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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 106 109
Rank change year-on-year +30 +3 +47
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 48 30 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.45% 1.24% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% 1.37% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 20 51
10th Percentile £483 £406 £463
25th Percentile £537 £438 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £619 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +3.13% -11.24%
75th Percentile £728 £730 £741
90th Percentile £808 £775 £925
London median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -

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 1,827 2,196 3,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.12% 90.59% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,182 1,564 2,356
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 23 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.22 £15.18
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.75 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.97 £30.41 £55.00
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.47 £88.30
London median hourly rate £34.50 £28.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year +23.21% -28.21% +5.41%

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 13 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 13 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 +23 40 £641 +3.60% 22
City of Westminster - 4 £640 -
West End of London -1 2 £563 - 4
Camden - 1 £550 -
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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 27 (56.25%) Azure
2 22 (45.83%) AWS
3 9 (18.75%) Entra ID
3 9 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (16.67%) GCP
5 7 (14.58%) Serverless
6 4 (8.33%) OneDrive
7 3 (6.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (6.25%) Azure AKS
7 3 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (6.25%) GitHub
7 3 (6.25%) IaaS
7 3 (6.25%) PaaS
7 3 (6.25%) SaaS
8 2 (4.17%) AWS KMS
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (4.17%) OCI
8 2 (4.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.67%) Firewall
2 7 (14.58%) VPN
3 6 (12.50%) Network Security
4 3 (6.25%) VLAN
5 2 (4.17%) ATM
5 2 (4.17%) DHCP
5 2 (4.17%) DNS
5 2 (4.17%) Internet
5 2 (4.17%) LAN
5 2 (4.17%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.17%) WAN
5 2 (4.17%) Wireless
6 1 (2.08%) HTTP
6 1 (2.08%) IPsec
6 1 (2.08%) MPLS
6 1 (2.08%) NetScaler
6 1 (2.08%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (8.33%) Big Data
1 4 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (4.17%) DynamoDB
2 2 (4.17%) MySQL
2 2 (4.17%) NonStop SQL
2 2 (4.17%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.08%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) GitLab
2 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 13 (27.08%) Finance
2 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Banking
4 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (39.58%) Architect
2 13 (27.08%) Security Architect
3 8 (16.67%) Lead
4 5 (10.42%) Cloud Architect
4 5 (10.42%) Senior
5 4 (8.33%) Azure Architect
5 4 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Cloud Security Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Project Manager
7 2 (4.17%) AWS Security Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Developer
7 2 (4.17%) IT Manager
7 2 (4.17%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (4.17%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Cloud Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.25%) OAuth
1 3 (6.25%) OpenID
1 3 (6.25%) SAML
2 2 (4.17%) .NET
2 2 (4.17%) AngularJS
2 2 (4.17%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.17%) Azure Blueprints
2 2 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.17%) Node.js
2 2 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.08%) Middleware
3 1 (2.08%) SPML
3 1 (2.08%) Spring
3 1 (2.08%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.08%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.33%) Security Posture
3 3 (6.25%) Reinsurance
4 2 (4.17%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.17%) CMDB
4 2 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.17%) PKI
5 1 (2.08%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.08%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.08%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.67%) Linux
2 6 (12.50%) Windows
3 4 (8.33%) Unix
4 2 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (33.33%) DevOps
2 15 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 13 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (20.83%) Agile
4 10 (20.83%) High Availability
5 9 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (14.58%) Security Architecture
6 7 (14.58%) Zero Trust
7 6 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
8 5 (10.42%) Containerisation
8 5 (10.42%) DevSecOps
8 5 (10.42%) Identity Management
8 5 (10.42%) Machine Learning
8 5 (10.42%) Mentoring
8 5 (10.42%) Penetration Testing
8 5 (10.42%) Threat Modelling
9 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (8.33%) Task Automation
9 4 (8.33%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 11 (22.92%) Python
2 7 (14.58%) PowerShell
3 5 (10.42%) Java
4 4 (8.33%) SQL
5 3 (6.25%) Bicep
5 3 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.25%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.17%) Bash
6 2 (4.17%) C
6 2 (4.17%) C#
6 2 (4.17%) C++
6 2 (4.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (22.92%) Security Cleared
2 10 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.50%) Degree
4 5 (10.42%) CISSP
5 3 (6.25%) AWS Certification
5 3 (6.25%) CISM
5 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (4.17%) OCP
6 2 (4.17%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.08%) CCNA
7 1 (2.08%) CCNP
7 1 (2.08%) CCSA
7 1 (2.08%) CEH
7 1 (2.08%) CISA
7 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (25.00%) NIST
2 10 (20.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (12.50%) GDPR
4 3 (6.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (4.17%) PCI DSS
5 2 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (4.17%) SOC 2
6 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
6 1 (2.08%) HIPAA
6 1 (2.08%) NIST 800
6 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (14.58%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.42%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.17%) Docker
4 1 (2.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (29.17%) Terraform
2 10 (20.83%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (6.25%) Ansible
4 3 (6.25%) Argo
4 3 (6.25%) SCCM
5 2 (4.17%) Cilium
5 2 (4.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (2.08%) CASB
6 1 (2.08%) Nagios
6 1 (2.08%) Nessus
6 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.42%) Oracle
3 3 (6.25%) CheckPoint
3 3 (6.25%) Cisco
4 2 (4.17%) Arista
4 2 (4.17%) Databricks
4 2 (4.17%) Forcepoint
4 2 (4.17%) Google
4 2 (4.17%) HP
4 2 (4.17%) Meraki
4 2 (4.17%) Palo Alto
4 2 (4.17%) Planview
4 2 (4.17%) Qualys
5 1 (2.08%) ForeScout
5 1 (2.08%) Infoblox
5 1 (2.08%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.08%) Snow
5 1 (2.08%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.08%) Tenable