Cloud Security Contracts in the North of England

Cloud Security
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 93 165
Rank change year-on-year -53 +72 -26
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 37 134 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.79% 2.36% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 2.60% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 90 67
10th Percentile £485 £500 £513
25th Percentile £600 £525 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +15.26%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £675
90th Percentile £725 £652 £688
England median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +9.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate - £70.00 £43.59
% change year-on-year - +60.61% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,003 5,154 6,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.61% 90.64% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,440 3,571 4,590
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £564
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 201 250
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.75 £12.84
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.00 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -38.90% +55.98% +2.00%
75th Percentile £45.00 £47.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.57
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Cloud Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in the North of England

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in the North of England

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in the North of England

Cloud Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Security in the North of England

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
North West -29 20 £676 +8.16% 13
Yorkshire -28 17 £600 +9.09% 11
Cloud Security
England

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (5.41%) nginx
1 2 (5.41%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 9 (24.32%) Azure
2 7 (18.92%) AWS
3 6 (16.22%) GCP
4 3 (8.11%) Akamai
4 3 (8.11%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (8.11%) Cloudflare
4 3 (8.11%) Entra ID
4 3 (8.11%) Vertex AI
4 3 (8.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.41%) SaaS
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.70%) GitHub
6 1 (2.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) DNS
2 3 (8.11%) Network Security
2 3 (8.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.70%) DHCP
3 1 (2.70%) Firewall
3 1 (2.70%) VLAN
3 1 (2.70%) VPN
3 1 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) NoSQL
2 3 (8.11%) Bigtable
2 3 (8.11%) Cloud Spanner
2 3 (8.11%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Burp Suite
2 2 (5.41%) Git
2 2 (5.41%) GitLab
2 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (24.32%) Finance
2 7 (18.92%) Banking
3 4 (10.81%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.11%) Retail
5 1 (2.70%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 16 (43.24%) Architect
2 4 (10.81%) Project Manager
2 4 (10.81%) Security Manager
2 4 (10.81%) Security Project Manager
2 4 (10.81%) Senior
3 3 (8.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Ethical Hacker
3 3 (8.11%) GCP Architect
3 3 (8.11%) Security Architect
3 3 (8.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Azure Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Consultant
4 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Network Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Security Consultant
4 2 (5.41%) Security Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (2.70%) Portfolio Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) cloud-init
2 1 (2.70%) .NET
2 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.70%) Django
2 1 (2.70%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Cyber Defence
1 3 (8.11%) Distributed Computing
1 3 (8.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 3 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.41%) Clustering
2 2 (5.41%) PKI
3 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.70%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Linux
2 3 (8.11%) Kali Linux
3 2 (5.41%) CentOS
3 2 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.70%) Android
4 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.70%) Windows
4 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (32.43%) DevOps
2 11 (29.73%) CI/CD
2 11 (29.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (27.03%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (27.03%) Microservices
4 8 (21.62%) Application Security
4 8 (21.62%) Design Patterns
4 8 (21.62%) Test Automation
5 7 (18.92%) Agile
5 7 (18.92%) Decision-Making
5 7 (18.92%) Observability
5 7 (18.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 7 (18.92%) Technology Strategy
6 6 (16.22%) Business Case
6 6 (16.22%) Business Development
6 6 (16.22%) Change Management
6 6 (16.22%) Data Strategy
6 6 (16.22%) Pricing Strategy
6 6 (16.22%) Threat Management
7 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (24.32%) Python
2 4 (10.81%) Java
3 2 (5.41%) Bash
3 2 (5.41%) Go
3 2 (5.41%) Ruby
3 2 (5.41%) SQL
4 1 (2.70%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) CISA
1 6 (16.22%) CISM
1 6 (16.22%) CISSP
1 6 (16.22%) Degree
1 6 (16.22%) Master's Degree
1 6 (16.22%) MBA
1 6 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) OSCP
2 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) PCI DSS
2 3 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.41%) NCSC
4 1 (2.70%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.41%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Terraform
2 2 (5.41%) Ansible
2 2 (5.41%) Consul
2 2 (5.41%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (5.41%) Graphite
2 2 (5.41%) HAProxy
2 2 (5.41%) Istio
2 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.41%) linkerd
2 2 (5.41%) Packer
2 2 (5.41%) Podman
2 2 (5.41%) Prometheus
2 2 (5.41%) Puppet
2 2 (5.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (27.03%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) Google
3 3 (8.11%) F5
4 2 (5.41%) Cisco
4 2 (5.41%) PagerDuty
4 2 (5.41%) Palo Alto
4 2 (5.41%) Splunk
4 2 (5.41%) VMware