Data Encryption Contracts in Scotland

Data Encryption
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Encryption skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Encryption 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 109 128 159
Rank change year-on-year +19 +31 +11
Contract jobs citing Data Encryption 7 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.43% 0.045% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.051% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile £383 - -
25th Percentile £413 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +15.79% +17.28%
75th Percentile £438 £575 £494
90th Percentile £535 - £498
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Encryption 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%

Data Encryption
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Data Encryption as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Data Encryption in Scotland

Data Encryption
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Encryption in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Data Encryption in Scotland

Data Encryption
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Encryption in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Encryption in Scotland

Data Encryption
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 Data Encryption 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 +7 5 £425 -22.73% 2
Edinburgh - 2 - - 2
Data Encryption
UK

Data Encryption
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 (28.57%) Amazon S3
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (14.29%) IaaS
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Network Security
1 4 (57.14%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) FTP
2 1 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Mockito
1 1 (14.29%) Toad
General
1 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Python Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Data Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) IAM Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Camel
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
2 1 (14.29%) JWT
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth
2 1 (14.29%) OpenID
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) SAML
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Algorithms
1 4 (57.14%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (57.14%) Mainframe
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Data Analysis
2 4 (57.14%) Data Extraction
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (57.14%) Inventory Management
2 4 (57.14%) Time Management
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Change Data Capture
4 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
1 1 (14.29%) ForgeRock
1 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
1 1 (14.29%) Okta
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Ping Identity
1 1 (14.29%) Talend
1 1 (14.29%) Teradata