Cloud Security Contracts in London

Cloud Security
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 130 171 128
Rank change year-on-year +41 -43 +69
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 273 245 544
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.18% 1.37% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 1.55% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 165 372
10th Percentile £425 £438 £463
25th Percentile £506 £525 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £630 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.98% -3.08% -
75th Percentile £688 £775 £738
90th Percentile £813 £802 £825
England median daily rate £600 £600 £635
% change year-on-year - -5.44% +1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £22.40
25th Percentile - - £44.00
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £91.88
90th Percentile - - £99.00
England median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +60.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in London

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in London

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in London

Cloud Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security in London.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Security in London

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +23 50 £625 - 19
South London +13 8 £450 -33.33% 3
West London - 4 £475 - 7
East London +8 2 £540 -7.69% 2
North London - 1 £413 -
Cloud Security
England

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 14 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.66%) Confluence
4 5 (1.83%) nginx
4 5 (1.83%) Traefik
5 4 (1.47%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.37%) Apache
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (1.83%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.37%) Notion
3 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) BASE24
2 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 145 (53.11%) Azure
2 117 (42.86%) AWS
3 50 (18.32%) GCP
4 44 (16.12%) Entra ID
5 38 (13.92%) IaaS
6 37 (13.55%) Microsoft 365
7 34 (12.45%) PaaS
8 28 (10.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (9.52%) Serverless
10 18 (6.59%) SaaS
11 16 (5.86%) Azure Sentinel
11 16 (5.86%) Power Platform
11 16 (5.86%) Snowflake
11 16 (5.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 14 (5.13%) GitHub
13 13 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
14 12 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (4.40%) OneDrive
15 11 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (3.66%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 49 (17.95%) Firewall
1 49 (17.95%) Network Security
2 20 (7.33%) VPN
3 12 (4.40%) DNS
4 11 (4.03%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.56%) WAN
6 6 (2.20%) VLAN
7 5 (1.83%) HTTP
7 5 (1.83%) NGFW
7 5 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (1.47%) DHCP
9 3 (1.10%) BGP
9 3 (1.10%) NAS
9 3 (1.10%) OSPF
9 3 (1.10%) SAN
9 3 (1.10%) SD-WAN
9 3 (1.10%) SSL
9 3 (1.10%) Wireless
10 2 (0.73%) Internet
10 2 (0.73%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.59%) Amazon Redshift
2 16 (5.86%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (3.30%) MongoDB
4 8 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.93%) Power BI
5 7 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.20%) MySQL
7 5 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.47%) Big Data
8 4 (1.47%) GIS
8 4 (1.47%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.73%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.73%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.73%) NonStop SQL
9 2 (0.73%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.37%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 18 (6.59%) GitLab
2 14 (5.13%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.40%) Git
3 12 (4.40%) JIRA
4 4 (1.47%) Cucumber
4 4 (1.47%) Jasmine
4 4 (1.47%) JUnit
5 2 (0.73%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.37%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.37%) JMeter
6 1 (0.37%) Locust
6 1 (0.37%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.37%) Postman
6 1 (0.37%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.37%) Selenium
6 1 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 76 (27.84%) Social Skills
2 55 (20.15%) Finance
3 37 (13.55%) Public Sector
4 23 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.66%) Banking
5 10 (3.66%) Financial Institution
6 6 (2.20%) Military
7 5 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.83%) Legal
7 5 (1.83%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.10%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.10%) Marketing
9 3 (1.10%) Retail
10 2 (0.73%) Electronics
10 2 (0.73%) Law
10 2 (0.73%) Local Government
10 2 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.37%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (30.04%) Architect
2 48 (17.58%) Security Architect
3 36 (13.19%) Security Engineer
4 33 (12.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 32 (11.72%) AWS Engineer
6 31 (11.36%) Senior
7 29 (10.62%) Lead
8 24 (8.79%) Cloud Architect
9 22 (8.06%) DevOps Engineer
10 21 (7.69%) Azure Architect
10 21 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
11 14 (5.13%) Analyst
12 13 (4.76%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 13 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (4.40%) Enterprise Architect
