Cloud Security Contracts in the Midlands

Cloud Security
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 90 104 121
Rank change year-on-year +14 +17 +67
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 21 29 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.10% 1.05% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.28% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 25 35
10th Percentile £456 £468 £450
25th Percentile £528 £500 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £615 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% +11.82% -13.73%
75th Percentile £652 £675 £731
90th Percentile £791 - £788
England median daily rate £600 £600 £635
% change year-on-year - -5.44% +1.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in the Midlands

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in the Midlands

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in the Midlands

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +7 20 £608 -1.18% 29
East Midlands +9 1 - - 16
Cloud Security
England

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (85.71%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) AWS
2 6 (28.57%) GCP
3 4 (19.05%) Entra ID
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (19.05%) Power Platform
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (9.52%) OCI
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (4.76%) Google App Engine
5 1 (4.76%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (38.10%) Network Security
2 6 (28.57%) Firewall
3 2 (9.52%) VPN
4 1 (4.76%) DSL
4 1 (4.76%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle Database
1 4 (19.05%) Power BI
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle Forms
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Finance
3 4 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Architect
2 7 (33.33%) Security Architect
3 5 (23.81%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Security Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Lead
5 3 (14.29%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Senior
5 3 (14.29%) Senior Architect
5 3 (14.29%) Senior Security Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Consultant
6 2 (9.52%) Oracle Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Security Consultant
6 2 (9.52%) Security Solutions Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Consultant
7 1 (4.76%) CyberArk Consultant
7 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) LDAP
2 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.76%) OAuth
2 1 (4.76%) OpenID
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Security Posture
2 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
2 4 (19.05%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 3 (14.29%) Onboarding
4 2 (9.52%) Operational Technology
4 2 (9.52%) Replication
4 2 (9.52%) SCADA
5 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
5 1 (4.76%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Windows
2 3 (14.29%) Linux
3 2 (9.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Identity Access Management
2 10 (47.62%) Migration
3 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (23.81%) Design Patterns
4 5 (23.81%) Identity Management
5 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (19.05%) Data Protection
5 4 (19.05%) DevSecOps
5 4 (19.05%) Information Security
5 4 (19.05%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 4 (19.05%) Penetration Testing
5 4 (19.05%) RBAC
5 4 (19.05%) Security Architecture
5 4 (19.05%) SIEM
5 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (19.05%) Zero Trust
6 3 (14.29%) Application Security
6 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 3 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) SQL
2 2 (9.52%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) CISSP
3 2 (9.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Certification
3 2 (9.52%) CCSP
3 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (9.52%) Master's Degree
3 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) CEH
4 1 (4.76%) CISA
4 1 (4.76%) CISM
4 1 (4.76%) OCP
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) NIST
2 3 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (9.52%) PCI DSS
3 2 (9.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (4.76%) GDPR
4 1 (4.76%) HIPAA
4 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 3 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Single Sign-On
1 4 (19.05%) Terraform
2 3 (14.29%) CASB
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.76%) Ansible
4 1 (4.76%) Kibana
4 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.76%) logstash
4 1 (4.76%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Oracle
2 4 (19.05%) CyberArk
2 4 (19.05%) ServiceNow
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.52%) TOWER Software
5 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.76%) Google
5 1 (4.76%) IBM
5 1 (4.76%) Splunk