Network Security Contracts in Scotland

Network Security
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Network Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Network Security over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 146 123
Rank change year-on-year +27 -23 0
Contract jobs citing Network Security 13 21 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.58% 0.74% 1.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.12% 6.10% 15.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 35
10th Percentile £489 £450 £420
25th Percentile £525 £468 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £638
90th Percentile £640 £575 £683
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £543
% change year-on-year - +5.99% +14.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.00
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
75th Percentile - - £23.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £19.00 £52.13 £52.60
% change year-on-year -63.55% -0.89% +25.49%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

Network Security is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 254 344 310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.42% 12.09% 8.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 217 196
10th Percentile £188 £160 £181
25th Percentile £363 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% +2.78% +7.78%
75th Percentile £627 £538 £538
90th Percentile £700 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £488 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -6.11% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 21 17
10th Percentile £15.70 - £21.00
25th Percentile £17.13 - £40.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £10.63 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +144.59% -77.62% -26.36%
75th Percentile £60.38 £35.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £58.75 £56.45
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year +110.53% -32.74% +6.89%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Network Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in Scotland

Network Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Security in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Network Security in Scotland

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in Scotland over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in Scotland

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Security in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in Scotland

Network Security
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 Network Security within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 23 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 +18 6 £540 +8.00% 4
Glasgow +7 3 £604 +12.37% 7
Highlands - 2 - -
Lanarkshire - 1 - - 3
Network Security
UK

Network Security
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) EPiServer
1 1 (7.69%) IIS
1 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
1 1 (7.69%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Akamai
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
2 1 (7.69%) SaaS
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) Firewall
2 4 (30.77%) BGP
2 4 (30.77%) OSPF
2 4 (30.77%) SD-WAN
2 4 (30.77%) WAN
3 2 (15.38%) DNS
3 2 (15.38%) EIGRP
3 2 (15.38%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (15.38%) Internet
3 2 (15.38%) MPLS
3 2 (15.38%) VPN
3 2 (15.38%) VXLAN
3 2 (15.38%) Wireshark
4 1 (7.69%) BIG-IP
4 1 (7.69%) IPsec
4 1 (7.69%) SAN
4 1 (7.69%) SCCP
4 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
4 1 (7.69%) VLAN
4 1 (7.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Senior
2 5 (38.46%) Network Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Network Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Network Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Network Security Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Security Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Security Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
1 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
1 3 (23.08%) Data Centre
1 3 (23.08%) Public Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) BYOD
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (7.69%) IoT
3 1 (7.69%) PKI
3 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (23.08%) Information Security
2 2 (15.38%) Agile
2 2 (15.38%) Business Process Analysis
2 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
2 2 (15.38%) ISMS
2 2 (15.38%) Network Design
2 2 (15.38%) Network Management
2 2 (15.38%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (15.38%) Secure Coding
2 2 (15.38%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (7.69%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Internal Audit
3 1 (7.69%) Network Optimisation
3 1 (7.69%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (7.69%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (7.69%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Bash
1 2 (15.38%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) CCNP
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (15.38%) CISSP
2 2 (15.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 2 (15.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 1 (7.69%) CCNA
3 1 (7.69%) CLAS
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) FortiGate
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) Kibana
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Cisco
2 4 (30.77%) Fortinet
2 4 (30.77%) Palo Alto
3 3 (23.08%) CheckPoint
3 3 (23.08%) F5
4 2 (15.38%) Arista
4 2 (15.38%) Blue Coat
4 2 (15.38%) Infoblox
4 2 (15.38%) McAfee
4 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds
4 2 (15.38%) VMware
5 1 (7.69%) CA
5 1 (7.69%) Juniper
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 1 (7.69%) Red Hat