Cloud Security Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Cloud Security
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 30 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 8 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 3.25% - 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.74% - 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £540 - -
25th Percentile £651 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 - £350
75th Percentile £766 - -
90th Percentile £794 - -
North East median daily rate £725 - £350

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 214 180 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 86.99% 90.91% 85.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 77 105
10th Percentile £225 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% -6.60%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £600
90th Percentile £642 £693 £716
North East median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 19 7
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.75 £16.40
25th Percentile £15.75 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -5.13% +30.61%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £26.13
90th Percentile £36.00 £70.00 £32.70
North East median hourly rate £19.25 £29.77 £20.00
% change year-on-year -35.34% +48.85% +19.90%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Cloud Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Cloud Security

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 7 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in Tyne and Wear

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 7 £725 - 4
Gateshead - 1 £775 -
Cloud Security
North East

Cloud Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (12.50%) AWS KMS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Big Data
2 2 (25.00%) Data Hub
General
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
1 4 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) CloudOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Operations Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Technology Director
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Application Security
1 4 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 4 (50.00%) Database Security
1 4 (50.00%) Microservices
1 4 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (25.00%) Data Science
3 2 (25.00%) DataOps
3 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (12.50%) Commercial Awareness
4 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (12.50%) Product Strategy
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) CISSP
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) HIPAA
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Sage