SLSA Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring SLSA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SLSA 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.51% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £466 - -
25th Percentile £546 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £683 - -
75th Percentile £686 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £683 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Edinburgh

SLSA falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 127 168 211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.56% 27.77% 23.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 104 148
10th Percentile £406 £400 £398
25th Percentile £431 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £478
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -0.52% +0.53%
75th Percentile £575 £533 £559
90th Percentile £625 £584 £626
Scotland median daily rate £500 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% +5.26%

SLSA
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SLSA in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 16 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SLSA in Edinburgh

SLSA
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 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Snyk
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Design Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Application Security
1 3 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) OWASP
1 3 (100.00%) SBOM
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) SABSA
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) TOGAF
2 2 (66.67%) UML
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CISM
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) BiZZdesign
1 2 (66.67%) Black Duck
1 2 (66.67%) Checkmarx
1 2 (66.67%) Tenable