Application Security Contracts in Edinburgh

Application Security (AppSec)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Application Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Application Security over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 105 107
Rank change year-on-year +37 +2 -9
Contract jobs citing Application Security 6 5 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.74% 0.39% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.41% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 16
10th Percentile £511 £465 £481
25th Percentile £611 £488 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year +13.18% +1.85% +2.86%
75th Percentile £634 £706 £641
90th Percentile - £785 £681
Scotland median daily rate £623 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +24.50% -7.41% +2.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Application Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 725 1,219 1,845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 88.85% 94.94% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 865 1,275
10th Percentile £228 £250 £261
25th Percentile £410 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £568
90th Percentile £675 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £470
% change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 11 16
10th Percentile £13.66 £13.16 £16.27
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £19.94
Median hourly rate £21.02 £21.26 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% -47.18% -26.11%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - £54.50 £54.03
Scotland median hourly rate £18.79 £17.21 £40.00
% change year-on-year +9.18% -56.98% -

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Application Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in Edinburgh

Application Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Application Security in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Application Security in Edinburgh

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Security in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Application Security in Edinburgh

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Git
1 6 (100.00%) Gradle
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (100.00%) Maven
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Site Manager
1 5 (83.33%) Site Reliability Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Unix
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 6 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) OWASP
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 5 (83.33%) Service-Level Objective
2 5 (83.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Coaching
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Bash
1 6 (100.00%) Groovy
1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) Ruby
1 6 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform