Network Security Contracts in Scotland

Network Security
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Network Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Security 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 103 137 137
Rank change year-on-year +34 0 -4
Contract jobs citing Network Security 12 27 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.56% 1.01% 1.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.45% 7.50% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 25
10th Percentile £405 £450 £429
25th Percentile £413 £495 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £541 £507
Median % change year-on-year -11.23% +6.66% +2.94%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £638
90th Percentile £594 £574 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £560 £538
% change year-on-year -1.79% +4.19% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.00
Median hourly rate - - £38.50
75th Percentile - - £55.94
90th Percentile - - £57.63
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £55.00 £50.77
% change year-on-year -61.82% +8.33% +26.93%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

Network Security falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 220 360 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 10.27% 13.47% 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 221 200
10th Percentile £179 £160 £224
25th Percentile £229 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £460 £470
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £538
90th Percentile £633 £575 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 19
10th Percentile £12.88 - £20.80
25th Percentile £15.88 - £41.75
Median hourly rate £18.14 £10.63 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year +70.60% -79.06% +40.06%
75th Percentile £29.56 £38.18 £56.00
90th Percentile £60.75 £59.18 £57.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Network Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in Scotland

Network Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Security in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Network Security in Scotland

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in Scotland

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Security in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in Scotland

Network Security
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 Network Security 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 +21 5 £425 -15.00% 10
Glasgow +9 2 £577 +4.91% 6
Highlands - 2 - -
Lanarkshire - 1 - - 2
Network Security
UK

Network Security
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 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Akamai
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (8.33%) SaaS
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) Firewall
2 5 (41.67%) SD-WAN
3 4 (33.33%) IPsec
3 4 (33.33%) LAN
3 4 (33.33%) VPN
4 3 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (25.00%) Unified Communications
4 3 (25.00%) WAN
4 3 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (16.67%) MPLS
6 1 (8.33%) BGP
6 1 (8.33%) DNS
6 1 (8.33%) EIGRP
6 1 (8.33%) Internet
6 1 (8.33%) OSPF
6 1 (8.33%) SCCP
6 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Field Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Network Field Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Network Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Network Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) BYOD
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (8.33%) IoT
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (25.00%) High Availability
2 3 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) Business Process Analysis
3 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 2 (16.67%) Information Security
3 2 (16.67%) ISMS
3 2 (16.67%) Secure Coding
3 2 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (8.33%) Asset Management
4 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
4 1 (8.33%) Information Security Management
4 1 (8.33%) Network Management
4 1 (8.33%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (8.33%) Risk Management
4 1 (8.33%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Bash
1 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) CCNA
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (16.67%) CISSP
1 2 (16.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 2 (16.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
2 1 (8.33%) CCNP
2 1 (8.33%) CLAS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Kibana
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Cisco
2 5 (41.67%) Palo Alto
3 3 (25.00%) F5
4 2 (16.67%) Fortinet
5 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft