Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in Perthshire

Cybersecurity
Scotland > Perthshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Perthshire requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 9 10
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 1 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Perthshire 20.00% 4.17% 9.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.00% 4.55% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 £675 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +33.33% +11.06%
75th Percentile £625 £725 £544
90th Percentile - - £548
Scotland median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Perthshire

Cybersecurity 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 Perthshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5 22 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Perthshire 100.00% 91.67% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 19 28
10th Percentile £535 £360 £413
25th Percentile £550 £503 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £550
90th Percentile £665 - £588
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +2.78% -9.55% +4.74%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Perthshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cybersecurity relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Perthshire.

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in Perthshire

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in Perthshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Perthshire citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Perthshire citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Perthshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Product Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (100.00%) Okta