Cloud Security Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Security Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 398 439
Rank change year-on-year +74 +41 +68
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Architect 12 1 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.005% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.005% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 7
10th Percentile £550 - £673
25th Percentile £603 £725 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -7.89%
75th Percentile £688 £775 £743
90th Percentile - - £806
UK median daily rate £675 £780 £700
% change year-on-year -13.46% +11.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 12
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Cloud Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Cloud Security Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security Architect within the UK excluding London 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
South West - 6 £670 - 28
North of England - 3 £550 - 49
South East +47 2 £675 -10.00% 51
Yorkshire - 2 £550 - 21
North West - 1 £750 - 22
Scotland - 1 - - 9
Cloud Security Architect
UK

Cloud Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cloud Security Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Security Architect in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 11 (91.67%) Azure
3 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
4 6 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
4 6 (50.00%) AWS
4 6 (50.00%) Security Architecture
4 6 (50.00%) DV Cleared
4 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
5 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
5 5 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (41.67%) AWS Certification
6 4 (33.33%) Security Operations
6 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
6 4 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
7 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
8 2 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
8 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
8 2 (16.67%) Google
8 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
8 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (16.67%) Agile
8 2 (16.67%) GCP
9 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
9 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
9 1 (8.33%) TOGAF
9 1 (8.33%) SIEM
9 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365

Cloud Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (91.67%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 6 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 6 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 5 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 4 (33.33%) Security Operations
5 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (8.33%) Migration
6 1 (8.33%) Performance Management
6 1 (8.33%) Performance Measurement
6 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
6 1 (8.33%) SIEM
6 1 (8.33%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (8.33%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) AWS Certification
2 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (8.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Google
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Citrix
2 1 (8.33%) OpenAI
2 1 (8.33%) VMware