Cyber Defence Contracts in Scotland

Cyber Defence
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Defence over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 158 175
Rank change year-on-year +46 +17 -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Defence 3 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.14% 0.22% 0.029%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.44% 0.62% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
UK median daily rate £675 £745 £725
% change year-on-year -9.36% +2.76% +31.82%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Cyber Defence 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 679 964 1,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 31.68% 36.08% 36.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 650 856
10th Percentile £205 £209 £300
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% - +14.71%
75th Percentile £561 £550 £564
90th Percentile £662 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 29 26
10th Percentile £12.68 - £16.56
25th Percentile £15.74 £10.63 £20.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £14.50 £42.48
Median % change year-on-year +25.03% -65.86% +1.13%
75th Percentile £29.59 £21.67 £54.38
90th Percentile £59.45 £48.93 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Cyber Defence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Defence in Scotland

Cyber Defence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Defence in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Defence in Scotland

Cyber Defence
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 Cyber Defence within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
Edinburgh +28 3 £500 -
Cyber Defence
UK

Cyber Defence
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 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (66.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior IT Support
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform