Cyber Resilience Contracts in Scotland

Cyber Resilience
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Cyber Resilience skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Resilience over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 141 162
Rank change year-on-year +28 +21 -2
Contract jobs citing Cyber Resilience 13 26 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.60% 0.93% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.00% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 9
10th Percentile - £428 £474
25th Percentile £463 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% +42.86%
75th Percentile £700 £538 £650
90th Percentile £760 £745 £707
UK median daily rate £630 £638 £650
% change year-on-year -1.18% -1.92% +9.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Cyber Resilience is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,924 2,599 3,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.58% 92.52% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,869 2,319
10th Percentile £225 £260 £250
25th Percentile £389 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £587 £558 £550
90th Percentile £663 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 56 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.75 £12.04 £19.45
Median hourly rate £18.79 £16.86 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.48% -57.86% -0.01%
75th Percentile £40.94 £49.24 £48.95
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.78 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Cyber Resilience
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Resilience in Scotland

Cyber Resilience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Resilience in Scotland

Cyber Resilience
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Resilience in Scotland over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Resilience in Scotland

Cyber Resilience
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 Resilience within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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 +13 3 £700 +40.00%
Edinburgh +28 2 - -
Glasgow -3 2 £575 +21.05%
Cyber Resilience
UK

Cyber Resilience
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 5 (38.46%) AWS
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Big Data
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) IT Manager
2 5 (38.46%) Architect
2 5 (38.46%) Change Manager
2 5 (38.46%) IT Change Manager
3 4 (30.77%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Security Manager
5 1 (7.69%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Operational Technology
1 5 (38.46%) Product Ownership
2 3 (23.08%) SCADA
3 2 (15.38%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Agile
2 9 (69.23%) Waterfall
3 6 (46.15%) Change Management
4 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Map
5 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (30.77%) Project Delivery
5 4 (30.77%) Project Management
5 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
5 4 (30.77%) TOGAF
6 3 (23.08%) Active Listening
6 3 (23.08%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (23.08%) Digital Strategy
6 3 (23.08%) Impact Assessments
6 3 (23.08%) People Management
6 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (23.08%) Security Operations
7 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
7 2 (15.38%) Privileged Access Management
7 2 (15.38%) Programme Delivery
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (15.38%) NCSC
2 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft