Cloud Security Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cloud Security
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 195 128 209
Rank change year-on-year -67 +81 -68
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 152 482 574
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.01% 1.92% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 2.14% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 333 407
10th Percentile £425 £476 £463
25th Percentile £519 £525 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £725
90th Percentile £750 £780 £813
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 6
10th Percentile - - £28.84
25th Percentile - - £32.50
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +75.00% -15.79%
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - £56.63
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +75.00% -15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Cloud Security
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Security trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Security.

Cloud Security daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cloud Security over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Cloud Security daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Security
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Security.

Cloud Security hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (1.97%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.32%) nginx
3 1 (0.66%) Confluence
3 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.29%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.66%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.66%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (2.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.66%) SAP CAR
2 1 (0.66%) SAP POS DM
2 1 (0.66%) SAP Retail
2 1 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 80 (52.63%) Azure
2 66 (43.42%) AWS
3 27 (17.76%) GCP
4 18 (11.84%) Entra ID
5 14 (9.21%) IaaS
6 12 (7.89%) SaaS
7 9 (5.92%) PaaS
8 8 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (4.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (4.61%) CloudFront
9 7 (4.61%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (3.95%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (3.95%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (3.95%) Serverless
10 6 (3.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.63%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 27 (17.76%) Network Security
2 23 (15.13%) Firewall
3 13 (8.55%) VPN
4 12 (7.89%) DNS
5 5 (3.29%) WAN
6 4 (2.63%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (2.63%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.97%) LAN
7 3 (1.97%) SSH
8 2 (1.32%) SCCP
8 2 (1.32%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.66%) DHCP
9 1 (0.66%) DMZ
9 1 (0.66%) MPLS
9 1 (0.66%) Multicast
9 1 (0.66%) NAS
9 1 (0.66%) NGFW
9 1 (0.66%) SAN
9 1 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.66%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (2.63%) MySQL
1 4 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.97%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.32%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.32%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.66%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.66%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.66%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.66%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 5 (3.29%) Git
2 4 (2.63%) GitLab
3 3 (1.97%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.32%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.32%) Eclipse
4 2 (1.32%) JIRA
4 2 (1.32%) Snyk
4 2 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.66%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (15.79%) Finance
1 24 (15.79%) Public Sector
2 21 (13.82%) Social Skills
3 14 (9.21%) Retail
4 11 (7.24%) Banking
5 7 (4.61%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.97%) Automotive
8 3 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.32%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.32%) Legal
9 2 (1.32%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.32%) Marketing
9 2 (1.32%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.66%) Electronics
10 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Local Government
10 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (39.47%) Architect
2 27 (17.76%) Security Architect
3 23 (15.13%) Cloud Engineer
3 23 (15.13%) Security Engineer
4 17 (11.18%) Solutions Architect
5 16 (10.53%) Senior
6 13 (8.55%) Consultant
7 8 (5.26%) Lead
8 7 (4.61%) Azure Architect
8 7 (4.61%) Cloud Architect
8 7 (4.61%) Security Consultant
9 6 (3.95%) Analyst
9 6 (3.95%) Developer
9 6 (3.95%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (3.95%) Security Analyst
10 5 (3.29%) Applications Engineer
10 5 (3.29%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 5 (3.29%) Senior Architect
10 5 (3.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 5 (3.29%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.53%) SailPoint
2 13 (8.55%) SAML
3 6 (3.95%) Node.js
3 6 (3.95%) OAuth
3 6 (3.95%) OAuth2
3 6 (3.95%) OpenID
4 4 (2.63%) REST
5 3 (1.97%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.97%) PyTorch
5 3 (1.97%) scikit-learn
5 3 (1.97%) TensorFlow
5 3 (1.97%) YAML
6 2 (1.32%) .NET
6 2 (1.32%) GWT
6 2 (1.32%) JAX-RS
6 2 (1.32%) JSON
6 2 (1.32%) RESTful
6 2 (1.32%) Restlet
6 2 (1.32%) Spring
6 2 (1.32%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.55%) Security Posture
3 10 (6.58%) Management Information System
4 8 (5.26%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.95%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.95%) PKI
5 6 (3.95%) Security Operations Centre
6 5 (3.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 5 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.29%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.63%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.97%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.97%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.97%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.32%) Insider Threat
9 2 (1.32%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.32%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.66%) STIX
10 1 (0.66%) TAXII
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.87%) Windows
2 9 (5.92%) Linux
3 2 (1.32%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.66%) Android
4 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.66%) Unix
4 1 (0.66%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
1 38 (25.00%) DevOps
2 32 (21.05%) CI/CD
3 29 (19.08%) Application Security
4 26 (17.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (16.45%) Migration
6 23 (15.13%) Security Architecture
7 22 (14.47%) Identity Access Management
7 22 (14.47%) Information Security
8 19 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 19 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
9 18 (11.84%) DevSecOps
10 16 (10.53%) Agile
10 16 (10.53%) Architectural Design
11 15 (9.87%) Incident Response
11 15 (9.87%) Secrets Management
11 15 (9.87%) Vulnerability Management
12 14 (9.21%) High Availability
12 14 (9.21%) Microservices
12 14 (9.21%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 12 (7.89%) Python
2 7 (4.61%) PowerShell
2 7 (4.61%) TypeScript
3 5 (3.29%) Java
4 3 (1.97%) Bash
4 3 (1.97%) C#
4 3 (1.97%) SQL
5 2 (1.32%) ABAP
5 2 (1.32%) Bicep
5 2 (1.32%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.32%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.32%) PHP
6 1 (0.66%) Go
6 1 (0.66%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.66%) Ruby
6 1 (0.66%) SOQL
6 1 (0.66%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 25 (16.45%) Security Cleared
2 23 (15.13%) SC Cleared
3 18 (11.84%) Degree
4 14 (9.21%) CISSP
5 10 (6.58%) CISM
5 10 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.26%) AWS Certification
7 5 (3.29%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.63%) CISA
8 4 (2.63%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.97%) CCSP
9 3 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.97%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.32%) GIAC
10 2 (1.32%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.66%) MBA
11 1 (0.66%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (13.82%) NIST
2 17 (11.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (7.24%) NCSC
4 6 (3.95%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.97%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.97%) GDPR
5 3 (1.97%) GPG13
6 2 (1.32%) COBIT
6 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.66%) COSO
7 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.66%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.66%) QA
7 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (15.13%) Active Directory
2 15 (9.87%) Docker
3 4 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.32%) Squid
6 1 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (14.47%) Terraform
2 15 (9.87%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.24%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (2.63%) Ansible
4 4 (2.63%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 2 (1.32%) CASB
5 2 (1.32%) HAProxy
5 2 (1.32%) Nessus
6 1 (0.66%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.66%) SCCM
Vendors
1 31 (20.39%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.87%) BeyondTrust
2 15 (9.87%) CyberArk
3 14 (9.21%) ServiceNow
4 8 (5.26%) Google
5 7 (4.61%) Oracle
6 6 (3.95%) Zscaler
7 5 (3.29%) CrowdStrike
7 5 (3.29%) Splunk
8 4 (2.63%) F5
8 4 (2.63%) Okta
8 4 (2.63%) Palo Alto
8 4 (2.63%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.63%) SAP
8 4 (2.63%) Sparx
9 3 (1.97%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.97%) Cisco
9 3 (1.97%) VMware
10 2 (1.32%) Forcepoint
10 2 (1.32%) Fortinet