Zero Trust Contracts in Scotland

Zero Trust
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 165 174
Rank change year-on-year +38 +9 -20
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 2 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.091% 0.070% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.076% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £258
25th Percentile £763 - £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 - £270
Median % change year-on-year - - -49.77%
75th Percentile £788 - £271
90th Percentile - - £271
UK median daily rate £685 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +9.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40.98
Median hourly rate - - £41.95
75th Percentile - - £42.93
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £52.00
% change year-on-year - +34.62% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Zero Trust is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,954 2,625 3,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.74% 92.49% 93.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,182 1,886 2,317
10th Percentile £225 £260 £244
25th Percentile £400 £406 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £559 £550
90th Percentile £672 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 55 47
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.32
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.78 £20.38
Median hourly rate £18.79 £17.21 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -56.98% -
75th Percentile £40.94 £50.74 £49.15
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.94 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Zero Trust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Zero Trust in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Zero Trust in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Zero Trust in Scotland

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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 Zero Trust within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 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 - 2 £775 -
Zero Trust
UK

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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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) MPLS
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Network Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) BYOD
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Key Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) F5
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Qualys
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk