Disclosure Scotland Contracts in the UK excluding London

Disclosure Scotland
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 243 247 301
Rank change year-on-year +4 +54 -65
Contract jobs citing Disclosure Scotland 156 220 225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.77% 0.96% 0.74%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.25% 6.48% 5.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 192 179
10th Percentile £156 £139 £230
25th Percentile £219 £350 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £415
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +8.43% -
75th Percentile £500 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £600 £600
UK median daily rate £425 £453 £423
% change year-on-year -6.08% +7.10% -0.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.00
Median hourly rate £10.95 £23.00 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -52.39% +9.26% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £11.32 - £22.52
UK median hourly rate £10.95 £23.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -52.39% +9.26% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,970 3,395 4,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.64% 14.76% 14.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,751 2,261 3,030
10th Percentile £250 £223 £205
25th Percentile £363 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +6.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £569
90th Percentile £680 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.31% +8.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 188 207
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.16 £11.44
25th Percentile £12.75 £18.09 £15.78
Median hourly rate £18.27 £32.94 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.54% +46.41% +7.14%
75th Percentile £45.00 £62.00 £49.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £77.50 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £21.06 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -39.84% +7.69% +54.76%

Disclosure Scotland
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Disclosure Scotland as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Disclosure Scotland in the UK excluding London

Disclosure Scotland
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Disclosure Scotland in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Disclosure Scotland in the UK excluding London

Disclosure Scotland
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disclosure Scotland in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Disclosure Scotland in the UK excluding London

Disclosure Scotland
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Disclosure Scotland in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Disclosure Scotland in the UK excluding London

Disclosure Scotland
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Scotland -2 127 £425 -5.56% 2
North of England +52 29 £600 +9.09%
North West +44 28 £610 +10.91%
North East - 2 £660 -
West Midlands - 1 £500 - 5
Yorkshire - 1 £720 -
Midlands - 1 £500 - 5
Disclosure Scotland
UK

