Cloud Security Contracts in the South West

Cloud Security
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Cloud Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Security over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 133 145
Rank change year-on-year +7 +12 -35
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 23 35 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.72% 0.96% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.07% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 26 14
10th Percentile £300 £600 £378
25th Percentile £434 £622 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £533
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +26.75% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £738 £703
90th Percentile £708 £788 £820
England median daily rate £600 £635 £625
% change year-on-year -5.44% +1.52% +9.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate - £70.00 £43.59
% change year-on-year - +60.61% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Cloud Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,653 3,256 3,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.09% 89.72% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,693 2,396 2,335
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +6.21%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £589
90th Percentile £700 £723 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 334 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.19 £16.32 £20.08
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.50 £48.61
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +26.52% +8.02%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.37 £69.95
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.77 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.19% +51.01% +1.46%

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 3 May 2024.

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 3 May 2024. 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 +2 11 £600 -7.69% 2
Bristol +17 10 £300 -57.89% 8
Gloucestershire +6 1 £500 -23.08%
Somerset - 1 £700 - 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) Azure
2 11 (47.83%) AWS
3 5 (21.74%) GCP
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (17.39%) AWS CloudTrail
4 4 (17.39%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (17.39%) IaaS
5 3 (13.04%) Entra ID
5 3 (13.04%) PaaS
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) Network Security
2 2 (8.70%) Firewall
2 2 (8.70%) VPN
3 1 (4.35%) DMZ
3 1 (4.35%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Burp Suite
General
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Legal
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Cloud Engineer
1 7 (30.43%) Security Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Architect
2 4 (17.39%) Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Java Developer
2 4 (17.39%) SOC Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Ethical Hacker
3 3 (13.04%) Security Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) IT Architect
4 2 (8.70%) IT Security Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Security Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Information Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Information Security Architect
5 1 (4.35%) IT Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) IT Security Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) GWT
1 4 (17.39%) JAX-RS
1 4 (17.39%) REST
1 4 (17.39%) Restlet
1 4 (17.39%) SAML
1 4 (17.39%) Spring
1 4 (17.39%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Cloud Native
1 5 (21.74%) Security Posture
2 4 (17.39%) Insider Threat
2 4 (17.39%) Public Cloud
3 3 (13.04%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (4.35%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (4.35%) Cyberattack
4 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.35%) Operational Technology
4 1 (4.35%) PKI
4 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Kali Linux
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (34.78%) Security Architecture
3 7 (30.43%) Agile
3 7 (30.43%) Information Security
3 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (30.43%) SIEM
4 6 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (21.74%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (21.74%) Incident Response
6 4 (17.39%) Analytics
6 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
6 4 (17.39%) Digital Strategy
6 4 (17.39%) Kalman Filter
6 4 (17.39%) Log Analytics
6 4 (17.39%) Risk Assessment
6 4 (17.39%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (17.39%) SOAR
6 4 (17.39%) Threat Detection
6 4 (17.39%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 3 (13.04%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) Python
2 4 (17.39%) Java
3 2 (8.70%) Bash
3 2 (8.70%) C#
3 2 (8.70%) Julia
3 2 (8.70%) Perl
3 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 7 (30.43%) SC Cleared
3 4 (17.39%) CISSP
4 3 (13.04%) CISM
4 3 (13.04%) OSCP
5 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (8.70%) Degree
6 1 (4.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
6 1 (4.35%) CCNP
6 1 (4.35%) CCSP
6 1 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (4.35%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (39.13%) NIST
2 5 (21.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (21.74%) PCI DSS
3 4 (17.39%) GDPR
3 4 (17.39%) NCSC
4 1 (4.35%) COBIT
4 1 (4.35%) COSO
4 1 (4.35%) GRC
4 1 (4.35%) HIPAA
4 1 (4.35%) ISA99
4 1 (4.35%) NIST 800
4 1 (4.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Terraform
2 5 (21.74%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (17.39%) Trend Micro Deep Security
4 1 (4.35%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 5 (21.74%) Google
3 4 (17.39%) Splunk
4 1 (4.35%) F5
4 1 (4.35%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.35%) LogRhythm
4 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.35%) SAP
4 1 (4.35%) VMware