Cloud Security Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Cloud Security
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Cloud Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 130 124
Rank change year-on-year +27 -6 +68
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 89 37 67
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.17% 0.90% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 1.07% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 22 49
10th Percentile £363 £501 £445
25th Percentile £413 £557 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £638 £538
Median % change year-on-year -22.82% +18.60% -14.00%
75th Percentile £553 £675 £600
90th Percentile £650 £788 £684
England median daily rate £550 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.04% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate £95.00 - £70.00

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 3,638 3,466 4,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.78% 84.29% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,383 1,905 3,024
10th Percentile £254 £300 £281
25th Percentile £375 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.05% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £559 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £663 £679
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 179 211
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.75 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.44 £17.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £24.50 £35.36 £27.20
Median % change year-on-year -30.71% +30.00% +29.52%
75th Percentile £41.94 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £63.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +41.67%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in the North of England

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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 7 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in the North of England

Cloud Security
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cloud Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cloud Security

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 7 October 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 +1 42 £455 -30.00% 19
Yorkshire +9 38 £500 -18.37% 15
North East - 9 £725 - 5
Cloud Security
England

Cloud Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (6.74%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.12%) Confluence
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 52 (58.43%) AWS
2 36 (40.45%) Azure
3 20 (22.47%) GCP
4 16 (17.98%) GitHub
5 11 (12.36%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (11.24%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (7.87%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (7.87%) Serverless
8 5 (5.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (5.62%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 5 (5.62%) AWS CloudTrail
8 5 (5.62%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (4.49%) AWS KMS
9 4 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (4.49%) Entra ID
9 4 (4.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (3.37%) Amazon S3
10 3 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (28.09%) Firewall
2 9 (10.11%) Network Security
3 6 (6.74%) VPN
4 5 (5.62%) DNS
4 5 (5.62%) SSL
4 5 (5.62%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.25%) HTTP
5 2 (2.25%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (1.12%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.49%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.37%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.25%) Big Data
4 2 (2.25%) Data Hub
4 2 (2.25%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.25%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 11 (12.36%) GitLab
2 9 (10.11%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.11%) JIRA
2 9 (10.11%) Postman
2 9 (10.11%) SoapUI
3 5 (5.62%) CircleCI
3 5 (5.62%) Git
General
1 30 (33.71%) Finance
2 29 (32.58%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.24%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.99%) Banking
5 3 (3.37%) Legal
6 2 (2.25%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.12%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.12%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (19.10%) Security Engineer
2 15 (16.85%) Analyst
3 14 (15.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (14.61%) Cloud Engineer
5 12 (13.48%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (12.36%) AWS DevOps
7 10 (11.24%) Architect
7 10 (11.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 9 (10.11%) Security Architect
9 8 (8.99%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 8 (8.99%) Senior
9 8 (8.99%) Test Analyst
10 7 (7.87%) Consultant
11 6 (6.74%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (6.74%) Security Consultant
12 5 (5.62%) Lead
12 5 (5.62%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
13 4 (4.49%) Cloud Consultant
13 4 (4.49%) Lead DevOps
13 4 (4.49%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.37%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (3.37%) LDAP
2 2 (2.25%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.25%) RESTful
3 1 (1.12%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.12%) Django
3 1 (1.12%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.12%) Flask
3 1 (1.12%) NestJS
3 1 (1.12%) Node.js
3 1 (1.12%) Regular Expression
3 1 (1.12%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.12%) SLSA
3 1 (1.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.36%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.62%) NHS
2 5 (5.62%) Security Posture
3 4 (4.49%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.37%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (3.37%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (3.37%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.37%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.25%) PKI
6 1 (1.12%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.48%) Windows
2 10 (11.24%) Linux
3 3 (3.37%) Unix
3 3 (3.37%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (38.20%) CI/CD
2 27 (30.34%) DevOps
3 25 (28.09%) DevSecOps
4 23 (25.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (20.22%) Cybersecurity
7 14 (15.73%) Identity Access Management
8 13 (14.61%) Incident Response
9 12 (13.48%) Vulnerability Management
10 11 (12.36%) Agile
10 11 (12.36%) Information Security
10 11 (12.36%) Observability
10 11 (12.36%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 10 (11.24%) Application Security
11 10 (11.24%) Artificial Intelligence
11 10 (11.24%) Security Operations
12 9 (10.11%) API Testing
12 9 (10.11%) Privileged Access Management
12 9 (10.11%) Security Testing
12 9 (10.11%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 14 (15.73%) Python
2 8 (8.99%) Bash
3 5 (5.62%) SQL
4 4 (4.49%) Bicep
4 4 (4.49%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.37%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.25%) Java
6 2 (2.25%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.25%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.25%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.12%) Korn
Qualifications
1 24 (26.97%) CISSP
2 15 (16.85%) CISM
3 12 (13.48%) Security Cleared
4 9 (10.11%) AWS Certification
4 9 (10.11%) SC Cleared
5 8 (8.99%) ISTQB
5 8 (8.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (5.62%) Azure Certification
6 5 (5.62%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (4.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) CISMP
7 4 (4.49%) GSEC
8 3 (3.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.37%) MCSA
8 3 (3.37%) MCSE
9 2 (2.25%) GCIA
9 2 (2.25%) GCIH
9 2 (2.25%) GIAC
9 2 (2.25%) SSCP
10 1 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (24.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (22.47%) NIST
3 17 (19.10%) GDPR
4 11 (12.36%) PCI DSS
5 6 (6.74%) QA
6 3 (3.37%) SOC 2
7 2 (2.25%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (2.25%) HIPAA
7 2 (2.25%) NIST 800
8 1 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (1.12%) GRC
System Software
1 6 (6.74%) Docker
2 4 (4.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.12%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.12%) Snort
Systems Management
1 22 (24.72%) Terraform
2 19 (21.35%) Kubernetes
3 9 (10.11%) Prometheus
4 8 (8.99%) Grafana
5 4 (4.49%) SCCM
6 3 (3.37%) CASB
6 3 (3.37%) Nessus
6 3 (3.37%) Norton AntiVirus
7 2 (2.25%) Ansible
7 2 (2.25%) Fluentd
7 2 (2.25%) Kustomize
7 2 (2.25%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.25%) Puppet
8 1 (1.12%) Argo
8 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.12%) QRadar
Vendors
1 33 (37.08%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.48%) CyberArk
3 11 (12.36%) Google
4 8 (8.99%) BeyondTrust
4 8 (8.99%) Splunk
4 8 (8.99%) Thycotic
5 7 (7.87%) Zscaler
6 5 (5.62%) McAfee
7 4 (4.49%) Darktrace
8 3 (3.37%) Cisco
8 3 (3.37%) Remedy
8 3 (3.37%) Symantec
8 3 (3.37%) Tenable
9 2 (2.25%) Citrix
9 2 (2.25%) Cribl.io
9 2 (2.25%) F5
9 2 (2.25%) ForgeRock
9 2 (2.25%) Rapid7
9 2 (2.25%) Varonis
10 1 (1.12%) ArcSight