Cyber Defence Contracts in Glasgow

Cyber Defence
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in contract job vacancies in Glasgow. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Defence over the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 - 75
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Defence 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.13% - 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.29% - 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £790
75th Percentile - - £793
90th Percentile - - £797
Scotland median daily rate - £500 £790
% change year-on-year - -36.71% -

All Generic Skills
Glasgow

Cyber Defence 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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 349 199 330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 44.01% 28.55% 37.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 140 219
10th Percentile £300 £301 £325
25th Percentile £395 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -12.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £578
90th Percentile £589 £655 £688
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £496
% change year-on-year +2.78% -9.32% +3.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 7
10th Percentile £15.37 £16.25 £12.06
25th Percentile £16.98 £18.77 £13.83
Median hourly rate £19.90 £31.82 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.45% -9.10% +12.00%
75th Percentile £29.35 £51.32 £41.37
90th Percentile £57.50 £55.63 £52.14
Scotland median hourly rate £19.17 £18.13 £19.18
% change year-on-year +5.74% -5.47% -55.63%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Cyber Defence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Defence in Glasgow

Cyber Defence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk