SLSA Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring SLSA 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 SLSA 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.21% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.98% - -
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 £683 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

SLSA falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 307 369 460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.98% 23.08% 20.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 239 291
10th Percentile £358 £356 £388
25th Percentile £413 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £625 £619 £644
UK median daily rate £510 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £55.00
25th Percentile £56.86 - £55.70
Median hourly rate £58.73 - £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - - +160.22%
75th Percentile £60.59 - £75.88
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -15.38%

SLSA
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for SLSA in Scotland

SLSA
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 SLSA 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
SLSA
UK

SLSA
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
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%) SBOM
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%) 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