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 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 105 129
Rank change year-on-year +14 +24 +10
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 26 21 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.54% 1.02% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 1.18% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 11 23
10th Percentile £400 £563 £413
25th Percentile £403 £600 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £700 £460
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +52.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile £548 £750 £611
90th Percentile £609 £775 £650
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 1,558 1,785 2,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 92.41% 86.90% 92.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 879 1,097 1,701
10th Percentile £253 £213 £260
25th Percentile £368 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £453 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% -4.63% -
75th Percentile £538 £556 £550
90th Percentile £600 £641 £631
UK median daily rate £504 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 88 59
10th Percentile £16.37 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.88 £12.13
Median hourly rate £20.00 £20.62 £15.99
Median % change year-on-year -2.98% +28.92% -57.28%
75th Percentile £25.15 £49.44 £35.00
90th Percentile £52.82 £61.28 £60.94
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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
Edinburgh +4 14 £513 -14.58% 19
Glasgow -11 10 £405 -42.14% 11
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) AWS
1 9 (34.62%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (11.54%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (7.69%) GCP
4 2 (7.69%) GitHub
4 2 (7.69%) IaaS
4 2 (7.69%) PaaS
4 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.69%) SaaS
4 2 (7.69%) Serverless
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.85%) BrowserStack
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Run
5 1 (3.85%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.85%) Stackdriver
5 1 (3.85%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) Firewall
2 2 (7.69%) Network Security
3 1 (3.85%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
1 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.85%) Metadata
1 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
1 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Appium
1 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
1 1 (3.85%) GitLab
1 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
1 1 (3.85%) Storybook
General
1 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Banking
3 7 (26.92%) Finance
4 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.69%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.69%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Architect
2 5 (19.23%) Consultant
3 4 (15.38%) Security Consultant
4 3 (11.54%) Enterprise Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Lead
5 2 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Security Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Programme Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Security Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Security Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Security Specialist
5 2 (7.69%) Senior
6 1 (3.85%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) AWS CDK
1 1 (3.85%) Ionic Framework
1 1 (3.85%) Jest
1 1 (3.85%) Playwright
1 1 (3.85%) PySpark
1 1 (3.85%) React
1 1 (3.85%) React Native
1 1 (3.85%) SailPoint
1 1 (3.85%) Spring
1 1 (3.85%) TypeORM
1 1 (3.85%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 2 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (7.69%) PKI
1 2 (7.69%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.85%) PropTech
2 1 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Windows
2 3 (11.54%) Linux
2 3 (11.54%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.85%) Unix
3 1 (3.85%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (23.08%) Incident Response
3 6 (23.08%) Risk Management
3 6 (23.08%) SIEM
4 5 (19.23%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (19.23%) DevSecOps
4 5 (19.23%) Generative AI
5 4 (15.38%) Data Security
5 4 (15.38%) DevOps
5 4 (15.38%) Roadmaps
5 4 (15.38%) Security Operations
5 4 (15.38%) Service Delivery
5 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (15.38%) Technical Architecture
6 3 (11.54%) Agile
6 3 (11.54%) Information Security
6 3 (11.54%) TOGAF
6 3 (11.54%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) Python
2 1 (3.85%) Java
2 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
2 1 (3.85%) SQL
2 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) CISSP
2 4 (15.38%) CISM
2 4 (15.38%) Degree
3 3 (11.54%) CEH
3 3 (11.54%) CRISC
3 3 (11.54%) OSCP
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
4 2 (7.69%) CISA
4 2 (7.69%) GCIH
5 1 (3.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (3.85%) GCFA
5 1 (3.85%) GIAC
5 1 (3.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (3.85%) PCI QSA
5 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (7.69%) NIST
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) COBIT
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (3.85%) NIST 800
2 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.85%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) SLA
2 1 (3.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
1 2 (7.69%) Hyper-V
1 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (11.54%) SCCM
2 1 (3.85%) Ansible
2 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Citrix
2 2 (7.69%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (7.69%) Qualys
2 2 (7.69%) Rapid7
2 2 (7.69%) VMware
3 1 (3.85%) CyberArk
3 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.85%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.85%) Google
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.85%) Splunk