Cloud Security Contracts in the North of England

Cloud Security
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 95 148 96
Rank change year-on-year +53 -52 +55
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 72 37 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.19% 0.78% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 0.90% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 17 94
10th Percentile £400 £470 £502
25th Percentile £479 £588 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.69% +18.18% -12.00%
75th Percentile £738 £700 £638
90th Percentile £773 £725 £670
England median daily rate £600 £600 £635
% change year-on-year - -5.44% +1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +60.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in the North of England

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in the North of England

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in the North of England

Cloud Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Security in the North of England

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +43 46 £510 -24.58% 46
Yorkshire +13 22 £700 +16.67% 38
North East - 4 £750 - 11
Cloud Security
England

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (9.72%) nginx
1 7 (9.72%) Traefik
2 5 (6.94%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (6.94%) Confluence
2 5 (6.94%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.78%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 22 (30.56%) AWS
2 16 (22.22%) Azure
3 14 (19.44%) Entra ID
4 10 (13.89%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
5 9 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (8.33%) GitHub
6 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (6.94%) OneDrive
8 4 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (5.56%) Slack
9 3 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (4.17%) GCP
9 3 (4.17%) Serverless
10 2 (2.78%) IaaS
10 2 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.89%) DNS
1 10 (13.89%) TCP/IP
2 6 (8.33%) HTTP
3 2 (2.78%) Firewall
4 1 (1.39%) DHCP
4 1 (1.39%) Internet
4 1 (1.39%) Network Security
4 1 (1.39%) VPN
4 1 (1.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.44%) MongoDB
2 5 (6.94%) Data Lake
3 4 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
3 4 (5.56%) MySQL
3 4 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.17%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.78%) Big Data
5 2 (2.78%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.78%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.39%) DB2
6 1 (1.39%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (22.22%) GitLab
2 9 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.94%) JIRA
4 4 (5.56%) Cucumber
4 4 (5.56%) Jasmine
4 4 (5.56%) JUnit
5 3 (4.17%) Git
General
1 11 (15.28%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.11%) Finance
3 7 (9.72%) Banking
4 6 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.17%) Legal
5 3 (4.17%) Military
6 1 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.39%) Automotive
6 1 (1.39%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 17 (23.61%) Administrator
1 17 (23.61%) Architect
1 17 (23.61%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
2 16 (22.22%) Senior
3 10 (13.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
5 7 (9.72%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Security Architect
6 5 (6.94%) Security Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Developer
7 4 (5.56%) Integration Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Java Developer
8 3 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (4.17%) Lead
8 3 (4.17%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.28%) Kafka
2 9 (12.50%) cloud-init
2 9 (12.50%) Keycloak
3 4 (5.56%) RESTful
3 4 (5.56%) Spring
3 4 (5.56%) Spring Boot
3 4 (5.56%) Spring Security
3 4 (5.56%) Swagger
4 3 (4.17%) OpenAPI
4 3 (4.17%) Spring Batch
5 1 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.39%) JSON
5 1 (1.39%) Node.js
5 1 (1.39%) OAuth
5 1 (1.39%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.39%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.39%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.28%) PKI
2 3 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.78%) Operational Technology
3 2 (2.78%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.39%) CESG
4 1 (1.39%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.39%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (1.39%) IoT
4 1 (1.39%) SCADA
4 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.83%) Linux
2 13 (18.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (13.89%) Unix
4 9 (12.50%) CentOS
5 5 (6.94%) Windows
6 1 (1.39%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 22 (30.56%) Process Improvement
4 21 (29.17%) DevOps
5 18 (25.00%) Budget Management
5 18 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (18.06%) Continuous Integration
6 13 (18.06%) Observability
7 12 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 11 (15.28%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (13.89%) Identity Management
9 10 (13.89%) Microservices
10 9 (12.50%) Agile
10 9 (12.50%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 9 (12.50%) Secrets Management
10 9 (12.50%) Static Application Security Testing
11 8 (11.11%) Data Protection
11 8 (11.11%) High Availability
11 8 (11.11%) Test Automation
12 7 (9.72%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (23.61%) Python
2 13 (18.06%) Bash
3 9 (12.50%) Go
3 9 (12.50%) SQL
4 6 (8.33%) Java
5 5 (6.94%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.17%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.39%) Perl
7 1 (1.39%) Ruby
7 1 (1.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (26.39%) BPSS Clearance
2 14 (19.44%) Security Cleared
3 11 (15.28%) SC Cleared
4 10 (13.89%) AWS Certification
5 6 (8.33%) Degree
6 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (4.17%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.78%) CISM
8 2 (2.78%) CISSP
8 2 (2.78%) CREST Certified
8 2 (2.78%) OSCE
9 1 (1.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (1.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.89%) NCSC
2 5 (6.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.56%) NIST
4 3 (4.17%) GRC
5 2 (2.78%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.78%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.39%) COBIT
6 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (1.39%) GDPR
6 1 (1.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (1.39%) JSP 440
6 1 (1.39%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.39%) SLA
6 1 (1.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (8.33%) Docker
2 2 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 13 (18.06%) Terraform
3 9 (12.50%) Consul
3 9 (12.50%) Grafana
3 9 (12.50%) Istio
3 9 (12.50%) Jamf Pro
3 9 (12.50%) linkerd
3 9 (12.50%) Packer
3 9 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 9 (12.50%) Rancher
3 9 (12.50%) ZABBIX
4 7 (9.72%) HAProxy
5 3 (4.17%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.39%) CASB
7 1 (1.39%) Nessus
7 1 (1.39%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.89%) Splunk
3 9 (12.50%) Okta
4 7 (9.72%) Apple
4 7 (9.72%) ESET
5 3 (4.17%) Google
6 2 (2.78%) ForgeRock
6 2 (2.78%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.39%) Ariba
7 1 (1.39%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.39%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.39%) F5
7 1 (1.39%) IBM
7 1 (1.39%) Imperva
7 1 (1.39%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.39%) Oracle
7 1 (1.39%) Qualys
7 1 (1.39%) SAP
7 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow