Cloud Security Contract Job Trends in Merton

Cloud Security
South London > Merton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merton requiring Cloud Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merton 2.86% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median daily rate £519 £710 -
% change year-on-year -26.94% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merton

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 Merton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 23 21 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merton 65.71% 80.77% 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 13
10th Percentile £185 £232 £103
25th Percentile £271 £334 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £394 £450
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -12.50% +12.50%
75th Percentile £377 £475 £520
90th Percentile £411 £491 £638
South London median daily rate £505 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.76% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 7
10th Percentile - - £29.75
25th Percentile £54.55 £68.80 £40.82
Median hourly rate £63.50 £73.60 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -13.72% +67.88% -5.39%
75th Percentile £66.50 £80.80 £61.19
90th Percentile £67.70 £82.24 £76.80
South London median hourly rate £61.22 £73.60 £23.50
% change year-on-year -16.82% +213.19% -46.11%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

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

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in Merton

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Trend in Merton

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

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

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in Merton

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 Merton region over the 6 months to 1 February 2026. 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
Morden - 1 £425 - 1
Cloud Security
South London

Cloud Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merton 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 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DKIM
1 1 (100.00%) DMARC
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Exchange Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Proofpoint