Cloud Security Contracts in Edinburgh

Cloud Security
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Cloud Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Security over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 59 90
Rank change year-on-year +1 +31 +10
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 9 13 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.44% 1.60% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.81% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 18
10th Percentile £454 £581 £413
25th Percentile £459 - £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £456
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +31.58% -27.04%
75th Percentile £550 £731 £617
90th Percentile £573 £775 £699
Scotland median daily rate £525 £700 £475
% change year-on-year -25.00% +47.37% -17.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Cloud Security 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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in Edinburgh

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in Edinburgh

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (11.11%) BrowserStack
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Run
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (11.11%) IaaS
4 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
4 1 (11.11%) PaaS
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
1 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (11.11%) Metadata
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Appium
1 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) Storybook
General
1 3 (33.33%) Banking
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Retail Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Security Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Data Centre Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Engineering Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Migration Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Network Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Security Operations Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Security Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
1 1 (11.11%) Ionic Framework
1 1 (11.11%) Jest
1 1 (11.11%) Playwright
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) React Native
1 1 (11.11%) Spring
1 1 (11.11%) TypeORM
1 1 (11.11%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 3 (33.33%) SIEM
2 3 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 3 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Management
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Measurement
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Service-Level Objective
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CEH
1 2 (22.22%) CISSP
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) GCIH
1 2 (22.22%) OSCP
2 1 (11.11%) GCFA
2 1 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
1 1 (11.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Citrix
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Qualys
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk