Cloud Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North West

Cloud Security Engineer
England > North West

The median Cloud Security Engineer daily rate in the North West is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 - 144
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 8 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.34% - 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile - - £590
25th Percentile - - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £650
75th Percentile £419 - £659
90th Percentile £438 - £665
England median daily rate £425 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -26.09% -8.00% +6.84%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 2,161 2,179 2,574
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.07% 93.52% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,423 1,153 1,800
10th Percentile £215 £273 £275
25th Percentile £363 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £593
90th Percentile £680 £650 £674
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 153 180
10th Percentile £14.13 £15.52 £15.98
25th Percentile £18.87 £18.00 £18.00
Median hourly rate £27.30 £33.00 £34.54
Median % change year-on-year -17.28% -4.46% +50.17%
75th Percentile £50.56 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.16 £71.38 £63.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -39.40% -9.55% +55.53%

Cloud Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Security Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Cloud Security Engineer job vacancy trend in the North West

Cloud Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Security Engineer job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Security Engineer job vacancies in the North West

Cloud Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Merseyside - 5 £413 -
Manchester - 2 £400 - 3
Cloud Security Engineer
England

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 30 October 2025, Cloud Security Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring Cloud Security Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Zscaler
3 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (62.50%) Server Hardening
4 4 (50.00%) Azure Certification
4 4 (50.00%) Darktrace
4 4 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 4 (50.00%) Fintech
4 4 (50.00%) Firewall
4 4 (50.00%) Information Security
4 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (50.00%) SharePoint
4 4 (50.00%) Windows
5 2 (25.00%) Agile
5 2 (25.00%) API Development
5 2 (25.00%) AWS
5 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (25.00%) Data Management
5 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (25.00%) Microservices
5 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (25.00%) NestJS
5 2 (25.00%) Ping Identity
5 2 (25.00%) REST
5 2 (25.00%) Scrum
5 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
5 2 (25.00%) Varonis
6 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (12.50%) Pulumi
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
General
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) NestJS
1 2 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless Framework
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 5 (62.50%) Server Hardening
3 4 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 4 (50.00%) Fintech
3 4 (50.00%) Information Security
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) API Development
4 2 (25.00%) Data Management
4 2 (25.00%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) QRadar
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Zscaler
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 4 (50.00%) Darktrace
4 2 (25.00%) Ping Identity
4 2 (25.00%) Varonis