Cybersecurity Specialist Contracts in Glasgow

Cybersecurity Specialist
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Cybersecurity Specialist daily rate in Glasgow is £388, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 64 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Specialist 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.14% 0.14% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £381 £675 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £750 -
Median % change year-on-year -48.33% - -
75th Percentile £394 £825 -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £388 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -26.19% +5.00% -2.44%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Glasgow. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 685 653 794
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 93.96% 95.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 463 534
10th Percentile £275 £217 £325
25th Percentile £358 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £537 £553 £575
90th Percentile £580 £650 £675
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +1.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 19 27
10th Percentile - £11.78 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.96 £13.14
Median hourly rate £19.90 £24.26 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.96% +38.60% -53.25%
75th Percentile £26.21 £48.27 £53.24
90th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £19.60 £17.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +15.28% -4.06% -5.87%

Cybersecurity Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Specialist in Glasgow

Cybersecurity Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Specialist job vacancies in Glasgow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Specialist job vacancies in Glasgow

Cybersecurity Specialist Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 25 August 2025, Cybersecurity 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 Glasgow region featuring Cybersecurity Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) ArcSight
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (100.00%) Search Processing Language
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) TAXII
1 1 (100.00%) STIX
1 1 (100.00%) YARA
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response

Cybersecurity Specialist Skill Set
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) STIX
1 1 (100.00%) TAXII
1 1 (100.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Search Processing Language
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ArcSight
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk