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 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 196 151
Rank change year-on-year +50 -45 +64
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 591 520 970
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.93% 1.20% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 1.40% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 355 637
10th Percentile £411 £425 £450
25th Percentile £485 £500 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -
75th Percentile £688 £700 £715
90th Percentile £788 £780 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 9
10th Percentile £34.93 - £57.60
25th Percentile £41.40 - -
Median hourly rate £72.50 - £70.00
75th Percentile £101.38 - -
90th Percentile £103.85 - £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.50 - £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 27,830 37,031 49,845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.93% 85.26% 89.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,557 23,594 34,329
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,353 2,557 1,699
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +3.45% +39.42%
75th Percentile £53.95 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%

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 29 June 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cloud Security over the 6 months to 29 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cloud Security in the UK

Cloud Security
Top 17 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 29 June 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 +57 496 £600 - 1,041
London +27 286 £640 +6.67% 391
UK excluding London +104 230 £550 -8.33% 729
Work from Home +82 218 £550 -8.33% 540
North of England +45 73 £550 -13.73% 188
North West +40 51 £492 -24.31% 95
South East +61 42 £525 -2.78% 177
Midlands +16 37 £550 -10.20% 112
West Midlands +18 33 £563 -11.42% 63
South West +43 32 £606 +1.04% 80
Scotland +6 26 £500 -28.57% 48
Yorkshire +6 18 £570 -5.00% 68
East of England +34 13 £650 -16.13% 90
Wales - 11 £480 - 19
East Midlands +7 4 £492 -21.28% 43
North East - 4 £588 - 25
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 28

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 19 (3.21%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.20%) Confluence
3 9 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.68%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.51%) SAS
7 2 (0.34%) CMS
7 2 (0.34%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.34%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) Apache
8 1 (0.17%) IBM Transformation Extender
8 1 (0.17%) IIS
8 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (0.34%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.17%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.34%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.17%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle CRM
3 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.17%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 313 (52.96%) Azure
2 272 (46.02%) AWS
3 155 (26.23%) GCP
4 62 (10.49%) Entra ID
5 57 (9.64%) Microsoft 365
6 56 (9.48%) GitHub
7 46 (7.78%) IaaS
8 43 (7.28%) Azure Sentinel
9 41 (6.94%) Serverless
10 40 (6.77%) SaaS
11 37 (6.26%) PaaS
12 33 (5.58%) Amazon S3
13 27 (4.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 26 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
15 23 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
16 21 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
16 21 (3.55%) Cloud Computing
17 19 (3.21%) AWS KMS
18 17 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 17 (2.88%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 128 (21.66%) Firewall
2 80 (13.54%) Network Security
3 34 (5.75%) VPN
4 22 (3.72%) DNS
5 16 (2.71%) HTTP
6 14 (2.37%) TCP/IP
7 13 (2.20%) SSL
8 12 (2.03%) WAN
9 9 (1.52%) DHCP
9 9 (1.52%) SD-WAN
10 7 (1.18%) SMTP
11 6 (1.02%) Intrusion Detection
11 6 (1.02%) NGFW
11 6 (1.02%) SSH
12 5 (0.85%) FTP
12 5 (0.85%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.68%) Internet
13 4 (0.68%) Wireless
14 3 (0.51%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (2.20%) Big Data
3 13 (2.20%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.03%) Data Lake
5 10 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (1.69%) BigQuery
5 10 (1.69%) MySQL
6 9 (1.52%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.18%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.18%) Power BI
8 6 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.02%) GIS
9 5 (0.85%) DB2
9 5 (0.85%) Metadata
9 5 (0.85%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.85%) Oracle Database
9 5 (0.85%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 42 (7.11%) GitLab
2 28 (4.74%) Jenkins
3 24 (4.06%) Git
4 22 (3.72%) JIRA
5 16 (2.71%) SonarQube
6 15 (2.54%) Burp Suite
6 15 (2.54%) Metasploit
7 7 (1.18%) Vagrant
8 4 (0.68%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.51%) Snyk
10 1 (0.17%) Appium
10 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.17%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.17%) Locust
10 1 (0.17%) Postman
10 1 (0.17%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.17%) Storybook
10 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 170 (28.76%) Social Skills
2 125 (21.15%) Finance
3 71 (12.01%) Public Sector
4 46 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (6.60%) Banking
6 16 (2.71%) Legal
7 13 (2.20%) Financial Institution
8 11 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.69%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.52%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.18%) Marketing
12 7 (1.18%) Military
13 6 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.68%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.68%) Front Office
14 4 (0.68%) Law
15 3 (0.51%) Digital Health
15 3 (0.51%) Electronics
15 3 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 183 (30.96%) Architect
2 104 (17.60%) Security Architect
3 97 (16.41%) Security Engineer
4 53 (8.97%) Senior
5 51 (8.63%) Cloud Engineer
6 49 (8.29%) Cloud Architect
7 44 (7.45%) Consultant
8 42 (7.11%) Lead
9 38 (6.43%) DevOps Engineer
10 36 (6.09%) AWS Engineer
11 33 (5.58%) Security Consultant
12 30 (5.08%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 29 (4.91%) Azure Engineer
14 26 (4.40%) Analyst
14 26 (4.40%) Azure Architect
15 21 (3.55%) Cloud Security Architect
15 21 (3.55%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 21 (3.55%) Senior Architect
16 20 (3.38%) Enterprise Architect
17 19 (3.21%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.05%) REST
2 17 (2.88%) ARM Templates
2 17 (2.88%) OAuth
3 13 (2.20%) SAML
4 12 (2.03%) OpenID
5 11 (1.86%) .NET
6 10 (1.69%) Node.js
6 10 (1.69%) SailPoint
7 9 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (1.52%) React
7 9 (1.52%) Spring
8 8 (1.35%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.35%) LDAP
9 7 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (1.18%) Spring Boot
10 5 (0.85%) GraphQL
10 5 (0.85%) RESTful
11 4 (0.68%) Entity Framework
11 4 (0.68%) NHibernate
11 4 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 83 (14.04%) Security Posture
2 48 (8.12%) Cloud Native
3 33 (5.58%) Management Information System
4 23 (3.89%) PKI
5 21 (3.55%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.88%) Cyber Threat
7 16 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (2.20%) Product Ownership
10 12 (2.03%) Cyber Defence
10 12 (2.03%) Data Centre
10 12 (2.03%) Security Operations Centre
11 11 (1.86%) Cloud Security Posture
12 9 (1.52%) Operational Technology
13 8 (1.35%) Replication
14 7 (1.18%) Algorithms
14 7 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (1.18%) Public Cloud
14 7 (1.18%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 61 (10.32%) Windows
2 42 (7.11%) Linux
3 31 (5.25%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.03%) VMS
5 10 (1.69%) Unix
6 7 (1.18%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (0.85%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (27.41%) Cybersecurity
2 149 (25.21%) DevOps
3 130 (22.00%) CI/CD
4 117 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
5 115 (19.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 96 (16.24%) Incident Response
7 90 (15.23%) Security Architecture
8 86 (14.55%) Identity Access Management
9 80 (13.54%) DevSecOps
10 76 (12.86%) Threat Modelling
11 74 (12.52%) Security Operations
12 72 (12.18%) Vulnerability Management
13 71 (12.01%) Agile
14 70 (11.84%) SIEM
15 67 (11.34%) Information Security
16 63 (10.66%) Migration
17 58 (9.81%) Risk Management
18 55 (9.31%) Application Security
18 55 (9.31%) Data Protection
18 55 (9.31%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 153 (25.89%) Python
2 87 (14.72%) PowerShell
3 51 (8.63%) Bash
4 36 (6.09%) Java
4 36 (6.09%) SQL
5 20 (3.38%) Bicep
6 15 (2.54%) JavaScript
6 15 (2.54%) Perl
7 10 (1.69%) TypeScript
8 8 (1.35%) C#
8 8 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
9 7 (1.18%) Groovy
9 7 (1.18%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.85%) Go
11 3 (0.51%) C++
12 2 (0.34%) Ruby
12 2 (0.34%) Rust
13 1 (0.17%) ABAP
13 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 134 (22.67%) Security Cleared
2 107 (18.10%) SC Cleared
3 101 (17.09%) CISSP
4 72 (12.18%) Degree
5 51 (8.63%) AWS Certification
6 50 (8.46%) Azure Certification
7 48 (8.12%) CISM
8 32 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (4.40%) Cisco Certification
9 26 (4.40%) OSCP
10 25 (4.23%) GIAC
11 24 (4.06%) Microsoft Certification
12 23 (3.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 23 (3.89%) BPSS Clearance
13 20 (3.38%) DV Cleared
13 20 (3.38%) Master's Degree
14 19 (3.21%) CREST Certified
15 17 (2.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 17 (2.88%) CEH
15 17 (2.88%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (23.52%) NIST
2 112 (18.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 72 (12.18%) GDPR
4 48 (8.12%) PCI DSS
5 27 (4.57%) SOC 2
6 24 (4.06%) HIPAA
7 21 (3.55%) NCSC
8 18 (3.05%) GRC
9 13 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 12 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (1.86%) QA
12 10 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (1.69%) NIST 800
12 10 (1.69%) SLA
13 8 (1.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 8 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (1.02%) Accessibility
15 5 (0.85%) COBIT
15 5 (0.85%) Data Quality
15 5 (0.85%) RMADS
System Software
1 64 (10.83%) Active Directory
2 53 (8.97%) Docker
3 26 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.85%) DFS Replication
6 4 (0.68%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.34%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.34%) Postfix
7 2 (0.34%) Squid
7 2 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.17%) FreeRADIUS
8 1 (0.17%) iptables
8 1 (0.17%) Lustre
8 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 125 (21.15%) Terraform
2 79 (13.37%) Kubernetes
3 35 (5.92%) Ansible
4 22 (3.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (3.38%) Grafana
6 19 (3.21%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (2.88%) Prometheus
8 14 (2.37%) SCCM
9 13 (2.20%) Nmap
10 12 (2.03%) CASB
11 11 (1.86%) Nessus
12 6 (1.02%) Argo
12 6 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.85%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.85%) QRadar
14 4 (0.68%) Cilium
14 4 (0.68%) WSUS
15 3 (0.51%) Puppet
15 3 (0.51%) SCOrch
16 2 (0.34%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 148 (25.04%) Microsoft
2 57 (9.64%) Google
3 32 (5.41%) Palo Alto
4 29 (4.91%) Oracle
5 28 (4.74%) Splunk
6 25 (4.23%) Zscaler
7 21 (3.55%) ServiceNow
8 19 (3.21%) Cisco
9 18 (3.05%) Qualys
10 13 (2.20%) Veracode
11 11 (1.86%) Rapid7
12 10 (1.69%) CrowdStrike
12 10 (1.69%) CyberArk
12 10 (1.69%) SAP
13 9 (1.52%) Tenable
14 8 (1.35%) IBM
14 8 (1.35%) VMware
15 6 (1.02%) ESRI
15 6 (1.02%) F5
15 6 (1.02%) Fortinet