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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 109 103
Rank change year-on-year +17 -6 +94
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 50 26 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.98% 0.98% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 1.20% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 24 41
10th Percentile £455 £468 £450
25th Percentile £463 £498 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £565 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.21% -13.08% +4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £656 £738
90th Percentile £800 £675 £750
England median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -

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 2,216 2,158 2,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.59% 81.43% 85.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,420 1,469 1,803
10th Percentile £231 £270 £250
25th Percentile £358 £374 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £611 £600
90th Percentile £644 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 96 86
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.13 £14.70 £18.69
Median hourly rate £21.35 £19.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.55% -29.15% +48.65%
75th Percentile £26.69 £35.63 £51.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £50.36 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.85
% change year-on-year -41.51% +5.28% +54.13%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +19 47 £515 -18.90% 17
East Midlands - 3 £492 - 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 18 (36.00%) Confluence
2 8 (16.00%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (16.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 37 (74.00%) AWS
2 27 (54.00%) Azure
3 19 (38.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 18 (36.00%) Amazon EC2
4 18 (36.00%) Amazon ELB
4 18 (36.00%) Amazon S3
4 18 (36.00%) AWS KMS
4 18 (36.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 13 (26.00%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (24.00%) GCP
7 10 (20.00%) Amazon Glacier
8 8 (16.00%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (16.00%) Route 53
9 3 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (2.00%) OCI
11 1 (2.00%) OpenShift
11 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 25 (50.00%) Firewall
2 18 (36.00%) SMTP
3 17 (34.00%) DNS
4 16 (32.00%) FTP
4 16 (32.00%) HTTP
4 16 (32.00%) SSH
5 12 (24.00%) Network Security
6 8 (16.00%) IMAP
6 8 (16.00%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (6.00%) VPN
8 1 (2.00%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (36.00%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (16.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.00%) Power BI
4 1 (2.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (42.00%) Git
2 20 (40.00%) JIRA
3 18 (36.00%) Jenkins
3 18 (36.00%) Vagrant
4 3 (6.00%) GitLab
General
1 22 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 21 (42.00%) Public Sector
3 11 (22.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.00%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Finance
6 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 17 (34.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (32.00%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (26.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 13 (26.00%) Platform Engineer
4 12 (24.00%) AWS DevOps
4 12 (24.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 10 (20.00%) Architect
6 8 (16.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 8 (16.00%) Security Architect
7 7 (14.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 4 (8.00%) Security Solutions Architect
8 4 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (6.00%) IT Architect
9 3 (6.00%) IT Security Architect
9 3 (6.00%) Network Security Architect
10 2 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) CyberArk Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Product Owner
11 1 (2.00%) Information Security Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.00%) LDAP
2 2 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.00%) OAuth
3 1 (2.00%) OpenID
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.00%) SailPoint
3 1 (2.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (36.00%) Replication
2 8 (16.00%) Security Posture
3 5 (10.00%) Operational Technology
3 5 (10.00%) SCADA
4 2 (4.00%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 28 (56.00%) Windows
2 27 (54.00%) Linux
3 18 (36.00%) Amazon Linux
3 18 (36.00%) VMS
4 7 (14.00%) Unix
5 6 (12.00%) Ubuntu
6 4 (8.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (46.00%) DevOps
2 20 (40.00%) Change Management
3 18 (36.00%) Configuration Management
3 18 (36.00%) Platform Engineering
4 16 (32.00%) CI/CD
4 16 (32.00%) Patch Management
5 15 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
6 12 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (18.00%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (18.00%) SIEM
8 8 (16.00%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (16.00%) Unit Testing
9 7 (14.00%) Regulatory Compliance
9 7 (14.00%) Security Architecture
9 7 (14.00%) SOAR
9 7 (14.00%) Task Automation
10 6 (12.00%) Agile
10 6 (12.00%) Application Security
10 6 (12.00%) Design Patterns
10 6 (12.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 31 (62.00%) Python
2 27 (54.00%) PowerShell
3 18 (36.00%) Groovy
4 13 (26.00%) Java
5 10 (20.00%) Perl
5 10 (20.00%) SQL
6 2 (4.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 27 (54.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (52.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (22.00%) Azure Certification
4 10 (20.00%) AWS Certification
5 9 (18.00%) Degree
6 4 (8.00%) CISA
6 4 (8.00%) CISM
6 4 (8.00%) CISSP
7 3 (6.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.00%) CEH
7 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (4.00%) CRISC
8 2 (4.00%) GIAC
8 2 (4.00%) OSCP
8 2 (4.00%) PCI QSA
9 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
9 1 (2.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (2.00%) OCP
9 1 (2.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.00%) NIST
2 4 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (8.00%) PCI DSS
3 3 (6.00%) GDPR
3 3 (6.00%) QA
4 2 (4.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (2.00%) COBIT
5 1 (2.00%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 23 (46.00%) Docker
2 16 (32.00%) DFS Replication
3 13 (26.00%) Active Directory
4 8 (16.00%) Dovecot
4 8 (16.00%) Postfix
4 8 (16.00%) Squid
5 2 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (48.00%) Terraform
2 19 (38.00%) Grafana
2 19 (38.00%) Prometheus
3 8 (16.00%) Nessus
4 6 (12.00%) Kubernetes
4 6 (12.00%) Proxmox
5 4 (8.00%) Ansible
6 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (2.00%) CASB
7 1 (2.00%) Kibana
7 1 (2.00%) logstash
7 1 (2.00%) QRadar
7 1 (2.00%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 19 (38.00%) ServiceNow
2 8 (16.00%) BeyondTrust
2 8 (16.00%) CyberArk
2 8 (16.00%) Jaspersoft
2 8 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.00%) Cisco
3 2 (4.00%) Google
3 2 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.00%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.00%) Commvault
4 1 (2.00%) IBM
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle
4 1 (2.00%) Rapid7
4 1 (2.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.00%) Splunk
4 1 (2.00%) Veeam