Cloud Security Posture Contracts

Cloud Security Posture
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Security Posture in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Security Posture over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 685 847
Rank change year-on-year +101 +162 -167
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security Posture 10 31 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.052% 0.009%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.076% 0.16% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 19 7
10th Percentile - £413 £580
25th Percentile £425 £414 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £457 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -29.69% +53.39%
75th Percentile £556 £663 £675
90th Percentile £673 £670 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate - £455 £675
% change year-on-year - -32.59% +59.29%

All Generic Skills
UK

Cloud Security Posture is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,143 19,876 29,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.34% 33.30% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,425 13,672 20,442
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £655
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 905 640 723
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £29.00 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.97% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.39 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

Cloud Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cloud Security Posture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security Posture in the UK

Cloud Security Posture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security Posture in the UK

Cloud Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security Posture over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security Posture in the UK

Cloud Security Posture
Top 3 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 Posture within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 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 +110 9 £469 -30.04% 5
London +107 8 £469 -31.07% 2
Work from Home +115 3 £644 +49.71% 2

Cloud Security Posture
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 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) Azure API Management
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) CircleCI
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Katalon Studio
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) GCP DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Head of Operations
3 1 (10.00%) Head of Security
3 1 (10.00%) Information Officer
3 1 (10.00%) Information Security Officer
3 1 (10.00%) Junior
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Security Officer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) STIX
2 1 (10.00%) TAXII
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) AIX
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 5 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 4 (40.00%) Incident Response
3 4 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Information Security
4 3 (30.00%) Security Monitoring
4 3 (30.00%) SIEM
5 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 1 (10.00%) Microservices
6 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) Static Code Analysis
6 1 (10.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Go
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) CISSP
2 2 (20.00%) GIAC
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (10.00%) CISM
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) CASB
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Google
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (10.00%) Qualys
2 1 (10.00%) Trend Micro