Security Monitoring Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Security Monitoring
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Security Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 109 112
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 +37
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 1 2 17
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.055% 0.12% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.068% 0.13% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 12
10th Percentile - - £508
25th Percentile - £463 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £488 £609
90th Percentile - - £675
UK median daily rate £550 £544 £525
% change year-on-year +1.15% +3.57% -12.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

Security Monitoring 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 1,480 1,517 1,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 81.72% 93.47% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 785 920 1,196
10th Percentile £275 £263 £229
25th Percentile £381 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% -2.63% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £606 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 47 94
10th Percentile £12.60 £16.19 £12.36
25th Percentile £13.45 £17.30 £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £21.59 £19.34
Median % change year-on-year -7.36% +11.66% +9.11%
75th Percentile £50.00 £24.66 £40.94
90th Percentile £73.80 £51.48 £60.75
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.65
% change year-on-year +43.29% -18.65% -4.42%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Security Monitoring job vacancy trend in Scotland

Security Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Security Monitoring

Security Monitoring
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 Security Monitoring within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Highlands - 1 £447 - 1
Security Monitoring
UK

Security Monitoring
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 (100.00%) Entra ID
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BeyondTrust
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Okta