Security Testing Contracts in Glasgow

Security Testing
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Security Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 - 81
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.25% - 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% - 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £295 - £555
25th Percentile £306 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.32%
75th Percentile £362 - £638
90th Percentile £377 - £645
Scotland median daily rate £375 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -37.50% - +12.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Security Testing 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 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in Glasgow

Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Security Testing in Glasgow

Security Testing
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 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Report Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Software Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Scorecard
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland