DevSecOps Contracts in Edinburgh

DevSecOps
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring DevSecOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevSecOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 69 108
Rank change year-on-year +12 +39 +13
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 10 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.60% 0.37% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 0.42% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 3
10th Percentile £540 - £653
25th Percentile £600 - £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £825
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -27.27% +53.49%
75th Percentile £713 - £856
90th Percentile £760 - £868
Scotland median daily rate £625 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -2.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

DevSecOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in Edinburgh

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in Edinburgh

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in Edinburgh

DevSecOps
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 (60.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (50.00%) Serverless
3 4 (40.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 4 (40.00%) GitHub
3 4 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon Cognito
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (10.00%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (10.00%) CloudFront
5 1 (10.00%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Storybook
2 3 (30.00%) Cypress.io
3 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Automotive
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) React Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps Architect
4 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) CSS
1 5 (50.00%) Jest
1 5 (50.00%) React
1 5 (50.00%) Tailwind CSS
2 4 (40.00%) AWS CDK
3 2 (20.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Amplify
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (10.00%) Playwright
4 1 (10.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (30.00%) Mainframe
1 3 (30.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Life Science
2 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) HPUX
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
1 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (30.00%) Solaris
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
1 5 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 3 (30.00%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (30.00%) High Availability
3 3 (30.00%) ITSM
3 3 (30.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) OWASP
3 3 (30.00%) Service Management
3 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Systems Thinking
4 2 (20.00%) Front End Development
4 2 (20.00%) Planning and Forecasting
4 2 (20.00%) Secure Coding
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (10.00%) CCSP
1 1 (10.00%) CEH
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (10.00%) CISM
1 1 (10.00%) CISSP
1 1 (10.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) COBIT
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
1 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) IBM
1 3 (30.00%) Sun
1 3 (30.00%) Unisys
2 1 (10.00%) Hitachi
2 1 (10.00%) HP
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle