Security Engineer Contracts in Edinburgh

Security Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Security Engineer daily rate in Edinburgh is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 104 107
Rank change year-on-year +35 +3 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 4 8 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.49% 0.62% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.65% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 11
10th Percentile £466 - £525
25th Percentile £472 £413 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -22.92% +3.00%
75th Percentile £497 £603 £663
90th Percentile £499 £744 £688
Scotland median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +3.53%

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 784 1,233 1,859
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.38% 95.58% 96.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 882 1,278
10th Percentile £203 £250 £230
25th Percentile £407 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £550
90th Percentile £663 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £458
% change year-on-year - +3.83% +7.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 14 23
10th Percentile £16.10 £14.53 £11.98
25th Percentile £17.86 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -1.12% -62.61%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £63.60 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £23.18 £25.55
% change year-on-year +50.99% -9.26% -36.14%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Edinburgh

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Security Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) CASB
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) SCCM
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Unix
3 1 (25.00%) Tripwire
3 1 (25.00%) PKI
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) MCSE
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall

Security Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (25.00%) Email Filtering
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) CASB
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk
1 1 (25.00%) Tripwire
1 1 (25.00%) VMware