DevSecOps Contracts in Scotland

DevSecOps
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring DevSecOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevSecOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 126 156
Rank change year-on-year +25 +30 +2
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 15 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.92% 0.14% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.15% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 5
10th Percentile £460 - £498
25th Percentile £600 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £675 - £838
90th Percentile £755 - £860
UK median daily rate £613 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.88% -3.85% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

DevSecOps 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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing DevSecOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in Scotland

DevSecOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevSecOps in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for DevSecOps in Scotland

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in Scotland

DevSecOps
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 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Edinburgh +12 10 £650 +8.33% 6
Glasgow - 5 £550 - 4
DevSecOps
UK

DevSecOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (33.33%) Serverless
3 4 (26.67%) AWS CodePipeline
3 4 (26.67%) GitHub
3 4 (26.67%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon Cognito
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (6.67%) CloudFront
5 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.67%) Firebase
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Storybook
2 3 (20.00%) Cypress.io
3 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Automotive
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Architect
2 5 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (26.67%) Security Architect
4 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 2 (13.33%) React Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Security Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) CISSP Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Consultant
6 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 1 (6.67%) DevSecOps Architect
6 1 (6.67%) DevSecOps Consultant
6 1 (6.67%) Security Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) CSS
1 5 (33.33%) Jest
1 5 (33.33%) React
1 5 (33.33%) Tailwind CSS
2 4 (26.67%) AWS CDK
3 2 (13.33%) GraphQL
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Amplify
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (6.67%) Playwright
4 1 (6.67%) REST
4 1 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (20.00%) Mainframe
1 3 (20.00%) Replication
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Life Science
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) HPUX
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Solaris
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (33.33%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (33.33%) DevOps
2 5 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (26.67%) Security Operations
3 4 (26.67%) TOGAF
4 3 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 3 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (20.00%) High Availability
4 3 (20.00%) ITSM
4 3 (20.00%) Microservices
4 3 (20.00%) OWASP
4 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (20.00%) Service Management
4 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Systems Thinking
5 2 (13.33%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) CISM
1 6 (40.00%) CISSP
2 1 (6.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (6.67%) CCSP
2 1 (6.67%) CEH
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.67%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (6.67%) OSCP
2 1 (6.67%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) GRC
2 1 (6.67%) COBIT
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) NIST
2 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) CASB
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) ServiceNow
2 3 (20.00%) IBM
2 3 (20.00%) Qualys
2 3 (20.00%) Sun
2 3 (20.00%) Unisys
3 1 (6.67%) Ariba
3 1 (6.67%) Forcepoint
3 1 (6.67%) Hitachi
3 1 (6.67%) HP
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle