Security Engineer Contracts in Edinburgh

Security Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Security Engineer daily rate in Edinburgh is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 108 109
Rank change year-on-year +43 +1 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 5 7 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.62% 0.55% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.57% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 11
10th Percentile £470 - £550
25th Percentile £481 £413 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £625
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -26.00% +7.30%
75th Percentile £644 £603 £681
90th Percentile £730 £744 £688
Scotland median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +8.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 764 1,228 1,869
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.26% 95.64% 95.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 873 1,283
10th Percentile £206 £239 £230
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £565
90th Percentile £663 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 12 21
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.62 £14.55
25th Percentile £16.81 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -18.23% -54.78%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £54.43 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £24.27 £22.13 £26.85
% change year-on-year +9.71% -17.60% -28.40%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Edinburgh

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in Edinburgh

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Engineer in Edinburgh

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Security Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (40.00%) Splunk
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) CASB
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (20.00%) Email Filtering
4 1 (20.00%) NIST
4 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (20.00%) Key Management
4 1 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
4 1 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Unix
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (20.00%) Data Security
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Key Management
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (20.00%) MCSE
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) CASB
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) F5
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Qualys
2 1 (20.00%) Tripwire
2 1 (20.00%) VMware