Cloud Security Contracts in Cheshire

Cloud Security
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 46 49 49
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -5
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 12 9 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.67% 1.79% 2.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 2.12% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 10
10th Percentile £394 £470 £565
25th Percentile £435 £622 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £676 £654
Median % change year-on-year -29.59% +3.40% +10.81%
75th Percentile £515 £725 £670
90th Percentile £582 - £679
North West median daily rate £510 £676 £625
% change year-on-year -24.58% +8.16% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in Cheshire

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in Cheshire

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in Cheshire

Cloud Security
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 within the Cheshire 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
Knutsford -2 8 £454 -34.08% 1
Cloud Security
North West

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (41.67%) SharePoint
2 4 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Purview
2 5 (41.67%) OneDrive
3 4 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (8.33%) DB2
2 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) ForgeRock Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Security Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Database Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (16.67%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Actionable Insight
2 5 (41.67%) Data Governance
2 5 (41.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 5 (41.67%) Data Protection
2 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
2 5 (41.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 5 (41.67%) Technical Architecture
2 5 (41.67%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (41.67%) Zero Trust
3 4 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (33.33%) Customer Acquisition
3 4 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) High Availability
3 4 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 4 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 4 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
4 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 2 (16.67%) Forensic Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) Python
4 2 (16.67%) Java
4 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (8.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) ForgeRock
3 1 (8.33%) Cloudera
3 1 (8.33%) CyberArk
3 1 (8.33%) IBM
3 1 (8.33%) Imperva
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk