Secure Coding Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Secure Code Development
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Secure Coding skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 101 110
Rank change year-on-year -29 +9 +32
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 7 15 5
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.31% 0.94% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 1.03% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 2
10th Percentile - £443 £612
25th Percentile £402 £455 £627
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £466 £652
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -28.49% +33.74%
75th Percentile £538 £553 £677
90th Percentile £560 £594 £691
UK median daily rate £526 £562 £638
% change year-on-year -6.46% -11.79% +6.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

Secure Coding 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 1,920 1,458 1,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 83.84% 91.07% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,046 798 985
10th Percentile £263 £263 £213
25th Percentile £375 £368 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% +2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £550
90th Percentile £650 £600 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 97 44
10th Percentile £13.45 £16.75 £12.30
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.87 £13.60
Median hourly rate £17.24 £20.00 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -13.80% +7.02% +5.46%
75th Percentile £40.05 £25.15 £26.94
90th Percentile £72.05 £34.00 £56.75
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.16% +0.31%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Secure Coding relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Secure Coding job vacancy trend in Scotland

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Secure Coding.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Secure Coding

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Secure Coding in Scotland over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Secure Coding in Scotland

Secure Coding
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 Secure Coding within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Glasgow -10 6 £510 +0.49% 78
Edinburgh -13 1 - - 3
Secure Coding
UK

Secure Coding
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 (28.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Flink
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Integration Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Integration Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Angular Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Security Advisor
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
1 2 (28.57%) Spark Streaming
1 2 (28.57%) Spring
1 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Private Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Validation
4 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 2 (28.57%) API Design
5 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (28.57%) Observability
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Release Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
1 1 (14.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
1 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) SaltStack
1 2 (28.57%) VMware