Cloud Security Contracts in London

Cloud Security
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 133 199
Rank change year-on-year -44 +66 -62
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 244 546 580
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.38% 2.02% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 2.21% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 373 370
10th Percentile £443 £463 £475
25th Percentile £525 £535 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £775 £738 £738
90th Percentile £802 £825 £825
England median daily rate £600 £641 £625
% change year-on-year -6.36% +2.52% +9.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £27.67
Median % change year-on-year - +189.12% -
England median hourly rate - £70.00 £43.59
% change year-on-year - +60.61% -30.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,674 24,676 35,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.50% 91.13% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,226 17,739 26,174
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 281 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £63.75 £50.68
90th Percentile £66.30 £78.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in London

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in London

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in London

Cloud Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security in London.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Security in London

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Central London +8 34 £625 +4.17% 11
East London -14 9 £585 -22.00% 3
South London +10 2 £675 -1.82%
Cloud Security
England

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 9 (3.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.82%) IIS
3 2 (0.82%) nginx
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (0.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 105 (43.03%) Azure
2 73 (29.92%) AWS
3 48 (19.67%) GCP
4 40 (16.39%) IaaS
5 33 (13.52%) SaaS
6 31 (12.70%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (10.25%) PaaS
8 22 (9.02%) Serverless
9 19 (7.79%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (6.97%) Entra ID
11 12 (4.92%) Azure Sentinel
12 10 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (3.28%) GitHub
13 8 (3.28%) OCI
14 7 (2.87%) Mimecast
15 6 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
17 4 (1.64%) WhatsApp
18 3 (1.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 57 (23.36%) Firewall
2 25 (10.25%) WAN
3 24 (9.84%) Network Security
4 15 (6.15%) SD-WAN
5 13 (5.33%) VPN
6 12 (4.92%) DNS
6 12 (4.92%) LAN
7 6 (2.46%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (2.05%) DHCP
8 5 (2.05%) Internet
9 4 (1.64%) BGP
9 4 (1.64%) MPLS
9 4 (1.64%) Multicast
9 4 (1.64%) OSPF
10 3 (1.23%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (1.23%) EIGRP
10 3 (1.23%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.23%) WLAN
11 2 (0.82%) SNMP
11 2 (0.82%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.05%) Data Lake
2 4 (1.64%) Big Data
3 3 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.23%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.23%) MySQL
3 3 (1.23%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.23%) Power BI
4 2 (0.82%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.82%) OLAP
4 2 (0.82%) OLTP
4 2 (0.82%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.41%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.41%) Bigtable
5 1 (0.41%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (6.56%) GitLab
2 15 (6.15%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.46%) Git
4 4 (1.64%) Burp Suite
4 4 (1.64%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.23%) JIRA
6 2 (0.82%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.82%) JMeter
6 2 (0.82%) Selenium
7 1 (0.41%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (0.41%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 71 (29.10%) Finance
2 52 (21.31%) Social Skills
3 23 (9.43%) Banking
4 13 (5.33%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.69%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.64%) Local Government
11 3 (1.23%) Retail
12 2 (0.82%) Legal
12 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 105 (43.03%) Architect
2 64 (26.23%) Security Architect
3 38 (15.57%) Cloud Architect
4 33 (13.52%) Senior
5 32 (13.11%) Consultant
6 27 (11.07%) Security Consultant
7 22 (9.02%) Senior Architect
8 21 (8.61%) Senior Security Architect
9 19 (7.79%) Security Engineer
10 17 (6.97%) Cloud Security Architect
11 15 (6.15%) AWS Architect
12 14 (5.74%) Lead
12 14 (5.74%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
14 11 (4.51%) Analyst
14 11 (4.51%) Cloud Consultant
15 10 (4.10%) Cloud Security Consultant
16 9 (3.69%) Cloud Engineer
16 9 (3.69%) DevSecOps Engineer
16 9 (3.69%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.74%) SailPoint
