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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 35 45
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 +5
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 12 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in South London 5.29% 1.76% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.09% 2.01% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £444 - -
25th Percentile £483 £705 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £710 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.94% - -
75th Percentile £538 £715 -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £568 £618 £650
% change year-on-year -8.10% -5.00% -3.70%

All Process & 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 197 199 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 86.78% 87.67% 89.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 134 177
10th Percentile £341 £229 £188
25th Percentile £450 £416 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £636 £788 £666
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 23
10th Percentile £54.42 £44.44 £17.00
25th Percentile £54.55 £60.10 £20.25
Median hourly rate £61.22 £73.60 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.82% +213.19% -46.11%
75th Percentile £66.50 £79.60 £61.19
90th Percentile £67.70 £81.76 £83.75
London median hourly rate £34.27 £35.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year -3.46% +16.39% -18.67%

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
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 1 February 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
Croydon +6 11 £525 -
Merton - 1 £425 - 1
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 7 (58.33%) Confluence
1 7 (58.33%) nginx
2 4 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (58.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (58.33%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (58.33%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (58.33%) Amazon ELB
3 7 (58.33%) Amazon S3
3 7 (58.33%) AWS KMS
3 7 (58.33%) Route 53
3 7 (58.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) DNS
1 7 (58.33%) Firewall
1 7 (58.33%) FTP
1 7 (58.33%) HTTP
1 7 (58.33%) IMAP
1 7 (58.33%) OpenLDAP
1 7 (58.33%) SMTP
1 7 (58.33%) SSH
2 1 (8.33%) DKIM
2 1 (8.33%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 7 (58.33%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (58.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (91.67%) JIRA
2 7 (58.33%) Git
2 7 (58.33%) Jenkins
2 7 (58.33%) Vagrant
General
1 11 (91.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (83.33%) Public Sector
3 7 (58.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) AWS Engineer
1 7 (58.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 7 (58.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 7 (58.33%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) AWS DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Exchange Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Penetration Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Security Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Exchange Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Replication
2 1 (8.33%) CSOC
2 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Amazon Linux
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
1 7 (58.33%) Ubuntu
1 7 (58.33%) VMS
1 7 (58.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
2 7 (58.33%) Change Management
2 7 (58.33%) Configuration Management
2 7 (58.33%) DevOps
2 7 (58.33%) Patch Management
2 7 (58.33%) Performance Tuning
2 7 (58.33%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) OWASP
3 4 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (25.00%) Application Security
4 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (25.00%) Decision Tree
4 3 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
4 3 (25.00%) SDLC
4 3 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Groovy
1 7 (58.33%) PowerShell
1 7 (58.33%) Python
1 7 (58.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (58.33%) AWS Certification
2 7 (58.33%) Azure Certification
2 7 (58.33%) Degree
3 4 (33.33%) CEH
3 4 (33.33%) CREST Certified
3 4 (33.33%) OSCP
4 3 (25.00%) SANS
5 1 (8.33%) CHECK Team Leader
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (33.33%) NIST
1 4 (33.33%) NIST 800
2 1 (8.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) DFS Replication
1 7 (58.33%) Docker
1 7 (58.33%) Dovecot
1 7 (58.33%) Postfix
1 7 (58.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Grafana
1 7 (58.33%) Nessus
1 7 (58.33%) Prometheus
1 7 (58.33%) Proxmox
1 7 (58.33%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Jaspersoft
1 7 (58.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Proofpoint