Cloud Security Contract Job Trends in South London

Cloud Security
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Cloud Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 37 45
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 +12
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 15 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in South London 7.25% 0.87% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.43% 0.98% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £491 - -
25th Percentile £508 £705 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £710 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.06% - -
75th Percentile £538 £715 -
90th Percentile £584 - -
London median daily rate £564 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -6.04% -7.69% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 178 204 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 85.99% 89.08% 84.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 136 158
10th Percentile £281 £231 £188
25th Percentile £450 £405 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £528 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £595
90th Percentile £642 £778 £675
London median daily rate £526 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.45% -2.65% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 16
10th Percentile £17.98 - £17.94
25th Percentile £54.41 £17.25 £21.75
Median hourly rate £61.22 £19.50 £34.08
Median % change year-on-year +213.94% -42.78% -22.74%
75th Percentile £66.50 £78.40 £53.69
90th Percentile £66.62 £81.28 £70.00
London median hourly rate £31.00 £36.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -13.90% +5.88% -11.39%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in South London

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Cloud Security

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in South London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in South London

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Croydon +13 15 £525 -
Cloud Security
London

Cloud Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (66.67%) Confluence
1 10 (66.67%) nginx
2 4 (26.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (66.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (93.33%) Azure
3 11 (73.33%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (73.33%) Amazon S3
3 11 (73.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 10 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (66.67%) Amazon ELB
4 10 (66.67%) AWS KMS
4 10 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (66.67%) Route 53
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (66.67%) DNS
1 10 (66.67%) Firewall
1 10 (66.67%) FTP
1 10 (66.67%) HTTP
1 10 (66.67%) IMAP
1 10 (66.67%) OpenLDAP
1 10 (66.67%) SMTP
1 10 (66.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (66.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 10 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 14 (93.33%) JIRA
2 11 (73.33%) Git
2 11 (73.33%) Jenkins
3 10 (66.67%) Vagrant
4 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 14 (93.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (86.67%) Public Sector
3 10 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (66.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 10 (66.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 10 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 9 (60.00%) AWS DevOps
3 8 (53.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 8 (53.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (53.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Security Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Test Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Tester
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) DevOps Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Penetration Tester
5 1 (6.67%) Security Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) Replication
2 1 (6.67%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Amazon Linux
1 10 (66.67%) Linux
1 10 (66.67%) Ubuntu
1 10 (66.67%) VMS
1 10 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (73.33%) DevOps
3 10 (66.67%) Change Management
3 10 (66.67%) Configuration Management
3 10 (66.67%) Patch Management
3 10 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
3 10 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (26.67%) OWASP
4 4 (26.67%) Penetration Testing
4 4 (26.67%) Security Testing
4 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
4 4 (26.67%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (20.00%) Application Security
5 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 3 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
5 3 (20.00%) SDLC
5 3 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) Python
2 10 (66.67%) Groovy
2 10 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 10 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (93.33%) SC Cleared
1 14 (93.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 10 (66.67%) Azure Certification
2 10 (66.67%) Degree
3 4 (26.67%) CEH
3 4 (26.67%) CREST Certified
3 4 (26.67%) OSCP
4 3 (20.00%) SANS
5 1 (6.67%) CHECK Team Leader
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (26.67%) NIST
1 4 (26.67%) NIST 800
2 1 (6.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (73.33%) Docker
2 10 (66.67%) DFS Replication
2 10 (66.67%) Dovecot
2 10 (66.67%) Postfix
2 10 (66.67%) Squid
Systems Management
1 11 (73.33%) Terraform
2 10 (66.67%) Grafana
2 10 (66.67%) Nessus
2 10 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 10 (66.67%) Proxmox
3 1 (6.67%) Ansible
3 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Jaspersoft
1 10 (66.67%) ServiceNow