Security Operations Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Security Operations (SecOps)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Security Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 58 71
Rank change year-on-year 0 +13 +44
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 6 20 18
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.98% 2.52% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 2.93% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 5
10th Percentile £443 - £435
25th Percentile £488 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £460
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +14.13% -12.38%
75th Percentile £578 £563 £550
90th Percentile £629 £588 £573
Scotland median daily rate £485 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -7.62% -4.55% +57.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Security Operations 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 580 683 914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.77% 86.02% 91.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 360 556
10th Percentile £284 £213 £200
25th Percentile £413 £340 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £547 £525 £538
90th Percentile £609 £600 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £479
% change year-on-year +3.33% -6.05% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 22 7
10th Percentile £17.30 £13.24 £12.56
25th Percentile - £15.75 £13.22
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.05 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.94% -48.13% +126.67%
75th Percentile £45.80 £24.18 £53.73
90th Percentile £65.00 £51.92 £57.25
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £20.94 £19.06
% change year-on-year -4.62% +9.88% +1.63%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Security Operations job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Security Operations
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Security Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations in Edinburgh

Security Operations
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (16.67%) AWS
5 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Security Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) PKI
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (83.33%) Email Filtering
2 5 (83.33%) Kalman Filter
3 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
4 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
4 3 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 2 (33.33%) ITIL
5 2 (33.33%) Security Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
5 2 (33.33%) SIEM
5 2 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (16.67%) MCSE
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (16.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) NCSC
2 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (50.00%) SCCM
3 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (16.67%) Qualys
2 1 (16.67%) VMware