Cybersecurity Contracts in Edinburgh

Cybersecurity
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Cybersecurity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 60 74
Rank change year-on-year +23 +14 -3
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 37 50 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.53% 3.87% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.15% 4.06% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 32 28
10th Percentile £501 £383 £400
25th Percentile £508 £414 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £457 £575
Median % change year-on-year +14.88% -20.52% +11.65%
75th Percentile £702 £559 £641
90th Percentile £750 £600 £688
Scotland median daily rate £575 £458 £570
% change year-on-year +25.55% -19.65% +26.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Cybersecurity 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 Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 718 1,231 1,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 87.99% 95.20% 93.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 879 1,251
10th Percentile £235 £260 £260
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £559
90th Percentile £670 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 13 19
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.07 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £19.13
Median hourly rate £21.02 £21.26 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% -35.58% -39.42%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £51.25
90th Percentile - £64.90 £53.86
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £31.50
% change year-on-year +9.11% -43.75% -27.59%

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 25 April 2024.

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 4 (10.81%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.70%) Apache
2 1 (2.70%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) JBoss
2 1 (2.70%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.70%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 12 (32.43%) Azure
2 5 (13.51%) Power Platform
3 4 (10.81%) Entra ID
3 4 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (8.11%) AWS
5 2 (5.41%) GCP
5 2 (5.41%) OCI
5 2 (5.41%) SaaS
6 1 (2.70%) Akamai
6 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) Firewall
2 3 (8.11%) SSL
3 1 (2.70%) DNS
3 1 (2.70%) LAN
3 1 (2.70%) Network Security
3 1 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Oracle Database
1 2 (5.41%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database 10g
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) JIRA
1 1 (2.70%) JUnit
1 1 (2.70%) Maven
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (2.70%) Subversion
General
1 21 (56.76%) Public Sector
2 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Banking
4 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Finance
5 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (40.54%) Analyst
1 15 (40.54%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 15 (40.54%) Security Analyst
2 10 (27.03%) Senior
3 6 (16.22%) Lead
3 6 (16.22%) Senior Analyst
3 6 (16.22%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
3 6 (16.22%) Senior Security Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 4 (10.81%) Security Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Security Specialist
5 3 (8.11%) Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Security Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Security Technical Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Technical Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.70%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.70%) Hibernate
2 1 (2.70%) Java EE
2 1 (2.70%) JPA
2 1 (2.70%) JSP
2 1 (2.70%) JSTL
2 1 (2.70%) OpenJDK
2 1 (2.70%) Servlets
2 1 (2.70%) Spring
2 1 (2.70%) STL
2 1 (2.70%) XML
2 1 (2.70%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.03%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.81%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (10.81%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (10.81%) PKI
3 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Windows
2 4 (10.81%) Windows Server
3 3 (8.11%) Unix
4 2 (5.41%) Linux
5 1 (2.70%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) Information Security
1 13 (35.14%) Penetration Testing
2 11 (29.73%) Impact Analysis
2 11 (29.73%) Technical Analysis
3 10 (27.03%) Incident Management
3 10 (27.03%) Use Case
3 10 (27.03%) Vulnerability Management
4 9 (24.32%) Agile
4 9 (24.32%) Business Impact Analysis
4 9 (24.32%) Privileged Access Management
4 9 (24.32%) Security Monitoring
4 9 (24.32%) SIEM
4 9 (24.32%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 9 (24.32%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 8 (21.62%) Security Operations
6 6 (16.22%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (16.22%) ITIL
6 6 (16.22%) Risk Management
7 5 (13.51%) Security Architecture
8 4 (10.81%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) ITIL Certification
1 6 (16.22%) MCSE
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (13.51%) Degree
3 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (35.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (29.73%) Disclosure Scotland
3 9 (24.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 5 (13.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (10.81%) QA
6 3 (8.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (5.41%) NIST
7 2 (5.41%) PCI DSS
8 1 (2.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (21.62%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.81%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) SCCM
2 1 (2.70%) CASB
2 1 (2.70%) Data Guard
2 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) CyberArk
2 4 (10.81%) Oracle
3 2 (5.41%) Splunk
3 2 (5.41%) VMware
4 1 (2.70%) Tripwire