Onboarding Job Trends in Scotland

Onboarding
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 113 99
Rank change year-on-year +20 -14 +49
Permanent jobs citing Onboarding 45 25 232
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.37% 1.26% 3.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.60% 4.11% 7.36%
Number of salaries quoted 33 15 39
10th Percentile £31,250 - £32,350
25th Percentile £34,250 £27,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £32,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -38.10% -0.94%
75th Percentile £62,500 £54,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £61,200 £68,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -23.08%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Onboarding falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 803 609 3,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 24.39% 30.63% 49.76%
Number of salaries quoted 433 322 853
10th Percentile £27,100 £32,000 £28,760
25th Percentile £30,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,438 £70,000
90th Percentile £79,750 £93,778 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Onboarding relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Onboarding job vacancy trend in Scotland

Onboarding
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Onboarding.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Onboarding

Onboarding
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Onboarding in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Onboarding in Scotland

Onboarding
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Onboarding within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +9 22 £55,625 +78.00% 12
Glasgow -5 16 £50,000 -16.67% 14
Aberdeen - 2 £43,500 - 1
Highlands - 2 £39,500 - 1
Lanarkshire - 1 £32,500 - 4
Inverclyde - 1 £60,000 - 2
Onboarding
UK

Onboarding
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.22%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.11%) Azure
2 8 (17.78%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (15.56%) Datadog
3 7 (15.56%) GitHub
3 7 (15.56%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (15.56%) SaaS
4 5 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.44%) Mimecast
6 1 (2.22%) AWS
6 1 (2.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) DHCP
1 1 (2.22%) DNS
1 1 (2.22%) VSAN
General
1 20 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 19 (42.22%) Finance
3 7 (15.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (13.33%) Legal
5 5 (11.11%) Marketing
6 4 (8.89%) Advertising
7 3 (6.67%) Manufacturing
8 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (4.44%) Banking
8 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.22%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (35.56%) Senior
2 7 (15.56%) Development Engineer
2 7 (15.56%) Senior Development Engineer
3 6 (13.33%) Engineering Manager
3 6 (13.33%) Senior Manager
4 5 (11.11%) Analyst
5 4 (8.89%) Business Sales Executive
5 4 (8.89%) IT Support
5 4 (8.89%) New Business Sales Executive
5 4 (8.89%) Sales Executive
6 3 (6.67%) IT Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) IT Manager
6 3 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) IT Support Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Lead
7 2 (4.44%) Recruitment Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Service Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Service Desk Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.56%) .NET
1 7 (15.56%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Product Ownership
2 6 (13.33%) NHS
3 4 (8.89%) Algorithms
4 3 (6.67%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.44%) Robotics
6 1 (2.22%) Clustering
6 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.22%) e-Learning
6 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.33%) Windows
2 3 (6.67%) Linux
2 3 (6.67%) Windows 10
3 2 (4.44%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (31.11%) User Experience
3 13 (28.89%) Coaching
3 13 (28.89%) Code Quality
3 13 (28.89%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (28.89%) Observability
4 10 (22.22%) Roadmaps
5 9 (20.00%) Asset Management
6 8 (17.78%) Agile
6 8 (17.78%) B2B
6 8 (17.78%) ITIL
7 7 (15.56%) Brown Bag Session
7 7 (15.56%) CI/CD
7 7 (15.56%) Containerisation
7 7 (15.56%) DevOps
7 7 (15.56%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (15.56%) Service Delivery
7 7 (15.56%) Service Management
7 7 (15.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 7 (15.56%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.56%) JavaScript
1 7 (15.56%) Python
2 3 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) Degree
2 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.44%) CCNA
4 2 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.44%) MCSE
4 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 2 (4.44%) MOS
4 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.78%) QA
2 4 (8.89%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (6.67%) GDPR
4 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (15.56%) Docker
2 4 (8.89%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (15.56%) Grafana
1 7 (15.56%) Kubernetes
1 7 (15.56%) Prometheus
1 7 (15.56%) Terraform
2 2 (4.44%) Ansible
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.44%) SCCM
3 1 (2.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.44%) Cisco
2 2 (4.44%) Citrix
2 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
2 2 (4.44%) Sophos
2 2 (4.44%) Zscaler
3 1 (2.22%) EMC
3 1 (2.22%) Infor
3 1 (2.22%) VMware
3 1 (2.22%) YouTube