Information Security Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Information Security (InfoSec)
Scotland > Edinburgh

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 58 77
Rank change year-on-year -1 +19 +10
Contract jobs citing Information Security 7 13 11
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.14% 1.76% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 2.05% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 9
10th Percentile £239 £277 £144
25th Percentile £250 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £533
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -10.80% +2.90%
75th Percentile £473 £550 £625
90th Percentile £474 £665 £678
Scotland median daily rate £425 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -10.53% -9.52% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Information Security 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 583 634 904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.64% 85.68% 91.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 331 556
10th Percentile £262 £230 £202
25th Percentile £413 £375 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £525 £541
90th Percentile £601 £600 £605
Scotland median daily rate £464 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +3.06% -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 24 8
10th Percentile £16.43 £14.04 £12.79
25th Percentile - £19.28 £16.61
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.59 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% -39.12% +105.03%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.18 £55.65
90th Percentile £65.75 - £61.80
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £19.75
% change year-on-year -12.57% +15.82% +5.33%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Information Security job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Information Security
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Information Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Information Security

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in Edinburgh

Information Security
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Information Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Information Security

Information Security
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) IP Telephony
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) VLAN
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
1 1 (14.29%) WLAN
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 1 (14.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Information Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Information Governance Officer
1 2 (28.57%) Information Officer
1 2 (28.57%) Information Security Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Security Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support
2 1 (14.29%) Information Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Information Security Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Security Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Security Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Support
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Support Executive
2 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (28.57%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (14.29%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
2 2 (28.57%) Data Sharing
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Information Governance
2 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
2 2 (28.57%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
3 1 (14.29%) Data-Driven Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Innovation
3 1 (14.29%) Generative AI
3 1 (14.29%) Key Management
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CISA
1 3 (42.86%) CISM
1 3 (42.86%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 2 (28.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 1 (14.29%) CISSP
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (28.57%) COBIT
2 2 (28.57%) GDPR
2 2 (28.57%) NIST
2 2 (28.57%) NIST 800
3 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (14.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Tenable
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Qualys
2 1 (14.29%) Rapid7
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Thales