Security Operations Centre Contracts in Scotland

Security Operations Centre
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 154 161
Rank change year-on-year +34 +7 0
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 3 14 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.14% 0.51% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.41% 1.39% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 5
10th Percentile £428 - -
25th Percentile £450 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -21.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £460 £588
90th Percentile £573 £509 £603
UK median daily rate £615 £606 £625
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.04% +38.89%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Security Operations Centre is in the General and Transferable Skills 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 generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 723 1,006 1,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.50% 36.38% 33.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 690 813
10th Percentile £200 £237 £263
25th Percentile £363 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +1.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £553
90th Percentile £646 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 24 24
10th Percentile £13.33 - £15.54
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.63 £19.45
Median hourly rate £18.13 £13.40 £42.48
Median % change year-on-year +35.30% -68.45% -5.61%
75th Percentile £44.75 £25.72 £53.75
90th Percentile £60.53 £51.94 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.13% -18.24% +4.90%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations Centre in Scotland

Security Operations Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Security Operations Centre in Scotland

Security Operations Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations Centre in Scotland over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations Centre in Scotland

Security Operations Centre
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 Security Operations Centre within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 7 May 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 +24 1 £575 +27.78%
Glasgow - 1 - -
Security Operations Centre
UK

Security Operations Centre
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) IT Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) ITSM
3 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CISM
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (33.33%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) ForeScout
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft