Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in Renfrewshire

Cybersecurity
Scotland > Renfrewshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Renfrewshire requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Renfrewshire 62.50% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 83.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £490 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £500 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -9.18% +0.46% +4.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Renfrewshire

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 Renfrewshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6 21 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Renfrewshire 75.00% 91.30% 87.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 19
10th Percentile £492 £204 £291
25th Percentile £500 £363 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - +48.15%
75th Percentile £538 £523 £519
90th Percentile £650 £526 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 7
10th Percentile - £12.52 £55.00
25th Percentile - £12.85 £55.70
Median hourly rate - £13.40 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -82.82% +35.65%
75th Percentile - £13.95 -
90th Percentile - £14.28 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £19.50
% change year-on-year -12.57% +17.31% +4.00%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Renfrewshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cybersecurity relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Renfrewshire.

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in Renfrewshire

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in Renfrewshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Renfrewshire citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Renfrewshire citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in Renfrewshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Renfrewshire region over the 6 months to 1 November 2025. 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
Erskine - 5 £500 -
Cybersecurity
Scotland

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Renfrewshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Sentinel
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Analyst
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 4 (80.00%) Security Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (40.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Event Correlation
1 5 (100.00%) Open Source
1 5 (100.00%) OSINT
1 5 (100.00%) SIEM
1 5 (100.00%) Situational Awareness
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Response
2 4 (80.00%) Kalman Filter
2 4 (80.00%) Use Case
3 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Threat Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) CASP
2 2 (40.00%) CISSP
2 2 (40.00%) CompTIA CySA+
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) GCIA
2 2 (40.00%) GCIH
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) ArcSight