Disclosure Scotland
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (3.85%) Confluence
1 6 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.92%) CMS
3 1 (0.64%) Apache
3 1 (0.64%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.64%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.64%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (0.64%) JBoss
3 1 (0.64%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.64%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.64%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (0.64%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (0.64%) WildFly
Applications
1 30 (19.23%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (14.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (7.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.64%) Adobe Captivate
5 1 (0.64%) Camtasia
5 1 (0.64%) Lectora
5 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.28%) Dynamics GP
1 2 (1.28%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (1.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.64%) iTrent
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 18 (11.54%) AWS
2 15 (9.62%) Azure
3 13 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (5.77%) OCI
5 7 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (4.49%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.85%) Amazon S3
6 6 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (3.85%) SaaS
6 6 (3.85%) Serverless
7 5 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.56%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.92%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (1.92%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.92%) IaaS
9 3 (1.92%) PaaS
10 2 (1.28%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (1.28%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (1.28%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 2 (1.28%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.49%) Firewall
2 3 (1.92%) HTTP
2 3 (1.92%) Internet
2 3 (1.92%) LAN
3 2 (1.28%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (1.28%) Intranet
3 2 (1.28%) SSL
3 2 (1.28%) VPN
3 2 (1.28%) WLAN
4 1 (0.64%) ATM
4 1 (0.64%) Broadband
4 1 (0.64%) DHCP
4 1 (0.64%) DNS
4 1 (0.64%) IPsec
4 1 (0.64%) SCCP
4 1 (0.64%) SMTP
4 1 (0.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.13%) Oracle Reports
1 8 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.21%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.92%) GIS
4 3 (1.92%) MariaDB
4 3 (1.92%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.92%) MySQL
4 3 (1.92%) Power BI
4 3 (1.92%) Tableau
5 2 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (1.28%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.64%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.64%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.64%) QGIS
6 1 (0.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (8.33%) JIRA
2 10 (6.41%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.92%) Cucumber
3 3 (1.92%) Selenium
4 2 (1.28%) Maven
4 2 (1.28%) Subversion
4 2 (1.28%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.28%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.64%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.64%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.64%) Git
5 1 (0.64%) GitLab
5 1 (0.64%) Gradle
5 1 (0.64%) gulp
5 1 (0.64%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.64%) JUnit
5 1 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.64%) Travis CI
General
1 82 (52.56%) Public Sector
2 40 (25.64%) Social Skills
3 17 (10.90%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.69%) Finance
5 6 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.92%) Back Office
8 2 (1.28%) Banking
8 2 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.64%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.64%) Law
9 1 (0.64%) Marketing
9 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (23.72%) Analyst
2 18 (11.54%) Senior
3 15 (9.62%) Lead
3 15 (9.62%) Service Analyst
3 15 (9.62%) Service Desk Analyst
4 14 (8.97%) IT Support
5 12 (7.69%) Developer
6 11 (7.05%) IT Analyst
7 9 (5.77%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
7 9 (5.77%) Project Manager
8 8 (5.13%) Architect
9 6 (3.85%) Designer
10 5 (3.21%) IT Support Analyst
10 5 (3.21%) Support Analyst
10 5 (3.21%) Support Officer
11 4 (2.56%) Administrator
11 4 (2.56%) Business Analyst
11 4 (2.56%) Help Desk Analyst
11 4 (2.56%) Security Specialist
11 4 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.49%) REST
2 6 (3.85%) AWS CDK
2 6 (3.85%) React
3 5 (3.21%) .NET
3 5 (3.21%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (2.56%) OAuth
4 4 (2.56%) OpenID
4 4 (2.56%) SAML
4 4 (2.56%) SOAP
4 4 (2.56%) Spring
5 3 (1.92%) PostGIS
5 3 (1.92%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.28%) HTML
6 2 (1.28%) J2EE
6 2 (1.28%) Java EE
6 2 (1.28%) Middleware
6 2 (1.28%) Node.js
6 2 (1.28%) Spring Security
6 2 (1.28%) Web Services
6 2 (1.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.77%) PKI
2 9 (5.77%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (1.92%) Social Media
4 3 (1.92%) Wiki
5 2 (1.28%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.28%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.28%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.28%) Freedom of Information
5 2 (1.28%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.28%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.28%) Video Editing
6 1 (0.64%) Blackberry
6 1 (0.64%) NHS
6 1 (0.64%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.64%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 37 (23.72%) Windows
2 28 (17.95%) Windows 10
3 7 (4.49%) Linux
3 7 (4.49%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.56%) Unix
5 3 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.64%) AIX
7 1 (0.64%) Android
7 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.64%) Solaris
7 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (26.28%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (23.08%) Agile
3 34 (21.79%) Decision-Making
4 32 (20.51%) Customer Service
5 28 (17.95%) Time Management
6 19 (12.18%) Roadmaps
7 16 (10.26%) DevOps
7 16 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (10.26%) Project Delivery
7 16 (10.26%) Project Management
8 14 (8.97%) CI/CD
8 14 (8.97%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (8.33%) ITIL
10 12 (7.69%) Analytics
11 11 (7.05%) PRINCE2
11 11 (7.05%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (6.41%) Scrum
13 9 (5.77%) Service Management
13 9 (5.77%) User Experience
14 8 (5.13%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.97%) Java
2 13 (8.33%) Python
3 8 (5.13%) JavaScript
4 6 (3.85%) SQL
4 6 (3.85%) TypeScript
5 4 (2.56%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.28%) Bash
6 2 (1.28%) C#
6 2 (1.28%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.64%) C++
7 1 (0.64%) Go
7 1 (0.64%) Groovy
7 1 (0.64%) PHP
7 1 (0.64%) Ruby
7 1 (0.64%) VBA
7 1 (0.64%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 27 (17.31%) SC Cleared
3 17 (10.90%) Degree
4 6 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.28%) CISSP
7 2 (1.28%) ISEB
7 2 (1.28%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 2 (1.28%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 2 (1.28%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.28%) MCP
7 2 (1.28%) MCSE
7 2 (1.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.64%) PMP
8 1 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.05%) SLA
2 10 (6.41%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.21%) QA
5 3 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.92%) GDPR
6 2 (1.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (1.28%) NCSC
6 2 (1.28%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.64%) COBIT
7 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 1 (0.64%) ISO17020
7 1 (0.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.85%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.56%) Docker
4 2 (1.28%) BitLocker
4 2 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.64%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.64%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (5.77%) Ansible
2 8 (5.13%) Terraform
3 7 (4.49%) Grafana
4 6 (3.85%) SCCM
5 3 (1.92%) Packer
6 2 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.64%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (0.64%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.64%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.64%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.64%) QRadar
7 1 (0.64%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.64%) vMotion
Vendors
1 47 (30.13%) Microsoft
2 20 (12.82%) Oracle
3 4 (2.56%) Fortinet
3 4 (2.56%) VMware
4 3 (1.92%) Facebook
4 3 (1.92%) Instagram
4 3 (1.92%) Okta
4 3 (1.92%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.28%) Adobe
5 2 (1.28%) Avaya
5 2 (1.28%) Cisco
5 2 (1.28%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (1.28%) Extreme Networks
5 2 (1.28%) Google
5 2 (1.28%) HP
5 2 (1.28%) SolarWinds
5 2 (1.28%) Twitter
5 2 (1.28%) Zscaler
6 1 (0.64%) Citrix
6 1 (0.64%) Dell