Dynamic Application Security Testing Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Dynamic Application Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 116 116
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -
Contract jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 4 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.21% 0.13% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.13% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £492 - £437
25th Percentile £612 - £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £683 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year +24.09% +12.82% -
75th Percentile £686 - £619
90th Percentile - - £720
UK median daily rate £600 £680 £650
% change year-on-year -11.76% +4.62% +4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

Dynamic Application Security Testing 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 1,521 1,495 1,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 81.55% 93.55% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 780 879 1,158
10th Percentile £284 £263 £219
25th Percentile £388 £375 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.81% -2.63% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £650
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 48 92
10th Percentile £12.60 £15.95 £12.30
25th Percentile £13.51 £17.18 £15.92
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.90 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% +2.05% +21.88%
75th Percentile £50.00 £24.66 £42.71
90th Percentile £77.50 £50.06 £60.75
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £36.02
% change year-on-year +50.82% -21.77% +1.04%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Dynamic Application Security Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Dynamic Application Security Testing job vacancy trend in Scotland

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Dynamic Application Security Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Dynamic Application Security Testing

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Dynamic Application Security Testing in Scotland

Dynamic Application Security Testing
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 Dynamic Application Security Testing within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 May 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 4 £683 +24.09% 3
Dynamic Application Security Testing
UK

Dynamic Application Security Testing
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 3 (75.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 3 (75.00%) Snyk
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Design Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Application Security
1 4 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) OWASP
1 4 (100.00%) SBOM
1 4 (100.00%) SDLC
1 4 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Remediation Plan
2 3 (75.00%) SABSA
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (75.00%) UML
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CISM
1 3 (75.00%) CISSP
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
1 3 (75.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) BiZZdesign
1 3 (75.00%) Black Duck
1 3 (75.00%) Checkmarx
1 3 (75.00%) Tenable