Cloud Security Contracts in Central London

Cloud Security
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 79 102 107
Rank change year-on-year +23 +5 +45
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 50 31 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.50% 1.27% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 1.40% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 21 50
10th Percentile £449 £406 £462
25th Percentile £522 £438 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £724 £725 £728
90th Percentile £804 £775 £925
London median daily rate £618 £630 £650
% change year-on-year -1.98% -3.08% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in Central London

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in Central London

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in Central London

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
City of London +17 39 £633 +1.28% 13
West End of London +2 5 £463 - 2
Camden - 4 £450 -
City of Westminster - 4 £640 -
Cloud Security
London

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 28 (56.00%) Azure
2 21 (42.00%) AWS
3 9 (18.00%) Entra ID
3 9 (18.00%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (14.00%) Serverless
5 6 (12.00%) GCP
6 4 (8.00%) OneDrive
7 3 (6.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (6.00%) Azure AKS
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (6.00%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (6.00%) GitHub
7 3 (6.00%) IaaS
7 3 (6.00%) PaaS
7 3 (6.00%) SaaS
8 2 (4.00%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (4.00%) AWS KMS
8 2 (4.00%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (4.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.00%) Firewall
2 7 (14.00%) VPN
3 6 (12.00%) Network Security
4 3 (6.00%) VLAN
5 2 (4.00%) ATM
5 2 (4.00%) DHCP
5 2 (4.00%) DNS
5 2 (4.00%) Internet
5 2 (4.00%) LAN
5 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.00%) WAN
5 2 (4.00%) Wireless
6 1 (2.00%) HTTP
6 1 (2.00%) IPsec
6 1 (2.00%) MPLS
6 1 (2.00%) NetScaler
6 1 (2.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.00%) MySQL
4 2 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.00%) Big Data
4 2 (4.00%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.00%) NonStop SQL
4 2 (4.00%) Oracle Database
4 2 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) GitLab
1 2 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.00%) Git
2 1 (2.00%) Jasmine
2 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.00%) JUnit
General
1 13 (26.00%) Finance
2 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (36.00%) Architect
2 13 (26.00%) Security Architect
3 8 (16.00%) Lead
4 5 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Azure Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Senior
5 4 (8.00%) Senior Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Cloud Security Architect
6 3 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Project Manager
7 2 (4.00%) .NET Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Consultant
7 2 (4.00%) Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 2 (4.00%) IT Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Network Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) OAuth
1 3 (6.00%) OpenID
1 3 (6.00%) SAML
2 2 (4.00%) .NET
2 2 (4.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (4.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.00%) Azure Blueprints
2 2 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.00%) Node.js
2 2 (4.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.00%) Middleware
3 1 (2.00%) OpenAPI
3 1 (2.00%) RESTful
3 1 (2.00%) SPML
3 1 (2.00%) Spring
3 1 (2.00%) Spring Batch
3 1 (2.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.00%) Spring Security
3 1 (2.00%) Swagger
3 1 (2.00%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.00%) Security Posture
3 3 (6.00%) Reinsurance
4 2 (4.00%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.00%) CMDB
4 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.00%) PKI
5 1 (2.00%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.00%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.00%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.00%) Linux
1 9 (18.00%) Windows
2 4 (8.00%) Unix
3 2 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.00%) DevOps
2 13 (26.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (20.00%) High Availability
4 8 (16.00%) Agile
4 8 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (14.00%) Security Architecture
5 7 (14.00%) Zero Trust
6 6 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (10.00%) Containerisation
7 5 (10.00%) DevSecOps
7 5 (10.00%) Identity Management
7 5 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 5 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
7 5 (10.00%) Threat Modelling
8 4 (8.00%) Data Loss Prevention
8 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (8.00%) Task Automation
8 4 (8.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.00%) Python
2 7 (14.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (10.00%) Java
4 3 (6.00%) Bash
4 3 (6.00%) Bicep
4 3 (6.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (6.00%) SQL
5 2 (4.00%) C
5 2 (4.00%) C#
5 2 (4.00%) C++
5 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (22.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.00%) Degree
4 5 (10.00%) CISSP
5 3 (6.00%) AWS Certification
5 3 (6.00%) CISM
5 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (4.00%) OCP
6 2 (4.00%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.00%) CCNA
7 1 (2.00%) CCNP
7 1 (2.00%) CCSA
7 1 (2.00%) CEH
7 1 (2.00%) CISA
7 1 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (24.00%) NIST
2 10 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (12.00%) GDPR
4 3 (6.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (4.00%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (4.00%) PCI DSS
5 2 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (4.00%) SOC 2
6 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
6 1 (2.00%) HIPAA
6 1 (2.00%) NIST 800
6 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (12.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (6.00%) Docker
4 1 (2.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (24.00%) Terraform
2 9 (18.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (6.00%) Ansible
4 3 (6.00%) SCCM
5 2 (4.00%) Argo
5 2 (4.00%) CASB
5 2 (4.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (2.00%) Cilium
6 1 (2.00%) Nagios
6 1 (2.00%) Nessus
6 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.00%) Oracle
3 3 (6.00%) CheckPoint
3 3 (6.00%) Cisco
4 2 (4.00%) Arista
4 2 (4.00%) Databricks
4 2 (4.00%) Forcepoint
4 2 (4.00%) HP
4 2 (4.00%) Meraki
4 2 (4.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (4.00%) Planview
4 2 (4.00%) Qualys
5 1 (2.00%) ForeScout
5 1 (2.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.00%) Infoblox
5 1 (2.00%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.00%) Snow
5 1 (2.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.00%) Tenable