Cloud Security Contracts in the East of England

Cloud Security
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 107 107
Rank change year-on-year +33 0 +20
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 11 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.03% 0.26% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 0.31% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 6
10th Percentile £525 - £416
25th Percentile £550 £738 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £775 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +55.00% -8.68%
75th Percentile £738 £813 £575
90th Percentile £758 - £694
England median daily rate £600 £600 £635
% change year-on-year - -5.47% +1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
Median hourly rate £100.00 - £70.00
England median hourly rate £100.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +152.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 953 1,637 1,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.40% 84.38% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 656 997
10th Percentile £212 £203 £226
25th Percentile £363 £313 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £440 £490
Median % change year-on-year +13.70% -10.26% +3.16%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £664 £704
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 612 339
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% +90.48% +7.69%
75th Percentile £65.38 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £84.00 £71.13 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.17
% change year-on-year -34.02% +2.56% +44.74%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Cloud Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in the East of England

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in the East of England

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in the East of England over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in the East of England

Cloud Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Security in the East of England

Cloud Security
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 within the East of England region over the 6 months to 27 June 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
Cambridgeshire - 5 £650 - 19
Bedfordshire - 4 £525 - 5
Essex - 1 - - 10
Suffolk - 1 £751 - 3
Cloud Security
England

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) Azure
3 5 (45.45%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (27.27%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (27.27%) GCP
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (18.18%) AWS KMS
5 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
6 1 (9.09%) GitHub
6 1 (9.09%) IaaS
6 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (9.09%) PaaS
6 1 (9.09%) SaaS
6 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) Network Security
2 2 (18.18%) SSL
2 2 (18.18%) X.509
3 1 (9.09%) BGP
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (9.09%) LAN
3 1 (9.09%) OSPF
3 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
3 1 (9.09%) VPN
3 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
1 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
1 4 (36.36%) Security Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Design Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (27.27%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (18.18%) Algorithms
3 2 (18.18%) PKI
4 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
4 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (9.09%) Reinsurance
4 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Migration
2 5 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (45.45%) Security Operations
2 5 (45.45%) SIEM
2 5 (45.45%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (36.36%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (36.36%) Case Management
3 4 (36.36%) Cyber Intelligence
3 4 (36.36%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 4 (36.36%) Data Enrichment
3 4 (36.36%) Incident Response
3 4 (36.36%) SOAR
3 4 (36.36%) Task Automation
3 4 (36.36%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 4 (36.36%) Threat Intelligence
4 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Key Management
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) PowerShell
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (9.09%) Bicep
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (9.09%) CCSP
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) GDPR
2 4 (36.36%) NIST
3 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (27.27%) SOC 2
4 2 (18.18%) FIPS 140-2
4 2 (18.18%) NIST 800
5 1 (9.09%) GRC
5 1 (9.09%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Palo Alto
2 3 (27.27%) Splunk
3 2 (18.18%) Google
3 2 (18.18%) Zscaler
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco
4 1 (9.09%) F5
4 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
4 1 (9.09%) SAP