Information Security Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Information Security (InfoSec)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Information Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 54 42
Rank change year-on-year -17 -12 +15
Contract jobs citing Information Security 11 13 28
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.49% 1.88% 3.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 2.11% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 23
10th Percentile £408 £301 £365
25th Percentile £413 £375 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.40% +7.65% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £636 £625
90th Percentile £650 £815 £688
Scotland median daily rate £445 £508 £513
% change year-on-year -12.32% -0.98% -1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £14.50
Scotland median hourly rate - - £14.50
% change year-on-year - - -51.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Information Security 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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 662 616 726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 89.58% 89.28% 91.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 416 488
10th Percentile £300 £279 £341
25th Percentile £386 £356 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £590
90th Percentile £613 £674 £700
Scotland median daily rate £469 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.17% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 20
10th Percentile £15.09 £15.39 £11.85
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.11 £12.13
Median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +35.10% -61.26%
75th Percentile £26.21 £26.76 £17.72
90th Percentile £57.50 £41.70 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.94 £18.93
% change year-on-year +0.31% +5.32% +0.16%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Information Security relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Information Security job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Information Security
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Information Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Information Security

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in Glasgow over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in Glasgow

Information Security
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Information Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Information Security

Information Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (9.09%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) BGP
1 2 (18.18%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
1 2 (18.18%) OSPF
1 2 (18.18%) VLAN
2 1 (9.09%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Big Data
1 4 (36.36%) NoSQL
1 4 (36.36%) Redis
2 1 (9.09%) NewSQL
2 1 (9.09%) OLTP
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Artifactory
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Python Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Administrator
2 3 (27.27%) Data Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Python Data Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Database Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) PMO Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior PMO
4 1 (9.09%) Senior PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) OAuth
2 4 (36.36%) FastAPI
2 4 (36.36%) Flask
2 4 (36.36%) Hugging Face
2 4 (36.36%) Kafka
2 4 (36.36%) LangChain
2 4 (36.36%) LangGraph
2 4 (36.36%) Loki
2 4 (36.36%) OAuth2
2 4 (36.36%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (36.36%) PyTorch
2 4 (36.36%) RESTful
2 4 (36.36%) TensorFlow
3 3 (27.27%) LDAP
3 3 (27.27%) X-Windows
4 1 (9.09%) ADO
4 1 (9.09%) OpenID
4 1 (9.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) AI Agents
1 4 (36.36%) Private Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Mac OS
2 3 (27.27%) Unix
2 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Task Automation
2 6 (54.55%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
3 5 (45.45%) Scrum
4 4 (36.36%) Blue-Green Deployment
4 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) Data Privacy
4 4 (36.36%) Deep Learning
4 4 (36.36%) Distributed Cache
4 4 (36.36%) Generative AI
4 4 (36.36%) GitOps
4 4 (36.36%) LLM
4 4 (36.36%) Microservices
4 4 (36.36%) MLOps
4 4 (36.36%) ModelOps
4 4 (36.36%) Secure Coding
4 4 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) Shell Script
3 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
1 4 (36.36%) Master's Degree
2 1 (9.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (27.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (9.09%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
1 3 (27.27%) Hyper-V
1 3 (27.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 4 (36.36%) Grafana
2 4 (36.36%) Kustomize
2 4 (36.36%) Prometheus
3 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco
2 2 (18.18%) Palo Alto