Cloud Security Contracts in Cheshire

Cloud Security
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 46 44
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 9 16 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.80% 2.97% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 3.25% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 8
10th Percentile £470 £565 £458
25th Percentile £622 £586 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £676 £638 £590
Median % change year-on-year +6.04% +8.05% -6.53%
75th Percentile £725 £670 £631
90th Percentile - - £673
North West median daily rate £676 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +8.16% - +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 423 492 457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 84.43% 91.28% 86.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 333 262
10th Percentile £277 £275 £219
25th Percentile £400 £389 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +2.86%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £538
90th Percentile £637 £655 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 24 26
10th Percentile £13.70 £15.97 £10.28
25th Percentile £16.61 £22.97 £15.55
Median hourly rate £26.66 £30.54 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +29.96% -27.06%
75th Percentile £42.31 £35.00 £33.62
90th Percentile £44.13 £38.80 £60.88
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 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
Knutsford +3 6 £688 +2.69%
Warrington - 2 £450 - 1
Northwich - 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:

Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) DHCP
2 1 (11.11%) DMZ
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) Network Security
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) VLAN
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Project Manager
1 4 (44.44%) Security Manager
1 4 (44.44%) Security Project Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Portfolio Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Portfolio Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Project Portfolio Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Security Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Application Security
2 6 (66.67%) Business Case
2 6 (66.67%) Business Development
2 6 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (66.67%) Data Strategy
2 6 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 6 (66.67%) Pricing Strategy
2 6 (66.67%) Threat Management
3 3 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (11.11%) Hardware Maintenance
4 1 (11.11%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (11.11%) Information Governance
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) CISA
1 6 (66.67%) CISM
1 6 (66.67%) CISSP
1 6 (66.67%) Degree
1 6 (66.67%) Master's Degree
1 6 (66.67%) MBA
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) F5
2 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto