Cloud Security Posture Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security Posture
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Security Posture in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Security Posture 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 334 - 444
Rank change year-on-year - - +67
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security Posture 2 0 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.016% - 0.075%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.047% - 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 17
10th Percentile £545 - -
25th Percentile £575 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £455
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.59%
75th Percentile £725 - £656
90th Percentile £755 - £670
UK median daily rate £725 £488 £457
% change year-on-year +48.72% +6.67% -29.69%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Cloud Security Posture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,241 6,126 7,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.22% 29.49% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 3,665 5,276
10th Percentile £210 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £378 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £598 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 723 439
10th Percentile £16.67 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.00 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Cloud Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cloud Security Posture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

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

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

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

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

Cloud Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

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

Cloud Security Posture
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 Posture 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
North of England - 1 £750 - 2
North West - 1 £750 - 1
South West - 1 £550 - 3
Cloud Security Posture
UK

Cloud Security Posture
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 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Event Correlation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Security Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft