Cloud Security Contracts in Scotland

Cloud Security
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Cloud Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Security over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 126 125
Rank change year-on-year +21 -1 -11
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 24 37 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.08% 1.29% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.40% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 26 30
10th Percentile £600 £413 £459
25th Percentile £606 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -17.39% +8.24%
75th Percentile £720 £644 £638
90th Percentile £760 £694 £688
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Cloud Security 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 1,963 2,651 3,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.54% 92.63% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,196 1,908 2,313
10th Percentile £229 £263 £241
25th Percentile £400 £408 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £624
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 46
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.51 £18.35
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -55.69% -0.01%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.75 £49.34
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +49.20% -

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in Scotland

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in Scotland

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in Scotland

Cloud 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 Cloud Security within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +31 13 £600 +31.58% 7
Glasgow -1 8 £700 +16.67% 4
South Lanarkshire - 3 £700 -
Cloud Security
UK

Cloud 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) AWS
2 5 (20.83%) Azure
3 4 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon Cognito
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) LAN
2 1 (4.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Burp Suite
1 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 12 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Architect
2 5 (20.83%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 5 (20.83%) Security Manager
3 3 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Ethical Hacker
3 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
4 2 (8.33%) Security Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) OpenID
1 4 (16.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 4 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 3 (12.50%) Cyber Defence
2 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (12.50%) PKI
2 3 (12.50%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) Kali Linux
2 3 (12.50%) Unix
2 3 (12.50%) Windows
3 1 (4.17%) Android
3 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (29.17%) Agile
3 7 (29.17%) DevOps
4 6 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
5 5 (20.83%) Architectural Design
5 5 (20.83%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (16.67%) Incident Response
6 4 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
6 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 4 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
6 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Identification
6 4 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
6 4 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
7 3 (12.50%) Application Security
7 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 3 (12.50%) DevSecOps
7 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (12.50%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 3 (12.50%) Degree
3 3 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (12.50%) PCI DSS
3 2 (8.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Terraform
2 4 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (12.50%) Ansible
4 1 (4.17%) CASB
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (16.67%) Okta
1 4 (16.67%) Zscaler
2 3 (12.50%) F5
3 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.17%) Splunk