Security Management Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Security Management
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Security Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 80 72
Rank change year-on-year +12 -8 +10
Contract jobs citing Security Management 6 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.83% 0.13% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.14% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile - - £329
25th Percentile £475 £463 £337
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £350
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% +35.71% -41.67%
75th Percentile £559 £488 £463
90th Percentile £599 - £530
Scotland median daily rate £525 £475 £415
% change year-on-year +10.53% +14.46% -30.83%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Security Management 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 615 726 830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.83% 91.44% 91.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 434 539
10th Percentile £306 £313 £348
25th Percentile £381 £365 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +4.38%
75th Percentile £557 £550 £600
90th Percentile £639 £625 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £480
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 26
10th Percentile £14.17 £16.75 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.17 £15.42
Median hourly rate £23.75 £24.15 £16.35
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +47.71% +53.81%
75th Percentile £50.00 £35.13 £30.19
90th Percentile £61.35 £65.00 £75.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.30 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.14% +19.46% +10.05%

Security Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Security Management job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Security Management
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Security Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Security Management
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) LAN
1 3 (50.00%) MPLS
1 3 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (50.00%) VPN
1 3 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Law
1 3 (50.00%) Legal
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Security Officer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Change Management
1 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
1 3 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
1 3 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (33.33%) Refactoring
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Business Impact Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (16.67%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Information Assurance
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security Management
3 1 (16.67%) ISMS
3 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Aruba
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
1 3 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 3 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 3 (50.00%) SolarWinds