Cloud Security Contracts in the South East

Cloud Security
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 12 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 161 129
Rank change year-on-year +40 -32 +74
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 43 30 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.22% 0.61% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 0.74% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 22 63
10th Percentile £464 £464 £305
25th Percentile £500 £500 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -13.60% +13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £647 £708
90th Percentile £724 £699 £838
England median daily rate £569 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -5.21% -4.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,156 4,074 5,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.86% 82.67% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,974 2,483 3,397
10th Percentile £250 £255 £259
25th Percentile £400 £402 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -0.58% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 323 238
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.43
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.25 £21.05
Median hourly rate £21.32 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.82% +14.70% +100.00%
75th Percentile £49.69 £70.00 £63.56
90th Percentile £70.92 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in the South East

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in the South East

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in the South East over the 6 months to 12 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in the South East

Cloud Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Security in the South East

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
Thames Valley +29 28 £550 -10.20% 19
Berkshire +35 27 £550 -8.33% 11
Hampshire +25 7 £500 -16.67% 10
Surrey +18 6 £500 -29.82% 4
East Sussex - 2 - -
Buckinghamshire +1 1 £525 -30.00% 3
Cloud Security
England

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (2.33%) CMS
1 1 (2.33%) Headless CMS
1 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (2.33%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (9.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (62.79%) Azure
2 15 (34.88%) AWS
3 12 (27.91%) GCP
4 6 (13.95%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (11.63%) Entra ID
5 5 (11.63%) IaaS
5 5 (11.63%) PaaS
5 5 (11.63%) SaaS
6 4 (9.30%) OCI
7 2 (4.65%) Akamai
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.33%) Datadog
8 1 (2.33%) GitHub
8 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.33%) Nutanix
8 1 (2.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 14 (32.56%) Firewall
2 6 (13.95%) Network Security
3 2 (4.65%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (4.65%) VPN
4 1 (2.33%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (2.33%) NAS
4 1 (2.33%) SAN
4 1 (2.33%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.33%) VLAN
4 1 (2.33%) WAN
4 1 (2.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (4.65%) JIRA
2 1 (2.33%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.33%) Metasploit
General
1 14 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.93%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (20.93%) Finance
3 2 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.33%) Legal
4 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Retail
4 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Architect
1 10 (23.26%) Consultant
2 7 (16.28%) Security Architect
2 7 (16.28%) Security Consultant
3 4 (9.30%) Analyst
3 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 4 (9.30%) SAP Consultant
3 4 (9.30%) SAP Security Consultant
3 4 (9.30%) SOC Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Cloud Consultant
5 2 (4.65%) Cloud Security Consultant
5 2 (4.65%) Junior
5 2 (4.65%) Junior Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Junior Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (4.65%) Oracle Security Consultant
5 2 (4.65%) Security Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Senior
5 2 (4.65%) SOC Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (2.33%) .NET
2 1 (2.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (2.33%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.33%) CSS
2 1 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.33%) HTML
2 1 (2.33%) Node.js
2 1 (2.33%) OAuth
2 1 (2.33%) React
2 1 (2.33%) RESTful
2 1 (2.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (32.56%) Security Posture
2 7 (16.28%) Cloud Native
3 6 (13.95%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (11.63%) Public Cloud
5 4 (9.30%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (6.98%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (6.98%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (4.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (4.65%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (2.33%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (2.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (2.33%) Cyberattack
8 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
8 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (2.33%) Mainframe
8 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
8 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
8 1 (2.33%) PKI
8 1 (2.33%) PMI
8 1 (2.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.98%) Windows
2 1 (2.33%) Linux
2 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (32.56%) SIEM
2 13 (30.23%) DevOps
3 12 (27.91%) DevSecOps
4 10 (23.26%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (23.26%) Identity Access Management
4 10 (23.26%) Information Security
4 10 (23.26%) Threat Modelling
5 9 (20.93%) Application Security
5 9 (20.93%) Security Architecture
6 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (16.28%) Data Security
7 7 (16.28%) Roadmaps
7 7 (16.28%) Vulnerability Management
8 6 (13.95%) Business Transformation
8 6 (13.95%) CI/CD
8 6 (13.95%) Incident Response
8 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (13.95%) Regulatory Compliance
8 6 (13.95%) Security Operations
8 6 (13.95%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
1 3 (6.98%) Python
2 1 (2.33%) C
2 1 (2.33%) C#
2 1 (2.33%) C++
2 1 (2.33%) Java
2 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.33%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (2.33%) Ruby
2 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (25.58%) CISSP
2 6 (13.95%) Degree
3 5 (11.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 5 (11.63%) Azure Certification
3 5 (11.63%) CCSP
3 5 (11.63%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (9.30%) AWS Certification
4 4 (9.30%) CISMP
4 4 (9.30%) GSEC
4 4 (9.30%) Security Cleared
5 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (6.98%) Master's Degree
6 2 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (4.65%) CISA
6 2 (4.65%) CISM
6 2 (4.65%) GCIH
6 2 (4.65%) GIAC
6 2 (4.65%) OSCP
6 2 (4.65%) SANS
6 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (39.53%) GDPR
2 14 (32.56%) NIST
3 13 (30.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (20.93%) PCI DSS
5 5 (11.63%) PSD2
6 3 (6.98%) HIPAA
7 2 (4.65%) NIST 800
8 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
8 1 (2.33%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (2.33%) COBIT
8 1 (2.33%) COSO
System Software
1 4 (9.30%) Docker
2 3 (6.98%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (11.63%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.65%) Terraform
3 1 (2.33%) CASB
3 1 (2.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (2.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 16 (37.21%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.30%) SAP
3 3 (6.98%) Cisco
3 3 (6.98%) Qualys
4 2 (4.65%) CyberArk
4 2 (4.65%) Oracle
4 2 (4.65%) Rapid7
4 2 (4.65%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.65%) Splunk
5 1 (2.33%) Darktrace
5 1 (2.33%) Dell
5 1 (2.33%) Dell KACE
5 1 (2.33%) Forcepoint
5 1 (2.33%) Google
5 1 (2.33%) Kenna
5 1 (2.33%) Meraki
5 1 (2.33%) NetApp
5 1 (2.33%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.33%) Ubiquiti
5 1 (2.33%) VMware