Cloud Security Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Cloud Security
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Cloud Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.42% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £540 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 205 144 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 85.42% 81.36% 88.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 58 79
10th Percentile £193 £148 £209
25th Percentile £325 £213 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £431 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £513 £538 £536
90th Percentile £638 £601 £628
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 19 10
10th Percentile £12.31 £22.50 £11.08
25th Percentile £13.71 £24.18 £12.49
Median hourly rate £17.30 £29.00 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -40.34% +115.45% -5.11%
75th Percentile £25.15 £48.03 £15.49
90th Percentile - £78.47 £18.08
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Cloud Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Cloud Security

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
County Antrim - 1 - - 9
Cloud Security
UK

Cloud Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Account Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Account Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle