Cloud Security Contracts in Somerset

Cloud Security
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 28 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 7 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 4.22% 0.90% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 1.23% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% - -
75th Percentile £450 - -
90th Percentile £476 - -
South West median daily rate £600 £600 £700
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +9.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 156 163 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 93.98% 73.76% 90.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 92 124
10th Percentile £225 £200 £245
25th Percentile £373 £406 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £494
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% +4.30% +12.86%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £675
90th Percentile £775 £625 £738
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +9.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 32 14
10th Percentile £14.83 £12.50 £31.59
25th Percentile - - £37.50
Median hourly rate £18.51 £25.00 £50.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.96% -50.74% -2.40%
75th Percentile £20.39 £40.00 £60.13
90th Percentile £63.75 £59.93 £69.02
South West median hourly rate £27.64 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -49.75% -4.35% +15.00%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

Job postings citing Cloud Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Somerset.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in Somerset

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security in Somerset.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in Somerset

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 26 June 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
Bath -3 6 £375 -46.43% 5
Street - 1 £450 - 2
Cloud Security
South West

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
General
1 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Security Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (71.43%) Incident Response
1 5 (71.43%) Patch Management
1 5 (71.43%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (42.86%) Business Continuity
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) Security Hardening
2 3 (42.86%) Server Hardening
2 3 (42.86%) Virtual Environments
2 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (14.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (14.29%) Privileged Identity Management
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Detection
4 1 (14.29%) Two-Factor Authentication
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Nessus
1 3 (42.86%) SCCM
1 3 (42.86%) WSUS
2 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Qualys
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft