Cloud Security Contract Job Trends in the North East

Cloud Security
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Cloud Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 38 34
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 10 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 2.58% 1.01% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 1.08% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £413 £570 -
25th Percentile £435 £600 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £650 £350
Median % change year-on-year -28.31% +85.71% -
75th Percentile £672 £700 -
90th Percentile £744 £730 -
England median daily rate £538 £614 £600
% change year-on-year -12.42% +2.29% -4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 342 278 218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 88.37% 93.60% 86.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 134 151
10th Percentile £176 £305 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £481 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% +6.94% -18.18%
75th Percentile £538 £590 £575
90th Percentile £599 £714 £710
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 26 10
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.22 £15.46
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.50 £15.69
Median hourly rate £28.91 £18.75 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.19% +7.14% -22.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in the North East

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Cloud Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Cloud Security

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in the North East over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in the North East

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Tyne and Wear -2 10 £466 -37.87% 5
Cloud Security
England

Cloud Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (20.00%) AWS KMS
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Architect
1 5 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Security Architect
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Security Architecture
2 4 (40.00%) Application Security
2 4 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Database Security
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) Technical Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Data Encryption
4 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Key Management
5 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (10.00%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
5 1 (10.00%) SIEM
5 1 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bash
1 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) CISSP
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
2 2 (20.00%) GDPR
2 2 (20.00%) HIPAA
2 2 (20.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Icinga
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft