Cloud Security Architect Contracts in England

Cloud Security Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Security Architect daily rate in England is £780 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 604 681
Rank change year-on-year +82 +77 -118
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Architect 19 57 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.052% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.12% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 35 91
10th Percentile £669 £505 £585
25th Percentile £734 £625 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £780 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% - +7.69%
75th Percentile - £768 £791
90th Percentile £800 £838 £877
UK median daily rate £780 £700 £700
% change year-on-year +11.43% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,183 47,267 67,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,703 33,560 48,361
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,401 1,881
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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 +96 17 £780 +11.43% 6
South East +22 1 £750 +4.90%
Cloud Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, 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 19 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 13 (68.42%) Security Architecture
3 10 (52.63%) IaaS
3 10 (52.63%) SaaS
3 10 (52.63%) NIST
4 9 (47.37%) DevSecOps
4 9 (47.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (47.37%) Terraform
4 9 (47.37%) Serverless
4 9 (47.37%) Design Patterns
4 9 (47.37%) Architectural Patterns
4 9 (47.37%) Deployment Automation
4 9 (47.37%) PaaS
4 9 (47.37%) Mobile App
4 9 (47.37%) IoT
5 8 (42.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (42.11%) SDLC
5 8 (42.11%) Azure
5 8 (42.11%) AWS
5 8 (42.11%) Security Testing
5 8 (42.11%) Application Security
6 5 (26.32%) Finance
7 4 (21.05%) GCP
7 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
8 3 (15.79%) CISSP
8 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
8 3 (15.79%) Agile
8 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Architecture
8 3 (15.79%) DevOps
8 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) IaaS
1 10 (52.63%) SaaS
2 9 (47.37%) PaaS
2 9 (47.37%) Serverless
3 8 (42.11%) AWS
3 8 (42.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (42.11%) Azure
4 4 (21.05%) GCP
5 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.26%) Slack
6 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 1 (5.26%) Banking
2 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
2 1 (5.26%) Legal
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 9 (47.37%) IoT
1 9 (47.37%) Mobile App
2 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) PKI
3 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 13 (68.42%) Security Architecture
3 9 (47.37%) Architectural Patterns
3 9 (47.37%) Deployment Automation
3 9 (47.37%) Design Patterns
3 9 (47.37%) DevSecOps
3 9 (47.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (42.11%) Application Security
4 8 (42.11%) SDLC
4 8 (42.11%) Security Testing
5 3 (15.79%) Agile
5 3 (15.79%) DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
6 2 (10.53%) Decision-Making
6 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (10.53%) TOGAF
6 2 (10.53%) Zero Trust
7 1 (5.26%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) CISSP
1 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.26%) Chartered Engineer
2 1 (5.26%) CISM
2 1 (5.26%) CITP
2 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (52.63%) NIST
2 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.26%) GDPR
3 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) AlienVault
2 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow