Security Posture Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Security Posture
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 62 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.50% 0.50% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.26% 1.42% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £439 -
25th Percentile £313 £452 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £481 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.47% - -
75th Percentile £338 £514 -
90th Percentile - £528 -
Scotland median daily rate £477 £475 £575
% change year-on-year +0.42% -17.39% +27.78%

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

Security Posture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 238 211 302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.60% 35.28% 33.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 100 150
10th Percentile £153 £192 £399
25th Percentile £325 £381 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £453 £490
Median % change year-on-year -0.66% -7.55% +3.16%
75th Percentile £574 £553 £564
90th Percentile £675 £626 £634
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £478
% change year-on-year - -5.76% +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 20 13
10th Percentile £15.04 £20.93 -
25th Percentile £16.25 £21.92 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.82% -32.60% +64.63%
75th Percentile £69.00 £24.30 £60.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £37.86 -
Scotland median hourly rate £24.45 £23.87 £19.50
% change year-on-year +2.43% +22.41% +55.01%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Security Posture job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Security Posture
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Security Posture
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Technical Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) GitOps
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Server Management
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Argo
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) F5