Security Monitoring Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Security Monitoring
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Security Monitoring skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 78 95
Rank change year-on-year +14 +17 +40
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 3 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.47% 0.24% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.29% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £554 £506 £428
25th Percentile £559 £516 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.30% +7.50% -
75th Percentile £634 £566 £550
90th Percentile £651 £579 £573
Scotland median daily rate £588 £488 £438
% change year-on-year +20.51% +11.43% -20.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Security Monitoring 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 603 698 987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.22% 85.43% 91.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 367 627
10th Percentile £304 £223 £228
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £544 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £630 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 23 6
10th Percentile - £13.27 £12.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.50 £20.18
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -53.68% +152.32%
75th Percentile £42.90 £24.18 £53.74
90th Percentile £61.00 £48.84 £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £21.59 £19.06
% change year-on-year -7.36% +13.30% -6.71%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Monitoring in Edinburgh

Security Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Security Monitoring
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) PKI
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Email Filtering
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (66.67%) Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Qualys