Cloud Security Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Cloud Security
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Cloud Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 19 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 1.55% 1.98% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 2.25% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
75th Percentile £625 £638 -
90th Percentile £700 - -
South East median daily rate £560 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -6.67% +14.29% -23.30%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 203 89 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 78.68% 88.12% 85.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 51 117
10th Percentile £203 £250 £147
25th Percentile £291 £355 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.25% +11.11% -6.72%
75th Percentile £553 £613 £525
90th Percentile £639 £688 £623
South East median daily rate £513 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +1.49% +1.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 9 39
10th Percentile £15.71 £13.08 £12.30
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.85 £13.23
Median hourly rate £20.25 £27.76 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.05% +42.36% -25.00%
75th Percentile £25.15 £46.30 £28.27
90th Percentile £27.61 £46.54 £57.00
South East median hourly rate £42.00 £28.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -37.78% -5.26%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Cloud Security

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 8 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in Oxfordshire

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 8 April 2026. 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
Oxford - 2 £625 - 2
Cloud Security
South East

Cloud Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Lucidchart
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata
1 1 (25.00%) Semantic Layer
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Data Fabric
2 1 (25.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Data Virtualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (25.00%) OWASP
2 1 (25.00%) Physical Data Model
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks