Cloud Security Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Cloud Security
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Cloud Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 - 63
Rank change year-on-year - - +20
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 8 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.96% - 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% - 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile £415 - £458
25th Percentile £424 - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.08%
75th Percentile £488 - £575
90th Percentile £492 - £640
England median daily rate £550 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.04% -2.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 720 643 734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.75% 84.49% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 394 534
10th Percentile £225 £264 £213
25th Percentile £350 £356 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £445 £495
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% -10.10% +6.34%
75th Percentile £519 £550 £605
90th Percentile £630 £613 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 29 50
10th Percentile £16.17 £13.37 £12.90
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.10 £16.35
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.59 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% -5.10% +30.00%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £53.19
90th Percentile - £51.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +41.67%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Cloud Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Cloud Security

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 October 2025. 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
Nottinghamshire - 3 £458 - 6
Derbyshire - 2 £413 - 3
Northamptonshire - 2 £492 - 2
Cloud Security
England

Cloud Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) Azure AKS
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (25.00%) GCP
5 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) CircleCI
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Security Tester
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) SailPoint
2 2 (25.00%) LDAP
3 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Data-Driven Testing
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Generative AI
2 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
2 3 (37.50%) Information Security
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (37.50%) IT Audit
2 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 2 (25.00%) API Development
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) Data Privacy
3 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (25.00%) KYC
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CISA
1 3 (37.50%) CISM
1 3 (37.50%) CISSP
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
1 3 (37.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) NIST
2 3 (37.50%) COBIT
2 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (37.50%) NIST 800
3 2 (25.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (25.00%) GDPR
4 1 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) RSA Archer
3 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Rapid7
1 3 (37.50%) ServiceNow
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Alteryx