Cyber Threat Intelligence Contracts in Scotland

Cyber Threat Intelligence
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 158 173
Rank change year-on-year +35 +15 -23
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat Intelligence 4 10 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.19% 0.37% 0.088%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.40% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £533 £486
25th Percentile £563 £544 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £549
Median % change year-on-year - +4.83% -5.84%
75th Percentile £588 £775 £596
90th Percentile - £888 £621
UK median daily rate £600 £619 £600
% change year-on-year -3.07% +3.17% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Cyber Threat Intelligence 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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,869 2,492 3,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.17% 92.43% 93.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,156 1,739 2,252
10th Percentile £219 £250 £250
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £566 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 51
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.24 £11.25 £17.61
Median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%
75th Percentile £40.94 £35.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat Intelligence in Scotland

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Threat Intelligence in Scotland

Cyber Threat Intelligence
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 Threat Intelligence within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 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
Glasgow - 3 - - 1
Edinburgh +24 1 £575 -
Cyber Threat Intelligence
UK

Cyber Threat Intelligence
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Security Advisor
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (75.00%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (25.00%) Product Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (25.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft