Cloud Security Contract Job Trends in Hillingdon

Cloud Security
West London > Hillingdon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hillingdon requiring Cloud Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hillingdon 1.40% 2.20% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 2.70% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £469 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - -
75th Percentile £506 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West London median daily rate £488 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +14.71% -15.00% -28.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 135 74 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon 94.41% 81.32% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 32 62
10th Percentile £438 £159 £295
25th Percentile £459 £318 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £400 £488
Median % change year-on-year +34.29% -17.90% -18.75%
75th Percentile £738 £450 £584
90th Percentile £894 £475 £650
West London median daily rate £520 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +22.35% -10.53% -17.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 19 3
10th Percentile - £25.03 £34.63
25th Percentile £26.25 - £41.33
Median hourly rate £27.50 £25.15 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.34% -54.27% +100.00%
75th Percentile £28.75 - £78.75
90th Percentile - £29.47 £91.50
West London median hourly rate £28.03 £25.15 £54.50
% change year-on-year +11.43% -53.85% -16.15%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Hillingdon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Security relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon.

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in Hillingdon

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Trend in Hillingdon

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

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

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon region over the 6 months to 5 August 2026. 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
Uxbridge - 2 £488 -
Cloud Security
West London

Cloud Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hillingdon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) NGFW
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Break/Fix
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Contract Negotiation
2 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Security Auditing
2 1 (50.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS