Cybersecurity Contracts in Edinburgh

Cybersecurity
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 35 60
Rank change year-on-year -4 +25 +16
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 28 38 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.48% 4.66% 4.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 5.28% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 21 32
10th Percentile £430 £500 £383
25th Percentile £463 £508 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £457
Median % change year-on-year - +14.88% -20.52%
75th Percentile £573 £694 £559
90th Percentile £700 £750 £600
Scotland median daily rate £500 £575 £460
% change year-on-year -13.04% +25.00% -18.40%

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 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Edinburgh

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Edinburgh

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Edinburgh

Cybersecurity
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.57%) Apache
1 1 (3.57%) IIS
1 1 (3.57%) nginx
1 1 (3.57%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) Azure
2 7 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (7.14%) AWS
3 2 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.57%) IaaS
4 1 (3.57%) iPaaS
4 1 (3.57%) PaaS
4 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) Firewall
2 3 (10.71%) Network Security
3 2 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (3.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Git
General
1 12 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Banking
3 3 (10.71%) Finance
4 2 (7.14%) Retail Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Back Office
5 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Security Specialist
2 4 (14.29%) Architect
2 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 4 (14.29%) Developer
2 4 (14.29%) Senior
3 3 (10.71%) Lead
4 2 (7.14%) Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) iOS Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Security Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Security Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Designer
5 1 (3.57%) Head of IT
5 1 (3.57%) Information Security Manager
5 1 (3.57%) IT Services Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Security Operations Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Security Specialist
5 1 (3.57%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
1 3 (10.71%) CSS
1 3 (10.71%) HTML
1 3 (10.71%) Middleware
2 2 (7.14%) .NET
2 2 (7.14%) .NET Core
2 2 (7.14%) .NET Framework
2 2 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (7.14%) Ajax
2 2 (7.14%) Core Data
2 2 (7.14%) Entity Framework
2 2 (7.14%) JMS
2 2 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (7.14%) REST
2 2 (7.14%) RESTful
2 2 (7.14%) UIKit
3 1 (3.57%) EDI
3 1 (3.57%) Express.js
3 1 (3.57%) Node.js
3 1 (3.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (17.86%) PKI
2 5 (17.86%) Security Posture
3 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (7.14%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.14%) Private Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.57%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Windows
1 5 (17.86%) Windows Server
2 4 (14.29%) Linux
3 2 (7.14%) AIX
3 2 (7.14%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Agile
2 7 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
2 7 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 7 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
3 6 (21.43%) OWASP
4 5 (17.86%) Kalman Filter
4 5 (17.86%) Risk Management
5 4 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 4 (14.29%) Email Filtering
5 4 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
5 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (10.71%) Case Management
6 3 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (10.71%) DevOps
6 3 (10.71%) Incident Response
6 3 (10.71%) SIEM
7 2 (7.14%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 2 (7.14%) iOS Development
7 2 (7.14%) Mobile Application Development
7 2 (7.14%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
2 2 (7.14%) Objective-C
2 2 (7.14%) PL/SQL
2 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.14%) Python
2 2 (7.14%) SQL
2 2 (7.14%) Swift
3 1 (3.57%) Bash
3 1 (3.57%) Go
3 1 (3.57%) Java
3 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
3 1 (3.57%) VB
3 1 (3.57%) VB6
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Degree
2 3 (10.71%) CEH
2 3 (10.71%) CISSP
2 3 (10.71%) OSCP
3 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 2 (7.14%) CISM
3 2 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (7.14%) MCSE
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (3.57%) CCSP
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.57%) CRISC
4 1 (3.57%) GCFA
4 1 (3.57%) GCIH
4 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (14.29%) NCSC
3 3 (10.71%) NIST
4 2 (7.14%) PCI DSS
5 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
5 1 (3.57%) COBIT
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 4 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) SCCM
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.57%) Ansible
3 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Oracle
1 3 (10.71%) VMware
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.57%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.57%) Splunk