SBOM Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring SBOM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SBOM 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.21% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £466 - -
25th Percentile £546 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £683 - -
75th Percentile £686 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £438 £550 -
% change year-on-year -20.45% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

SBOM 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 1,269 1,448 2,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 86.74% 90.56% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 718 846 1,231
10th Percentile £233 £230 £259
25th Percentile £388 £363 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £638 £634 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 49 57
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.62 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.73 £20.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £18.41
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +28.14% -1.15%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £58.25 £44.83 £69.70
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +16.41%

SBOM
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SBOM in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SBOM in Scotland

SBOM
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 SBOM within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 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 - 3 £683 - 1
SBOM
UK

SBOM
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%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Snyk
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Design Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Application Security
1 3 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) OWASP
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (66.67%) SABSA
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
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 3 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) BiZZdesign
1 2 (66.67%) Black Duck
1 2 (66.67%) Checkmarx
1 2 (66.67%) Tenable