Cybersecurity Contracts in Edinburgh

Cybersecurity
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 58 75
Rank change year-on-year +26 +17 -2
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 41 45 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.65% 3.79% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.52% 4.05% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 27 33
10th Percentile £456 £413 £400
25th Percentile £502 £433 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £457 £535
Median % change year-on-year +14.88% -14.58% +15.68%
75th Percentile £666 £550 £638
90th Percentile £750 £593 £690
Scotland median daily rate £552 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.30% -4.76% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Cybersecurity 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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 743 1,110 1,789
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 84.24% 93.59% 94.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 780 1,233
10th Percentile £219 £225 £280
25th Percentile £366 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -2.06% +14.12%
75th Percentile £559 £538 £570
90th Percentile £652 £600 £638
Scotland median daily rate £464 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.26% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 7 12
10th Percentile £13.30 £12.10 £15.29
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.44 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.17 £21.26 £22.45
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% -5.30% -58.78%
75th Percentile £60.75 £32.71 £48.75
90th Percentile - £47.75 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
% change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -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 13 June 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 (9.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.44%) Apache
2 1 (2.44%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) JBoss
2 1 (2.44%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.44%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 17 (41.46%) Azure
2 8 (19.51%) Power Platform
3 5 (12.20%) AWS
3 5 (12.20%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (9.76%) Entra ID
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (7.32%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.88%) SaaS
7 1 (2.44%) Akamai
7 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.20%) Firewall
2 4 (9.76%) SSL
3 1 (2.44%) DNS
3 1 (2.44%) LAN
3 1 (2.44%) Network Security
3 1 (2.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) JIRA
1 1 (2.44%) JUnit
1 1 (2.44%) Maven
1 1 (2.44%) Subversion
General
1 24 (58.54%) Public Sector
2 6 (14.63%) Banking
2 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Finance
5 1 (2.44%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (36.59%) Analyst
1 15 (36.59%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 15 (36.59%) Security Analyst
2 9 (21.95%) Senior
3 6 (14.63%) Senior Analyst
3 6 (14.63%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
3 6 (14.63%) Senior Security Analyst
4 5 (12.20%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 5 (12.20%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 5 (12.20%) Security Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Security Manager
4 5 (12.20%) Security Specialist
5 4 (9.76%) Lead
6 3 (7.32%) Consultant
6 3 (7.32%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 3 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Security Consultant
7 2 (4.88%) Project Manager
7 2 (4.88%) Security Project Manager
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.44%) .NET
2 1 (2.44%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.44%) Hibernate
2 1 (2.44%) Java EE
2 1 (2.44%) JPA
2 1 (2.44%) JSP
2 1 (2.44%) JSTL
2 1 (2.44%) OpenJDK
2 1 (2.44%) Servlets
2 1 (2.44%) Spring
2 1 (2.44%) STL
2 1 (2.44%) XML
2 1 (2.44%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (24.39%) Management Information System
2 7 (17.07%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (12.20%) PKI
4 4 (9.76%) Security Posture
5 3 (7.32%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.44%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (2.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (2.44%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.20%) Windows
1 5 (12.20%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.44%) AIX
2 1 (2.44%) Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (43.90%) Penetration Testing
2 15 (36.59%) Security Operations
3 14 (34.15%) Information Security
4 13 (31.71%) Vulnerability Management
5 12 (29.27%) Privileged Access Management
5 12 (29.27%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 11 (26.83%) Agile
7 10 (24.39%) Incident Management
7 10 (24.39%) Security Monitoring
7 10 (24.39%) Threat Modelling
7 10 (24.39%) Use Case
8 9 (21.95%) Business Impact Analysis
8 9 (21.95%) Impact Analysis
8 9 (21.95%) ITIL
8 9 (21.95%) SIEM
8 9 (21.95%) Technical Analysis
8 9 (21.95%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 8 (19.51%) Risk Assessment
10 7 (17.07%) Cloud Security
11 6 (14.63%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.44%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (21.95%) ITIL Certification
2 8 (19.51%) MCSE
2 8 (19.51%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (17.07%) Degree
4 3 (7.32%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (34.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (21.95%) Disclosure Scotland
2 9 (21.95%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 5 (12.20%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (9.76%) QA
5 3 (7.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (7.32%) NCSC
6 2 (4.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (21.95%) Active Directory
2 5 (12.20%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (12.20%) SCCM
2 1 (2.44%) CASB
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (24.39%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.76%) CyberArk
3 2 (4.88%) Splunk
3 2 (4.88%) VMware
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle