Disclosure Scotland Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Disclosure Scotland
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Disclosure Scotland skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Disclosure Scotland over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 272 332
Rank change year-on-year +11 +60 +121
Contract jobs citing Disclosure Scotland 43 73 146
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.43% 0.48% 0.56%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.89% 3.26% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 56 130
10th Percentile £227 £181 £248
25th Percentile £301 £280 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £421 £479
Median % change year-on-year +13.71% -12.06% +15.42%
75th Percentile £550 £482 £550
90th Percentile £565 £510 £600
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +11.76%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,488 2,240 3,140
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.02% 14.60% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,005 1,532 2,292
10th Percentile £281 £313 £325
25th Percentile £400 £420 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% +3.00%
75th Percentile £603 £623 £625
90th Percentile £713 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 79 63
10th Percentile £17.98 £12.75 £18.54
25th Percentile £23.13 £14.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £22.87 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.53% -46.81% -2.16%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.38 £61.88
90th Percentile £87.15 £65.00 £72.35
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%

Disclosure Scotland
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Disclosure Scotland as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Disclosure Scotland trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Disclosure Scotland
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Disclosure Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.33%) CMS
2 1 (2.33%) JBoss
2 1 (2.33%) nginx
2 1 (2.33%) Traefik
2 1 (2.33%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (9.30%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.95%) AWS
2 4 (9.30%) Amazon S3
2 4 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (9.30%) Azure
2 4 (9.30%) Power Platform
2 4 (9.30%) Serverless
3 3 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (4.65%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (4.65%) IaaS
4 2 (4.65%) PaaS
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (2.33%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (2.33%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 1 (2.33%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.33%) OCI
5 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) ATM
1 1 (2.33%) DNS
1 1 (2.33%) Firewall
1 1 (2.33%) Network Security
1 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.60%) MongoDB
2 7 (16.28%) DB2
2 7 (16.28%) Relational Database
3 4 (9.30%) Oracle Database
3 4 (9.30%) Power BI
4 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.98%) Tableau
5 2 (4.65%) InfluxDB
5 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.33%) GIS
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) JUnit
2 3 (6.98%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.65%) Git
4 1 (2.33%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.33%) GitLab
4 1 (2.33%) JIRA
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle APEX
General
1 22 (51.16%) Social Skills
2 12 (27.91%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (25.58%) Finance
4 4 (9.30%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.33%) Back Office
6 1 (2.33%) Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Developer
2 7 (16.28%) Analyst
2 7 (16.28%) Java Developer
3 6 (13.95%) Senior
4 4 (9.30%) Administrator
4 4 (9.30%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 4 (9.30%) Security Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Report Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Designer
6 2 (4.65%) Lead
6 2 (4.65%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Middleware Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Senior Technician
7 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow Developer
7 1 (2.33%) Vulnerability Analyst
7 1 (2.33%) Vulnerability Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.28%) Spring
2 6 (13.95%) Kafka
3 4 (9.30%) JMS
3 4 (9.30%) Middleware
3 4 (9.30%) REST
4 3 (6.98%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.65%) AWS CDK
5 2 (4.65%) SOAP
6 1 (2.33%) cloud-init
6 1 (2.33%) IBM Integration Bus
6 1 (2.33%) J2EE
6 1 (2.33%) JSON
6 1 (2.33%) Keycloak
6 1 (2.33%) Loki
6 1 (2.33%) Next.js
6 1 (2.33%) Node.js
6 1 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.33%) React
6 1 (2.33%) Web Services
6 1 (2.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Data Structures
1 7 (16.28%) Management Information System
2 4 (9.30%) Security Posture
3 3 (6.98%) Cyber Security Posture
3 3 (6.98%) Equities
4 2 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.65%) PKI
5 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.33%) Clustering
5 1 (2.33%) CMDB
5 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.33%) NHS
5 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Replication
5 1 (2.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (34.88%) Linux
2 7 (16.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (9.30%) Unix
3 4 (9.30%) Windows
4 1 (2.33%) AIX
4 1 (2.33%) CentOS
4 1 (2.33%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (2.33%) Solaris
4 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (32.56%) Agile
2 13 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (20.93%) SDLC
4 8 (18.60%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (16.28%) Customer Service
6 5 (11.63%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (11.63%) Database Tuning
6 5 (11.63%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (9.30%) Customer Experience
7 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (9.30%) ITIL
7 4 (9.30%) Mentoring
7 4 (9.30%) Microservices
7 4 (9.30%) Open Source
7 4 (9.30%) Systems Analysis
8 3 (6.98%) CI/CD
8 3 (6.98%) Scorecard
8 3 (6.98%) Visualisation
8 3 (6.98%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.88%) Python
1 15 (34.88%) SQL
2 9 (20.93%) Java
3 8 (18.60%) Shell Script
4 5 (11.63%) Bash
5 3 (6.98%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.65%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.33%) Go
7 1 (2.33%) Groovy
7 1 (2.33%) Perl
7 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) Degree
2 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.33%) CISM
3 1 (2.33%) CISSP
3 1 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (2.33%) GDPR
1 1 (2.33%) NCSC
1 1 (2.33%) NIST
1 1 (2.33%) QA
1 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (2.33%) KVM
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (2.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) Ansible
1 4 (9.30%) Grafana
2 2 (4.65%) HAProxy
2 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
2 2 (4.65%) Terraform
3 1 (2.33%) Consul
3 1 (2.33%) Data Guard
3 1 (2.33%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (2.33%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (2.33%) Kibana
3 1 (2.33%) linkerd
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (2.33%) Nagios
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Flashback
3 1 (2.33%) Packer
3 1 (2.33%) Rancher
3 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (2.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Oracle
1 6 (13.95%) Sybase
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.30%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.98%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.65%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.65%) Splunk
4 2 (4.65%) VMware
5 1 (2.33%) Apple
5 1 (2.33%) Commvault
5 1 (2.33%) Dell
5 1 (2.33%) DocuSign
5 1 (2.33%) IBM
5 1 (2.33%) Imperva
5 1 (2.33%) NetApp
5 1 (2.33%) Okta
5 1 (2.33%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.33%) Qualys
5 1 (2.33%) Snow
5 1 (2.33%) Veritas