Cyberattack Contracts in Scotland

Cyberattack
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyberattack 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 114 - 158
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Cyberattack 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.12% - 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.32% - 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £455
25th Percentile £663 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - £565
Median % change year-on-year - - +107.92%
75th Percentile £688 - £570
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +14.29%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Cyberattack falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 618 732 1,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.03% 33.02% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 426 712
10th Percentile £221 £203 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £560
90th Percentile £600 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 36 23
10th Percentile - £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%
75th Percentile £24.66 £38.25 £28.81
90th Percentile £42.00 £60.38 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Cyberattack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Cyberattack in Scotland

Cyberattack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyberattack in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Cyberattack in Scotland

Cyberattack
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 Cyberattack within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Perthshire - 1 - -
Cyberattack
UK

Cyberattack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
1 1 (50.00%) MQTT
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) LLM
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) System Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI