DevSecOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Scotland

DevSecOps Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median DevSecOps Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £595, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevSecOps Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.13% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £536 - -
25th Percentile £554 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 - -
75th Percentile £623 - -
90th Percentile £633 - -
UK median daily rate £625 £572 £675
% change year-on-year +9.22% -15.22% +8.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 1,429 1,706 2,200
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.33% 92.12% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 1,007 1,392
10th Percentile £200 £192 £231
25th Percentile £358 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 65 60
10th Percentile £16.51 £12.39 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.73 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.80 £18.13 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +14.70% +2.31% -
75th Percentile £38.04 £24.18 £53.75
90th Percentile £64.60 £46.42 £74.18
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £45.00
% change year-on-year -37.63% -10.39% +68.48%

DevSecOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'DevSecOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

DevSecOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Scotland

DevSecOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevSecOps Engineer job vacancies in Scotland.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevSecOps Engineer job vacancies in Scotland

DevSecOps Engineer
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 DevSecOps Engineer 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 - 2 £595 -
DevSecOps Engineer
UK

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 18 October 2025, DevSecOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring DevSecOps Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (50.00%) Checkmarx
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Snyk
2 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Veracode
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation

DevSecOps Engineer Skill Set
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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Snyk
2 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) Veracode