14 11 (4.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 10 (3.66%) Cloud Security Engineer
16 9 (3.30%) Cloud Security Architect
16 9 (3.30%) Senior Architect
17 8 (2.93%) Enterprise Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.76%) ARM Templates
2 9 (3.30%) SAML
3 8 (2.93%) OAuth
3 8 (2.93%) OpenID
4 5 (1.83%) cloud-init
4 5 (1.83%) Kafka
4 5 (1.83%) Keycloak
4 5 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (1.83%) RESTful
4 5 (1.83%) Spring
4 5 (1.83%) YAML
5 4 (1.47%) Node.js
5 4 (1.47%) OpenAPI
5 4 (1.47%) Spring Batch
5 4 (1.47%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.47%) Spring Security
5 4 (1.47%) Swagger
6 3 (1.10%) .NET
6 3 (1.10%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.10%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.09%) Security Posture
2 20 (7.33%) Management Information System
3 14 (5.13%) Cloud Native
4 13 (4.76%) PKI
5 12 (4.40%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.66%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.20%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.83%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.47%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.47%) Insider Threat
9 4 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.47%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.47%) Shadow IT
10 3 (1.10%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.10%) BYOD
10 3 (1.10%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.10%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.72%) Windows
2 25 (9.16%) Linux
3 14 (5.13%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.66%) Unix
5 9 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.83%) CentOS
7 3 (1.10%) VMS
8 2 (0.73%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (26.74%) Problem-Solving
2 69 (25.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 62 (22.71%) DevOps
4 57 (20.88%) Cybersecurity
5 56 (20.51%) CI/CD
6 42 (15.38%) Security Architecture
7 37 (13.55%) Identity Access Management
7 37 (13.55%) Vulnerability Management
8 36 (13.19%) Containerisation
8 36 (13.19%) Incident Response
9 33 (12.09%) Information Security
10 30 (10.99%) Risk Management
11 28 (10.26%) Agile
12 27 (9.89%) High Availability
12 27 (9.89%) Mentoring
13 26 (9.52%) Security Operations
14 25 (9.16%) Stakeholder Management
15 24 (8.79%) Penetration Testing
16 22 (8.06%) Analytics
16 22 (8.06%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 71 (26.01%) Python
2 40 (14.65%) PowerShell
3 28 (10.26%) Bash
4 19 (6.96%) Java
5 15 (5.49%) SQL
6 14 (5.13%) Bicep
7 6 (2.20%) Go
8 4 (1.47%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.10%) C#
9 3 (1.10%) C++
9 3 (1.10%) Perl
9 3 (1.10%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.73%) C
10 2 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.37%) Scala
11 1 (0.37%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 73 (26.74%) Security Cleared
2 58 (21.25%) SC Cleared
3 45 (16.48%) CISSP
4 42 (15.38%) Degree
5 24 (8.79%) AWS Certification
6 19 (6.96%) Azure Certification
6 19 (6.96%) CISM
7 14 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (4.40%) DV Cleared
9 10 (3.66%) CISA
9 10 (3.66%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (2.93%) CEH
10 8 (2.93%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (2.56%) CRISC
12 6 (2.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (2.20%) OCP
12 6 (2.20%) Oracle Certification
13 5 (1.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (22.71%) NIST
2 50 (18.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (10.26%) GDPR
4 13 (4.76%) SOC 2
5 11 (4.03%) PCI DSS
6 9 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 9 (3.30%) NCSC
7 7 (2.56%) GRC
7 7 (2.56%) SLA
8 6 (2.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (2.20%) HIPAA
8 6 (2.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (1.10%) Accessibility
10 3 (1.10%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.37%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.37%) QA
System Software
1 35 (12.82%) Active Directory
2 20 (7.33%) Docker
2 20 (7.33%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.73%) vSphere
5 1 (0.37%) FreeRADIUS
5 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.37%) iptables
5 1 (0.37%) Lustre
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 78 (28.57%) Terraform
2 45 (16.48%) Kubernetes
3 18 (6.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (5.86%) Ansible
5 12 (4.40%) Grafana
6 10 (3.66%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.56%) CASB
8 6 (2.20%) SCCM
8 6 (2.20%) ZABBIX
9 5 (1.83%) Consul
9 5 (1.83%) HAProxy
9 5 (1.83%) Istio
9 5 (1.83%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (1.83%) linkerd
9 5 (1.83%) Packer
9 5 (1.83%) Rancher
9 5 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.10%) Argo
10 3 (1.10%) FortiGate
10 3 (1.10%) Nessus
Vendors
1 79 (28.94%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.96%) Google
3 13 (4.76%) Splunk
4 12 (4.40%) Oracle
4 12 (4.40%) Palo Alto
5 11 (4.03%) Zscaler
6 8 (2.93%) Cisco
7 7 (2.56%) Qualys
7 7 (2.56%) VMware
8 6 (2.20%) Meraki
8 6 (2.20%) Okta
9 5 (1.83%) Apple
9 5 (1.83%) ESET
9 5 (1.83%) Tenable
10 4 (1.47%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.47%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (1.47%) Databricks
10 4 (1.47%) ESRI
10 4 (1.47%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.47%) ServiceNow