STIX Contracts in Scotland

Structured Threat Information Expression (STIX)
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term STIX in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited STIX over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing STIX 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.062% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £381 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 - -
75th Percentile £394 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £660 - -

All Generic Skills
Scotland

STIX falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Scotland.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 661 637 941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.70% 34.38% 37.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 394 621
10th Percentile £184 £200 £200
25th Percentile £357 £357 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £452 £494
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% -8.55% +3.13%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £556
90th Percentile £588 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 15
10th Percentile £16.08 £12.30 £11.84
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.25 £13.83
Median hourly rate £19.90 £18.20 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +9.34% +2.71% -55.70%
75th Percentile £25.49 £21.74 £27.56
90th Percentile £57.50 £53.46 £51.34
UK median hourly rate £29.50 £44.04 £43.38
% change year-on-year -33.02% +1.53% +63.68%

STIX
DemandTrendContract 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 STIX within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow - 1 £388 -
STIX
UK

STIX
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%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) TAXII
1 1 (100.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Search Processing Language
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ArcSight
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk