Cloud Security Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Cloud Security
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Cloud Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 49 60
Rank change year-on-year +5 +11 +51
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 3 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.77% 1.01% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.22% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £569
25th Percentile £513 £625 £616
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £695
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -6.47% -13.13%
75th Percentile £538 £675 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £525 £625 £521
% change year-on-year -16.00% +19.90% -0.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £36.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 341 327 556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 87.89% 82.58% 92.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 235 416
10th Percentile £223 £235 £275
25th Percentile £329 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £488 £524
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -7.01% +4.85%
75th Percentile £538 £560 £613
90th Percentile £637 £654 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 9 18
10th Percentile £15.13 £14.58 £13.17
25th Percentile £15.91 £18.70 £16.10
Median hourly rate £25.08 £30.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.42% +46.34% +30.16%
75th Percentile £25.15 £36.75 £24.00
90th Percentile £29.61 £41.15 £30.00
South East median hourly rate £21.25 £58.05 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.39% +10.56% +18.00%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 20 November 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
Milton Keynes +4 3 £525 -19.23% 9
Cloud Security
South East

Cloud Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) NAS
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Information Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (33.33%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
1 1 (33.33%) Presales
1 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Register
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
1 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) SIEM
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) GRC
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) Isilon
2 1 (33.33%) NetApp
2 1 (33.33%) Veeam
2 1 (33.33%) VMware