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 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 512 572 687
Rank change year-on-year +60 +115 +161
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security Posture 8 10 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.023% 0.052%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.080% 0.075% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 19
10th Percentile £555 - £413
25th Percentile £594 £425 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £488 £457
Median % change year-on-year +48.72% +6.67% -29.69%
75th Percentile £831 £556 £663
90th Percentile £888 £673 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 - £455
% change year-on-year - - -32.59%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,944 13,250 19,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.97% 30.42% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,345 8,502 13,668
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 912 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security Posture in the UK

Cloud Security Posture
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 Posture within the UK 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
England +55 7 £738 +57.33% 19
London +34 4 £875 +86.67% 9
UK excluding London - 2 £650 - 12
North of England - 1 £750 - 2
North West - 1 £750 - 1
South West - 1 £550 - 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 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (37.50%) GCP
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) SIEM Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) SOC Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (12.50%) PKI
3 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 4 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (37.50%) Application Security
3 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
3 3 (37.50%) SDLC
4 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Event Correlation
4 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
4 2 (25.00%) Security Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (25.00%) Service Design
4 2 (25.00%) SOAR
4 2 (25.00%) Threat Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 2 (25.00%) Threat Detection
4 2 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 2 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) NIST
2 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) CASB
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto