Security Specialist Contracts in Glasgow

Security Specialist
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Security Specialist daily rate in Glasgow is £800 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 - 83
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Contract jobs requiring a Security Specialist 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.24% - 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £750 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - -
75th Percentile £850 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Glasgow. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 776 860 899
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 95.13% 96.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 610 685
10th Percentile £257 £325 £213
25th Percentile £363 £410 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £477 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +8.43%
75th Percentile £566 £575 £538
90th Percentile £619 £688 £625
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £470
% change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 21 18
10th Percentile £12.03 £12.13 £21.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £13.16 £23.77
Median hourly rate £40.94 £14.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +182.34% -61.26% +113.15%
75th Percentile £53.75 £47.73 £43.36
90th Percentile £67.50 £60.55 £56.00
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £18.50 £37.43
% change year-on-year +5.41% -50.57% +37.36%

Security Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings that featured Security Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Security Specialist in Glasgow

Security Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Specialist in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Security Specialist in Glasgow

Security Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Security Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Security Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
1 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Macie
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (50.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management

Security Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Macie
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (50.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix