Cloud Security Contracts in the South West

Cloud Security
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 134 132
Rank change year-on-year +46 -2 +17
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 23 23 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.37% 0.72% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 0.87% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 18 26
10th Percentile £413 £300 £600
25th Percentile £463 £434 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -18.52% +22.73%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £738
90th Percentile £688 £708 £788
England median daily rate £600 £600 £635
% change year-on-year - -5.44% +1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +60.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in the South West

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in the South West

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in the South West

Cloud Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Security in the South West

Cloud Security
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 within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Wiltshire +30 8 £658 +9.58% 2
Gloucestershire +21 6 £475 -5.00% 19
Bristol +15 6 £525 +75.00% 19
Somerset +5 3 £450 -35.71% 3
Cloud Security
England

Cloud Security
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 16 (69.57%) Azure
2 15 (65.22%) AWS
3 6 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (8.70%) GCP
5 1 (4.35%) Akamai
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Network Security
2 1 (4.35%) DHCP
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) HTTP
2 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Banking
3 1 (4.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Architect
1 11 (47.83%) Security Architect
2 7 (30.43%) Cloud Architect
3 6 (26.09%) Cloud Security Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Administrator
4 3 (13.04%) Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Security Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Security Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) Security Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (4.35%) Node.js
1 1 (4.35%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Security Posture
2 3 (13.04%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.70%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (8.70%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Windows
1 5 (21.74%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.35%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (30.43%) Incident Response
3 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (26.09%) Security Operations
3 6 (26.09%) Threat Modelling
3 6 (26.09%) Vulnerability Management
4 5 (21.74%) Application Security
4 5 (21.74%) Migration
4 5 (21.74%) Security Architecture
4 5 (21.74%) Threat Analysis
5 4 (17.39%) Project Management
5 4 (17.39%) Task Automation
5 4 (17.39%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 4 (17.39%) Threat Intelligence
6 3 (13.04%) Analytics
6 3 (13.04%) Decision-Making
6 3 (13.04%) DevOps
6 3 (13.04%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (13.04%) Roadmaps
6 3 (13.04%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.70%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (8.70%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.35%) Perl
3 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (65.22%) Security Cleared
2 11 (47.83%) SC Cleared
3 9 (39.13%) DV Cleared
4 8 (34.78%) AWS Certification
5 5 (21.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
7 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) GRC
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) McAfee ePO
1 4 (17.39%) SCCM
2 3 (13.04%) Norton AntiVirus
2 3 (13.04%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
3 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.70%) Terraform
4 1 (4.35%) Nessus
4 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) McAfee
3 3 (13.04%) Symantec
4 1 (4.35%) F5
4 1 (4.35%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.35%) Qualys
4 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow