Cybersecurity Specialist Contracts in Scotland

Cybersecurity Specialist
UK > Scotland

The median Cybersecurity Specialist daily rate in Scotland is £481 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 154 173
Rank change year-on-year +23 +19 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Specialist 4 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.21% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.22% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £439 £473 £462
25th Percentile £452 £506 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £514 £578 £542
90th Percentile £528 £584 £566
UK median daily rate £528 £591 £513
% change year-on-year -10.69% +15.24% -17.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 2,117 2,724 3,382
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 95.18% 96.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,298 1,950 2,398
10th Percentile £202 £243 £211
25th Percentile £375 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £458
Median % change year-on-year - +3.83% +7.65%
75th Percentile £588 £551 £549
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 46 55
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.94 £12.35
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.34 £17.50
Median hourly rate £33.25 £23.18 £25.82
Median % change year-on-year +43.44% -10.21% -35.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.17 £47.98
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £54.09
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Cybersecurity Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Specialist in Scotland

Cybersecurity Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Specialist in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Specialist in Scotland

Cybersecurity Specialist
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 Cybersecurity Specialist within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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 +36 4 £481 -3.75%
Cybersecurity Specialist
UK

Cybersecurity Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Cybersecurity Specialist 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 Scotland region featuring Cybersecurity Specialist in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) MCSE
1 4 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (75.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (75.00%) Kalman Filter
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (75.00%) Email Filtering
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) Security Testing
2 3 (75.00%) SCCM
2 3 (75.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (75.00%) Dynamics GP
2 3 (75.00%) PKI
2 3 (75.00%) SSL
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory

Cybersecurity Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) SSL
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (75.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 4 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (75.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Email Filtering
2 3 (75.00%) Kalman Filter
2 3 (75.00%) Security Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
1 4 (100.00%) MCSE
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) SCCM