Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in Prestwick

Cybersecurity
South Ayrshire > Prestwick

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Prestwick requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Prestwick 8.33% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.09% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Ayrshire median daily rate £325 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Prestwick

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 Prestwick.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Prestwick 91.67% - 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £226 - -
25th Percentile £247 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £307 - -
75th Percentile £334 - -
90th Percentile £336 - -
South Ayrshire median daily rate £307 - £144
% change year-on-year - - -52.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £19.23 - -
75th Percentile £20.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Ayrshire median hourly rate £19.23 - -

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Prestwick 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Modbus
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) 3D Printing
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Enablement
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Network+ Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco