Cloud Security Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Cloud Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Security over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 253 180 280
Rank change year-on-year -73 +100 -51
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 146 341 265
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.71% 1.42% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.59% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 239 186
10th Percentile £393 £450 £413
25th Percentile £500 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.83%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £725 £765 £738
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +75.00% -15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Cloud Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,539 21,424 27,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.73% 89.49% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,477 14,871 19,220
10th Percentile £250 £255 £232
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,058 1,303 1,363
10th Percentile £12.33 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.75 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.34 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.69% +75.00% -8.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Security in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England -55 36 £663 +20.55% 46
South East -6 34 £500 -28.57% 20
Midlands +9 28 £616 +12.05% 23
West Midlands +10 26 £615 +11.82% 14
Scotland +21 22 £700 +43.59% 15
South West +14 22 £600 -11.11% 22
North West -32 19 £676 +8.16% 17
Yorkshire -28 17 £600 +9.09% 21
East of England +5 8 £700 +27.27% 13
Wales +19 2 £650 +73.33% 7
East Midlands +15 2 £625 +25.00% 9
Cloud Security
UK

Cloud Security
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.37%) nginx
1 2 (1.37%) Traefik
2 1 (0.68%) Confluence
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (5.48%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.68%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 65 (44.52%) Azure
2 36 (24.66%) AWS
3 19 (13.01%) Entra ID
4 17 (11.64%) IaaS
5 15 (10.27%) PaaS
6 12 (8.22%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (7.53%) GCP
8 9 (6.16%) Azure Sentinel
8 9 (6.16%) SaaS
9 8 (5.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (4.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (4.11%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.42%) CloudFront
12 4 (2.74%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (2.74%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (2.74%) OCI
13 3 (2.05%) Azure API Management
13 3 (2.05%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 28 (19.18%) Network Security
2 25 (17.12%) Firewall
3 17 (11.64%) VPN
4 15 (10.27%) DNS
5 5 (3.42%) LAN
5 5 (3.42%) TCP/IP
5 5 (3.42%) WAN
6 3 (2.05%) Internet
6 3 (2.05%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.05%) WLAN
7 2 (1.37%) DMZ
8 1 (0.68%) Broadband
8 1 (0.68%) DHCP
8 1 (0.68%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.68%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.42%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.74%) Relational Database
2 4 (2.74%) SAP BW
3 3 (2.05%) Bigtable
3 3 (2.05%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (3.42%) Git
1 5 (3.42%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.05%) Burp Suite
2 3 (2.05%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.37%) GitLab
4 1 (0.68%) JIRA
4 1 (0.68%) NUnit
4 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (15.75%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.33%) Finance
3 16 (10.96%) Public Sector
4 13 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.85%) Retail
6 8 (5.48%) Banking
7 5 (3.42%) Legal
7 5 (3.42%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.74%) French Language
8 4 (2.74%) German Language
9 3 (2.05%) Automotive
9 3 (2.05%) Military
10 2 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.68%) Law
11 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.68%) Marketing
11 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (23.97%) Architect
2 23 (15.75%) Cloud Engineer
3 21 (14.38%) Security Engineer
4 18 (12.33%) Consultant
5 17 (11.64%) Security Consultant
6 14 (9.59%) Senior
7 13 (8.90%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (7.53%) Security Manager
9 9 (6.16%) Security Architect
9 9 (6.16%) SOC Engineer
10 8 (5.48%) Project Manager
10 8 (5.48%) Security Project Manager
11 6 (4.11%) Analyst
11 6 (4.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 6 (4.11%) Lead
12 5 (3.42%) Applications Engineer
12 5 (3.42%) Developer
12 5 (3.42%) DevOps Engineer
13 4 (2.74%) Network Engineer
13 4 (2.74%) Senior SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.90%) SAML
2 5 (3.42%) .NET
2 5 (3.42%) OAuth
