Cyber Essentials Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Cyber Essentials
UK > Scotland

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

 6 months to
15 Oct 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 104 113
Rank change year-on-year -6 +9 +57
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 8 17 23
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.50% 0.91% 1.00%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.95% 4.67% 5.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 19
10th Percentile £348 £380 £449
25th Percentile £391 £522 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +3.96%
75th Percentile £563 £581 £547
90th Percentile £600 £600 £569
UK median daily rate £575 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +10.58% -0.95% +5.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

Cyber Essentials falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 271 364 447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.97% 19.58% 19.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 228 317
10th Percentile £244 £192 £180
25th Percentile £404 £324 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £450 £460
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% -2.17% -3.97%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £530
90th Percentile £575 £590 £588
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 18 3
10th Percentile £13.93 - £13.43
25th Percentile £15.55 £13.52 £13.83
Median hourly rate £40.00 £14.98 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +167.02% +3.31% -20.33%
75th Percentile £61.88 £15.23 £38.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £26.86 £52.90
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.67 £36.00
% change year-on-year +8.42% -23.14% +44.61%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Cyber Essentials job vacancy trend in Scotland

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Cyber Essentials.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Cyber Essentials

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in Scotland over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Essentials in Scotland

Cyber Essentials
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 Cyber Essentials within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 15 October 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 -19 5 £550 - 3
Edinburgh +11 3 £475 - 3
Cyber Essentials
UK

Cyber Essentials
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 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco IPT
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Officer
2 1 (12.50%) Head of Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) LDAP
1 3 (37.50%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (12.50%) FMCG
1 1 (12.50%) PKI
1 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
1 1 (12.50%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
1 5 (62.50%) Windows Server
2 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Mac OS
2 3 (37.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (37.50%) Information Security
2 3 (37.50%) Line Management
2 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (37.50%) Storage Management
2 3 (37.50%) Task Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Budget Control
4 1 (12.50%) Change Management
4 1 (12.50%) Data Security
4 1 (12.50%) Email Filtering
4 1 (12.50%) Information Governance
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (12.50%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
1 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (12.50%) CESG Certified Professional
1 1 (12.50%) CISA
1 1 (12.50%) CISM
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (12.50%) MCSE
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (12.50%) GDPR
3 1 (12.50%) NCSC
3 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
3 1 (12.50%) PERC
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (37.50%) Docker
2 3 (37.50%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) VMware
9 Cyber Essentials jobs in Scotland