Black Duck Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Black Duck
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring knowledge or experience of Black Duck products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Black Duck over the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Black Duck Software.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Black Duck 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.34% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.87% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £679 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £683 - -
75th Percentile £686 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £683 - -

All Vendors
Edinburgh

Black Duck falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 230 229 386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.05% 37.85% 43.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 109 223
10th Percentile £275 £160 £177
25th Percentile £413 £308 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.79% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £560 £575
90th Percentile £686 £675 £633
Scotland median daily rate £455 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +1.00% -10.00% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 9
10th Percentile £17.11 £20.65 £16.00
25th Percentile - £22.22 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.80 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -24.90% +34.28% -10.73%
75th Percentile £37.88 £24.18 £60.00
90th Percentile £65.38 £26.52 £60.30
Scotland median hourly rate £20.62 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -12.61% +20.97% +10.05%

Black Duck
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Black Duck relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Black Duck job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Black Duck
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Black Duck.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Black Duck

Black Duck
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Snyk
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Design Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 2 (100.00%) SABSA
1 2 (100.00%) SBOM
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (100.00%) UML
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) BiZZdesign
1 2 (100.00%) Checkmarx
1 2 (100.00%) Tenable