Disclosure Scotland Contracts

Disclosure Scotland
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 418 478 612
Rank change year-on-year +60 +134 -141
Contract jobs citing Disclosure Scotland 156 229 248
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.40% 0.28%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.57% 3.00% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 199 196
10th Percentile £157 £144 £230
25th Percentile £238 £350 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £460 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% +8.24% -
75th Percentile £500 £541 £575
90th Percentile £600 £600 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £455 £420
% change year-on-year -6.59% +8.33% +1.20%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £10.95 £23.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -52.39% +9.26% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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 requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,062 7,631 11,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.25% 13.36% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,850 5,224 7,927
10th Percentile £282 £280 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £742 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £480 £450
% change year-on-year +0.83% +6.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 380 234 311
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.71 £17.00
Median hourly rate £21.06 £35.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.84% +12.90% +47.62%
75th Percentile £45.00 £62.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £77.50 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.27 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -47.80% +55.56% +7.14%

Disclosure Scotland
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Disclosure Scotland as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Disclosure Scotland in the UK

Disclosure Scotland
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Disclosure Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Disclosure Scotland in the UK

Disclosure Scotland
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disclosure Scotland over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Disclosure Scotland in the UK

Disclosure Scotland
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Disclosure Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Disclosure Scotland in the UK

Disclosure Scotland
Top 10 Contract 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 15 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
UK excluding London -4 156 £425 -6.59% 8
Scotland +2 127 £425 -5.56% 4
Work from Home +52 63 £408 -14.93% 6
England +105 29 £600 +3.63% 6
North of England +47 29 £600 +9.09%
North West +44 28 £610 +10.91%
North East - 2 £660 -
West Midlands - 1 £500 - 4
Yorkshire - 1 £720 -
Midlands - 1 £500 - 4

Disclosure Scotland
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 19 (12.18%) 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%) LAN
3 2 (1.28%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (1.28%) DHCP
3 2 (1.28%) DNS
3 2 (1.28%) Internet
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%) 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%) Law
9 1 (0.64%) Marketing
9 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (23.08%) 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%) Cloud Engineer
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%) J2EE
6 2 (1.28%) Java EE
6 2 (1.28%) Middleware
6 2 (1.28%) Node.js
6 2 (1.28%) OAuth2
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 10 (6.41%) PKI
3 9 (5.77%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.92%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (1.92%) Social Media
5 3 (1.92%) Wiki
6 2 (1.28%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.28%) Clustering
6 2 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.28%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.28%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.28%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.28%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.28%) Video Editing
7 1 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.64%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 38 (24.36%) Windows
2 28 (17.95%) Windows 10
3 8 (5.13%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.49%) Linux
5 4 (2.56%) Unix
6 3 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.28%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.64%) AIX
8 1 (0.64%) Android
8 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.64%) Solaris
8 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (25.64%) 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 17 (10.90%) Project Delivery
7 17 (10.90%) Project Management
8 16 (10.26%) DevOps
8 16 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (8.97%) CI/CD
9 14 (8.97%) Cybersecurity
10 13 (8.33%) ITIL
11 12 (7.69%) Analytics
12 11 (7.05%) PRINCE2
12 11 (7.05%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (6.41%) Scrum
14 9 (5.77%) Service Management
14 9 (5.77%) User Experience
15 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 5 (3.21%) 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 31 (19.87%) Security Cleared
2 27 (17.31%) SC Cleared
3 17 (10.90%) Degree
4 7 (4.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.28%) CISSP
7 2 (1.28%) DV Cleared
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%) APMP
8 1 (0.64%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.64%) RIBA
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 13 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.49%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.56%) Docker
4 2 (1.28%) BitLocker
4 2 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
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%) vSphere
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
6 2 (1.28%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.64%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (0.64%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.64%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Clustering
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%) vMotion
Vendors
1 48 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 20 (12.82%) Oracle
3 5 (3.21%) VMware
4 4 (2.56%) Fortinet
5 3 (1.92%) Facebook
5 3 (1.92%) HP
5 3 (1.92%) Instagram
5 3 (1.92%) Okta
5 3 (1.92%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.28%) Adobe
6 2 (1.28%) Avaya
6 2 (1.28%) Cisco
6 2 (1.28%) Citrix
6 2 (1.28%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (1.28%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (1.28%) Google
6 2 (1.28%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.28%) Symantec
6 2 (1.28%) Twitter
6 2 (1.28%) Zscaler