Cloud Security Contracts in the West Midlands

Cloud Security
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 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 77 84 103
Rank change year-on-year +7 +19 +60
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 20 27 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.49% 1.39% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 1.65% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 24 33
10th Percentile £456 £468 £450
25th Percentile £528 £492 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £615 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% +11.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £652 £675 £731
90th Percentile £791 - £800
England median daily rate £600 £600 £635
% change year-on-year - -5.44% +1.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Cloud Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in the West Midlands

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in the West Midlands

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in the West Midlands

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +20 9 £525 -12.50% 10
Warwickshire +8 9 £638 +6.25% 2
Coventry +1 1 £613 -5.77% 2
Cloud Security
England

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 18 (90.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) AWS
3 5 (25.00%) GCP
4 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (10.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) Network Security
2 6 (30.00%) Firewall
3 2 (10.00%) VPN
4 1 (5.00%) DSL
4 1 (5.00%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 4 (20.00%) Power BI
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Architect
2 7 (35.00%) Security Architect
3 5 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Security Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Lead
5 3 (15.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Architect
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Security Architect
6 2 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (10.00%) Consultant
6 2 (10.00%) Oracle Architect
6 2 (10.00%) Security Consultant
6 2 (10.00%) Security Solutions Architect
6 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (5.00%) CyberArk Consultant
7 1 (5.00%) Information Security Architect
7 1 (5.00%) Security Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) LDAP
2 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.00%) OAuth
2 1 (5.00%) OpenID
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (5.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Security Posture
2 4 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (15.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (10.00%) Operational Technology
4 2 (10.00%) Replication
4 2 (10.00%) SCADA
5 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (5.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Linux
3 2 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Identity Access Management
2 10 (50.00%) Migration
3 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 5 (25.00%) Identity Management
5 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 4 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 4 (20.00%) Information Security
5 4 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 4 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
5 4 (20.00%) RBAC
5 4 (20.00%) Security Architecture
5 4 (20.00%) SIEM
5 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (20.00%) Zero Trust
6 3 (15.00%) Application Security
6 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (15.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) CISSP
3 2 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (10.00%) CCSP
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) CEH
4 1 (5.00%) CISA
4 1 (5.00%) CISM
4 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) OCP
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) NIST
2 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (10.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (5.00%) GDPR
4 1 (5.00%) HIPAA
4 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (15.00%) CASB
2 3 (15.00%) Terraform
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.00%) Ansible
4 1 (5.00%) Kibana
4 1 (5.00%) logstash
4 1 (5.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Oracle
2 4 (20.00%) CyberArk
2 4 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.00%) TOWER Software
5 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.00%) IBM
5 1 (5.00%) Splunk