scotland daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Disclosure Scotland
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (7.69%) Confluence
1 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.62%) CMS
3 1 (1.54%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.54%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.54%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (1.54%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 8 (12.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.54%) Adobe Captivate
4 1 (1.54%) Camtasia
4 1 (1.54%) Lectora
4 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.54%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.54%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.77%) AWS
2 6 (9.23%) Azure
3 5 (7.69%) Amazon S3
3 5 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (7.69%) Serverless
4 4 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (6.15%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.62%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.08%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.08%) OCI
6 2 (3.08%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.54%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.54%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.62%) Firewall
2 2 (3.08%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (1.54%) ATM
3 1 (1.54%) HTTP
3 1 (1.54%) Internet
3 1 (1.54%) Intranet
3 1 (1.54%) LAN
3 1 (1.54%) SCCP
3 1 (1.54%) SSL
3 1 (1.54%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.15%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (4.62%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.62%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.08%) MariaDB
4 2 (3.08%) MySQL
4 2 (3.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (3.08%) Power BI
4 2 (3.08%) Tableau
5 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.54%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.54%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) JIRA
2 5 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.08%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.54%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.54%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.54%) GitLab
4 1 (1.54%) Gradle
4 1 (1.54%) gulp
4 1 (1.54%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (1.54%) Maven
4 1 (1.54%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.54%) Selenium
4 1 (1.54%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.54%) Travis CI
4 1 (1.54%) WebDriver
General
1 39 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 18 (27.69%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.31%) Finance
4 7 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.15%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.08%) Banking
7 2 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Marketing
8 1 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (21.54%) Analyst
2 8 (12.31%) Senior
3 7 (10.77%) Developer
4 6 (9.23%) IT Analyst
5 5 (7.69%) Lead
5 5 (7.69%) Project Manager
6 4 (6.15%) Business Analyst
7 3 (4.62%) Architect
7 3 (4.62%) Content Designer
7 3 (4.62%) Designer
7 3 (4.62%) Network Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Project Leader
7 3 (4.62%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (3.08%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 2 (3.08%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 2 (3.08%) IT Support
8 2 (3.08%) Project Officer
8 2 (3.08%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
8 2 (3.08%) Support Officer
8 2 (3.08%) User Experience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.69%) AWS CDK
2 4 (6.15%) CSS
2 4 (6.15%) HTML
2 4 (6.15%) React
3 3 (4.62%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (4.62%) REST
3 3 (4.62%) Spring
3 3 (4.62%) Spring Boot
4 2 (3.08%) Middleware
4 2 (3.08%) Node.js
4 2 (3.08%) OAuth
4 2 (3.08%) OAuth2
4 2 (3.08%) OpenID
4 2 (3.08%) SAML
4 2 (3.08%) Spring MVC
4 2 (3.08%) Spring Security
4 2 (3.08%) Spring Web Flow
4 2 (3.08%) Thymeleaf
5 1 (1.54%) JSP
5 1 (1.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.31%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.62%) PKI
2 3 (4.62%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.54%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.54%) Blackberry
3 1 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.54%) e-Learning
3 1 (1.54%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (1.54%) Learning Management System
3 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.54%) Replication
3 1 (1.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (1.54%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.23%) Windows
2 3 (4.62%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.08%) Linux
3 2 (3.08%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.08%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.54%) Android
4 1 (1.54%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.54%) Solaris
4 1 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (24.62%) Agile
2 11 (16.92%) Project Delivery
3 9 (13.85%) ITIL
3 9 (13.85%) Project Management
4 6 (9.23%) CI/CD
4 6 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (9.23%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (7.69%) Analytics
5 5 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (7.69%) Microservices
5 5 (7.69%) PRINCE2
5 5 (7.69%) Programme Governance
5 5 (7.69%) Roadmaps
5 5 (7.69%) Service Design
5 5 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (7.69%) User Stories
6 4 (6.15%) Business Analysis
6 4 (6.15%) Incident Management
6 4 (6.15%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.85%) JavaScript
2 8 (12.31%) Java
3 6 (9.23%) TypeScript
4 5 (7.69%) Python
5 3 (4.62%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.62%) SQL
6 2 (3.08%) Bash
7 1 (1.54%) C#
7 1 (1.54%) Go
7 1 (1.54%) Groovy
7 1 (1.54%) PHP
7 1 (1.54%) Ruby
7 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (12.31%) Degree
2 4 (6.15%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (3.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (1.54%) CISSP
4 1 (1.54%) CLAS
4 1 (1.54%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.54%) IRCA
4 1 (1.54%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (1.54%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.54%) MCSE
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.54%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.77%) Accessibility
2 4 (6.15%) QA
3 3 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.08%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 2 (3.08%) SLA
5 1 (1.54%) COBIT
5 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.54%) ISO 14001
5 1 (1.54%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 9 (13.85%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.15%) Docker
3 2 (3.08%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.54%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.15%) Grafana
1 4 (6.15%) SCCM
2 3 (4.62%) Ansible
3 2 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (3.08%) Terraform
4 1 (1.54%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.54%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (12.31%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.77%) Oracle
3 3 (4.62%) Fortinet
4 2 (3.08%) Cisco
4 2 (3.08%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (3.08%) IBM
4 2 (3.08%) Okta
4 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.08%) SolarWinds
4 2 (3.08%) Zscaler
5 1 (1.54%) Adobe
5 1 (1.54%) Avaya
5 1 (1.54%) Cadence
5 1 (1.54%) Equitrac
5 1 (1.54%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.54%) Pega
5 1 (1.54%) VMware