Cloud Security Contracts in Gloucester

Cloud Security
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucester 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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 20 30
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -6
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Cloud Security 4 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucester 4.82% 1.39% 3.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.26% 1.49% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £403 - £483
25th Percentile £481 £563 £532
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £671
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -14.34% -21.03%
75th Percentile £672 £588 £796
90th Percentile £711 - £855
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% -23.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76 67 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 91.57% 93.06% 97.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 54 100
10th Percentile £216 £378 £413
25th Percentile £343 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £688 £625 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £725
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £54.20
25th Percentile - £17.50 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £19.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.37% -75.64% -
75th Percentile - £20.50 £84.00
90th Percentile - - £90.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £36.00 £40.00 £73.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% -45.21% +124.62%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in Gloucester

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Cloud Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Cloud Security

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in Gloucester over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in Gloucester

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucester 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Stack
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Information Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
1 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (25.00%) CCSP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CISM
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) NIST
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow