Cloud Security Engineer Contracts in England

Cloud Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Security Engineer daily rate in England is £600 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 533 612 751
Rank change year-on-year +79 +139 -180
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 8 49 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.022% 0.098% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.10% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 38 32
10th Percentile £473 £419 £501
25th Percentile £492 £503 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £748
Median % change year-on-year - -19.73% +29.72%
75th Percentile £688 £681 £850
90th Percentile £700 £718 £909
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £725
% change year-on-year - -17.24% +26.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £97.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £97.50 -

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 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 5 May 2024.

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 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 +87 4 £650 +10.17% 9
South East +19 2 £495 -28.78% 1
Cloud Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, 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 8 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (37.50%) Docker
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Banking
2 3 (37.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) SaaS
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (25.00%) Network Security
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (25.00%) Route 53
3 2 (25.00%) Big Data
3 2 (25.00%) Big Data Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (25.00%) ETL
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) CISSP
3 2 (25.00%) Change Management
3 2 (25.00%) Firewall

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (25.00%) CloudFront
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) Route 53
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (25.00%) Big Data
1 2 (25.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Snyk
General
1 3 (37.50%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Big Data Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Change Management
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Data Management
3 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (25.00%) Data Science
3 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (25.00%) ETL
3 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (25.00%) MLOps
3 2 (25.00%) OOP
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) CISSP
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Google
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft