Cloud Security Engineer Contracts

Cloud Security Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Security Engineer daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 659 762
Rank change year-on-year +79 +103 -130
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 11 59 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.100% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.11% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 39 48
10th Percentile £473 £420 £528
25th Percentile £496 £486 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £725
Median % change year-on-year - -17.24% +25.27%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £800
90th Percentile £700 £717 £873
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £633 £535
% change year-on-year -21.74% +18.22% +9.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £97.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

Cloud Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security Engineer in the UK

Cloud Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security Engineer in the UK

Cloud Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security Engineer over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security Engineer in the UK

Cloud Security Engineer
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 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
England +69 8 £600 - 11
Work from Home +113 4 £569 -5.21% 13
London +75 4 £650 +10.17% 7
UK excluding London +55 3 £495 -21.74% 6
South East +19 2 £495 -28.78% 1
Scotland - 1 - -

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 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 featuring Cloud Security Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 5 (45.45%) AWS
3 4 (36.36%) Azure
3 4 (36.36%) GCP
3 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 4 (36.36%) Terraform
3 4 (36.36%) Google
3 4 (36.36%) Python
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (27.27%) Serverless
4 3 (27.27%) Docker
4 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
4 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 3 (27.27%) Security Posture
4 3 (27.27%) Security Architecture
4 3 (27.27%) Banking
4 3 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (27.27%) Big Data
4 3 (27.27%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (18.18%) Big Data Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Route 53
5 2 (18.18%) SaaS
5 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) GCP
3 3 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (27.27%) Serverless
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (18.18%) CloudFront
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (18.18%) Route 53
4 2 (18.18%) SaaS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (9.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Big Data
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (18.18%) BigQuery
2 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Snyk
2 1 (9.09%) CircleCI
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (27.27%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Security Posture
2 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (27.27%) Analytics
3 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
3 3 (27.27%) Security Architecture
4 2 (18.18%) Big Data Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) ETL
4 2 (18.18%) Information Security
4 2 (18.18%) Information Security Management
4 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
4 2 (18.18%) OO
4 2 (18.18%) OOP
4 2 (18.18%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (18.18%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) CISSP
1 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) CASB
3 1 (9.09%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Google
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk