Cloud Security Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Cloud Security
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Cloud Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 58 58
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +43
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 19 7 21
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 2.79% 1.04% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.14% 1.22% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 17
10th Percentile £428 £484 -
25th Percentile £495 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £600 £510
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +17.65% -7.27%
75th Percentile £543 £638 £588
90th Percentile £563 £645 £600
West Yorkshire median daily rate £510 £600 £510
% change year-on-year -15.00% +17.65% -21.54%

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 606 574 947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 89.12% 85.54% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 364 649
10th Percentile £300 £332 £335
25th Percentile £400 £408 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -5.24% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £486 £525
% change year-on-year +2.83% -7.38% +1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 10
10th Percentile £25.10 £15.38 £16.05
25th Percentile £25.25 £20.13 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £20.66
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +45.24% -2.80%
75th Percentile £27.63 £38.75 £23.14
90th Percentile £28.30 £51.00 £27.58
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £27.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -19.49% +41.03% -7.14%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in Leeds

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in Leeds over the 6 months to 26 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in Leeds

Cloud Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (78.95%) AWS
2 13 (68.42%) Azure
3 12 (63.16%) GCP
4 6 (31.58%) GitHub
4 6 (31.58%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
5 2 (10.53%) OCI
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon Macie
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (5.26%) AWS KMS
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.26%) Serverless
6 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) Firewall
2 4 (21.05%) Network Security
3 2 (10.53%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (10.53%) VPN
4 1 (5.26%) DNS
4 1 (5.26%) SCCP
4 1 (5.26%) SSL
4 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 5 (26.32%) CircleCI
3 2 (10.53%) Git
4 1 (5.26%) GitLab
General
1 7 (36.84%) Public Sector
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Legal
4 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) AWS DevOps
1 6 (31.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 6 (31.58%) AWS Engineer
1 6 (31.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Security Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Security Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Security Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Security Operations Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Security Technical Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Flash
1 2 (10.53%) Smart Contracts
2 1 (5.26%) Django
2 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.26%) FastAPI
2 1 (5.26%) Flask
2 1 (5.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Cloud Native
2 5 (26.32%) NHS
3 2 (10.53%) Blockchain
3 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) CI/CD
1 9 (47.37%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (42.11%) SIEM
3 7 (36.84%) DevOps
4 6 (31.58%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (31.58%) Observability
4 6 (31.58%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (26.32%) Application Security
5 5 (26.32%) DevSecOps
5 5 (26.32%) Incident Response
5 5 (26.32%) Information Security
5 5 (26.32%) Zero Trust
6 4 (21.05%) Data Loss Prevention
6 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (21.05%) SOAR
7 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (15.79%) Regulatory Compliance
7 3 (15.79%) Security Monitoring
7 3 (15.79%) Threat Modelling
7 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Python
2 5 (26.32%) Bash
3 2 (10.53%) Rust
3 2 (10.53%) Solidity
4 1 (5.26%) Bicep
4 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) CISSP
2 3 (15.79%) AWS Certification
2 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (10.53%) CCSK
3 2 (10.53%) CCSP
3 2 (10.53%) CEH
3 2 (10.53%) CISA
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (10.53%) CISM
3 2 (10.53%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (10.53%) GCIA
3 2 (10.53%) GCIH
3 2 (10.53%) GIAC
3 2 (10.53%) OSCP
3 2 (10.53%) SSCP
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (42.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (36.84%) NIST
3 6 (31.58%) PCI DSS
4 5 (26.32%) GDPR
5 3 (15.79%) SOC 2
6 2 (10.53%) NIST 800
6 2 (10.53%) PSD2
7 1 (5.26%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
2 7 (36.84%) Prometheus
2 7 (36.84%) Terraform
3 6 (31.58%) Grafana
4 1 (5.26%) Ansible
4 1 (5.26%) Kustomize
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.26%) Puppet
4 1 (5.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Cisco
2 2 (10.53%) Citrix
2 2 (10.53%) Google
2 2 (10.53%) McAfee
2 2 (10.53%) Rapid7
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk