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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 91 107
Rank change year-on-year +12 +16 +43
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 48 37 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.54% 1.80% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 1.97% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 26 43
10th Percentile £420 £419 £496
25th Percentile £550 £441 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £571 £650
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% -12.12% -
75th Percentile £751 £763 £746
90th Percentile £818 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £650 £571 £650
% change year-on-year +13.79% -12.12% -1.89%

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 1,776 1,876 3,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.02% 91.47% 90.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 1,280 2,045
10th Percentile £331 £375 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £793 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 16
10th Percentile £17.57 £17.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.43 £15.00
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -13.60% -31.12%
75th Percentile £54.75 £82.19 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £61.25
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +14.81% -22.86% -18.36%

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 3 August 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 5 (10.42%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 24 (50.00%) AWS
1 24 (50.00%) Azure
2 16 (33.33%) GCP
3 5 (10.42%) GitHub
3 5 (10.42%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (10.42%) Serverless
4 4 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 4 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 4 (8.33%) IaaS
4 4 (8.33%) PaaS
4 4 (8.33%) SaaS
5 3 (6.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.17%) Power Automate
6 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.50%) Firewall
2 4 (8.33%) DNS
3 3 (6.25%) Network Security
3 3 (6.25%) VPN
4 2 (4.17%) DHCP
4 2 (4.17%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.08%) HTTP
5 1 (2.08%) NGFW
5 1 (2.08%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (2.08%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (2.08%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.67%) Big Data
2 5 (10.42%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (10.42%) BigQuery
3 4 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.17%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.17%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.17%) MySQL
4 2 (4.17%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.17%) Oracle Database
4 2 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) GitLab
1 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 13 (27.08%) Finance
2 5 (10.42%) Banking
3 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Financial Institution
4 2 (4.17%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.17%) Military
4 2 (4.17%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.08%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (37.50%) Architect
2 11 (22.92%) Security Architect
3 8 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 8 (16.67%) Senior
4 6 (12.50%) Lead
5 5 (10.42%) Cloud Architect
5 5 (10.42%) GCP Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Senior Architect
6 4 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Cloud Security Architect
6 4 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Consultant
7 3 (6.25%) Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Senior Security Architect
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Architect
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Data Architect
8 2 (4.17%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) .NET
1 2 (4.17%) AngularJS
1 2 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (4.17%) Node.js
1 2 (4.17%) OAuth
1 2 (4.17%) OpenID
1 2 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (4.17%) SAML
1 2 (4.17%) Spring
1 2 (4.17%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.08%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.08%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (2.08%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.33%) Security Posture
3 3 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.17%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.17%) PKI
5 1 (2.08%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.25%) Linux
1 3 (6.25%) Windows
2 2 (4.17%) Unix
3 1 (2.08%) VMS
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 19 (39.58%) DevOps
3 13 (27.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (25.00%) Agile
4 12 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (20.83%) Threat Modelling
6 8 (16.67%) DevSecOps
6 8 (16.67%) Machine Learning
7 7 (14.58%) Analytics
7 7 (14.58%) SDLC
8 6 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (12.50%) Data Analytics
8 6 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (12.50%) Security Architecture
9 5 (10.42%) Zero Trust
10 4 (8.33%) Containerisation
10 4 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (8.33%) High Availability
10 4 (8.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 15 (31.25%) Python
2 8 (16.67%) SQL
3 5 (10.42%) Bicep
3 5 (10.42%) Java
4 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 4 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.25%) Perl
6 2 (4.17%) Bash
6 2 (4.17%) C#
6 2 (4.17%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.08%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (16.67%) CISSP
1 8 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.25%) Degree
4 2 (4.17%) CEH
4 2 (4.17%) CISM
4 2 (4.17%) OCP
4 2 (4.17%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.08%) CREST Certified
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.08%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (27.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (25.00%) NIST
3 7 (14.58%) GDPR
4 4 (8.33%) PCI DSS
5 3 (6.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (6.25%) SOC 2
6 2 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (4.17%) Data Quality
6 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (2.08%) COBIT
7 1 (2.08%) COSO
7 1 (2.08%) HIPAA
7 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 4 (8.33%) Docker
2 2 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (39.58%) Terraform
2 11 (22.92%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (6.25%) Ansible
4 3 (6.25%) Argo
5 2 (4.17%) Cilium
5 2 (4.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (4.17%) Progress Chef
5 2 (4.17%) SCCM
6 1 (2.08%) CASB
6 1 (2.08%) Nessus
6 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.08%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 9 (18.75%) Google
2 8 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.42%) Oracle
4 3 (6.25%) Palo Alto
5 2 (4.17%) Cisco
5 2 (4.17%) Databricks
6 1 (2.08%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.08%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.08%) Juniper
6 1 (2.08%) Meraki
6 1 (2.08%) Qualys
6 1 (2.08%) Rapid7
6 1 (2.08%) Tenable
6 1 (2.08%) Trend Micro
6 1 (2.08%) Tripwire
6 1 (2.08%) VMware