Cloud Security Contracts in England

Cloud Security
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Cloud Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Security over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 213 160 235
Rank change year-on-year -53 +75 -61
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 400 867 871
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.08% 1.72% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.90% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 586 575
10th Percentile £425 £463 £463
25th Percentile £500 £525 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £641 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +2.52% +9.17%
75th Percentile £738 £724 £722
90th Percentile £788 £800 £791
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 16 2
10th Percentile - - £30.48
25th Percentile - - £34.69
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £43.59
Median % change year-on-year - +60.61% -30.26%
75th Percentile - - £54.36
90th Percentile - £88.75 £59.69
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +75.00% -17.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Cloud Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cloud Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in England

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in England

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in England

Cloud Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Security in England

Cloud Security
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 -44 244 £630 -3.08% 112
North of England -57 37 £625 +13.64% 48
South East -3 34 £510 -27.14% 21
Midlands +6 29 £615 +11.82% 20
West Midlands +21 27 £615 +11.82% 14
South West +8 23 £550 -21.43% 23
North West -36 19 £676 +8.16% 15
Yorkshire -29 18 £600 +9.09% 20
East of England +9 8 £700 +27.27% 13
East Midlands +16 2 £625 +25.00% 6
Cloud Security
UK

Cloud Security
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 10 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.00%) nginx
4 2 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.50%) IIS
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 2 (0.50%) Traefik
5 1 (0.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.25%) Trello
3 1 (0.25%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 189 (47.25%) Azure
2 115 (28.75%) AWS
3 62 (15.50%) GCP
4 58 (14.50%) IaaS
5 45 (11.25%) Microsoft 365
6 44 (11.00%) SaaS
7 39 (9.75%) PaaS
8 33 (8.25%) Entra ID
9 28 (7.00%) Serverless
10 27 (6.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
12 15 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (3.25%) OCI
14 10 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (2.00%) CloudFront
16 8 (2.00%) GitHub
17 7 (1.75%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 93 (23.25%) Firewall
2 59 (14.75%) Network Security
3 34 (8.50%) VPN
4 29 (7.25%) WAN
5 27 (6.75%) DNS
6 18 (4.50%) SD-WAN
7 16 (4.00%) LAN
8 9 (2.25%) Internet
8 9 (2.25%) Intrusion Detection
9 8 (2.00%) TCP/IP
10 6 (1.50%) DHCP
10 6 (1.50%) DMZ
10 6 (1.50%) WLAN
11 4 (1.00%) BGP
11 4 (1.00%) MPLS
11 4 (1.00%) Multicast
11 4 (1.00%) NGFW
11 4 (1.00%) OSPF
12 3 (0.75%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (0.75%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.75%) Data Lake
1 7 (1.75%) NoSQL
2 5 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.00%) Big Data
3 4 (1.00%) Bigtable
3 4 (1.00%) Cloud Spanner
3 4 (1.00%) DynamoDB
3 4 (1.00%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.00%) SAP BW
4 3 (0.75%) BigQuery
4 3 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.75%) MySQL
4 3 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.75%) Power BI
5 2 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.50%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.50%) OLAP
5 2 (0.50%) OLTP
5 2 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (4.50%) GitLab
2 17 (4.25%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.75%) Git
4 7 (1.75%) Burp Suite
5 4 (1.00%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.75%) JIRA
7 2 (0.50%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.50%) JMeter
7 2 (0.50%) Selenium
7 2 (0.50%) Snyk
7 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.25%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.25%) NUnit
8 1 (0.25%) Terragrunt
General
1 91 (22.75%) Finance
2 83 (20.75%) Social Skills
3 35 (8.75%) Banking
4 26 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.25%) Retail
7 12 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.50%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.75%) Legal
9 7 (1.75%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.00%) French Language
11 4 (1.00%) German Language
11 4 (1.00%) Local Government
11 4 (1.00%) Military
12 2 (0.50%) Automotive
12 2 (0.50%) Marketing
12 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.25%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 137 (34.25%) Architect
2 74 (18.50%) Security Architect
3 52 (13.00%) Consultant
4 48 (12.00%) Security Engineer
5 47 (11.75%) Senior
6 46 (11.50%) Security Consultant
7 45 (11.25%) Cloud Architect
8 31 (7.75%) Cloud Engineer
9 22 (5.50%) Senior Architect
10 21 (5.25%) Senior Security Architect
11 20 (5.00%) Analyst
12 19 (4.75%) Cloud Security Architect
13 18 (4.50%) Azure Engineer
13 18 (4.50%) Lead
14 17 (4.25%) Cloud Consultant
14 17 (4.25%) DevOps Engineer
15 16 (4.00%) AWS Architect
15 16 (4.00%) Cloud Security Consultant
15 16 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
16 15 (3.75%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.00%) SailPoint
2 12 (3.00%) Node.js
2 12 (3.00%) SAML
3 7 (1.75%) REST
4 6 (1.50%) OAuth
4 6 (1.50%) YAML
5 5 (1.25%) JSON
5 5 (1.25%) Kafka
5 5 (1.25%) OAuth2
5 5 (1.25%) React
5 5 (1.25%) Spring
5 5 (1.25%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.00%) .NET
6 4 (1.00%) CSS
6 4 (1.00%) GWT
6 4 (1.00%) JAX-RS
6 4 (1.00%) Restlet
7 3 (0.75%) HTML
7 3 (0.75%) OpenID
7 3 (0.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.00%) Management Information System
2 31 (7.75%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.75%) PKI
3 24 (6.00%) Security Posture
4 17 (4.25%) IoT
5 16 (4.00%) Public Cloud
6 15 (3.75%) Mobile App
7 12 (3.00%) Operational Technology
8 11 (2.75%) Cyber Threat
9 9 (2.25%) Cloud Security Posture
9 9 (2.25%) Onboarding
9 9 (2.25%) Security Operations Centre
10 8 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.75%) Cyber Defence
11 7 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 6 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (1.25%) Private Cloud
13 5 (1.25%) Virtual Team
14 4 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.25%) Linux
2 23 (5.75%) Windows
3 8 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.75%) Kali Linux
5 6 (1.50%) Unix
6 4 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.50%) CentOS
8 1 (0.25%) AIX
8 1 (0.25%) Android
8 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (27.75%) Cybersecurity
2 97 (24.25%) DevOps
3 90 (22.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 82 (20.50%) Security Architecture
5 78 (19.50%) Information Security
6 70 (17.50%) CI/CD
7 61 (15.25%) SIEM
8 55 (13.75%) DevSecOps
9 54 (13.50%) Application Security
10 52 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
11 50 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
12 46 (11.50%) Agile
13 42 (10.50%) Containerisation
13 42 (10.50%) Penetration Testing
14 38 (9.50%) Microservices
15 37 (9.25%) Risk Management
16 35 (8.75%) Migration
17 34 (8.50%) Incident Response
18 33 (8.25%) Risk Assessment
19 30 (7.50%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 49 (12.25%) Python
2 24 (6.00%) PowerShell
3 20 (5.00%) Java
4 13 (3.25%) Bash
5 12 (3.00%) SQL
6 10 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
7 8 (2.00%) C#
8 6 (1.50%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.00%) Go
9 4 (1.00%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.00%) Ruby
9 4 (1.00%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.75%) PHP
11 2 (0.50%) Bicep
11 2 (0.50%) Julia
11 2 (0.50%) Perl
11 2 (0.50%) SOQL
11 2 (0.50%) SOSL
12 1 (0.25%) Scala
12 1 (0.25%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 68 (17.00%) CISSP
2 66 (16.50%) Degree
3 63 (15.75%) Security Cleared
4 55 (13.75%) SC Cleared
5 48 (12.00%) CISM
6 31 (7.75%) Cisco Certification
7 28 (7.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 24 (6.00%) CISA
8 24 (6.00%) CRISC
9 23 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (4.00%) Azure Certification
11 12 (3.00%) AWS Certification
11 12 (3.00%) CCSK
11 12 (3.00%) GIAC
12 10 (2.50%) CCSP
12 10 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (2.50%) SANS
13 9 (2.25%) Master's Degree
14 7 (1.75%) CCNP
14 7 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (18.50%) NIST
2 58 (14.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (5.75%) PCI DSS
4 21 (5.25%) GRC
5 19 (4.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 14 (3.50%) GDPR
7 12 (3.00%) NCSC
8 10 (2.50%) COBIT
9 9 (2.25%) NIST 800
10 4 (1.00%) HIPAA
10 4 (1.00%) ISO 31000
10 4 (1.00%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.75%) GPG13
11 3 (0.75%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.50%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.50%) QA
13 1 (0.25%) GxP
System Software
1 40 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 38 (9.50%) Docker
3 13 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.25%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.75%) XenApp
7 2 (0.50%) KVM
7 2 (0.50%) Squid
7 2 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.25%) IAG
8 1 (0.25%) NFS
Systems Management
1 89 (22.25%) Terraform
2 41 (10.25%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.50%) Ansible
3 14 (3.50%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.50%) CASB
5 5 (1.25%) FortiGate
5 5 (1.25%) Packer
6 4 (1.00%) Argo
6 4 (1.00%) HAProxy
6 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.00%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 2 (0.50%) Consul
7 2 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.50%) Graphite
7 2 (0.50%) Istio
7 2 (0.50%) linkerd
7 2 (0.50%) Podman
7 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.50%) Puppet
7 2 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 96 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.75%) Google
3 24 (6.00%) Palo Alto
4 17 (4.25%) Cisco
5 16 (4.00%) Oracle
6 15 (3.75%) ServiceNow
7 14 (3.50%) CyberArk
8 13 (3.25%) BeyondTrust
8 13 (3.25%) F5
8 13 (3.25%) VMware
9 11 (2.75%) Fortinet
10 9 (2.25%) Splunk
11 7 (1.75%) Citrix
12 6 (1.50%) Databricks
12 6 (1.50%) SAP
13 5 (1.25%) CheckPoint
13 5 (1.25%) Zscaler
14 4 (1.00%) Darktrace
14 4 (1.00%) Qualys
14 4 (1.00%) Red Hat