Thales Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Thales
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring knowledge or experience of Thales products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Thales over the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Thales Group.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 - 139
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Thales 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.20% - 0.042%
As % of the Vendors category 0.47% - 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
UK median daily rate £675 £563 £610
% change year-on-year +20.00% -7.79% +37.70%

All Vendors
Scotland

Thales falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 641 640 972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 42.28% 39.98% 40.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 374 573
10th Percentile £263 £185 £199
25th Percentile £400 £349 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £449 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -5.53% +2.48%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £600
90th Percentile £675 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 36 46
10th Percentile £16.17 £15.10 £15.42
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.36 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% +20.97% +4.00%
75th Percentile £54.69 £24.18 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.00 £31.44 £61.13
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £28.60 £30.00
% change year-on-year -16.70% -4.67% +3.45%

Thales
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Thales job vacancy trend in Scotland

Thales
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Thales.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Thales

Thales
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 Thales within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 February 2026. 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 - 3 £675 -
Thales
UK

Thales
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (66.67%) AWS KMS
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Financial Institution
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Information Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) PKI
2 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
2 2 (66.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 3 (100.00%) Key Management
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Innovation
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (33.33%) NCSC
2 1 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CyberArk
1 1 (33.33%) Qualys