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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 57 43
Rank change year-on-year +28 -14 +10
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Cloud Security 6 3 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 2.17% 0.66% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.49% 0.77% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 13
10th Percentile £420 - £472
25th Percentile £525 £563 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% -23.53%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £688
90th Percentile £703 - £758
South West median daily rate £650 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 241 389 439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 87.00% 85.68% 91.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 215 273
10th Percentile £219 £368 £375
25th Percentile £350 £469 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £660 £638 £675
90th Percentile £740 £738 £747
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.51% +2.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 33 49
10th Percentile £15.31 £23.60 £32.40
25th Percentile £26.85 £30.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £40.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -48.72% +140.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 -
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £83.72
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +3.85% +20.37%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in Gloucestershire

Cloud Security
DemandTrendContract 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 23 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucester +2 4 £600 +4.35% 3
Cheltenham - 1 - - 1
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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Stack
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Information Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Manager
2 1 (16.67%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Information Security
2 2 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (33.33%) Threat Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security Management
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Security Management
3 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bicep
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (16.67%) CCSP
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (16.67%) CISM
3 1 (16.67%) CISSP
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (50.00%) NIST
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (16.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow