Cloud Security Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Cloud Security
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Cloud Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 58 62
Rank change year-on-year +16 +4 +24
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 26 10 12
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 4.21% 1.40% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 1.68% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 7
10th Percentile - £510 £440
25th Percentile £463 £529 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £580 £700
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% -17.14% +19.15%
75th Percentile £488 - £750
90th Percentile £545 £587 -
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £580 £663
% change year-on-year -11.21% -12.45% +1.92%

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 564 597 695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 91.41% 83.50% 83.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 389 453
10th Percentile £230 £200 £275
25th Percentile £373 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £740 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £517 £500
% change year-on-year -3.29% +3.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 9 25
10th Percentile - £21.10 £13.87
25th Percentile £12.62 £25.56 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £50.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.26% +66.67% +66.67%
75th Percentile £22.08 £55.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £26.51 £57.80 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.03 £24.18 £27.50
% change year-on-year -4.78% -12.07% +55.19%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Cloud Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Cloud Security

Cloud Security
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:

Application Platforms
1 21 (80.77%) Confluence
2 9 (34.62%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (34.62%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) AWS
2 22 (84.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 21 (80.77%) Amazon EC2
3 21 (80.77%) Amazon ELB
3 21 (80.77%) Amazon S3
3 21 (80.77%) AWS KMS
3 21 (80.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 12 (46.15%) Amazon Glacier
4 12 (46.15%) Azure
5 9 (34.62%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (34.62%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (34.62%) Route 53
6 3 (11.54%) GCP
7 2 (7.69%) Serverless
8 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
8 1 (3.85%) Azure API Management
8 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (84.62%) DNS
1 22 (84.62%) Firewall
2 21 (80.77%) FTP
2 21 (80.77%) HTTP
2 21 (80.77%) SMTP
2 21 (80.77%) SSH
3 9 (34.62%) IMAP
3 9 (34.62%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (3.85%) DSL
4 1 (3.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (80.77%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (34.62%) Amazon Aurora
2 9 (34.62%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 22 (84.62%) Jenkins
1 22 (84.62%) JIRA
2 21 (80.77%) Git
2 21 (80.77%) Vagrant
3 2 (7.69%) Liquibase
4 1 (3.85%) CircleCI
General
1 22 (84.62%) Public Sector
2 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
3 9 (34.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (80.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (61.54%) AWS Engineer
2 16 (61.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 16 (61.54%) Platform Engineer
3 15 (57.69%) AWS DevOps
3 15 (57.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 9 (34.62%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 8 (30.77%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) Senior
7 2 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Consultant
8 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Operations Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Security Consultant
8 1 (3.85%) Security Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Security Specialist
8 1 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) LDAP
2 4 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (7.69%) REST
3 2 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 21 (80.77%) Replication
2 3 (11.54%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.85%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 24 (92.31%) Linux
2 22 (84.62%) Windows
3 21 (80.77%) Amazon Linux
3 21 (80.77%) VMS
4 9 (34.62%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (92.31%) DevOps
2 21 (80.77%) Change Management
2 21 (80.77%) Configuration Management
2 21 (80.77%) Patch Management
2 21 (80.77%) Platform Engineering
3 13 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 9 (34.62%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 3 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (7.69%) Agile
7 2 (7.69%) Computer Science
7 2 (7.69%) Cost Optimisation
7 2 (7.69%) Cryptography
7 2 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (7.69%) Microservices
7 2 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (7.69%) Software Engineering
8 1 (3.85%) DevSecOps
8 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (96.15%) Python
2 22 (84.62%) PowerShell
3 21 (80.77%) Groovy
4 12 (46.15%) Java
4 12 (46.15%) Perl
5 9 (34.62%) SQL
6 2 (7.69%) Bash
6 2 (7.69%) Go
Qualifications
1 22 (84.62%) SC Cleared
1 22 (84.62%) Security Cleared
2 11 (42.31%) AWS Certification
2 11 (42.31%) Degree
3 10 (38.46%) Azure Certification
4 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 24 (92.31%) Docker
2 21 (80.77%) DFS Replication
3 12 (46.15%) Active Directory
4 9 (34.62%) Dovecot
4 9 (34.62%) Postfix
4 9 (34.62%) Squid
Systems Management
1 24 (92.31%) Grafana
1 24 (92.31%) Prometheus
1 24 (92.31%) Terraform
2 9 (34.62%) Nessus
2 9 (34.62%) Proxmox
3 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
4 3 (11.54%) Ansible
5 1 (3.85%) Kibana
5 1 (3.85%) logstash
5 1 (3.85%) QRadar
Vendors
1 22 (84.62%) ServiceNow
2 9 (34.62%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.54%) Splunk
4 1 (3.85%) Commvault
4 1 (3.85%) IBM
4 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.85%) Veeam