Cloud Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Cloud Security Engineer
England > East of England

The median Cloud Security Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £613, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.11% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £571 - -
25th Percentile £584 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - -
75th Percentile £634 - -
90th Percentile £644 - -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +17.94%

All Contract IT Job Roles
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the East of England with a recognized job title 1,640 948 1,689
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.26% 90.37% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 729 464 884
10th Percentile £188 £227 £225
25th Percentile £313 £338 £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £486 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +2.37% -
75th Percentile £581 £600 £575
90th Percentile £676 £688 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 497 129 427
10th Percentile £13.63 £16.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.35 £21.46 £15.44
Median hourly rate £22.63 £59.40 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -61.90% +50.19% +79.77%
75th Percentile £64.00 £71.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £31.46 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.11% - -7.03%

Cloud Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Security Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Cloud Security Engineer job vacancy trend in the East of England

Cloud Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Security Engineer job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Security Engineer job vacancies in the East of England

Cloud Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security Engineer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 13 February 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
Cambridgeshire - 1 £575 -
Hertfordshire - 1 £650 -
Cloud Security Engineer
England

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 13 February 2026, Cloud Security Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East of England region featuring Cloud Security Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Cribl.io
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) HIPAA

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cribl.io
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk