Cloud Security Contracts in Leeds

Cloud Security
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 43 59 59
Rank change year-on-year +16 0 +45
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 17 4 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 3.66% 0.50% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% 0.58% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 33
10th Percentile £501 £548 £508
25th Percentile £541 £581 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -7.95%
75th Percentile £741 - £575
90th Percentile £750 - £585
West Yorkshire median daily rate £625 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -18.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in Leeds

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in Leeds

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in Leeds

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (29.41%) Confluence
1 5 (29.41%) nginx
1 5 (29.41%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) AWS
2 6 (35.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (35.29%) Amazon ECS
2 6 (35.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (35.29%) AWS Fargate
2 6 (35.29%) Entra ID
2 6 (35.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (23.53%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (23.53%) Slack
4 3 (17.65%) Azure
5 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (11.76%) GCP
5 2 (11.76%) Serverless
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) DNS
1 6 (35.29%) TCP/IP
2 3 (17.65%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) MongoDB
2 4 (23.53%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (23.53%) MySQL
2 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) GitLab
1 6 (35.29%) Jenkins
2 5 (29.41%) JIRA
3 4 (23.53%) Cucumber
3 4 (23.53%) Jasmine
3 4 (23.53%) JUnit
4 3 (17.65%) Git
General
1 2 (11.76%) Military
1 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
1 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Senior
2 5 (29.41%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) Developer
3 4 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Java Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Architect
4 3 (17.65%) Senior Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Lead
5 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Security Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) IT Security Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) Lead Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Lead Java Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Security Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) cloud-init
1 6 (35.29%) Kafka
1 6 (35.29%) Keycloak
2 4 (23.53%) RESTful
2 4 (23.53%) Spring
2 4 (23.53%) Spring Boot
2 4 (23.53%) Spring Security
2 4 (23.53%) Swagger
3 3 (17.65%) OpenAPI
3 3 (17.65%) Spring Batch
4 1 (5.88%) OAuth
4 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
4 1 (5.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) PKI
2 3 (17.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Linux
1 10 (58.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (35.29%) CentOS
2 6 (35.29%) Unix
3 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 9 (52.94%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (41.18%) DevOps
5 6 (35.29%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 6 (35.29%) Identity Management
5 6 (35.29%) Observability
5 6 (35.29%) Secrets Management
5 6 (35.29%) Static Application Security Testing
5 6 (35.29%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (29.41%) Agile
6 5 (29.41%) Mobile Device Management
7 4 (23.53%) API Design
7 4 (23.53%) BDD
7 4 (23.53%) Coaching
7 4 (23.53%) Continuous Delivery
7 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
7 4 (23.53%) Microservices
7 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
7 4 (23.53%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Bash
2 8 (47.06%) Python
3 6 (35.29%) Go
4 4 (23.53%) Java
4 4 (23.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) SC Cleared
1 10 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 7 (41.18%) AWS Certification
3 2 (11.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
3 2 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.88%) CISM
4 1 (5.88%) CISSP
4 1 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (5.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) NCSC
2 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (5.88%) GDPR
3 1 (5.88%) GRC
3 1 (5.88%) NIST
3 1 (5.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) Kubernetes
2 8 (47.06%) Terraform
3 6 (35.29%) Consul
3 6 (35.29%) Grafana
3 6 (35.29%) Istio
3 6 (35.29%) Jamf Pro
3 6 (35.29%) linkerd
3 6 (35.29%) Packer
3 6 (35.29%) Prometheus
3 6 (35.29%) Rancher
3 6 (35.29%) ZABBIX
4 5 (29.41%) HAProxy
5 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (5.88%) Nessus
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Okta
1 6 (35.29%) Splunk
2 5 (29.41%) Apple
2 5 (29.41%) ESET
3 2 (11.76%) Google
4 1 (5.88%) Qualys