Secure Coding Contracts in Scotland

Secure Code Development
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Secure Coding skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Secure Coding over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 159 170
Rank change year-on-year +36 +11 -15
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 3 9 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.14% 0.33% 0.058%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.35% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 2
10th Percentile £605 £455 £355
25th Percentile £609 £469 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £621 £488 £375
Median % change year-on-year +27.33% +30.00% -
75th Percentile £634 £505 £388
90th Percentile £640 £529 £395
UK median daily rate £650 £563 £575
% change year-on-year +15.45% -2.09% +16.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Secure Coding 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 1,925 2,559 3,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.26% 92.55% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,163 1,839 2,293
10th Percentile £222 £260 £250
25th Percentile £373 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £557 £550
90th Percentile £659 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 56 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.84 £12.04 £19.45
Median hourly rate £19.50 £16.86 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.69% -57.86% -0.01%
75th Percentile £50.88 £49.24 £48.95
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.78 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Secure Coding in Scotland

Secure Coding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Secure Coding in Scotland

Secure Coding
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 Secure Coding within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 8 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 +31 1 £638 +29.05%
Glasgow +8 1 £604 -
Lanarkshire - 1 - -
Secure Coding
UK

Secure Coding
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (33.33%) Flink
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Process Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) ISMS
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security Management
2 1 (33.33%) Internal Audit
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Management
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
1 2 (66.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 2 (66.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
2 1 (33.33%) CLAS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google