Cybersecurity Contracts in Edinburgh

Cybersecurity
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Cybersecurity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 54 77
Rank change year-on-year +18 +23 -10
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 40 48 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.62% 4.08% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.42% 4.34% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 28 35
10th Percentile £450 £403 £400
25th Percentile £500 £414 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £456 £575
Median % change year-on-year +15.13% -20.70% +24.32%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £644
90th Percentile £750 £591 £689
Scotland median daily rate £563 £500 £536
% change year-on-year +12.50% -6.76% +19.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Cybersecurity is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 738 1,106 1,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.32% 93.97% 94.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 776 1,224
10th Percentile £214 £225 £272
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -1.04% +12.94%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £570
90th Percentile £656 £604 £638
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 13
10th Percentile £13.30 £11.83 £15.53
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.30 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.17 £19.49 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -25.04% -52.27%
75th Percentile £60.75 £21.57 £48.75
90th Percentile - £37.71 £53.20
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
% change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Edinburgh

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Edinburgh

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Edinburgh

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.50%) Apache
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) JBoss
2 1 (2.50%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.50%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 18 (45.00%) Azure
2 9 (22.50%) Power Platform
3 6 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (10.00%) AWS
4 4 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 3 (7.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (5.00%) SaaS
7 1 (2.50%) Akamai
7 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.00%) Firewall
2 5 (12.50%) SSL
3 1 (2.50%) DNS
3 1 (2.50%) LAN
3 1 (2.50%) Network Security
3 1 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) JIRA
1 1 (2.50%) JUnit
1 1 (2.50%) Maven
1 1 (2.50%) Subversion
General
1 25 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 6 (15.00%) Banking
2 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Finance
4 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (37.50%) Analyst
1 15 (37.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 15 (37.50%) Security Analyst
2 9 (22.50%) Senior
3 6 (15.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 6 (15.00%) Security Specialist
3 6 (15.00%) Senior Analyst
3 6 (15.00%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
3 6 (15.00%) Senior Security Analyst
4 5 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 5 (12.50%) Security Manager
5 4 (10.00%) Lead
6 3 (7.50%) Consultant
6 3 (7.50%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Security Consultant
6 3 (7.50%) Security Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Project Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.50%) .NET
2 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.50%) Hibernate
2 1 (2.50%) Java EE
2 1 (2.50%) JPA
2 1 (2.50%) JSP
2 1 (2.50%) JSTL
2 1 (2.50%) OpenJDK
2 1 (2.50%) Servlets
2 1 (2.50%) Spring
2 1 (2.50%) STL
2 1 (2.50%) XML
2 1 (2.50%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 8 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (15.00%) PKI
4 3 (7.50%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (7.50%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) Windows
1 6 (15.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.50%) AIX
2 1 (2.50%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) Penetration Testing
2 16 (40.00%) Security Operations
3 14 (35.00%) Information Security
4 13 (32.50%) Vulnerability Management
5 12 (30.00%) Agile
5 12 (30.00%) Privileged Access Management
5 12 (30.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 11 (27.50%) Threat Modelling
7 10 (25.00%) Incident Management
7 10 (25.00%) ITIL
7 10 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
7 10 (25.00%) Use Case
8 9 (22.50%) Business Impact Analysis
8 9 (22.50%) Impact Analysis
8 9 (22.50%) Risk Assessment
8 9 (22.50%) SIEM
8 9 (22.50%) Technical Analysis
8 9 (22.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 6 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
9 6 (15.00%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
2 9 (22.50%) MCSE
2 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (20.00%) Degree
4 3 (7.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (35.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 9 (22.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 5 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (10.00%) QA
6 3 (7.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (7.50%) NCSC
7 2 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (15.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) SCCM
2 1 (2.50%) CASB
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) CyberArk
3 2 (5.00%) Splunk
3 2 (5.00%) VMware
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle