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 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 122 119
Rank change year-on-year +38 -3 +14
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 32 33 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.82% 1.00% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 1.22% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 25 30
10th Percentile £375 £325 £585
25th Percentile £477 £500 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% -11.11% +5.97%
75th Percentile £654 £688 £738
90th Percentile £688 £720 £788
England median daily rate £600 £600 £635
% change year-on-year - -5.44% +1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate £100.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +152.98%

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 1,592 2,712 3,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.71% 82.51% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 962 1,704 2,225
10th Percentile £217 £260 £319
25th Percentile £363 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £687 £700 £725
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 380 295
10th Percentile £16.07 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.51 £29.75 £18.69
Median hourly rate £28.55 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.09% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £66.75 £70.25 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.36
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.42
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.87% +45.72%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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
Bristol +23 12 £550 -16.98% 14
Wiltshire +25 10 £670 +11.67% 7
Somerset +6 7 £400 -42.86% 4
Gloucestershire +25 2 £550 -4.35% 14
Devon +8 1 - - 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 20 (62.50%) Azure
2 16 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (9.38%) Akamai
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (6.25%) GCP
4 2 (6.25%) GitHub
4 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 2 (6.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) Firewall
1 4 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (3.13%) DHCP
2 1 (3.13%) DNS
2 1 (3.13%) HTTP
2 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) GitLab
1 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.38%) Banking
4 3 (9.38%) Legal
4 3 (9.38%) Marketing
5 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Electronics
5 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) Architect
1 14 (43.75%) Security Architect
2 8 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
3 7 (21.88%) Cloud Security Architect
4 6 (18.75%) Analyst
4 6 (18.75%) Security Analyst
4 6 (18.75%) Senior
5 5 (15.63%) Security Engineer
5 5 (15.63%) Senior Architect
5 5 (15.63%) Senior Security Architect
6 4 (12.50%) Consultant
6 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 4 (12.50%) Lead
7 3 (9.38%) Security Consultant
8 2 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Architect
9 1 (3.13%) Cloud Security Consultant
9 1 (3.13%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) SailPoint
2 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.13%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.25%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.13%) SCADA
3 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Windows
1 6 (18.75%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.13%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
1 12 (37.50%) Incident Response
2 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
4 6 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (18.75%) Patch Management
4 6 (18.75%) Security Operations
4 6 (18.75%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (15.63%) Analytics
5 5 (15.63%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (15.63%) Security Architecture
6 4 (12.50%) Business Continuity
6 4 (12.50%) Data Security
6 4 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 4 (12.50%) Security Hardening
6 4 (12.50%) Server Hardening
6 4 (12.50%) Virtual Environments
6 4 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 4 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 3 (9.38%) Artefact Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.38%) Python
2 2 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.13%) Perl
3 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (40.63%) Security Cleared
2 11 (34.38%) DV Cleared
3 9 (28.13%) AWS Certification
4 8 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 6 (18.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (9.38%) CISM
6 3 (9.38%) CISSP
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
7 2 (6.25%) CESG Certified Professional
7 2 (6.25%) Degree
7 2 (6.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) GRC
1 3 (9.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.25%) NCSC
2 2 (6.25%) NIST
2 2 (6.25%) RMADS
3 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Nessus
1 4 (12.50%) SCCM
1 4 (12.50%) WSUS
2 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.63%) Qualys
3 3 (9.38%) F5
3 3 (9.38%) Google
4 2 (6.25%) Salesforce
4 2 (6.25%) SAP
5 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.13%) IBM
5 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow