Intrusion Detection Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Intrusion Detection
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Intrusion Detection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 72 83
Rank change year-on-year +8 +11 +38
Contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.17% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.00% 1.32% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £475 -
Scotland median daily rate - £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +29.03%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Edinburgh

Intrusion Detection falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 50 76 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.56% 11.84% 9.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 37 54
10th Percentile £258 £164 £131
25th Percentile £413 £390 £164
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £520 £413
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +26.06% -13.16%
75th Percentile £500 £613 £609
90th Percentile £559 £664 £753
Scotland median daily rate £425 £450 £543
% change year-on-year -5.56% -17.13% +24.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year - +22.95% +69.80%
75th Percentile - - £61.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £75.00 £47.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year +59.57% -20.38% +264.83%

Intrusion Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Intrusion Detection job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Intrusion Detection
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Intrusion Detection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Intrusion Detection

Intrusion Detection
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) RHCE
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Host Intrusion Detection System
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam