Cloud Security Contracts in Scotland

Cloud Security
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 94 105 126
Rank change year-on-year +11 +21 -1
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 22 24 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.35% 1.08% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 1.22% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 26
10th Percentile £461 £600 £413
25th Percentile £472 £606 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 £475
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +47.37% -17.39%
75th Percentile £623 £720 £644
90th Percentile £705 £760 £694
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
Glasgow +6 11 £615 -12.14% 16
Edinburgh +1 9 £513 -14.58% 22
Renfrewshire - 1 £700 - 4
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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) AWS
2 6 (27.27%) GitHub
3 5 (22.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (9.09%) GCP
5 2 (9.09%) IaaS
5 2 (9.09%) PaaS
5 2 (9.09%) SaaS
5 2 (9.09%) Serverless
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.55%) BrowserStack
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Run
6 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.55%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.55%) Stackdriver
6 1 (4.55%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
1 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (4.55%) MariaDB
1 1 (4.55%) Metadata
1 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.55%) MySQL
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
1 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) Appium
2 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
2 1 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
2 1 (4.55%) Storybook
General
1 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Banking
3 4 (18.18%) Finance
4 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 2 (9.09%) Financial Institution
5 2 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Retail Banking
6 1 (4.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Architect
2 4 (18.18%) Azure Data Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Data Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Security Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Programme Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Security Specialist
4 2 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Security Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Migration Architect
5 1 (4.55%) React Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Security Operations Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) PySpark
2 1 (4.55%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.55%) Ionic Framework
2 1 (4.55%) Jest
2 1 (4.55%) Playwright
2 1 (4.55%) React
2 1 (4.55%) React Native
2 1 (4.55%) RESTful
2 1 (4.55%) Spring
2 1 (4.55%) TypeORM
2 1 (4.55%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) CentOS
2 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 7 (31.82%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (22.73%) Data Transformation
3 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (18.18%) Data Security
4 4 (18.18%) ETL
4 4 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (18.18%) Information Security
4 4 (18.18%) SIEM
4 4 (18.18%) TOGAF
5 3 (13.64%) Agile
5 3 (13.64%) Application Security
5 3 (13.64%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (13.64%) DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) Risk Management
5 3 (13.64%) Security Operations
5 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (13.64%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (13.64%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) SQL
2 4 (18.18%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) Bash
3 1 (4.55%) Java
3 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) CISSP
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) CEH
2 2 (9.09%) CISM
2 2 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (9.09%) GCIH
2 2 (9.09%) OSCP
2 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.55%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (4.55%) CRISC
3 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) GCFA
3 1 (4.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) SSCP
3 1 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) NIST
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) NCSC
2 1 (4.55%) SLA
2 1 (4.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
1 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Ansible
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) CASB
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.55%) Packer
2 1 (4.55%) Puppet
2 1 (4.55%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Citrix
2 2 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (9.09%) VMware
3 1 (4.55%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.55%) Forcepoint
3 1 (4.55%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Qualys
3 1 (4.55%) Rapid7
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.55%) Splunk