Host Intrusion Detection System Contracts in Scotland

Host-Based Intrusion Detection System (HIDS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Host Intrusion Detection System skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Host Intrusion Detection System over the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Host Intrusion Detection System 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.062% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.43% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate - - £529
% change year-on-year - - -14.72%

All Systems Management Skills
Scotland

Host Intrusion Detection System falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 235 222 395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 14.51% 12.03% 15.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 160 255
10th Percentile £261 £200 £260
25th Percentile £425 £368 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -9.09% -3.41%
75th Percentile £564 £526 £550
90th Percentile £641 £601 £614
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £20.55 £25.43
25th Percentile £52.50 £21.91 £36.99
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +127.46% -57.95% +224.49%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £31.39 £35.08 £55.00
% change year-on-year -10.54% -36.21% +139.13%

Host Intrusion Detection System
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Host Intrusion Detection System as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Host Intrusion Detection System in Scotland

Host Intrusion Detection System
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 Host Intrusion Detection System within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Edinburgh - 1 - -
Host Intrusion Detection System
UK

Host Intrusion Detection System
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) RHCE
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam