Cloud Security Consultant Contracts

Cloud Security Consultant
UK

The median Cloud Security Consultant daily rate in the UK is £585 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 563 712 844
Rank change year-on-year +149 +132 -174
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Consultant 15 4 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.007% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.007% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 19
10th Percentile £272 £429 £518
25th Percentile £397 £437 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £524 £650
Median % change year-on-year +11.69% -19.42% +10.64%
75th Percentile £630 £631 £706
90th Percentile £788 £643 £783
UK excluding London median daily rate £168 £600 £713
% change year-on-year -71.98% -15.79% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,246 55,892 84,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,216 39,044 59,517
10th Percentile £279 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,569 2,074
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%

Cloud Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cloud Security Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security Consultant in the UK

Cloud Security Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security Consultant in the UK

Cloud Security Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security Consultant over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security Consultant in the UK

Cloud Security Consultant
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England +119 15 £585 +11.69% 1
London +118 9 £585 +30.73% 1
UK excluding London +62 4 £168 -71.98%
South East - 4 £168 -
Work from Home +130 2 £850 +55.54%

Cloud Security Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Cloud Security Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Cloud Security Consultant in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 10 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (60.00%) Degree
4 8 (53.33%) Finance
5 7 (46.67%) Azure
6 6 (40.00%) SD-WAN
6 6 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
6 6 (40.00%) Firewall
6 6 (40.00%) Risk Management
6 6 (40.00%) WAN
7 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
7 5 (33.33%) CISSP
7 5 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (33.33%) CISA
7 5 (33.33%) CISM
7 5 (33.33%) CISMP
7 5 (33.33%) COBIT
7 5 (33.33%) Ethical Hacking
7 5 (33.33%) Business Continuity
7 5 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
7 5 (33.33%) GRC
7 5 (33.33%) Key Management
7 5 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
7 5 (33.33%) Data Encryption
7 5 (33.33%) DevSecOps
7 5 (33.33%) NIST
7 5 (33.33%) PKI
7 5 (33.33%) Database Security

Cloud Security Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (13.33%) IaaS
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) OCI
3 1 (6.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Firewall
1 6 (40.00%) SD-WAN
1 6 (40.00%) WAN
2 2 (13.33%) Broadband
2 2 (13.33%) Internet
General
1 8 (53.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) French Language
2 2 (13.33%) German Language
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) PKI
2 4 (26.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (13.33%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 10 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
3 6 (40.00%) Risk Management
4 5 (33.33%) Business Continuity
4 5 (33.33%) Data Encryption
4 5 (33.33%) Database Security
4 5 (33.33%) DevSecOps
4 5 (33.33%) Ethical Hacking
4 5 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (33.33%) Key Management
4 5 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
4 5 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
4 5 (33.33%) SDLC
4 5 (33.33%) Security Auditing
4 5 (33.33%) SIEM
5 3 (20.00%) Information Security
6 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
6 2 (13.33%) DevOps
6 2 (13.33%) Due Diligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) Degree
2 5 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 5 (33.33%) CISA
2 5 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (33.33%) CISM
2 5 (33.33%) CISMP
2 5 (33.33%) CISSP
2 5 (33.33%) CRISC
3 2 (13.33%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (33.33%) COBIT
2 5 (33.33%) GRC
2 5 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 5 (33.33%) NIST
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle