Cloud Security Contracts in England

Cloud Security
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Cloud Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Security over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 217 157
Rank change year-on-year +64 -60 +79
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 453 401 861
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.86% 1.08% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 1.25% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 267 583
10th Percentile £425 £425 £463
25th Percentile £500 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £635
Median % change year-on-year - -5.44% +1.52%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £721
90th Percentile £788 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 15
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £76.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +75.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Cloud Security falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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 +41 273 £618 -1.98% 292
North of England +53 72 £568 -12.69% 95
North West +43 46 £510 -24.58% 46
South East +48 36 £550 +7.84% 137
South West +46 23 £550 - 44
Yorkshire +13 22 £700 +16.67% 38
Midlands +14 21 £608 -1.18% 47
West Midlands +7 20 £608 -1.18% 29
East of England +33 11 £745 +6.43% 42
North East - 4 £750 - 11
East Midlands +9 1 - - 16
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 20 (4.42%) SharePoint
2 17 (3.75%) Confluence
3 15 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (2.87%) nginx
5 12 (2.65%) Traefik
6 6 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.32%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.44%) SAS
8 1 (0.22%) Apache
8 1 (0.22%) CMS
8 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.22%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (1.10%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.22%) Notion
3 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.66%) SAP ERP
2 3 (0.66%) SAP GRC
2 3 (0.66%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.44%) BASE24
4 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.22%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 228 (50.33%) Azure
2 185 (40.84%) AWS
3 72 (15.89%) Entra ID
3 72 (15.89%) GCP
4 63 (13.91%) Microsoft 365
5 42 (9.27%) IaaS
6 40 (8.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 36 (7.95%) PaaS
8 35 (7.73%) Azure Sentinel
9 33 (7.28%) Serverless
10 28 (6.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 25 (5.52%) GitHub
12 24 (5.30%) SaaS
13 23 (5.08%) Cloud Computing
14 21 (4.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (4.42%) Power Platform
16 18 (3.97%) OneDrive
17 17 (3.75%) Microsoft Purview
18 16 (3.53%) Amazon ECS
18 16 (3.53%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 71 (15.67%) Firewall
2 70 (15.45%) Network Security
3 29 (6.40%) VPN
4 24 (5.30%) DNS
5 23 (5.08%) TCP/IP
6 11 (2.43%) HTTP
7 10 (2.21%) WAN
8 8 (1.77%) NGFW
9 7 (1.55%) SSL
10 6 (1.32%) DHCP
10 6 (1.32%) SD-WAN
10 6 (1.32%) VLAN
10 6 (1.32%) Wireless
11 5 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.88%) BGP
12 4 (0.88%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.88%) LAN
12 4 (0.88%) OSPF
13 3 (0.66%) Internet
13 3 (0.66%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.08%) MongoDB
2 18 (3.97%) Amazon Redshift
3 16 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (2.65%) Power BI
5 10 (2.21%) MySQL
6 9 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (1.77%) Apache Cassandra
7 8 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (1.77%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.32%) Big Data
8 6 (1.32%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.10%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.88%) GIS
10 4 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.66%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.66%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.44%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.44%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 34 (7.51%) GitLab
2 25 (5.52%) Jenkins
3 21 (4.64%) JIRA
4 16 (3.53%) Git
5 8 (1.77%) Cucumber
5 8 (1.77%) Jasmine
5 8 (1.77%) JUnit
6 3 (0.66%) Burp Suite
6 3 (0.66%) Metasploit
6 3 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.44%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.22%) Locust
8 1 (0.22%) Postman
8 1 (0.22%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.22%) Selenium
8 1 (0.22%) Snyk
8 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 127 (28.04%) Social Skills
2 80 (17.66%) Finance
3 51 (11.26%) Public Sector
4 44 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (3.97%) Banking
6 11 (2.43%) Financial Institution
6 11 (2.43%) Legal
7 10 (2.21%) Military
8 9 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.32%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.10%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.10%) Retail
11 3 (0.66%) Marketing
12 2 (0.44%) Electronics
12 2 (0.44%) Law
12 2 (0.44%) Local Government
12 2 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.22%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 140 (30.91%) Architect
2 85 (18.76%) Security Architect
3 61 (13.47%) Senior
4 57 (12.58%) Security Engineer
5 47 (10.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 41 (9.05%) Cloud Architect
7 39 (8.61%) AWS Engineer
8 38 (8.39%) Lead
9 36 (7.95%) DevOps Engineer
10 30 (6.62%) Azure Engineer
11 26 (5.74%) Consultant
12 23 (5.08%) Azure Architect
13 21 (4.64%) Administrator
13 21 (4.64%) Cloud Security Architect
13 21 (4.64%) Senior Architect
14 18 (3.97%) Analyst
14 18 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
15 17 (3.75%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 17 (3.75%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
16 16 (3.53%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.75%) Kafka
2 15 (3.31%) ARM Templates
3 14 (3.09%) cloud-init
3 14 (3.09%) Keycloak
4 12 (2.65%) OAuth
4 12 (2.65%) SAML
5 10 (2.21%) RESTful
6 9 (1.99%) OpenID
6 9 (1.99%) Spring
7 8 (1.77%) Spring Boot
7 8 (1.77%) Spring Security
7 8 (1.77%) Swagger
8 7 (1.55%) OpenAPI
8 7 (1.55%) SAP Fiori
8 7 (1.55%) Spring Batch
9 6 (1.32%) Node.js
9 6 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (1.10%) .NET
10 5 (1.10%) LDAP
10 5 (1.10%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (13.47%) Security Posture
2 31 (6.84%) Management Information System
3 28 (6.18%) PKI
4 23 (5.08%) Cloud Native
5 21 (4.64%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.53%) Data Centre
7 12 (2.65%) Cyber Threat
8 11 (2.43%) Public Cloud
9 10 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 7 (1.55%) Cloud Security Posture
11 7 (1.55%) Cyber Defence
11 7 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.32%) Operational Technology
12 6 (1.32%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.32%) Product Ownership
13 5 (1.10%) Algorithms
13 5 (1.10%) Hedge funds
13 5 (1.10%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 52 (11.48%) Windows
2 45 (9.93%) Linux
3 24 (5.30%) Unix
4 23 (5.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (5.08%) Windows Server
5 14 (3.09%) CentOS
6 3 (0.66%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.66%) VMS
7 2 (0.44%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
2 105 (23.18%) DevOps
3 95 (20.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 94 (20.75%) CI/CD
5 90 (19.87%) Cybersecurity
6 69 (15.23%) Security Architecture
7 68 (15.01%) Identity Access Management
8 60 (13.25%) Incident Response
9 53 (11.70%) Vulnerability Management
10 49 (10.82%) Risk Management
11 48 (10.60%) Agile
11 48 (10.60%) Information Security
12 45 (9.93%) Containerisation
12 45 (9.93%) Mentoring
13 44 (9.71%) Application Security
13 44 (9.71%) Migration
13 44 (9.71%) SIEM
14 42 (9.27%) Security Operations
15 40 (8.83%) DevSecOps
16 39 (8.61%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 103 (22.74%) Python
2 62 (13.69%) PowerShell
3 42 (9.27%) Bash
4 30 (6.62%) SQL
5 28 (6.18%) Java
6 15 (3.31%) Bicep
6 15 (3.31%) Go
7 8 (1.77%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.32%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (1.10%) C++
10 4 (0.88%) C
10 4 (0.88%) C#
10 4 (0.88%) Perl
10 4 (0.88%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.66%) Ruby
12 1 (0.22%) Scala
12 1 (0.22%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 118 (26.05%) Security Cleared
2 90 (19.87%) SC Cleared
3 68 (15.01%) Degree
4 62 (13.69%) CISSP
5 44 (9.71%) AWS Certification
6 31 (6.84%) Azure Certification
7 28 (6.18%) CISM
8 25 (5.52%) DV Cleared
9 22 (4.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (3.53%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (3.31%) CISA
14 11 (2.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 11 (2.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 10 (2.21%) CEH
15 10 (2.21%) Master's Degree
16 9 (1.99%) CompTIA Security+
16 9 (1.99%) CRISC
17 8 (1.77%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (19.65%) NIST
2 73 (16.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 46 (10.15%) GDPR
4 23 (5.08%) PCI DSS
5 21 (4.64%) NCSC
6 17 (3.75%) SOC 2
7 15 (3.31%) GRC
8 11 (2.43%) HIPAA
9 10 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 9 (1.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (1.77%) NIST 800
11 8 (1.77%) SLA
12 6 (1.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (1.10%) Accessibility
13 5 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.44%) Data Quality
16 2 (0.44%) FIPS 140-2
16 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 52 (11.48%) Active Directory
2 31 (6.84%) Docker
3 26 (5.74%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.44%) RACF
5 2 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.44%) vSphere
6 1 (0.22%) FreeRADIUS
6 1 (0.22%) iptables
6 1 (0.22%) Lustre
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 106 (23.40%) Terraform
2 72 (15.89%) Kubernetes
3 23 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (4.64%) Grafana
5 19 (4.19%) Prometheus
6 18 (3.97%) Ansible
7 15 (3.31%) CASB
7 15 (3.31%) Consul
7 15 (3.31%) Packer
7 15 (3.31%) ZABBIX
8 14 (3.09%) Istio
8 14 (3.09%) Jamf Pro
8 14 (3.09%) linkerd
8 14 (3.09%) Rancher
9 12 (2.65%) HAProxy
10 11 (2.43%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (2.21%) SCCM
12 6 (1.32%) Nessus
13 4 (0.88%) McAfee ePO
13 4 (0.88%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 123 (27.15%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.06%) Splunk
3 28 (6.18%) Google
4 21 (4.64%) Oracle
5 20 (4.42%) Palo Alto
6 15 (3.31%) Okta
6 15 (3.31%) Zscaler
7 14 (3.09%) ServiceNow
8 12 (2.65%) Apple
8 12 (2.65%) Cisco
8 12 (2.65%) ESET
8 12 (2.65%) SAP
9 9 (1.99%) Qualys
10 8 (1.77%) CyberArk
10 8 (1.77%) VMware
11 7 (1.55%) Meraki
12 6 (1.32%) Fortinet
12 6 (1.32%) Rapid7
13 5 (1.10%) Tenable
14 4 (0.88%) CrowdStrike