The first table below looks at the demand for the Security Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Security Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Edinburgh region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Engineer
Rank 61 59 64
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 2 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.216% 0.188% 0.300%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.229% 0.198% 0.321%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £250 £375 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £12.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £14.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year
+175.86% -
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
872 1008 1247
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 94.27% 94.92% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 468 616
Average daily rate £400 £365 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.58% -2.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 29
Average hourly rate £13.93 £20.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.35% +30.80%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £9.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.40 £32.00 £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Security Engineer
Scotland

Security Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Security Engineer across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Edinburgh Security Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Security Engineer across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Security Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Security Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Security Engineer across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Security Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Security Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Security Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Security Engineer in their job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Finance
1 4 (57.14%) SIEM
2 3 (42.86%) Change Control
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Financial Institution
3 2 (28.57%) Firewall
3 2 (28.57%) Advertising
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) McAfee
4 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) CISA
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
4 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 17799
4 1 (14.29%) IBM
4 1 (14.29%) HPUX
4 1 (14.29%) Solaris
4 1 (14.29%) UNIX
4 1 (14.29%) Perl
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
4 1 (14.29%) IIS
4 1 (14.29%) Information Security
4 1 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
4 1 (14.29%) Management Information System

Security Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Security Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Security Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
1 1 (14.29%) IIS
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Financial Institution
3 2 (28.57%) Advertising
4 1 (14.29%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) UNIX
2 1 (14.29%) HPUX
2 1 (14.29%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) SIEM
2 3 (42.86%) Change Control
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Perl
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
1 1 (14.29%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 17799
1 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) McAfee
3 1 (14.29%) ArcSight
3 1 (14.29%) Sun
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) IBM
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