Cloud Security Contracts in Berkshire

Cloud Security
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Cloud Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Security over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 112 87
Rank change year-on-year +37 -25 +21
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 18 12 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.53% 0.60% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 0.68% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 13
10th Percentile £470 £196 £380
25th Percentile £500 £270 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £438 £575
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -23.91% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £538 £688
90th Percentile £695 £665 £702
South East median daily rate £550 £510 £700
% change year-on-year +7.84% -27.14% +27.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Cloud Security falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in Berkshire

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in Berkshire

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in Berkshire

Cloud Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Security in Berkshire

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +32 9 £550 +93.24% 23
Slough - 3 £650 - 16
Wokingham -11 2 £450 -30.77%
Windsor - 1 £500 -
Cloud Security
South East

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (5.56%) CMS
1 1 (5.56%) Headless CMS
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.56%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) SAP ERP
1 3 (16.67%) SAP GRC
1 3 (16.67%) SAP MDG
1 3 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) AWS
3 5 (27.78%) GCP
4 4 (22.22%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 2 (11.11%) SaaS
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.56%) IaaS
6 1 (5.56%) OCI
6 1 (5.56%) PaaS
6 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Firewall
1 3 (16.67%) Network Security
2 2 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (5.56%) DNS
3 1 (5.56%) LAN
3 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
3 1 (5.56%) SSL
3 1 (5.56%) VPN
3 1 (5.56%) WAN
3 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Burp Suite
1 2 (11.11%) Metasploit
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Consultant
2 3 (16.67%) Architect
2 3 (16.67%) SAP Consultant
2 3 (16.67%) SAP Security Consultant
2 3 (16.67%) Security Consultant
2 3 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Penetration Tester
3 2 (11.11%) SOC Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Tester
4 1 (5.56%) Audit Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow Architect
4 1 (5.56%) SIEM Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) SOC Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Strategy Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (11.11%) OAuth
3 1 (5.56%) .NET
3 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
3 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.56%) CSS
3 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.56%) HTML
3 1 (5.56%) OpenID
3 1 (5.56%) React
3 1 (5.56%) RESTful
3 1 (5.56%) SAML
3 1 (5.56%) SPML
3 1 (5.56%) Vue
3 1 (5.56%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.56%) Cyberattack
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) PKI
3 1 (5.56%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
1 6 (33.33%) SIEM
2 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (22.22%) Application Security
3 4 (22.22%) Data Protection
3 4 (22.22%) DevSecOps
3 4 (22.22%) Regulatory Compliance
3 4 (22.22%) SOAR
3 4 (22.22%) Threat Intelligence
4 3 (16.67%) Business Transformation
4 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 3 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 3 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 3 (16.67%) Data Security
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) ERP
4 3 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 3 (16.67%) SAP Security
4 3 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) C
2 2 (11.11%) C++
2 2 (11.11%) Java
2 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.11%) Ruby
3 1 (5.56%) C#
3 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) CISSP
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) DV Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (16.67%) Master's Degree
3 3 (16.67%) OSCP
4 2 (11.11%) CISA
4 2 (11.11%) CISM
4 2 (11.11%) GCIH
4 2 (11.11%) GIAC
4 2 (11.11%) GPEN
4 2 (11.11%) GWAPT
4 2 (11.11%) OSCE
4 2 (11.11%) SANS
5 1 (5.56%) CEH
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (5.56%) GCFA
5 1 (5.56%) GCIA
5 1 (5.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) GDPR
1 6 (33.33%) NIST
2 5 (27.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (22.22%) PCI DSS
4 3 (16.67%) GRC
5 2 (11.11%) HIPAA
6 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
6 1 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (5.56%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) CASB
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) QRadar
2 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) SAP
2 3 (16.67%) Splunk
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco
3 2 (11.11%) Rapid7
3 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.56%) Aruba
4 1 (5.56%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.56%) Darktrace
4 1 (5.56%) Forcepoint
4 1 (5.56%) Google
4 1 (5.56%) Kenna
4 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto