Cloud Security Consultant Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Security Consultant
UK > England

The median Cloud Security Consultant daily rate in England is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 569 484 536
Rank change year-on-year -85 +52 +144
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Consultant 6 4 15
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.017% 0.016% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.017% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 9
10th Percentile - £560 £226
25th Percentile £663 £594 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -8.77%
75th Percentile £688 £813 £788
90th Percentile - £850 £875
UK median daily rate £600 £638 £650
% change year-on-year -5.88% -1.92% -8.77%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 32,663 23,861 35,129
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.91% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,724 15,180 23,561
10th Percentile £306 £300 £270
25th Percentile £412 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £747
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,100 745 2,165
10th Percentile £15.18 £16.24 £13.23
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.00 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.40 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £34.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -3.60% -0.71% -12.50%

Cloud Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Cloud Security Consultant job vacancy trend in England

Cloud Security Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Security Consultant job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Security Consultant job vacancies in England

Cloud Security Consultant
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 Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
London - 4 £675 -
East of England -24 2 - - 1
Cloud Security Consultant
UK

Cloud Security Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 28 February 2026, Cloud Security Consultant 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 England region featuring Cloud Security Consultant in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Terraform
4 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
4 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) Validation
5 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (16.67%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (16.67%) Bicep
5 1 (16.67%) CCSK
5 1 (16.67%) CCSP
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
5 1 (16.67%) Data Security
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Firewall
5 1 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes

Cloud Security Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (16.67%) OCI
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (16.67%) Data Security
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Programme Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (16.67%) CCSK
1 1 (16.67%) CCSP
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto