Cloud Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Cloud Security Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Cloud Security Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 49 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.43% 0.38% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.43% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £571 £486 -
25th Percentile £630 £502 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £544 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% - -
75th Percentile £688 £577 -
90th Percentile - £587 -
West Midlands median daily rate £675 £588 -
% change year-on-year +14.89% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 851 467 700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 89.81% 92.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 324 493
10th Percentile £313 £160 £258
25th Percentile £413 £375 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £491 £488
% change year-on-year -3.26% +0.72% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 33 40
10th Percentile £14.39 - £13.10
25th Percentile £17.20 £12.62 £15.88
Median hourly rate £21.52 £14.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.71% -50.88% +42.50%
75th Percentile £30.00 £22.08 £48.75
90th Percentile £65.50 £30.68 £57.91
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.00 £18.13 £22.00
% change year-on-year +82.02% -17.59% +12.82%

Cloud Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Security Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Cloud Security Engineer job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Cloud Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Security Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Security Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham

Cloud Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security Engineer in Birmingham

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 6 May 2026, Cloud Security Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Cloud Security Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) Application Security
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) B2B
3 1 (25.00%) Burp Suite
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Forensics
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Metasploit
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) NIST
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (25.00%) Metasploit
1 1 (25.00%) sqlmap
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Application Security
3 1 (25.00%) B2B
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Forensics
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) OWASP
3 1 (25.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft