Cloud Security Contracts in Birmingham

Cloud Security
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 41 61 65
Rank change year-on-year +20 +4 +27
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 9 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.72% 0.78% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 0.93% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 7
10th Percentile £413 £447 £543
25th Percentile £444 £545 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% 0.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £566 £613 £666
90th Percentile £597 £635 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £608 £615 £550
% change year-on-year -1.18% +11.82% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

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 1 May 2025.

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 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Network Security
2 3 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (11.11%) DSL
3 1 (11.11%) IPsec
3 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
General
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Legal
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Security Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Information Security Advisor
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Security Advisor
4 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Security Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Security Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) SIEM Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) SIEM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth
1 1 (11.11%) OpenID
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Replication
1 2 (22.22%) Security Posture
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) YARA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Business Continuity
1 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 3 (33.33%) DevOps
1 3 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
2 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
2 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (22.22%) Identity Management
2 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
2 2 (22.22%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) SIEM
3 1 (11.11%) Project Management
3 1 (11.11%) Use Case
3 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Azure Certification
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) CEH
2 1 (11.11%) CISA
2 1 (11.11%) CISM
2 1 (11.11%) CISSP
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) OCP
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
1 2 (22.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) HIPAA
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Kibana
3 1 (11.11%) logstash
3 1 (11.11%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk