Privileged Access Management Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Privileged Access Management (PAM)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Privileged Access Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 108 134
Rank change year-on-year +1 +26 +32
Contract jobs citing Privileged Access Management 6 8 10
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.39% 0.47% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.53% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 9
10th Percentile £555 £444 £413
25th Percentile £563 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £630 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.08% -13.33%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £688
90th Percentile £645 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £583 £625
% change year-on-year -5.58% -6.80% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Privileged Access Management 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 1,342 1,511 2,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.48% 89.67% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 772 894 1,334
10th Percentile £238 £230 £250
25th Percentile £398 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -9.55% +4.74%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 44 55
10th Percentile £14.05 £15.07 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.90 £19.59 £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.58%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £54.38 £32.66 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%

Privileged Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Privileged Access Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Privileged Access Management job vacancy trend in Scotland

Privileged Access Management
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Privileged Access Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Privileged Access Management

Privileged Access Management
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 Privileged Access Management within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Perthshire - 3 £600 -
Edinburgh +3 1 - - 7
Glasgow -6 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
Privileged Access Management
UK

Privileged Access Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) OCI
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Product Owner
1 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) SailPoint
2 1 (16.67%) LDAP
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth
2 1 (16.67%) OpenID
2 1 (16.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
4 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (16.67%) Data Encryption
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
4 1 (16.67%) Open Source
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) HIPAA
1 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) CyberArk
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Okta