Cloud Security Contracts in the Thames Valley

Cloud Security
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 80 132 118
Rank change year-on-year +52 -14 +12
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 22 13 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.46% 0.48% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 0.56% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 9 18
10th Percentile £490 £218 £393
25th Percentile £525 £272 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £675
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -33.33% +26.17%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £701
90th Percentile £682 £715 £715
South East median daily rate £550 £510 £700
% change year-on-year +7.84% -27.14% +27.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in the Thames Valley

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in the Thames Valley

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in the Thames Valley

Cloud Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Security in the Thames Valley

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +37 18 £550 +25.71% 37
Buckinghamshire +17 2 £600 -20.00% 35
Oxfordshire - 2 £625 - 21
Cloud Security
South East

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (4.55%) CMS
1 1 (4.55%) Headless CMS
1 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
1 1 (4.55%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) SAP ERP
1 3 (13.64%) SAP GRC
1 3 (13.64%) SAP MDG
1 3 (13.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) Azure
2 7 (31.82%) AWS
3 5 (22.73%) GCP
4 4 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (9.09%) SaaS
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.55%) IaaS
6 1 (4.55%) OCI
6 1 (4.55%) PaaS
6 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Firewall
1 3 (13.64%) Network Security
2 2 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (4.55%) DNS
3 1 (4.55%) LAN
3 1 (4.55%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.55%) SSL
3 1 (4.55%) VPN
3 1 (4.55%) WAN
3 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Burp Suite
1 2 (9.09%) Metasploit
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Architect
2 5 (22.73%) Consultant
2 5 (22.73%) Security Architect
3 3 (13.64%) SAP Consultant
3 3 (13.64%) SAP Security Consultant
3 3 (13.64%) Security Consultant
3 3 (13.64%) Security Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Penetration Tester
4 2 (9.09%) SOC Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Tester
5 1 (4.55%) Audit Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow Architect
5 1 (4.55%) SIEM Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) SOC Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Strategy Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (9.09%) OAuth
3 1 (4.55%) .NET
3 1 (4.55%) .NET Core
3 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.55%) CSS
3 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.55%) HTML
3 1 (4.55%) OpenID
3 1 (4.55%) React
3 1 (4.55%) RESTful
3 1 (4.55%) SAML
3 1 (4.55%) SPML
3 1 (4.55%) Vue
3 1 (4.55%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Security Posture
2 2 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.55%) Cyberattack
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.55%) PKI
3 1 (4.55%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (27.27%) DevSecOps
2 6 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
2 6 (27.27%) Security Architecture
2 6 (27.27%) SIEM
3 5 (22.73%) Incident Response
3 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (22.73%) Risk Management
4 4 (18.18%) Application Security
4 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 4 (18.18%) Data Protection
4 4 (18.18%) Regulatory Compliance
4 4 (18.18%) SOAR
4 4 (18.18%) Threat Intelligence
5 3 (13.64%) Computer Science
5 3 (13.64%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 3 (13.64%) DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) Security Operations
5 3 (13.64%) Threat Detection
5 3 (13.64%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) Python
2 2 (9.09%) C
2 2 (9.09%) C++
2 2 (9.09%) Java
2 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.09%) Ruby
3 1 (4.55%) C#
3 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.55%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 6 (27.27%) CISSP
3 5 (22.73%) Degree
4 4 (18.18%) DV Cleared
4 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
5 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (13.64%) Master's Degree
5 3 (13.64%) OSCP
6 2 (9.09%) CISA
6 2 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (9.09%) CISM
6 2 (9.09%) CRISC
6 2 (9.09%) GCIH
6 2 (9.09%) GIAC
6 2 (9.09%) GPEN
6 2 (9.09%) GWAPT
6 2 (9.09%) OSCE
6 2 (9.09%) SANS
7 1 (4.55%) GCFA
7 1 (4.55%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (36.36%) GDPR
1 8 (36.36%) NIST
2 7 (31.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (18.18%) PCI DSS
4 3 (13.64%) GRC
5 2 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (9.09%) HIPAA
6 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
6 1 (4.55%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (4.55%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) CASB
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) QRadar
2 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) SAP
2 3 (13.64%) Splunk
3 2 (9.09%) Cisco
3 2 (9.09%) Rapid7
3 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.55%) Aruba
4 1 (4.55%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.55%) Darktrace
4 1 (4.55%) Forcepoint
4 1 (4.55%) Google
4 1 (4.55%) Kenna
4 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto