Cloud Security Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Cloud Security
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Cloud Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 54 45
Rank change year-on-year -10 -9 +22
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 17 3 12
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 2.59% 0.65% 2.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 0.72% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 0 10
10th Percentile £347 - £500
25th Percentile £392 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £576
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.43%
75th Percentile £565 - £1,084
90th Percentile £606 - £1,400
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £613 £530
% change year-on-year -18.37% +15.57% -18.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 629 414 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.74% 89.22% 93.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 218 261
10th Percentile £300 £235 £375
25th Percentile £384 £425 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £587
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -11.48% +17.49%
75th Percentile £543 £588 £663
90th Percentile £638 £650 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £481 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.75% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 5
10th Percentile £14.66 - £18.35
25th Percentile £15.00 £12.55 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +22.39%
75th Percentile £20.44 £18.81 £31.25
90th Percentile £25.15 £21.50 £42.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.79 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year +25.20% -7.32% +7.89%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Security relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Cloud Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Cloud Security

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 7 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in South Yorkshire

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 October 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
Sheffield -5 17 £475 - 3
Cloud Security
Yorkshire

Cloud Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (76.47%) AWS
2 10 (58.82%) Azure
3 9 (52.94%) GCP
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (5.88%) Akamai
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (5.88%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (5.88%) AWS KMS
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.88%) Route 53
5 1 (5.88%) Serverless
5 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (5.88%) VULTR
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) Postman
1 9 (52.94%) SoapUI
2 8 (47.06%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (70.59%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Analyst
1 8 (47.06%) Test Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Programme Director
3 2 (11.76%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Security Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Security Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Services Director
4 1 (5.88%) Web Applications Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.88%) Regular Expression
1 1 (5.88%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.88%) Cyber Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) DevSecOps
2 12 (70.59%) CI/CD
3 9 (52.94%) API Testing
3 9 (52.94%) Identity Access Management
3 9 (52.94%) Privileged Access Management
3 9 (52.94%) Security Testing
4 8 (47.06%) Agile
4 8 (47.06%) Kanban
4 8 (47.06%) Scrum
4 8 (47.06%) Software Testing
4 8 (47.06%) Test Management
5 7 (41.18%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (29.41%) Incident Response
6 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (23.53%) DevOps
7 4 (23.53%) Regulatory Compliance
7 4 (23.53%) Risk Management
7 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (17.65%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Bash
1 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) CISSP
2 9 (52.94%) CISM
3 8 (47.06%) ISTQB
4 1 (5.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.88%) CCSK
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (64.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (58.82%) NIST
3 9 (52.94%) GDPR
4 7 (41.18%) PCI DSS
5 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
1 1 (5.88%) Snort
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Grafana
2 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) CyberArk
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 8 (47.06%) BeyondTrust
2 8 (47.06%) Google
2 8 (47.06%) Thycotic
3 1 (5.88%) ArcSight
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco
3 1 (5.88%) F5
3 1 (5.88%) Imperva
3 1 (5.88%) Splunk