Cloud Security Engineer Contracts in England

Cloud Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Security Engineer daily rate in England is £525, 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 468 534 605
Rank change year-on-year +66 +71 +129
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 17 8 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.070% 0.022% 0.095%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.023% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 37
10th Percentile £406 £473 £419
25th Percentile £414 £492 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -19.73%
75th Percentile £589 £688 £688
90th Percentile £598 £700 £719
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -17.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £91.25
Median hourly rate - - £97.50
75th Percentile - - £103.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £97.50

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security Engineer in England

Cloud Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security Engineer in England

Cloud Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security Engineer in England

Cloud Security Engineer
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 Engineer 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 +44 10 £450 -30.77% 6
Midlands - 3 £588 - 17
West Midlands - 3 £588 - 10
North of England - 2 £575 - 19
North West - 2 £575 - 8
South East +45 1 £550 +11.11% 21
South West - 1 £488 - 11
Cloud Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cloud Security Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 12 (70.59%) Azure
3 6 (35.29%) AWS
3 6 (35.29%) GCP
3 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
4 5 (29.41%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (23.53%) Firewall
5 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
5 4 (23.53%) Network Security
6 3 (17.65%) Google
6 3 (17.65%) Windows
6 3 (17.65%) Python
6 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
6 3 (17.65%) Docker
6 3 (17.65%) Terraform
6 3 (17.65%) Security Posture
7 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
7 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
7 2 (11.76%) Zero Trust
7 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
7 2 (11.76%) Data Science
7 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (11.76%) NIST
7 2 (11.76%) Threat Modelling
7 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (11.76%) Microservices
7 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification

Cloud Security Engineer 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) AWS
2 6 (35.29%) GCP
3 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (5.88%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 1 (5.88%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (5.88%) AWS KMS
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.88%) Google Workspace
5 1 (5.88%) OCI
5 1 (5.88%) SaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Slack
5 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Firewall
1 4 (23.53%) Network Security
General
1 2 (11.76%) Banking
1 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) REST
1 1 (5.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Security Posture
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 5 (29.41%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
3 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
3 2 (11.76%) Data Protection
3 2 (11.76%) Data Science
3 2 (11.76%) Identity Management
3 2 (11.76%) Information Security
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (11.76%) Microservices
3 2 (11.76%) Security Architecture
3 2 (11.76%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (11.76%) Zero Trust
4 1 (5.88%) Analytics
4 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (5.88%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (5.88%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) Bash
2 1 (5.88%) Java
2 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
1 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.88%) CCSP
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.88%) CISSP
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) OSCP
2 1 (5.88%) SANS
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) NIST
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (17.65%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) Argo
3 1 (5.88%) Cilium
3 1 (5.88%) Grafana
3 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) Google
3 2 (11.76%) Rapid7
4 1 (5.88%) Citrix
4 1 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.88%) Netskope
4 1 (5.88%) Zscaler