Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Cybersecurity
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 28 48
Rank change year-on-year +1 +20 +25
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 40 42 41
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 6.69% 6.37% 4.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.25% 7.11% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 19 19
10th Percentile £145 £446 £381
25th Percentile £238 £494 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile - £625 £588
90th Percentile £570 £758 £701
Scotland median daily rate £485 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -7.62% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.21 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £16.11 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Cybersecurity 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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 552 591 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 92.31% 89.68% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 307 528
10th Percentile £225 £205 £212
25th Percentile £411 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £638 £625
Scotland median daily rate £464 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +3.06% -8.63% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 26 9
10th Percentile £16.68 £16.59 £12.95
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.47 £17.72
Median hourly rate £19.19 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% -32.60% +64.63%
75th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £53.70
90th Percentile £71.75 - £61.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.18
% change year-on-year -12.81% +19.59% +3.68%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cybersecurity relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Edinburgh

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (15.00%) Confluence
2 2 (5.00%) Apache
2 2 (5.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.50%) FileNet
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.00%) Azure
2 9 (22.50%) AWS
3 7 (17.50%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (12.50%) GCP
5 4 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (10.00%) OCI
5 4 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (5.00%) GitHub
7 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (37.50%) Firewall
2 2 (5.00%) VPN
3 1 (2.50%) Intranet
3 1 (2.50%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.50%) Network Security
3 1 (2.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (22.50%) JIRA
2 4 (10.00%) Git
2 4 (10.00%) Subversion
3 2 (5.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.50%) GitLab
4 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.50%) Liquibase
General
1 15 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 12 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 8 (20.00%) Finance
4 5 (12.50%) Banking
4 5 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (12.50%) Legal
5 4 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (10.00%) Retail
6 3 (7.50%) Retail Banking
7 2 (5.00%) Back Office
8 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 9 (22.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) Lead
2 7 (17.50%) Network Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Analyst
3 4 (10.00%) Data Protection Officer
3 4 (10.00%) Developer
3 4 (10.00%) Implementation Specialist
3 4 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 4 (10.00%) Support Officer
4 3 (7.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Implementation Manager
4 3 (7.50%) Implementation Project Manager
4 3 (7.50%) Project Implementation Manager
4 3 (7.50%) Security Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Consultant
5 2 (5.00%) Lead Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Security Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Security Consultant
5 2 (5.00%) Security Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) REST
2 2 (5.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (5.00%) CSS
2 2 (5.00%) Express.js
2 2 (5.00%) HTML
2 2 (5.00%) Node.js
2 2 (5.00%) SOAP
2 2 (5.00%) Spring
2 2 (5.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (5.00%) Spring Security
2 2 (5.00%) Spring Web Flow
2 2 (5.00%) Thymeleaf
2 2 (5.00%) Web Services
2 2 (5.00%) XML
3 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) PKI
2 4 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (7.50%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.00%) Cyber Security Posture
4 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.50%) Tandem
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (30.00%) Windows
2 4 (10.00%) Linux
2 4 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) Agile
2 12 (30.00%) DevOps
3 9 (22.50%) Containerisation
3 9 (22.50%) Data Protection
3 9 (22.50%) Incident Response
4 8 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 8 (20.00%) SIEM
5 7 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (17.50%) Security Operations
6 6 (15.00%) Configuration Management
6 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (15.00%) ITIL
6 6 (15.00%) Migration
6 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (12.50%) Data Management
7 5 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
7 5 (12.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.00%) Java
1 4 (10.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (10.00%) SQL
2 2 (5.00%) C++
2 2 (5.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (5.00%) Python
2 2 (5.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.50%) Bicep
3 1 (2.50%) Go
3 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Degree
2 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) CISSP
4 2 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (5.00%) MCSE
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.50%) CCNP
5 1 (2.50%) CEH
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.50%) CISM
5 1 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.50%) RHCE
5 1 (2.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.50%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (10.00%) COBIT
3 3 (7.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (7.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
4 2 (5.00%) GDPR
5 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.50%) NCSC
5 1 (2.50%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.00%) Docker
3 3 (7.50%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) Terraform
2 6 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (12.50%) Ansible
4 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (7.50%) SCCM
6 1 (2.50%) Grafana
6 1 (2.50%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (2.50%) Nagios
6 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (15.00%) Oracle
2 4 (10.00%) CheckPoint
2 4 (10.00%) Dell
2 4 (10.00%) Dynatrace
2 4 (10.00%) F5
2 4 (10.00%) HP
3 2 (5.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (5.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.50%) IBM
4 1 (2.50%) McAfee
4 1 (2.50%) Qualys
4 1 (2.50%) Splunk
4 1 (2.50%) Veeam
4 1 (2.50%) VMware