2 5 (3.42%) OAuth2
2 5 (3.42%) REST
3 4 (2.74%) GWT
3 4 (2.74%) JAX-RS
3 4 (2.74%) OpenID
3 4 (2.74%) Restlet
3 4 (2.74%) Spring
3 4 (2.74%) Spring Boot
3 4 (2.74%) Web Services
4 3 (2.05%) JSON
4 3 (2.05%) YAML
5 2 (1.37%) cloud-init
5 2 (1.37%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.68%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.68%) Django
6 1 (0.68%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (0.68%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.33%) Cloud Native
2 16 (10.96%) Security Posture
3 11 (7.53%) Public Cloud
4 8 (5.48%) Operational Technology
4 8 (5.48%) PKI
4 8 (5.48%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (4.79%) Management Information System
6 6 (4.11%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.42%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (2.74%) Insider Threat
8 4 (2.74%) Private Cloud
9 3 (2.05%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (2.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (2.05%) IoT
9 3 (2.05%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.37%) Clustering
10 2 (1.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 2 (1.37%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.16%) Windows
2 6 (4.11%) Linux
3 3 (2.05%) Kali Linux
4 2 (1.37%) Android
4 2 (1.37%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.37%) CentOS
4 2 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.37%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (36.99%) Cybersecurity
2 29 (19.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (19.18%) DevOps
3 28 (19.18%) Identity Access Management
4 25 (17.12%) CI/CD
4 25 (17.12%) Security Architecture
5 24 (16.44%) Agile
5 24 (16.44%) Information Security
6 21 (14.38%) Incident Response
6 21 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (13.01%) Microservices
8 17 (11.64%) SIEM
9 16 (10.96%) Application Security
9 16 (10.96%) Change Management
9 16 (10.96%) DevSecOps
10 14 (9.59%) Security Monitoring
11 13 (8.90%) Analytics
12 12 (8.22%) Risk Assessment
12 12 (8.22%) Risk Management
13 10 (6.85%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (15.07%) Python
2 14 (9.59%) Java
3 8 (5.48%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.11%) C#
5 5 (3.42%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (3.42%) Ruby
6 4 (2.74%) Bash
7 3 (2.05%) PHP
8 2 (1.37%) Go
8 2 (1.37%) Julia
8 2 (1.37%) Perl
8 2 (1.37%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.37%) SQL
9 1 (0.68%) C++
9 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 35 (23.97%) Security Cleared
2 30 (20.55%) SC Cleared
3 28 (19.18%) Degree
4 26 (17.81%) CISSP
5 19 (13.01%) CISM
6 16 (10.96%) Azure Certification
7 12 (8.22%) CISA
8 11 (7.53%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (6.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 8 (5.48%) CompTIA Security+
10 8 (5.48%) CRISC
11 7 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (4.79%) Master's Degree
11 7 (4.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (4.11%) AWS Certification
12 6 (4.11%) CISMP
12 6 (4.11%) MBA
13 5 (3.42%) CCSP
13 5 (3.42%) DV Cleared
14 3 (2.05%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (12.33%) NIST
3 9 (6.16%) GRC
4 8 (5.48%) NCSC
5 7 (4.79%) COBIT
6 6 (4.11%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (3.42%) PCI DSS
8 3 (2.05%) GDPR
9 2 (1.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.68%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.68%) ISA99
10 1 (0.68%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (12.33%) Active Directory
2 13 (8.90%) Docker
3 7 (4.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.05%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 23 (15.75%) Terraform
2 13 (8.90%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (5.48%) Ansible
3 8 (5.48%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.74%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 2 (1.37%) Consul
5 2 (1.37%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (1.37%) Graphite
5 2 (1.37%) HAProxy
5 2 (1.37%) Istio
5 2 (1.37%) linkerd
5 2 (1.37%) Packer
5 2 (1.37%) Podman
5 2 (1.37%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.37%) Puppet
5 2 (1.37%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.68%) CASB
6 1 (0.68%) Nessus
Vendors
1 43 (29.45%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.16%) Google
2 9 (6.16%) Palo Alto
3 8 (5.48%) Cisco
4 7 (4.79%) Splunk
4 7 (4.79%) VMware
5 5 (3.42%) F5
5 5 (3.42%) Fortinet
5 5 (3.42%) SAP
6 4 (2.74%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (2.74%) Okta
6 4 (2.74%) Oracle
6 4 (2.74%) Zscaler
7 3 (2.05%) LogRhythm
8 2 (1.37%) Citrix
8 2 (1.37%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.37%) TippingPoint
8 2 (1.37%) Trend Micro
9 1 (0.68%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.68%) ForeScout