Cloud Security Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Security Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £495 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 442 501
Rank change year-on-year +60 +59 -91
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 3 14 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.015% 0.060% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.063% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 3
10th Percentile - £419 £352
25th Percentile £473 £503 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £633 £535
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +18.22% +9.74%
75th Percentile £518 £695 £618
90th Percentile - £711 £667
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £725
% change year-on-year - -17.24% +26.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 18,985 22,167 29,345
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,554 15,534 20,562
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £399 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,259 1,145 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.03 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.55 £65.00 £42.57
90th Percentile £73.80 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Cloud Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Cloud Security Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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 East +7 2 £495 -28.78% 1
Scotland - 1 - -
Cloud Security Engineer
UK

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Cloud Security Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Budget Responsibility
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security Management
2 2 (66.67%) Security Management
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Splunk
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (33.33%) CASB
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity

Cloud Security Engineer 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Budget Responsibility
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security Management
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Security Management
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk