CASP Contract Job Trends in Scotland

CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for CASP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CASP 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.064% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate - - £610
% change year-on-year - - +10.91%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

CASP falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Scotland.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 380 405 705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 24.19% 23.55% 29.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 239 406
10th Percentile £175 £191 £186
25th Percentile £344 £358 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £554 £600
90th Percentile £635 £656 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 19 31
10th Percentile £19.23 £15.60 £32.14
25th Percentile £19.38 £17.63 £49.38
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.09 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% -63.18% +111.55%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.97 £62.50
90th Percentile £29.49 £36.10 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% -19.05% +16.67%

CASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

CASP job vacancy trend in Scotland

CASP
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing CASP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing CASP

CASP
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CASP within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow - 1 - -
CASP
UK

CASP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Log Correlation
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) OSINT
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) GCIA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ArcSight