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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 121 154
Rank change year-on-year +21 +33 +1
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 17 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.04% 0.19% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.21% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 4
10th Percentile £445 - £489
25th Percentile £600 - £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -2.04% +2.08%
75th Percentile £675 - £706
90th Percentile £695 - £808
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -3.70%

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 1,536 1,901 2,502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.72% 88.38% 92.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 880 1,165 1,771
10th Percentile £263 £219 £260
25th Percentile £375 £369 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +1.06%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £553
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 92 54
10th Percentile £15.95 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.18 £15.92 £11.51
Median hourly rate £19.90 £19.50 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% +20.00% -56.59%
75th Percentile £24.66 £42.71 £52.25
90th Percentile £50.06 £60.75 £67.22
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £35.65
% change year-on-year -22.81% +1.75% +38.82%

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 17 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 17 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 +17 13 £619 +3.13% 15
Glasgow -2 4 £625 - 8
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 9 (52.94%) AWS
2 8 (47.06%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (47.06%) Serverless
3 7 (41.18%) AWS CodePipeline
3 7 (41.18%) GitHub
3 7 (41.18%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (29.41%) Amazon Cognito
4 5 (29.41%) Amazon S3
5 3 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (17.65%) Firebase
6 2 (11.76%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (11.76%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (23.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Storybook
2 5 (29.41%) Cypress.io
3 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Finance
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Automotive
4 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Developer
3 4 (23.53%) React Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (17.65%) Security Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Security Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.88%) CISSP Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) CSS
1 8 (47.06%) React
1 8 (47.06%) Tailwind CSS
2 7 (41.18%) AWS CDK
2 7 (41.18%) Jest
3 4 (23.53%) GraphQL
4 3 (17.65%) AWS Amplify
4 3 (17.65%) RESTful
5 2 (11.76%) Playwright
6 1 (5.88%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
1 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
1 3 (17.65%) Mainframe
1 3 (17.65%) Replication
2 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.88%) Life Science
2 1 (5.88%) PropTech
2 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) HPUX
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
1 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (17.65%) Solaris
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
1 8 (47.06%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (29.41%) Agile
3 5 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (29.41%) DevOps
3 5 (29.41%) Secure Coding
4 4 (23.53%) Clean Code
4 4 (23.53%) Microservices
4 4 (23.53%) OWASP
4 4 (23.53%) TOGAF
4 4 (23.53%) User Experience
4 4 (23.53%) Workflow
5 3 (17.65%) Analytical Thinking
5 3 (17.65%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (17.65%) ITSM
5 3 (17.65%) Service Management
5 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
5 3 (17.65%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) TypeScript
2 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) CISM
1 5 (29.41%) CISSP
2 1 (5.88%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) ServiceNow
2 3 (17.65%) IBM
2 3 (17.65%) Qualys
2 3 (17.65%) Sun
2 3 (17.65%) Unisys
3 1 (5.88%) Ariba
3 1 (5.88%) Hitachi
3 1 (5.88%) HP
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle