Cloud Security Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Cloud Security
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Cloud Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 37 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 5 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.48% 2.13% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 2.39% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile - £580 -
25th Percentile £525 £588 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - -
75th Percentile £575 £746 -
90th Percentile £659 £759 -
East of England median daily rate £600 £650 £450
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -2.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 293 293 351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 86.69% 89.33% 81.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 109 113
10th Percentile £168 £213 £220
25th Percentile £361 £365 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +13.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £579 £604 £550
90th Percentile £671 £700 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 79 150
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.38 £14.16
25th Percentile - £14.84 £15.00
Median hourly rate £14.22 £16.30 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -12.76% +0.43% +11.93%
75th Percentile £19.65 £21.50 £21.37
90th Percentile £38.18 £46.17 £48.75
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £31.57 £42.50
% change year-on-year +50.48% -25.73% +114.54%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 22 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in Cambridgeshire

Cloud Security
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Cloud Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Cloud Security

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 22 August 2026. 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
Cambridge -1 3 £530 -18.46% 5
Peterborough +10 1 £550 - 4
Cloud Security
East of England

Cloud Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 2 (40.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) CMDB
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Data Security
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (40.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) Privileged Identity Management
2 2 (40.00%) Programme Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Programme Governance
2 2 (40.00%) Runbook
2 2 (40.00%) SABSA
2 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CISM
1 2 (40.00%) CISSP
1 2 (40.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) ISACA
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (40.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) F5
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
1 2 (40.00%) Zscaler
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow