Security Operations Contract Job Trends in East Lothian

Security Operations (SecOps)
Scotland > East Lothian

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East Lothian requiring Security Operations skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East Lothian 10.00% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Scotland median daily rate £470 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -10.57% -4.55% +57.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Lothian

Security Operations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in East Lothian.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Lothian 100.00% 100.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £166 - -
25th Percentile £167 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £168 - -
75th Percentile £172 - -
90th Percentile £174 - -
Scotland median daily rate £466 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £24.41 - -
25th Percentile £24.66 - -
Median hourly rate £24.91 - -
75th Percentile £25.15 - -
90th Percentile £26.57 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.29 £19.18
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.76% -10.79%

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East Lothian 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CMDB
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Break/Fix
1 1 (100.00%) Hardware Maintenance
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow