Cloud Security Contracts

Cloud Security
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Cloud Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Security over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 197 153 210
Rank change year-on-year -44 +57 -38
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 514 969 1,185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.18% 1.74% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.95% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 634 751
10th Percentile £425 £450 £463
25th Percentile £504 £518 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +9.17%
75th Percentile £725 £715 £725
90th Percentile £780 £775 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 5
10th Percentile - £57.60 £28.60
25th Percentile - - £30.00
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +75.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - £72.00 £46.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cloud Security falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in the UK

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in the UK

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security over the 6 months to 24 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in the UK

Cloud Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Security in the UK

Cloud Security
Top 14 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 24 June 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 -49 433 £600 -5.44% 171
London -26 274 £600 -7.69% 84
Work from Home -67 157 £600 -7.69% 95
UK excluding London -73 154 £600 - 100
North of England -46 40 £625 +13.64% 22
South West +1 34 £600 -11.11% 16
South East -25 28 £540 -22.86% 36
Midlands +2 25 £630 +14.55% 21
Scotland +37 22 £650 +41.30% 3
North West -10 22 £663 +7.80% 9
West Midlands +7 21 £635 +5.83% 14
Yorkshire -31 18 £600 +9.09% 9
East of England -3 5 £775 +55.00% 2
East Midlands +4 2 £625 +25.00% 7

Cloud Security
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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.17%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.58%) Confluence
3 3 (0.58%) nginx
3 3 (0.58%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 2 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.19%) CMS
5 1 (0.19%) IIS
5 1 (0.19%) Traefik
Applications
1 12 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.97%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.19%) Maximo
2 1 (0.19%) SAP CAR
2 1 (0.19%) SAP POS DM
2 1 (0.19%) SAP Retail
2 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 212 (41.25%) Azure
2 163 (31.71%) AWS
3 87 (16.93%) GCP
4 64 (12.45%) IaaS
5 53 (10.31%) SaaS
6 52 (10.12%) Entra ID
7 46 (8.95%) PaaS
8 33 (6.42%) Microsoft 365
9 31 (6.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 28 (5.45%) Serverless
11 26 (5.06%) Azure Sentinel
12 22 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (2.72%) Cloud Computing
14 12 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (1.95%) GitHub
15 10 (1.95%) OCI
16 9 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
16 9 (1.75%) Power Platform
17 8 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
17 8 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 94 (18.29%) Firewall
2 74 (14.40%) Network Security
3 32 (6.23%) VPN
4 31 (6.03%) WAN
5 25 (4.86%) DNS
6 16 (3.11%) SD-WAN
7 15 (2.92%) LAN
8 10 (1.95%) Internet
9 8 (1.56%) Intrusion Detection
10 6 (1.17%) NGFW
10 6 (1.17%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.97%) WLAN
12 4 (0.78%) BGP
12 4 (0.78%) OSPF
13 3 (0.58%) Cisco ASA
13 3 (0.58%) DHCP
13 3 (0.58%) EIGRP
13 3 (0.58%) MPLS
13 3 (0.58%) Multicast
13 3 (0.58%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.95%) Data Lake
2 9 (1.75%) NoSQL
3 8 (1.56%) DynamoDB
4 6 (1.17%) Big Data
4 6 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.17%) SQL Server
5 5 (0.97%) BigQuery
5 5 (0.97%) Relational Database
5 5 (0.97%) SAP BW
6 4 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.78%) Bigtable
6 4 (0.78%) Cloud Spanner
6 4 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.78%) MySQL
6 4 (0.78%) Power BI
7 3 (0.58%) OLAP
7 3 (0.58%) OLTP
8 2 (0.39%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 24 (4.67%) Jenkins
2 19 (3.70%) GitLab
3 16 (3.11%) Git
4 8 (1.56%) JIRA
5 4 (0.78%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.58%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.39%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.39%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.39%) JMeter
7 2 (0.39%) Selenium
7 2 (0.39%) Snyk
7 2 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.19%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.19%) NUnit
General
1 117 (22.76%) Finance
2 74 (14.40%) Social Skills
3 66 (12.84%) Banking
4 38 (7.39%) Public Sector
5 28 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.92%) Retail
7 14 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (1.75%) Financial Institution
8 9 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.36%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.17%) Legal
11 4 (0.78%) Automotive
11 4 (0.78%) Military
11 4 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.58%) Marketing
13 2 (0.39%) Electronics
13 2 (0.39%) Law
13 2 (0.39%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.39%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 188 (36.58%) Architect
2 96 (18.68%) Security Architect
3 74 (14.40%) Security Engineer
4 63 (12.26%) Consultant
5 56 (10.89%) Cloud Architect
6 52 (10.12%) Cloud Engineer
7 51 (9.92%) Senior
8 49 (9.53%) Security Consultant
9 31 (6.03%) Security Manager
10 29 (5.64%) Cloud Security Architect
11 23 (4.47%) Azure Engineer
11 23 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
12 22 (4.28%) Lead
13 21 (4.09%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 20 (3.89%) AWS Architect
15 19 (3.70%) Senior Architect
15 19 (3.70%) Senior Security Architect
16 16 (3.11%) Project Manager
17 15 (2.92%) Analyst
17 15 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.89%) SailPoint
2 19 (3.70%) SAML
3 16 (3.11%) Node.js
3 16 (3.11%) OpenID
4 13 (2.53%) Kafka
5 11 (2.14%) .NET
6 8 (1.56%) JWT
7 7 (1.36%) OAuth
7 7 (1.36%) Spring
7 7 (1.36%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.36%) YAML
8 6 (1.17%) GWT
8 6 (1.17%) JAX-RS
8 6 (1.17%) OAuth2
8 6 (1.17%) REST
8 6 (1.17%) Restlet
8 6 (1.17%) Web Services
9 5 (0.97%) ARM Templates
9 5 (0.97%) JSON
9 5 (0.97%) React
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.59%) Security Posture
2 36 (7.00%) Cloud Native
3 34 (6.61%) Management Information System
4 29 (5.64%) PKI
5 21 (4.09%) Public Cloud
6 17 (3.31%) IoT
6 17 (3.31%) Mobile App
7 16 (3.11%) Cyber Threat
8 13 (2.53%) Security Operations Centre
9 12 (2.33%) Operational Technology
10 10 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.95%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.75%) Cloud Security Posture
11 9 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 8 (1.56%) Onboarding
13 7 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (1.17%) Insider Threat
15 5 (0.97%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (5.45%) Linux
2 24 (4.67%) Windows
3 9 (1.75%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.97%) Unix
5 3 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.39%) Android
6 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.19%) CentOS
7 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (29.57%) Cybersecurity
2 130 (25.29%) DevOps
3 112 (21.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 102 (19.84%) CI/CD
5 87 (16.93%) Information Security
6 82 (15.95%) DevSecOps
7 81 (15.76%) Application Security
8 80 (15.56%) Security Architecture
9 79 (15.37%) SIEM
10 73 (14.20%) Identity Access Management
11 69 (13.42%) Problem-Solving
12 61 (11.87%) Migration
13 55 (10.70%) Microservices
14 54 (10.51%) Agile
15 49 (9.53%) Penetration Testing
16 47 (9.14%) Containerisation
17 45 (8.75%) Incident Response
18 39 (7.59%) Analytics
18 39 (7.59%) Data Loss Prevention
19 37 (7.20%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (10.89%) Python
2 35 (6.81%) Java
3 33 (6.42%) PowerShell
4 16 (3.11%) SQL
5 13 (2.53%) Kusto Query Language
6 12 (2.33%) Bash
7 10 (1.95%) C#
8 7 (1.36%) Bicep
8 7 (1.36%) TypeScript
9 6 (1.17%) Go
9 6 (1.17%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.17%) Ruby
10 5 (0.97%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.78%) PHP
12 3 (0.58%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.39%) ABAP
14 1 (0.19%) C++
14 1 (0.19%) Korn
14 1 (0.19%) Perl
14 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (14.40%) Degree
2 71 (13.81%) Security Cleared
3 70 (13.62%) CISSP
4 65 (12.65%) SC Cleared
5 49 (9.53%) CISM
6 32 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (4.28%) Azure Certification
7 22 (4.28%) Cisco Certification
8 17 (3.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 17 (3.31%) AWS Certification
8 17 (3.31%) CISA
9 13 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (2.33%) CompTIA Security+
10 12 (2.33%) CRISC
11 11 (2.14%) DV Cleared
11 11 (2.14%) GIAC
12 10 (1.95%) CCSP
13 9 (1.75%) Master's Degree
14 8 (1.56%) CCNP
14 8 (1.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (14.79%) NIST
2 56 (10.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (4.86%) GDPR
4 19 (3.70%) NCSC
4 19 (3.70%) PCI DSS
5 17 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 12 (2.33%) GRC
7 9 (1.75%) NIST 800
8 8 (1.56%) COBIT
8 8 (1.56%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.78%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.78%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.78%) QA
10 3 (0.58%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.58%) GPG13
10 3 (0.58%) ISA99
11 2 (0.39%) COSO
11 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.39%) ISO 31000
11 2 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 55 (10.70%) Active Directory
2 40 (7.78%) Docker
3 16 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.56%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.39%) KVM
6 2 (0.39%) Snort
6 2 (0.39%) Squid
6 2 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.39%) XenApp
7 1 (0.19%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 1 (0.19%) NFS
7 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 97 (18.87%) Terraform
2 58 (11.28%) Kubernetes
3 25 (4.86%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (2.72%) Ansible
5 11 (2.14%) CASB
6 6 (1.17%) Nessus
7 5 (0.97%) SCCM
8 4 (0.78%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.78%) Packer
8 4 (0.78%) Trend Micro Deep Security
9 3 (0.58%) Argo
9 3 (0.58%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.58%) Puppet
10 2 (0.39%) logstash
10 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.39%) SCDPM
10 2 (0.39%) SCOrch
10 2 (0.39%) SCVMM
10 2 (0.39%) WSUS
Vendors
1 118 (22.96%) Microsoft
2 42 (8.17%) Google
3 22 (4.28%) Palo Alto
3 22 (4.28%) ServiceNow
4 20 (3.89%) CyberArk
5 19 (3.70%) Oracle
6 18 (3.50%) BeyondTrust
7 17 (3.31%) Cisco
8 15 (2.92%) SAP
9 14 (2.72%) Splunk
10 12 (2.33%) VMware
10 12 (2.33%) Zscaler
11 11 (2.14%) CrowdStrike
12 8 (1.56%) Databricks
12 8 (1.56%) Okta
13 7 (1.36%) F5
13 7 (1.36%) Salesforce
14 6 (1.17%) CheckPoint
14 6 (1.17%) Citrix
14 6 (1.17%) Fortinet