Threat Detection Contracts in Scotland

Threat Detection
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Threat Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Threat Detection over the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 - 160
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 5 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.29% - 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% - 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £488 - -
25th Percentile £493 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £790
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.40%
75th Percentile - - £793
90th Percentile - - £797
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Threat Detection 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 1,607 1,775 2,526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 92.04% 87.35% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 909 1,104 1,741
10th Percentile £250 £213 £250
25th Percentile £366 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £626
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 70 56
10th Percentile £16.58 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.30 £13.73 £13.15
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.94 £18.33
Median % change year-on-year +0.31% +8.80% -51.04%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £49.24
90th Percentile £28.22 £60.75 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £42.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -10.31% +61.35%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in Scotland

Threat Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Detection in Scotland

Threat Detection
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 Threat Detection within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
Glasgow - 3 £485 - 2
Renfrewshire - 2 £500 -
Threat Detection
UK

Threat Detection
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Sumo Logic
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Security Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (60.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (100.00%) SIEM
2 4 (80.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Response
2 4 (80.00%) OSINT
2 4 (80.00%) Threat Analysis
3 3 (60.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 3 (60.00%) ITIL
3 3 (60.00%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (60.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 3 (60.00%) Use Case
4 2 (40.00%) Event Correlation
4 2 (40.00%) Log Correlation
4 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (40.00%) Open Source
4 2 (40.00%) Situational Awareness
5 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 1 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 1 (20.00%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) CASP
2 3 (60.00%) CISSP
2 3 (60.00%) CompTIA CySA+
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) GCIA
2 3 (60.00%) GCIH
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) ArcSight
2 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (20.00%) Rapid7