Senior Security Engineer Contracts in Edinburgh

Senior Security Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Senior Security Engineer daily rate in Edinburgh is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 - 122
Rank change year-on-year - - -15
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.12% - 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% - 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £575
75th Percentile - - £588
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £500 £725 £575
% change year-on-year -31.03% +26.09% -

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 771 1,250 1,880
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.42% 95.57% 96.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 900 1,300
10th Percentile £200 £260 £230
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £550
90th Percentile £663 £625 £625
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £451
% change year-on-year - +5.44% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 12 24
10th Percentile £16.25 - £12.30
25th Percentile £18.07 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -10.48% -58.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £66.20 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £23.86 £25.55
% change year-on-year +46.69% -6.60% -36.14%

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Engineer in Edinburgh

Senior Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Security Engineer in Edinburgh

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Email Filtering
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer

Senior 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Email Filtering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware