Cloud Security Contracts in Birmingham

Cloud Security
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 65 92
Rank change year-on-year +3 +27 -39
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 6 10 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.78% 1.11% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 1.25% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 3
10th Percentile £447 £543 £443
25th Percentile £545 £556 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year 0.00% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £613 £666 £569
90th Percentile £635 £731 £588
West Midlands median daily rate £615 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +11.82% -8.33% +7.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 640 798 1,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.55% 88.27% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 537 880
10th Percentile £248 £263 £219
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +7.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £594
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £512 £488
% change year-on-year -2.34% +5.03% +17.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 27 23
10th Percentile £13.20 £11.00 £12.10
25th Percentile £17.75 £12.50 £13.88
Median hourly rate £27.25 £15.00 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +81.67% -14.19% -2.89%
75th Percentile £48.75 £26.50 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £71.25 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
% change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in Birmingham

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in Birmingham

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in Birmingham over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in Birmingham

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Storage
1 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
1 1 (16.67%) IaaS
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (16.67%) OCI
1 1 (16.67%) PaaS
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) LAN
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) SOC Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Security Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (33.33%) Taxonomies
3 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (33.33%) Change Control
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Offensive Security
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) BC Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) CASP
2 2 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (33.33%) GCED
2 2 (33.33%) GIAC
2 2 (33.33%) GSEC
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Citrix
1 2 (33.33%) LogRhythm
1 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
1 2 (33.33%) TippingPoint
1 2 (33.33%) Trend Micro
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle