Security Engineer Contracts in Glasgow

Security Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Security Engineer daily rate in Glasgow is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 79 81
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 7 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.80% 0.55% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 0.57% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £528 £516 £360
25th Percentile £538 £522 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £400
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% +34.38% -15.79%
75th Percentile £613 £547 £500
90th Percentile - £549 £560
Scotland median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +3.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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.

Contract vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 836 871 970
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.00% 95.30% 96.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 646 737
10th Percentile £270 £313 £209
25th Percentile £380 £407 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £538
90th Percentile £675 £701 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £455
% change year-on-year - +4.40% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 16 10
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.00 £20.20
25th Percentile £16.00 £13.97 £21.38
Median hourly rate £24.26 £28.75 £25.55
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +12.55% +38.08%
75th Percentile £47.35 £58.75 £42.63
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.56 £48.15
Scotland median hourly rate £33.25 £23.18 £25.91
% change year-on-year +43.44% -10.53% -33.14%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Glasgow

Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Security Engineer in Glasgow

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, 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 Glasgow region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Python
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) SCCM
1 7 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 7 (100.00%) Splunk
1 7 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Disk Encryption
1 7 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (85.71%) Refactoring
2 6 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (85.71%) Unix
3 5 (71.43%) Mac OS
3 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
4 3 (42.86%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (42.86%) Azure
4 3 (42.86%) AWS
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) Scrum
5 1 (14.29%) Linux

Security Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
General
1 6 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Organisational Skills
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) Unix
3 5 (71.43%) Mac OS
4 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Disk Encryption
1 7 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (85.71%) Refactoring
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 7 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) SCCM
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) Splunk