Cloud Security Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

Cloud Security
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derbyshire requiring Cloud Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Derbyshire 2.60% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £356 £600
% change year-on-year +26.26% -40.67% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 128 101 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 83.12% 81.45% 75.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 42 75
10th Percentile £134 £175 £149
25th Percentile £181 £275 £232
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.22% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £506 £519 £569
90th Percentile £593 £621 £663
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 15
10th Percentile £15.84 - £15.65
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.68 £21.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +21.84% +5.29%
75th Percentile £18.78 £24.18 £28.75
90th Percentile £24.72 - £54.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.95 £22.50 £20.51
% change year-on-year -20.24% +9.70% +21.87%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

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

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 9 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derby - 4 £413 - 2
Cloud Security
East Midlands

Cloud Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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