Checkmarx Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Checkmarx
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring knowledge or experience of Checkmarx products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Checkmarx over the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, 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 Checkmarx.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 118 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing Checkmarx 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.063% 0.054% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.14% 0.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £639 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +50.35% - -
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £606
% change year-on-year -13.64% -9.28% +6.91%

All Vendors
Scotland

Checkmarx 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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 705 740 943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 44.56% 39.96% 40.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 437 577
10th Percentile £213 £173 £184
25th Percentile £368 £320 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -7.89% +4.97%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £575
90th Percentile £625 £685 £653
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 36 27
10th Percentile £16.13 £12.45 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.73 £12.50
Median hourly rate £19.23 £19.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -1.84% +10.55% -
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £54.38
90th Percentile £38.00 £39.27 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £33.00 £43.88
% change year-on-year -27.27% -24.79% +82.83%

Checkmarx
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Checkmarx relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Checkmarx job vacancy trend in Scotland

Checkmarx
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 Checkmarx within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 October 2025. 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
Glasgow -11 1 £639 +50.35%
Checkmarx
UK

Checkmarx
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Snyk
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Veracode