Cloud Security Contracts in Croydon

Cloud Security
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon 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 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 29 33
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +13
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 6.33% 1.00% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.94% 1.06% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £444 - -
25th Percentile £471 £638 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £675 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.74% +35.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £591 £713 -
90th Percentile £615 - -
South London median daily rate £488 £575 £475
% change year-on-year -15.22% +21.05% -24.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72 94 137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 91.14% 94.00% 88.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 64 106
10th Percentile £313 £378 £447
25th Percentile £478 £422 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £505 £528
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -4.36% -8.17%
75th Percentile £632 £539 £600
90th Percentile £707 £584 £686
South London median daily rate £525 £500 £528
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.30% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £19.50 -
South London median hourly rate £15.84 £19.50 £50.42
% change year-on-year -18.77% -61.32% +14.31%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in Croydon

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in Croydon

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in Croydon over the 6 months to 26 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in Croydon

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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 (40.00%) Confluence
1 2 (40.00%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon ELB
3 2 (40.00%) AWS KMS
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (40.00%) IaaS
3 2 (40.00%) PaaS
3 2 (40.00%) Route 53
3 2 (40.00%) Serverless
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) FTP
2 2 (40.00%) HTTP
2 2 (40.00%) IMAP
2 2 (40.00%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (40.00%) SMTP
2 2 (40.00%) SSH
3 1 (20.00%) NAS
3 1 (20.00%) SAN
3 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
2 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (40.00%) GitLab
3 2 (40.00%) JIRA
3 2 (40.00%) Vagrant
General
1 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Specialist
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps Specialist
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (40.00%) VMS
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (40.00%) Bash
3 2 (40.00%) Groovy
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
2 2 (40.00%) DFS Replication
2 2 (40.00%) Dovecot
2 2 (40.00%) Postfix
2 2 (40.00%) Squid
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Grafana
2 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (40.00%) Ansible
3 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (40.00%) Nessus
3 2 (40.00%) Proxmox
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Jaspersoft
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Dell
2 1 (20.00%) EMC
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) SonicWALL
2 1 (20.00%) VMware