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 17 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 Checkmarx.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 109 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing Checkmarx 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.21% 0.062% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.48% 0.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £647 - -
25th Percentile £659 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £683 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.59% - -
75th Percentile £686 £438 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £625 £555 £475
% change year-on-year +12.61% +16.84% -22.45%

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 629 618 969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 43.26% 38.60% 42.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 349 557
10th Percentile £263 £175 £197
25th Percentile £400 £331 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +8.64%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £679
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 41 37
10th Percentile £16.85 £15.10 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £23.59 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% +20.97% +10.05%
75th Percentile £30.75 £24.18 £60.00
90th Percentile £60.75 £34.50 £68.10
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year -13.36% -29.03% +27.05%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Checkmarx.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Checkmarx

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 17 January 2026. 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
Edinburgh - 2 £683 - 1
Glasgow +8 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) Snyk
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Design Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Application Security
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Interactive Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (66.67%) SABSA
2 2 (66.67%) SBOM
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
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 2 (66.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) BiZZdesign
1 2 (66.67%) Black Duck
1 2 (66.67%) Tenable
2 1 (33.33%) Veracode