Cloud Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Cloud Security Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Cloud Security Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 - 93
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.19% - 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% - 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £590
25th Percentile - - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £650
75th Percentile - - £659
90th Percentile - - £665
North West median daily rate £400 - £650

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 986 1,082 1,502
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.72% 93.68% 92.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 627 1,114
10th Percentile £300 £315 £278
25th Percentile £393 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £582
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 34 63
10th Percentile £14.04 £16.23 £15.72
25th Percentile £18.02 £26.14 £16.74
Median hourly rate £22.32 £32.75 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.86% +67.95% -11.36%
75th Percentile £31.40 £61.38 £45.31
90th Percentile £61.13 £73.60 £66.00
North West median hourly rate £27.30 £33.00 £34.54
% change year-on-year -17.28% -4.46% +50.17%

Cloud Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Security Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Cloud Security Engineer job vacancy trend in Manchester

Cloud Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Security Engineer job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Security Engineer job vacancies in Manchester

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 15 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 30 October 2025, Cloud Security Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Cloud Security Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Development
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) NestJS
1 2 (100.00%) Ping Identity
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless Framework
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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%) Pulumi
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) NestJS
1 2 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless Framework
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Development
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Ping Identity