Cloud Security Contracts in Edinburgh

Cloud Security
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Cloud Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Security over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 86 99
Rank change year-on-year +28 +13 +7
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 15 20 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.72% 1.69% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 1.80% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 18
10th Percentile £585 £413 £528
25th Percentile - £423 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £453 £625
Median % change year-on-year +32.60% -27.60% +17.65%
75th Percentile £688 £520 £684
90th Percentile £775 £674 £701
Scotland median daily rate £600 £460 £575
% change year-on-year +30.43% -20.00% +3.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Cloud Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 735 1,109 1,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 84.48% 93.82% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 776 1,240
10th Percentile £219 £225 £280
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -2.06% +14.12%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £570
90th Percentile £650 £600 £638
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 7 12
10th Percentile £13.28 £12.10 £15.29
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.44 £17.50
Median hourly rate £21.68 £21.26 £22.45
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -5.30% -58.78%
75th Percentile £60.75 £32.71 £48.75
90th Percentile - £47.75 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
% change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -8.71%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Cloud Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in Edinburgh

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in Edinburgh

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in Edinburgh

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Entra ID
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) LAN
1 1 (6.67%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (46.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 5 (33.33%) Security Manager
2 4 (26.67%) Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Project Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
4 2 (13.33%) Security Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Security Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) OpenID
1 4 (26.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) PKI
1 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (20.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 4 (26.67%) Architectural Design
3 4 (26.67%) Change Management
3 4 (26.67%) DevSecOps
3 4 (26.67%) Incident Response
3 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) Secrets Management
3 4 (26.67%) Security Testing
3 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Identification
3 4 (26.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (26.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (26.67%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (20.00%) DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
4 3 (20.00%) SDLC
4 3 (20.00%) Security Operations
4 3 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (13.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Ansible
1 4 (26.67%) Single Sign-On
1 4 (26.67%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) CASB
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) CrowdStrike
1 4 (26.67%) Okta
1 4 (26.67%) Zscaler
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk