Cloud Security Contracts in Manchester

Cloud Security
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 69 85 65
Rank change year-on-year +16 -20 +32
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 10 11 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.08% 0.73% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 0.83% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 29
10th Percentile £618 £458 £528
25th Percentile £644 £506 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% - -
75th Percentile £775 £656 £650
90th Percentile £779 £660 £717
North West median daily rate £510 £676 £625
% change year-on-year -24.58% +8.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
North West median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in Manchester

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in Manchester

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in Manchester

Cloud Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Security in Manchester

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (20.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (20.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (20.00%) dbt
3 2 (20.00%) IaaS
3 2 (20.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Akamai
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (10.00%) DHCP
2 1 (10.00%) HTTP
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Big Data
1 2 (20.00%) Data Mining
1 2 (20.00%) Data Vault
1 2 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Automotive
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) cloud-init
2 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (10.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (10.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (10.00%) IoT
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) PKI
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) SCADA
2 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) CentOS
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Data Security
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
4 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Red Team
4 2 (20.00%) Runbook
4 2 (20.00%) Secure Coding
4 2 (20.00%) Security Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Observability
5 1 (10.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Go
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) Perl
2 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) CREST Certified
1 2 (20.00%) OSCE
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) GRC
2 1 (10.00%) NCSC
2 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (30.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Consul
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Istio
3 1 (10.00%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (10.00%) linkerd
3 1 (10.00%) Packer
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (10.00%) Rancher
3 1 (10.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) F5
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Okta
2 1 (10.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk
2 1 (10.00%) Zscaler