Cloud Security Contracts in the North West

Cloud Security
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 74 117 88
Rank change year-on-year +43 -29 +23
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 46 20 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.34% 0.73% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.59% 0.84% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 11 41
10th Percentile £400 £425 £531
25th Percentile £443 £544 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £676 £625
Median % change year-on-year -24.58% +8.16% -
75th Percentile £650 £707 £670
90th Percentile £768 £725 £715
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in the North West

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in the North West

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in the North West

Cloud Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Security in the North West

Cloud Security
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 within the North West 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
Lancashire - 19 £525 - 19
Cheshire +3 12 £476 -29.59% 5
Manchester +16 10 £700 +12.00% 35
Merseyside - 3 £400 - 2
Cumbria - 1 - -
Cloud Security
England

Cloud Security
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (10.87%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (10.87%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.35%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.09%) AWS
2 11 (23.91%) Azure
3 10 (21.74%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (13.04%) GitHub
4 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (10.87%) Entra ID
5 5 (10.87%) OneDrive
6 3 (6.52%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (4.35%) dbt
7 2 (4.35%) IaaS
7 2 (4.35%) SaaS
8 1 (2.17%) Akamai
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.17%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.17%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) HTTP
2 2 (4.35%) DNS
2 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.17%) DHCP
3 1 (2.17%) Firewall
3 1 (2.17%) Internet
3 1 (2.17%) Network Security
3 1 (2.17%) VPN
3 1 (2.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) Data Lake
2 3 (6.52%) Hadoop
3 2 (4.35%) Big Data
3 2 (4.35%) Data Mining
3 2 (4.35%) Data Vault
3 2 (4.35%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.17%) DB2
4 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (17.39%) GitLab
2 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (19.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.87%) Finance
3 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.52%) Banking
4 3 (6.52%) Legal
5 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Automotive
5 1 (2.17%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (36.96%) Administrator
1 17 (36.96%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
2 10 (21.74%) Architect
3 6 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Security Architect
5 4 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Security Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (6.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Senior
7 2 (4.35%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) ForgeRock Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Architect
8 1 (2.17%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (2.17%) ITIL Service Manager
8 1 (2.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) User Experience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) Kafka
2 1 (2.17%) cloud-init
2 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.17%) JSON
2 1 (2.17%) Keycloak
2 1 (2.17%) Node.js
2 1 (2.17%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.52%) PKI
2 2 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.35%) Operational Technology
2 2 (4.35%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.17%) CESG
3 1 (2.17%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.17%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (2.17%) IoT
3 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.17%) SCADA
3 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Windows
2 3 (6.52%) Linux
3 2 (4.35%) Unix
4 1 (2.17%) CentOS
4 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (58.70%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (47.83%) Process Improvement
3 17 (36.96%) Budget Management
4 8 (17.39%) DevOps
5 7 (15.22%) CI/CD
5 7 (15.22%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (15.22%) Mentoring
6 6 (13.04%) Actionable Insight
6 6 (13.04%) Data Governance
7 5 (10.87%) Capacity Planning
7 5 (10.87%) Customer Acquisition
7 5 (10.87%) Data Loss Prevention
7 5 (10.87%) Data Protection
7 5 (10.87%) High Availability
7 5 (10.87%) Performance Metrics
7 5 (10.87%) Performance Optimisation
7 5 (10.87%) Resource Allocation
7 5 (10.87%) Technical Architecture
7 5 (10.87%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (10.87%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.22%) Python
2 5 (10.87%) PowerShell
2 5 (10.87%) SQL
3 3 (6.52%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.35%) Java
5 1 (2.17%) Bash
5 1 (2.17%) Go
5 1 (2.17%) Perl
5 1 (2.17%) Ruby
5 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (36.96%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (10.87%) Degree
3 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.35%) CREST Certified
4 2 (4.35%) OSCE
4 2 (4.35%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.17%) CISM
5 1 (2.17%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) NIST
2 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.35%) GRC
2 2 (4.35%) NCSC
3 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.17%) COBIT
3 1 (2.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.17%) JSP 440
3 1 (2.17%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.52%) Progress Chef
2 3 (6.52%) Terraform
3 1 (2.17%) CASB
3 1 (2.17%) Consul
3 1 (2.17%) Grafana
3 1 (2.17%) Istio
3 1 (2.17%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (2.17%) linkerd
3 1 (2.17%) Packer
3 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.17%) Rancher
3 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.35%) ForgeRock
2 2 (4.35%) Splunk
2 2 (4.35%) Zscaler
3 1 (2.17%) Cloudera
3 1 (2.17%) CyberArk
3 1 (2.17%) F5
3 1 (2.17%) Google
3 1 (2.17%) IBM
3 1 (2.17%) Imperva
3 1 (2.17%) Okta
3 1 (2.17%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle
3 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow