Cyberattack Contract Job Trends 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 12 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 115 129
Rank change year-on-year +14 +14 +42
Contract jobs citing Cyberattack 11 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.65% 0.12% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.94% 0.32% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 4
10th Percentile £560 - £357
25th Percentile £610 £663 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +22.73% -2.57%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £598
90th Percentile £653 - £618
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £613
% change year-on-year +4.17% -2.04% +6.52%

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 568 627 736
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.31% 38.05% 32.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 321 429
10th Percentile £240 £200 £205
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £594
90th Percentile £675 £600 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 31 36
10th Percentile £16.10 £17.30 £15.71
25th Percentile £16.17 £20.06 £16.50
Median hourly rate £29.05 £23.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.28% +17.95% +62.50%
75th Percentile £47.19 £26.21 £52.81
90th Percentile £74.40 £34.29 £60.75
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £28.13
% change year-on-year +38.46% +15.56% +25.08%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Cyberattack job vacancy trend in Scotland

Cyberattack
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Cyberattack

Cyberattack
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyberattack in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram 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 12 April 2026. 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 - 6 £640 - 1
South Lanarkshire - 5 £610 -
Cyberattack
UK

Cyberattack
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:

Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) DNS
1 11 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Analyst
1 11 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
2 6 (54.55%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) SIEM Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) SOC Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 11 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 11 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 11 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 11 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 11 (100.00%) SIEM
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 11 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 11 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 11 (100.00%) Degree
2 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
3 8 (72.73%) DV Cleared
4 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Splunk