Cloud Security Posture Contracts in the South West

Cloud Security Posture
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Security Posture in contract job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security Posture 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.11% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.34% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £544 - -
25th Percentile £572 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 - -
75th Percentile £697 - -
90th Percentile £721 - -
England median daily rate £628 £494 £550
% change year-on-year +27.09% -10.23% -18.52%

All Generic Skills
South West

Cloud Security Posture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 591 949 858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 31.22% 31.37% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 579 632
10th Percentile £244 £313 £300
25th Percentile £386 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +7.32%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £669
90th Percentile £688 £698 £738
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 149 54
10th Percentile £6.00 £13.69 £19.68
25th Percentile £15.48 £40.00 £60.90
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% -6.67% +78.57%
75th Percentile £52.13 - £83.40
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.75 £84.52
England median hourly rate £32.72 £42.50 £41.02
% change year-on-year -23.01% +3.61% +57.77%

Cloud Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security Posture in the South West

Cloud Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security Posture in the South West over the 6 months to 24 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security Posture in the South West

Cloud Security Posture
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security Posture within the South West region over the 6 months to 24 July 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
Gloucestershire - 2 £638 - 1
Cloud Security Posture
England

Cloud Security Posture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Stack
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Event Correlation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle