Cloud Security Contracts in Central London

Cloud Security
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Cloud Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Security over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 107 154
Rank change year-on-year +5 +47 -36
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 33 65 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.35% 1.68% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 1.84% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 50 35
10th Percentile £407 £462 £468
25th Percentile £444 £510 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% -7.69% +16.85%
75th Percentile £719 £728 £750
90th Percentile £773 £925 £859
London median daily rate £628 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -3.46% - +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Cloud Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,217 3,537 4,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.53% 91.63% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,569 2,400 3,184
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 28 41
10th Percentile £19.52 £15.43 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.25 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £36.50 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £56.15 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
% change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.77%

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 2024. 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 +22 32 £613 +2.08% 8
West End of London +1 1 - -
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 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 18 (54.55%) Azure
2 7 (21.21%) AWS
2 7 (21.21%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (15.15%) GCP
3 5 (15.15%) Serverless
4 4 (12.12%) WhatsApp
5 3 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 3 (9.09%) GitHub
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.06%) Azure AKS
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Functions
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.06%) Mimecast
7 1 (3.03%) Azure API Management
7 1 (3.03%) CloudFront
7 1 (3.03%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (33.33%) Firewall
2 6 (18.18%) SD-WAN
2 6 (18.18%) WAN
3 3 (9.09%) DNS
3 3 (9.09%) Network Security
4 1 (3.03%) DHCP
4 1 (3.03%) DMZ
4 1 (3.03%) LAN
4 1 (3.03%) MPLS
4 1 (3.03%) Multicast
4 1 (3.03%) VPN
4 1 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Cypress.io
1 2 (6.06%) JMeter
2 1 (3.03%) Git
2 1 (3.03%) GitLab
2 1 (3.03%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (3.03%) Terragrunt
2 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (33.33%) Finance
2 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Banking
4 3 (9.09%) Local Government
4 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Architect
2 8 (24.24%) Consultant
2 8 (24.24%) Security Consultant
3 6 (18.18%) Security Architect
4 4 (12.12%) Cloud Consultant
5 3 (9.09%) Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Cloud Security Consultant
5 3 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Security Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Senior
6 2 (6.06%) Applications Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Information Security Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Lead
6 2 (6.06%) Security Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) Kafka
1 2 (6.06%) Node.js
1 2 (6.06%) React
1 2 (6.06%) SailPoint
1 2 (6.06%) YAML
2 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.03%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.03%) JSON
2 1 (3.03%) LDAP
2 1 (3.03%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 4 (12.12%) PKI
3 3 (9.09%) Security Posture
4 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.06%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (6.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
4 2 (6.06%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (6.06%) Virtual Team
5 1 (3.03%) CSOC
5 1 (3.03%) Cyberattack
5 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.03%) IVR
5 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Windows
2 2 (6.06%) Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) DevOps
2 9 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
2 9 (27.27%) Information Security
3 8 (24.24%) CI/CD
3 8 (24.24%) SIEM
4 7 (21.21%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (18.18%) Security Architecture
6 5 (15.15%) Application Security
6 5 (15.15%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (15.15%) High Availability
6 5 (15.15%) Penetration Testing
7 4 (12.12%) Architectural Design
7 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (9.09%) Data Encryption
8 3 (9.09%) Data Loss Prevention
8 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (9.09%) Key Management
8 3 (9.09%) RBAC
8 3 (9.09%) SABSA
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.15%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.12%) Python
3 1 (3.03%) Bash
3 1 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) Degree
2 7 (21.21%) CISSP
3 4 (12.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 4 (12.12%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (9.09%) CCSK
5 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
5 2 (6.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.06%) CISM
5 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.06%) GIAC
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (3.03%) CCSP
6 1 (3.03%) CEH
6 1 (3.03%) CISA
6 1 (3.03%) CRISC
6 1 (3.03%) FFIEC
6 1 (3.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.03%) SANS
6 1 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (24.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (12.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 4 (12.12%) NIST
3 2 (6.06%) ISO 22301
3 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (6.06%) NCSC
4 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.03%) GDPR
4 1 (3.03%) GRC
4 1 (3.03%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.06%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.06%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) Terraform
2 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.06%) Argo
3 2 (6.06%) FortiGate
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.03%) CASB
4 1 (3.03%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (3.03%) SCCM
4 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.06%) BeyondTrust
3 2 (6.06%) Citrix
3 2 (6.06%) CyberArk
3 2 (6.06%) Google
3 2 (6.06%) VMware
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco
4 1 (3.03%) F5
4 1 (3.03%) Genesys
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle