Static Application Security Testing Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Static Application Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 - 72
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.27% - 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% - 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £639 - £550
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Static Application Security Testing 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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 657 624 745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 88.90% 89.27% 91.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 410 501
10th Percentile £300 £280 £344
25th Percentile £381 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £588
90th Percentile £613 £675 £700
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 19
10th Percentile £15.09 £15.39 £11.70
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.11 £12.13
Median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +35.10% -61.26%
75th Percentile £26.21 £26.76 £17.72
90th Percentile £57.50 £41.70 £27.64
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £20.94 £19.06
% change year-on-year -4.62% +9.88% +1.22%

Static Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Static Application Security Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Static Application Security Testing job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Static Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Static Application Security Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Static Application Security Testing

Static Application Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) Snyk
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Test Lead
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Coaching
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Veracode
2 1 (50.00%) Checkmarx