Security Specialist Contracts in Edinburgh

Security Specialist
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Security Specialist daily rate in Edinburgh is £481 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 105 122
Rank change year-on-year +39 +17 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Security Specialist 6 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.73% 0.32% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.33% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £439 £458 £468
25th Percentile £452 £469 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +3.09% -
75th Percentile £514 £544 £522
90th Percentile £528 £563 £558
Scotland median daily rate £481 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -12.50% +15.79% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 781 1,216 1,848
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.01% 95.82% 95.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 869 1,268
10th Percentile £193 £238 £230
25th Percentile £363 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £546 £568
90th Percentile £663 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 11 21
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.16 £14.55
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -18.23% -54.78%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £54.50 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £31.50 £22.13 £26.85
% change year-on-year +42.37% -17.60% -28.40%

Security Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Security Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Security Specialist in Edinburgh

Security Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Specialist in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Security Specialist in Edinburgh

Security Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Security Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Security Specialist in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) MCSE
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL Certification
1 4 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
1 4 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
1 4 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 3 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (50.00%) Email Filtering
2 3 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 3 (50.00%) SCCM
2 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (50.00%) Dynamics GP
2 3 (50.00%) PKI
2 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) SSL

Security Specialist Skill Set
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 3 (50.00%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) SSL
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Retail Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (50.00%) PKI
3 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
1 4 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
1 4 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
1 4 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 4 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Email Filtering
2 3 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 3 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL Certification
1 4 (66.67%) MCSE
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (16.67%) CISA
2 1 (16.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk