Cloud Security Contracts in Gloucestershire

Cloud Security
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 35 56 60
Rank change year-on-year +21 +4 -7
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 6 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 2.19% 0.47% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 0.54% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £383 - £490
25th Percentile £413 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -23.08% -10.34%
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £675
% change year-on-year - -18.52% +22.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 239 368 438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 87.23% 85.78% 92.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 230 307
10th Percentile £237 £363 £295
25th Percentile £413 £458 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +6.34%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £650
90th Percentile £729 £738 £700
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 31 37
10th Percentile £25.56 £14.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.88 £19.57 £50.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £35.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +92.86% -50.00% +116.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.38 £78.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £71.50 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in Gloucestershire

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in Gloucestershire

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in Gloucestershire

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire 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
Gloucester +3 5 £450 -10.00% 15
Cloud Security
South West

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 6 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) SIEM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 3 (50.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Threat Analysis
2 4 (66.67%) Application Security
2 4 (66.67%) Migration
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) Project Management
2 4 (66.67%) Task Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 4 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Event Correlation
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (16.67%) Security Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
4 1 (16.67%) SOAR
4 1 (16.67%) Threat Detection
4 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) McAfee ePO
2 3 (50.00%) Norton AntiVirus
2 3 (50.00%) SCCM
2 3 (50.00%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) McAfee
3 3 (50.00%) Symantec
4 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
4 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow