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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 81 70
Rank change year-on-year +12 -11 +24
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 11 12 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.24% 0.85% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 0.98% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 24
10th Percentile £565 £474 £537
25th Percentile £625 £547 £605
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £750 £653 £650
90th Percentile £778 £659 £722
North West median daily rate £496 £676 £625
% change year-on-year -26.63% +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 789 1,223 1,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.25% 86.74% 90.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 837 1,200
10th Percentile £300 £323 £318
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £551 £588 £595
90th Percentile £669 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 75 49
10th Percentile £17.74 £12.44 £16.44
25th Percentile £24.93 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% -25.71% +93.83%
75th Percentile £74.06 £60.63 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.78 £73.70 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £24.90 £35.02
% change year-on-year +30.55% -28.90% +51.88%

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 22 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 (18.18%) Apache Spark
1 2 (18.18%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (18.18%) dbt
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub
3 2 (18.18%) IaaS
3 2 (18.18%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Akamai
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
4 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.09%) DHCP
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) HTTP
2 1 (9.09%) VPN
2 1 (9.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Big Data
1 2 (18.18%) Data Mining
1 2 (18.18%) Data Vault
1 2 (18.18%) Hadoop
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (27.27%) Legal
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Automotive
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Kafka
2 2 (18.18%) Node.js
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
3 1 (9.09%) cloud-init
3 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (9.09%) Keycloak
3 1 (9.09%) NestJS
3 1 (9.09%) RESTful
3 1 (9.09%) SailPoint
3 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (9.09%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (9.09%) IoT
2 1 (9.09%) Operational Technology
2 1 (9.09%) PKI
2 1 (9.09%) SCADA
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Unix
2 1 (9.09%) CentOS
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) Data Security
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (27.27%) Analytics
3 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
4 2 (18.18%) Ethical Hacking
4 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Red Team
4 2 (18.18%) Runbook
4 2 (18.18%) Secure Coding
4 2 (18.18%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) Go
3 1 (9.09%) Perl
3 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
3 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) CREST Certified
1 2 (18.18%) OSCE
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CISM
2 1 (9.09%) CISSP
2 1 (9.09%) CRISC
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
1 2 (18.18%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) GRC
2 1 (9.09%) HIPAA
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) NCSC
2 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Consul
3 1 (9.09%) Grafana
3 1 (9.09%) Istio
3 1 (9.09%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (9.09%) linkerd
3 1 (9.09%) Packer
3 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
3 1 (9.09%) Rancher
3 1 (9.09%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) F5
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Okta
2 1 (9.09%) Ping Identity
2 1 (9.09%) Splunk
2 1 (9.09%) Zscaler