Cloud Security Engineer Contracts in England

Cloud Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Security Engineer daily rate in England is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 August 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
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 506 576
Rank change year-on-year +29 +70 +183
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 26 19 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.094% 0.057% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.061% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 16 37
10th Percentile - £431 £413
25th Percentile £400 £472 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% -4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £491 £631 £688
90th Percentile £540 £731 £706
UK median daily rate £425 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -26.09% -4.17% -17.24%

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 25,466 30,983 42,910
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.65% 92.90% 94.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,521 20,498 30,243
10th Percentile £286 £300 £306
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +0.46%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,312 1,827 1,342
10th Percentile £13.65 £14.16 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +67.45%
75th Percentile £55.06 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -41.51% +0.58% +66.47%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +14 14 £431 -21.59% 17
North of England - 9 £400 - 2
North West - 8 £400 - 1
South West +23 2 £519 -9.78% 4
South East +24 1 £550 +10.00% 6
North East - 1 £400 - 1
Cloud Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 August 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 26 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 20 (76.92%) Azure
3 14 (53.85%) Finance
4 12 (46.15%) Microsoft
5 11 (42.31%) Firewall
5 11 (42.31%) AWS
6 10 (38.46%) Zscaler
7 9 (34.62%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (34.62%) Information Security
8 8 (30.77%) Banking
8 8 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (30.77%) Windows
8 8 (30.77%) Server Hardening
8 8 (30.77%) Azure Certification
9 7 (26.92%) Fintech
9 7 (26.92%) Entra ID
9 7 (26.92%) NIST
9 7 (26.92%) SharePoint
10 6 (23.08%) Darktrace
10 6 (23.08%) Security Operations
10 6 (23.08%) Data Loss Prevention
10 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
11 5 (19.23%) Terraform
11 5 (19.23%) GCP
11 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (19.23%) Python
11 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
11 5 (19.23%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
12 4 (15.38%) Social Skills

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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (26.92%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (76.92%) Azure
2 11 (42.31%) AWS
3 9 (34.62%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (26.92%) Entra ID
5 5 (19.23%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (19.23%) GCP
6 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (11.54%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (11.54%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (7.69%) Amazon Macie
8 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (7.69%) AWS KMS
9 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (3.85%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
9 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (3.85%) Cloudflare
9 1 (3.85%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (42.31%) Firewall
2 3 (11.54%) VPN
3 2 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
1 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) GitLab
General
1 14 (53.85%) Finance
2 8 (30.77%) Banking
3 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) OAuth
1 1 (3.85%) OAuth2
1 1 (3.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
1 3 (11.54%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.69%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (3.85%) PKI
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (30.77%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 9 (34.62%) Information Security
3 8 (30.77%) Server Hardening
4 7 (26.92%) Fintech
5 6 (23.08%) Data Loss Prevention
5 6 (23.08%) Security Operations
6 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 4 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (15.38%) DevOps
8 3 (11.54%) Agile
8 3 (11.54%) Identity Access Management
8 3 (11.54%) Migration
8 3 (11.54%) SIEM
8 3 (11.54%) Threat Modelling
9 2 (7.69%) Data Management
9 2 (7.69%) Data Protection
9 2 (7.69%) Data Security
9 2 (7.69%) Microservices
9 2 (7.69%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) Python
2 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) Azure Certification
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) AWS Certification
3 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (7.69%) CCSP
4 2 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.85%) CISSP
5 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.85%) Degree
5 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) OSCP
5 1 (3.85%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (26.92%) NIST
2 3 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (11.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
2 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 5 (19.23%) Terraform
3 3 (11.54%) QRadar
4 1 (3.85%) Argo
4 1 (3.85%) Cilium
4 1 (3.85%) Grafana
4 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 10 (38.46%) Zscaler
3 6 (23.08%) Darktrace
4 2 (7.69%) Google
4 2 (7.69%) Varonis
5 1 (3.85%) Rapid7
5 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.85%) Splunk