Cyber Essentials Contracts in Edinburgh

Cyber Essentials
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Cyber Essentials skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Essentials over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 88 -
Rank change year-on-year +20 - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 5 24 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.61% 1.86% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.37% 7.64% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 22 0
10th Percentile £470 £500 -
25th Percentile £481 £501 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £588 £557 -
90th Percentile £640 £574 -
Scotland median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +31.74%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Edinburgh

Cyber Essentials is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 211 314 427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 25.67% 24.34% 22.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 279 315
10th Percentile £219 £223 £230
25th Percentile £345 £405 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +14.71% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £540
90th Percentile £660 £609 £600
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 4
10th Percentile £17.72 - £32.65
25th Percentile £18.14 £51.25 £37.38
Median hourly rate £19.17 £52.50 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -63.49% +13.51% -10.09%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £18.27 £47.73 £33.00
% change year-on-year -61.72% +44.64% +15.79%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Cyber Essentials as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in Edinburgh

Cyber Essentials
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Essentials in Edinburgh

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Essentials in Edinburgh

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Security Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Security Technical Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) Information Security
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (20.00%) Email Filtering
4 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (40.00%) MCSE
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (60.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) VMware