2 6 (2.46%) Node.js
3 5 (2.05%) Kafka
3 5 (2.05%) React
4 3 (1.23%) AWS CDK
4 3 (1.23%) CSS
4 3 (1.23%) HTML
4 3 (1.23%) OpenID
4 3 (1.23%) RESTful
4 3 (1.23%) SAML
4 3 (1.23%) YAML
5 2 (0.82%) EDI
5 2 (0.82%) Express.js
5 2 (0.82%) JSON
5 2 (0.82%) LDAP
5 2 (0.82%) MERN Stack
5 2 (0.82%) Middleware
5 2 (0.82%) REST
5 2 (0.82%) SOAP
6 1 (0.41%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.84%) Management Information System
2 23 (9.43%) PKI
3 14 (5.74%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.74%) Mobile App
4 13 (5.33%) IoT
5 12 (4.92%) Security Posture
6 9 (3.69%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (3.28%) Cloud Security Posture
7 8 (3.28%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.05%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.64%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.64%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.23%) Replication
11 3 (1.23%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.84%) Linux
2 11 (4.51%) Windows
3 6 (2.46%) Unix
3 6 (2.46%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.64%) Kali Linux
5 2 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (28.69%) DevOps
2 65 (26.64%) Cybersecurity
3 61 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (23.36%) Security Architecture
5 50 (20.49%) Information Security
6 43 (17.62%) CI/CD
7 41 (16.80%) DevSecOps
8 40 (16.39%) SIEM
9 36 (14.75%) Application Security
10 33 (13.52%) Containerisation
11 31 (12.70%) Penetration Testing
12 30 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (11.89%) Agile
13 29 (11.89%) Identity Access Management
14 26 (10.66%) Data Loss Prevention
15 24 (9.84%) SDLC
16 23 (9.43%) Risk Management
17 22 (9.02%) Deployment Automation
17 22 (9.02%) Microservices
17 22 (9.02%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 30 (12.30%) Python
2 16 (6.56%) PowerShell
3 9 (3.69%) Bash
4 8 (3.28%) Java
4 8 (3.28%) SQL
5 5 (2.05%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.23%) C#
6 3 (1.23%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.82%) Go
7 2 (0.82%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.82%) SOQL
7 2 (0.82%) SOSL
8 1 (0.41%) Korn
8 1 (0.41%) PHP
8 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.41%) Scala
8 1 (0.41%) tcsh
8 1 (0.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (16.39%) Degree
2 36 (14.75%) CISSP
3 31 (12.70%) Security Cleared
4 28 (11.48%) SC Cleared
5 26 (10.66%) CISM
6 19 (7.79%) Cisco Certification
7 17 (6.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 16 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (5.74%) CRISC
10 10 (4.10%) CCSK
10 10 (4.10%) CISA
10 10 (4.10%) SANS
11 8 (3.28%) GIAC
12 5 (2.05%) FFIEC
13 4 (1.64%) AWS Certification
13 4 (1.64%) CCNP
13 4 (1.64%) CCSP
14 3 (1.23%) DV Cleared
14 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (1.23%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (21.31%) NIST
2 39 (15.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (6.97%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 17 (6.97%) PCI DSS
4 11 (4.51%) GRC
5 9 (3.69%) GDPR
6 8 (3.28%) NIST 800
7 6 (2.46%) NCSC
8 4 (1.64%) ISO 31000
8 4 (1.64%) ISO 9001
9 3 (1.23%) GPG13
9 3 (1.23%) ISO 22301
9 3 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.82%) COBIT
10 2 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.82%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.82%) QA
11 1 (0.41%) GxP
11 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
System Software
1 25 (10.25%) Active Directory
2 21 (8.61%) Docker
3 7 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.23%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.23%) XenApp
6 2 (0.82%) KVM
6 2 (0.82%) Squid
6 2 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.41%) IAG
7 1 (0.41%) NFS
Systems Management
1 66 (27.05%) Terraform
2 29 (11.89%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.46%) Ansible
3 6 (2.46%) CASB
3 6 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (2.05%) FortiGate
5 4 (1.64%) Argo
5 4 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.23%) Packer
7 2 (0.82%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.82%) Nessus
8 1 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.41%) Grafana
8 1 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.41%) SCCM
8 1 (0.41%) systemd
Vendors
1 50 (20.49%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.02%) Google
3 13 (5.33%) ServiceNow
4 12 (4.92%) CyberArk
5 11 (4.51%) BeyondTrust
5 11 (4.51%) Oracle
6 9 (3.69%) Cisco
7 8 (3.28%) Palo Alto
8 7 (2.87%) VMware
9 5 (2.05%) CheckPoint
9 5 (2.05%) Citrix
9 5 (2.05%) F5
10 4 (1.64%) Darktrace
10 4 (1.64%) Databricks
10 4 (1.64%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.23%) Dell
11 3 (1.23%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.23%) Qualys
12 2 (0.82%) HP
12 2 (0.82%) Salesforce