Cloud Security Architect Contracts in England

Cloud Security Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Security Architect daily rate in England is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 523 596
Rank change year-on-year +59 +73 +68
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Architect 21 19 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.086% 0.051% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.055% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 16 35
10th Percentile £550 £669 £505
25th Percentile £602 £734 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £780 £700
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +11.43% -
75th Percentile £726 - £768
90th Percentile £916 £800 £838
UK median daily rate £675 £780 £700
% change year-on-year -13.46% +11.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 12
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Cloud Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Cloud Security Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security Architect in England

Cloud Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security Architect in England

Cloud Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security Architect in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security Architect in England

Cloud Security Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Security Architect in England

Cloud Security Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +30 9 £803 +2.88% 9
South West - 6 £670 - 28
North of England - 3 £550 - 49
South East +47 2 £675 -10.00% 51
Yorkshire - 2 £550 - 21
North West - 1 £750 - 22
Cloud Security Architect
UK

Cloud Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cloud Security Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Cloud Security Architect in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 14 (66.67%) Azure
3 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
3 8 (38.10%) Security Architecture
3 8 (38.10%) Threat Modelling
4 7 (33.33%) AWS
4 7 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 7 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 6 (28.57%) DV Cleared
5 6 (28.57%) Network Security
5 6 (28.57%) Firewall
6 5 (23.81%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (23.81%) Finance
6 5 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (23.81%) AWS Certification
7 4 (19.05%) Security Operations
7 4 (19.05%) Cloud Native
7 4 (19.05%) DevSecOps
7 4 (19.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (14.29%) NGFW
8 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
8 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
8 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (14.29%) Zscaler
8 3 (14.29%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
8 3 (14.29%) NIST
8 3 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (14.29%) Fortinet

Cloud Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (66.67%) Azure
2 7 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) GCP
3 2 (9.52%) OCI
4 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) Firewall
1 6 (28.57%) Network Security
2 3 (14.29%) BGP
2 3 (14.29%) NGFW
2 3 (14.29%) OSPF
2 3 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (9.52%) IPsec
3 2 (9.52%) VPN
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Low-Code
2 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
2 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 8 (38.10%) Security Architecture
2 8 (38.10%) Threat Modelling
3 7 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 5 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (19.05%) DevSecOps
5 4 (19.05%) Security Operations
6 3 (14.29%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
7 2 (9.52%) Agile
7 2 (9.52%) DevOps
7 2 (9.52%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 2 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (9.52%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 1 (4.76%) Configuration Management
8 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Architecture
8 1 (4.76%) ERP
8 1 (4.76%) Identity Management
8 1 (4.76%) Migration
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 7 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (28.57%) DV Cleared
4 5 (23.81%) AWS Certification
4 5 (23.81%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (19.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
6 3 (14.29%) CCNP
7 2 (9.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (4.76%) CISA
8 1 (4.76%) CISM
8 1 (4.76%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) NIST
2 2 (9.52%) GDPR
3 1 (4.76%) GRC
3 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (4.76%) NIST 800
3 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) FortiGate
2 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.76%) Ansible
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.76%) Nagios
3 1 (4.76%) SCCM
3 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Fortinet
1 3 (14.29%) Meraki
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle
1 3 (14.29%) Palo Alto
1 3 (14.29%) Zscaler
2 2 (9.52%) Google
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.76%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.76%) Qualys
3 1 (4.76%) Rapid7
3 1 (4.76%) Snow