Information Security Management Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Information Security Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Information Security Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 112 132
Rank change year-on-year +6 +20 +25
Contract jobs citing Information Security Management 2 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.13% 0.062% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.068% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £626 £463 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £633 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +33.16% -1.04% -20.00%
75th Percentile £639 £488 £520
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £570 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -0.87% +4.55% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

Information Security Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,286 1,468 2,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 85.39% 91.18% 89.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 707 870 1,320
10th Percentile £233 £230 £263
25th Percentile £382 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £487
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -7.50% +2.42%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £668 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 43 80
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.23 £11.99
25th Percentile £17.23 £20.62 £16.19
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +10.05%
75th Percentile £37.88 £24.18 £60.19
90th Percentile £64.03 £40.90 £73.88
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%

Information Security Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Information Security Management job vacancy trend in Scotland

Information Security Management
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Information Security Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Information Security Management

Information Security Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Information Security Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Information Security Management

Information Security Management
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 Information Security Management within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 February 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
Aberdeen - 1 - -
Perthshire - 1 £633 -
Information Security Management
UK

Information Security Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Life Science
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (50.00%) SCADA
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Compliance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Flow Diagram
2 1 (50.00%) Data Mapping
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) COBIT
2 1 (50.00%) GRC
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Rockwell