Cloud Security Posture Contracts in the North West

Cloud Security Posture
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Security Posture in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 123 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security Posture 4 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.18% 0.16% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.61% 0.61% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £598 £501 -
25th Percentile £607 £503 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £621 £510 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.76% - -
75th Percentile £678 £520 -
90th Percentile £736 £523 -
England median daily rate £628 £494 £550
% change year-on-year +27.09% -10.23% -18.52%

All Generic Skills
North West

Cloud Security Posture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 653 661 943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 30.11% 26.09% 30.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 413 625
10th Percentile £268 £300 £286
25th Percentile £360 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +2.15%
75th Percentile £569 £588 £606
90th Percentile £650 £712 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 50 41
10th Percentile £21.77 £12.92 £16.62
25th Percentile £26.88 £15.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £24.38 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +45.64% -12.00% +42.05%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.17 £50.00
90th Percentile £79.20 £63.14 £67.00
England median hourly rate £32.72 £42.50 £41.02
% change year-on-year -23.01% +3.61% +57.77%

Cloud Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security Posture in the North West

Cloud Security Posture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security Posture in the North West

Cloud Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security Posture in the North West over the 6 months to 24 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security Posture in the North West

Cloud Security Posture
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 Posture within the North West region over the 6 months to 24 July 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
Cheshire -16 2 £617 +20.93%
Manchester - 2 £681 -
Cloud Security Posture
England

Cloud Security Posture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) SSL
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (75.00%) Identity Management
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) Log Correlation
2 3 (75.00%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Ticket Management
2 3 (75.00%) Validation
2 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CISSP
1 3 (75.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (75.00%) MCSA
1 3 (75.00%) MCSE
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) CASB
1 3 (75.00%) Nessus
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) CyberArk
1 3 (75.00%) Remedy
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk
1 3 (75.00%) Tenable
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft