Cloud Security Contracts in the City of London

Cloud Security
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 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 80 97 116
Rank change year-on-year +17 +19 +32
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 39 30 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.22% 1.37% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 1.51% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 21 48
10th Percentile £479 £406 £462
25th Percentile £524 £438 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £633 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% +4.17% -5.88%
75th Percentile £735 £725 £738
90th Percentile £811 £775 £925
Central London median daily rate £625 £625 £600
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Cloud Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in the City of London

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in the City of London

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in the City of London

Cloud Security
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.13%) Confluence
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (5.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (58.97%) Azure
2 20 (51.28%) AWS
3 7 (17.95%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (17.95%) Serverless
4 6 (15.38%) Entra ID
4 6 (15.38%) GCP
5 3 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (7.69%) Azure AKS
5 3 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (7.69%) GitHub
5 3 (7.69%) IaaS
5 3 (7.69%) PaaS
5 3 (7.69%) SaaS
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon Macie
6 2 (5.13%) AWS KMS
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.51%) Firewall
2 7 (17.95%) VPN
3 4 (10.26%) Network Security
4 3 (7.69%) VLAN
5 2 (5.13%) DHCP
5 2 (5.13%) DNS
5 2 (5.13%) Internet
5 2 (5.13%) LAN
5 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
5 2 (5.13%) WAN
5 2 (5.13%) Wireless
6 1 (2.56%) HTTP
6 1 (2.56%) IPsec
6 1 (2.56%) MPLS
6 1 (2.56%) NetScaler
6 1 (2.56%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.26%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (7.69%) MySQL
4 2 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.13%) Big Data
4 2 (5.13%) DynamoDB
4 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database
4 2 (5.13%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) GitLab
1 2 (5.13%) JIRA
2 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.56%) Git
2 1 (2.56%) Jasmine
2 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.56%) JUnit
General
1 13 (33.33%) Finance
2 7 (17.95%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (38.46%) Architect
2 11 (28.21%) Security Architect
3 8 (20.51%) Lead
4 4 (10.26%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (10.26%) Senior
4 4 (10.26%) Senior Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Azure Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.13%) .NET Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 2 (5.13%) IT Manager
6 2 (5.13%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Network Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) .NET
1 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
1 2 (5.13%) ARM Templates
1 2 (5.13%) Azure Blueprints
1 2 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (5.13%) Node.js
1 2 (5.13%) OAuth
1 2 (5.13%) OpenID
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (5.13%) SAML
2 1 (2.56%) Middleware
2 1 (2.56%) OpenAPI
2 1 (2.56%) RESTful
2 1 (2.56%) Spring
2 1 (2.56%) Spring Batch
2 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.56%) Spring Security
2 1 (2.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Cloud Native
1 4 (10.26%) Data Centre
1 4 (10.26%) Security Posture
2 3 (7.69%) Reinsurance
3 2 (5.13%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.13%) CMDB
3 2 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.13%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.13%) PKI
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.08%) Linux
2 6 (15.38%) Windows
3 4 (10.26%) Unix
4 2 (5.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 13 (33.33%) DevOps
1 13 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (20.51%) Agile
2 8 (20.51%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (20.51%) High Availability
3 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (17.95%) Zero Trust
4 6 (15.38%) Security Architecture
5 5 (12.82%) Containerisation
5 5 (12.82%) Identity Management
5 5 (12.82%) Penetration Testing
6 4 (10.26%) Change Management
6 4 (10.26%) Cost Management
6 4 (10.26%) DevSecOps
6 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (10.26%) ITIL
6 4 (10.26%) Key Management
6 4 (10.26%) Risk Analysis
6 4 (10.26%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.51%) Python
2 5 (12.82%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.69%) Bash
3 3 (7.69%) Bicep
3 3 (7.69%) Java
3 3 (7.69%) Shell Script
3 3 (7.69%) SQL
4 2 (5.13%) C#
4 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (25.64%) SC Cleared
1 10 (25.64%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.26%) Degree
3 3 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 3 (7.69%) CISSP
3 3 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 2 (5.13%) CISM
4 2 (5.13%) OCP
4 2 (5.13%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.56%) CCNA
5 1 (2.56%) CCNP
5 1 (2.56%) CCSA
5 1 (2.56%) CEH
5 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (25.64%) NIST
2 6 (15.38%) GDPR
3 3 (7.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (5.13%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (5.13%) PCI DSS
4 2 (5.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (5.13%) SOC 2
5 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.56%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (10.26%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.69%) Docker
4 1 (2.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (28.21%) Terraform
2 9 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.69%) Ansible
4 2 (5.13%) Argo
4 2 (5.13%) CASB
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (5.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (5.13%) SCCM
5 1 (2.56%) Cilium
5 1 (2.56%) Nessus
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.82%) Oracle
3 3 (7.69%) CheckPoint
3 3 (7.69%) Cisco
4 2 (5.13%) Arista
4 2 (5.13%) Databricks
4 2 (5.13%) Forcepoint
4 2 (5.13%) Meraki
4 2 (5.13%) Palo Alto
4 2 (5.13%) Planview
5 1 (2.56%) ForeScout
5 1 (2.56%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.56%) Google
5 1 (2.56%) Infoblox
5 1 (2.56%) Qualys
5 1 (2.56%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.56%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.56%) Tenable
5 1 (2.56%) Tripwire
5 1 (2.56%) VMware