Privileged Access Management Contracts in Scotland

Privileged Access Management (PAM)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Privileged Access Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Privileged Access Management over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 109 151
Rank change year-on-year -4 +42 +11
Contract jobs citing Privileged Access Management 7 11 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.40% 0.54% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.62% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 12
10th Percentile - £500 -
25th Percentile £550 £506 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £461
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +13.88% -13.83%
75th Percentile £744 £609 £509
90th Percentile £838 £658 £631
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -

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 1,607 1,782 2,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 92.04% 87.18% 92.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 909 1,111 1,747
10th Percentile £250 £213 £250
25th Percentile £366 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 69 57
10th Percentile £16.58 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.30 £13.64 £12.75
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +10.55% -52.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £43.75
90th Percentile £28.22 £60.75 £63.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.81
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.83% +58.73%

Privileged Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Privileged Access Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Privileged Access Management in Scotland

Privileged Access Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Privileged Access Management in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Privileged Access Management in Scotland

Privileged Access Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Privileged Access Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Privileged Access Management in Scotland

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 July 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 -11 4 £688 +3.38% 2
Perthshire - 3 £600 -
Privileged Access Management
UK

Privileged Access Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) OCI
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) CyberArk Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Product Owner
1 2 (28.57%) Security Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) SailPoint
2 1 (14.29%) LDAP
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth
2 1 (14.29%) OpenID
2 1 (14.29%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Insider Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Data Security
2 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (28.57%) RBAC
2 2 (28.57%) Runbook
2 2 (28.57%) Secrets Management
2 2 (28.57%) SIEM
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Product Requirements
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
1 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
2 2 (28.57%) Puppet
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) CyberArk
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (14.29%) Okta