Cloud Security Contract Job Trends in Derby

Cloud Security
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derby requiring Cloud Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Derby 3.10% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Derbyshire median daily rate £413 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Derby

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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 103 77 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 79.84% 80.21% 70.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 32 58
10th Percentile £185 £200 £179
25th Percentile £384 £269 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.56%
75th Percentile £556 £531 £600
90th Percentile £606 £633 £664
Derbyshire median daily rate £413 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -8.22% +5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 10
10th Percentile £15.84 - £15.25
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.68 £19.30 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -13.54% +9.58% +4.62%
75th Percentile £18.78 £23.86 £18.75
90th Percentile £24.72 £24.18 £20.00
Derbyshire median hourly rate £16.68 £21.59 £17.72
% change year-on-year -22.73% +21.84% +5.29%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Security relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby.

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in Derby

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Trend in Derby

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing Cloud Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing Cloud Security

Cloud Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) CloudOps Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Operations Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
1 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Change Management
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Operations Management
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft