Application Security Contracts in Scotland

Application Security (AppSec)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 123 158 152
Rank change year-on-year +35 -6 -27
Contract jobs citing Application Security 6 8 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.27% 0.28% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.31% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 17
10th Percentile £511 £259 £475
25th Percentile £611 £382 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +24.50% -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £634 £641 £638
90th Percentile - £759 £680
UK median daily rate £600 £644 £600
% change year-on-year -6.83% +7.33% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,942 2,610 3,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.68% 92.55% 93.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,171 1,872 2,340
10th Percentile £228 £260 £244
25th Percentile £399 £406 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £588 £560 £550
90th Percentile £663 £650 £624
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 55 47
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.32
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.78 £20.38
Median hourly rate £18.79 £17.21 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -56.98% -
75th Percentile £40.94 £50.74 £49.15
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.94 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in Scotland

Application Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Application Security in Scotland

Application Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Application Security in Scotland

Application Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Application Security in Scotland

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Application Security within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 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
Edinburgh +37 6 £623 +13.18%
Application Security
UK

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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