Cloud Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Cloud Security Engineer
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Cloud Security Engineer daily rate in Hertfordshire is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.22% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
East of England median daily rate £650 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hertfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hertfordshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 370 557 713
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 81.50% 93.93% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 206 416
10th Percentile £244 £244 £260
25th Percentile £434 £325 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £618 £575 £675
90th Percentile £700 £625 £738
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 181 142
10th Percentile £17.97 £15.50 £17.72
25th Percentile £36.75 £40.85 £42.25
Median hourly rate £54.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -23.08% +16.07%
75th Percentile £65.13 £65.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £74.50 £70.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £36.75 £43.90 £42.40
% change year-on-year -16.29% +3.54% +114.03%

Cloud Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings that featured Cloud Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security Engineer in Hertfordshire

Cloud Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security Engineer within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 27 September 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
Hatfield - 1 £650 -
Cloud Security Engineer
East of England

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire

For the 6 months to 27 September 2025, Cloud Security Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Hertfordshire region featuring Cloud Security Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cribl.io
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft