Cloud Security Architect Contracts in the City of London

Cloud Security Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Cloud Security Architect daily rate in the City of London is £803, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 - 164
Rank change year-on-year - - +20
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Architect 2 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% - 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% - 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £741 - £559
25th Percentile £757 - £734
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £803 - £813
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £867 - £941
90th Percentile £894 - £975
Central London median daily rate £730 - £813
% change year-on-year - - +30.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,634 2,090 3,462
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.00% 95.13% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 1,486 2,357
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -28.57% -6.04%

Cloud Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Cloud Security Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security Architect in the City of London

Cloud Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security Architect in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security Architect in the City of London

Cloud Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security Architect in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security Architect in the City of London

Cloud Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Cloud Security Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Cloud Security Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) Rapid7
2 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Product Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Key Management
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering

Cloud Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) IPsec
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Key Management
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Product Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Rapid7