Cybersecurity Contracts in Scotland

Cybersecurity
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 69 76
Rank change year-on-year +27 +7 +18
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 98 107 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.48% 3.81% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.06% 4.12% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 76 75
10th Percentile £440 £404 £400
25th Percentile £508 £415 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £463 £563
Median % change year-on-year +24.32% -17.78% +25.00%
75th Percentile £638 £559 £638
90th Percentile £700 £669 £689
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40.98
Median hourly rate - - £41.95
75th Percentile - - £42.93
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £83.77 £65.50 £41.95
% change year-on-year +27.89% +56.14% -11.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Cybersecurity 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 1,936 2,599 3,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.48% 92.52% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,166 1,869 2,315
10th Percentile £225 £260 £250
25th Percentile £386 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £580 £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 £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Scotland

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Scotland

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Scotland

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in Scotland

Cybersecurity
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 Cybersecurity within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 6 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
Edinburgh +30 39 £525 +14.88% 15
Glasgow -2 32 £575 +21.05% 14
South Lanarkshire +13 16 £590 +44.79%
Aberdeen - 6 £625 - 2
Perthshire +12 3 £525 +11.29%
Cybersecurity
UK

Cybersecurity
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.10%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.06%) Confluence
2 3 (3.06%) IBM HTTP Server
2 3 (3.06%) WebSphere
2 3 (3.06%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (3.06%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (1.02%) Apache
3 1 (1.02%) JBoss
3 1 (1.02%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.02%) WildFly
Applications
1 8 (8.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.06%) MS Visio
4 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 20 (20.41%) Azure
2 11 (11.22%) AWS
3 10 (10.20%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 6 (6.12%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 6 (6.12%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (6.12%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (3.06%) AWS Direct Connect
7 3 (3.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (2.04%) OCI
8 2 (2.04%) SaaS
9 1 (1.02%) Akamai
9 1 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.02%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.24%) Firewall
2 3 (3.06%) HTTP
2 3 (3.06%) Network Security
2 3 (3.06%) SSL
3 1 (1.02%) DNS
3 1 (1.02%) LAN
3 1 (1.02%) SCCP
3 1 (1.02%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle Discoverer
3 1 (1.02%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (4.08%) JIRA
2 3 (3.06%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (1.02%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.02%) JUnit
3 1 (1.02%) Maven
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.02%) Subversion
General
1 36 (36.73%) Public Sector
2 24 (24.49%) Social Skills
3 17 (17.35%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.18%) Banking
5 5 (5.10%) Finance
5 5 (5.10%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.02%) Legal
Job Titles
1 26 (26.53%) Analyst
2 22 (22.45%) Security Analyst
3 20 (20.41%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 16 (16.33%) Senior
5 11 (11.22%) Security Engineer
6 10 (10.20%) Lead
7 8 (8.16%) Architect
7 8 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (8.16%) Security Advisor
8 7 (7.14%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (6.12%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
9 6 (6.12%) Senior Security Analyst
9 6 (6.12%) Windows Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 5 (5.10%) Security Manager
10 5 (5.10%) Security Specialist
10 5 (5.10%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (4.08%) Cybersecurity Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.08%) SailPoint
2 3 (3.06%) J2EE
2 3 (3.06%) Middleware
3 1 (1.02%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.02%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.02%) Java EE
3 1 (1.02%) JPA
3 1 (1.02%) JSP
3 1 (1.02%) JSTL
3 1 (1.02%) OpenJDK
3 1 (1.02%) Servlets
3 1 (1.02%) Spring
3 1 (1.02%) STL
3 1 (1.02%) XML
3 1 (1.02%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.35%) Management Information System
2 11 (11.22%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (8.16%) Product Ownership
4 7 (7.14%) Operational Technology
5 6 (6.12%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (6.12%) Security Posture
6 4 (4.08%) Data Centre
6 4 (4.08%) PKI
7 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.04%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.02%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.02%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (1.02%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.31%) Windows
2 10 (10.20%) Linux
3 9 (9.18%) Unix
4 5 (5.10%) Mac OS
4 5 (5.10%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.02%) AIX
5 1 (1.02%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (28.57%) Information Security
2 23 (23.47%) Agile
3 20 (20.41%) Risk Management
4 18 (18.37%) Vulnerability Management
5 17 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (16.33%) Security Operations
7 15 (15.31%) Penetration Testing
7 15 (15.31%) Security Monitoring
8 14 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
9 12 (12.24%) Incident Management
9 12 (12.24%) Privileged Access Management
9 12 (12.24%) Risk Assessment
9 12 (12.24%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 11 (11.22%) Cloud Security
10 11 (11.22%) Impact Analysis
10 11 (11.22%) ITIL
11 10 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (10.20%) Security Architecture
11 10 (10.20%) Use Case
12 9 (9.18%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.20%) Python
2 9 (9.18%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.06%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 17 (17.35%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.20%) Degree
4 9 (9.18%) CISM
4 9 (9.18%) CISSP
4 9 (9.18%) DV Cleared
5 7 (7.14%) CISA
6 6 (6.12%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (6.12%) MCSE
6 6 (6.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (5.10%) CRISC
7 5 (5.10%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 4 (4.08%) Azure Certification
8 4 (4.08%) CGEIT
9 3 (3.06%) AWS Certification
9 3 (3.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.02%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.02%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (30.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (16.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 15 (15.31%) NIST
4 12 (12.24%) Disclosure Scotland
5 9 (9.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 5 (5.10%) NCSC
7 4 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (4.08%) QA
8 3 (3.06%) PCI DSS
9 2 (2.04%) PMO
10 1 (1.02%) COBIT
10 1 (1.02%) GDPR
10 1 (1.02%) GRC
System Software
1 11 (11.22%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.08%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.02%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (11.22%) SCCM
2 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.02%) CASB
3 1 (1.02%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (1.02%) Nessus
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.02%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (26.53%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.18%) Splunk
3 7 (7.14%) Oracle
4 4 (4.08%) CyberArk
4 4 (4.08%) VMware
5 3 (3.06%) IBM
6 2 (2.04%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.04%) Qualys
7 1 (1.02%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.02%) Cisco
7 1 (1.02%) ForeScout
7 1 (1.02%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.02%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.02%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.02%) Tripwire