DevSecOps Contracts in Scotland

DevSecOps
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 160 167
Rank change year-on-year +34 +7 -20
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 3 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.14% 0.25% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.27% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 8
10th Percentile - £498 £494
25th Percentile - £550 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £644
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -2.91% +41.41%
75th Percentile - £838 £775
90th Percentile - £860 £779
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £663
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.92% +13.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

DevSecOps 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 1,954 2,625 3,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.74% 92.49% 93.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,182 1,886 2,317
10th Percentile £225 £260 £244
25th Percentile £400 £406 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £559 £550
90th Percentile £672 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
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 £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in Scotland

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in Scotland

DevSecOps
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 DevSecOps within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 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 +42 3 £600 -27.27% 2
DevSecOps
UK

DevSecOps
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 3 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 3 (100.00%) Change Management
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 3 (100.00%) Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform