Threat Modelling Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Threat Modelling
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Threat Modelling skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 64 55
Rank change year-on-year +2 -9 +47
Contract jobs citing Threat Modelling 6 4 18
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.82% 0.65% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.68% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 13
10th Percentile £328 £472 -
25th Percentile £366 £495 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £534 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +1.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £686 £542 £588
90th Percentile - £547 £605
Scotland median daily rate £554 £535 £575
% change year-on-year +3.60% -7.04% -3.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Threat Modelling 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 630 589 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.71% 95.46% 87.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 323 422
10th Percentile £311 £233 £219
25th Percentile £413 £402 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -1.05% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £625 £662
Scotland median daily rate £455 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -1.62% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 30
10th Percentile £17.23 - £13.48
25th Percentile £50.00 £17.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £22.44 £22.59
Median % change year-on-year +133.98% -0.65% +6.23%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.54 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £44.65 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.46 £19.50
% change year-on-year -2.22% +4.90% +18.18%

Threat Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Threat Modelling job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Threat Modelling
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Threat Modelling.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Threat Modelling

Threat Modelling
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Modelling in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Modelling in Edinburgh

Threat Modelling
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 3 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) GitHub
2 4 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) GitLab
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 3 (50.00%) Snyk
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Design Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) Application Security
2 4 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Interactive Application Security Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Microservices
2 4 (66.67%) OWASP
2 4 (66.67%) SBOM
2 4 (66.67%) SDLC
2 4 (66.67%) Security Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (50.00%) SABSA
3 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 3 (50.00%) UML
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CISM
1 3 (50.00%) CISSP
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
1 3 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) NIST
2 2 (33.33%) GRC
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) BiZZdesign
1 3 (50.00%) Black Duck
1 3 (50.00%) Checkmarx
1 3 (50.00%) Tenable
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft