Cloud Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Cloud Security Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Cloud Security Engineer daily rate in Cheshire is £453, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.39% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £423 - -
25th Percentile £434 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 - -
75th Percentile £498 - -
90th Percentile £526 - -
North West median daily rate £475 £400 -
% change year-on-year +18.75% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 687 532 523
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.28% 91.25% 94.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 389 357
10th Percentile £313 £310 £297
25th Percentile £402 £358 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £430 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.83% -9.47% -6.31%
75th Percentile £588 £537 £569
90th Percentile £650 £642 £628
North West median daily rate £483 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +7.33% -6.25% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 31 37
10th Percentile £15.93 £12.82 £13.49
25th Percentile £17.25 £27.33 £16.25
Median hourly rate £32.23 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% -8.57% +14.60%
75th Percentile £83.75 £50.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £86.00 -
North West median hourly rate £45.56 £29.27 £31.00
% change year-on-year +55.64% -5.58% +12.73%

Cloud Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Security Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Cloud Security Engineer job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Cloud Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Security Engineer job vacancies in Cheshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Security Engineer job vacancies in Cheshire

Cloud Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 9 July 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
Knutsford - 3 £453 - 3
Cloud Security Engineer
North West

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 9 July 2026, Cloud Security Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Cloud Security Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Google
1 3 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Java

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat