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

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 89 91
Rank change year-on-year +16 +2 +81
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 33 24 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.22% 1.17% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 1.44% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 20 28
10th Percentile £450 £468 £443
25th Percentile £463 £484 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £635 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.42% +15.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £731
90th Percentile £800 £676 £741
England median daily rate £600 £600 £635
% change year-on-year - -5.47% +1.56%

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 1,318 1,663 1,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.75% 81.04% 87.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 829 1,106 1,335
10th Percentile £202 £263 £263
25th Percentile £370 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -0.99% +2.02%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £618
90th Percentile £664 £734 £705
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 117 48
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.24 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.25 £15.38
Median hourly rate £24.28 £22.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.91% -10.00% +47.06%
75th Percentile £34.16 £38.75 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.25 £49.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.34
% change year-on-year -34.02% +2.09% +45.40%

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 30 June 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 30 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
Birmingham +19 14 £475 -9.52% 13
Warwickshire +1 8 £800 +52.38% 3
Solihull - 5 £450 - 3
Worcestershire - 2 £550 - 4
Coventry -5 1 £613 -5.77% 5
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (21.21%) Confluence
2 2 (6.06%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 21 (63.64%) AWS
1 21 (63.64%) Azure
2 10 (30.30%) GCP
3 8 (24.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (21.21%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (21.21%) Amazon ELB
4 7 (21.21%) Amazon S3
4 7 (21.21%) AWS KMS
4 7 (21.21%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (21.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (15.15%) Amazon Glacier
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (6.06%) Entra ID
6 2 (6.06%) OCI
6 2 (6.06%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.06%) Route 53
7 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (45.45%) Network Security
2 14 (42.42%) Firewall
3 7 (21.21%) SMTP
4 6 (18.18%) DNS
5 5 (15.15%) FTP
5 5 (15.15%) HTTP
5 5 (15.15%) SSH
6 4 (12.12%) VPN
7 2 (6.06%) IMAP
7 2 (6.06%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (3.03%) DSL
8 1 (3.03%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.06%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.06%) Power BI
3 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) Git
2 8 (24.24%) JIRA
3 7 (21.21%) Jenkins
3 7 (21.21%) Vagrant
4 2 (6.06%) GitLab
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle Forms
General
1 9 (27.27%) Public Sector
1 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Finance
3 4 (12.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.03%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Architect
2 8 (24.24%) Security Architect
3 7 (21.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Security Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Security Solutions Architect
5 4 (12.12%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) IT Architect
6 3 (9.09%) IT Security Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Network Security Architect
7 2 (6.06%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (6.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) LDAP
2 2 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.03%) OAuth
3 1 (3.03%) OpenID
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.03%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (30.30%) Security Posture
2 7 (21.21%) Replication
3 5 (15.15%) Operational Technology
3 5 (15.15%) SCADA
4 2 (6.06%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
4 2 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.03%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 9 (27.27%) Linux
1 9 (27.27%) Windows
2 7 (21.21%) Amazon Linux
2 7 (21.21%) VMS
3 3 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) DevOps
2 9 (27.27%) Change Management
2 9 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 9 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
3 7 (21.21%) Configuration Management
3 7 (21.21%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (21.21%) Migration
3 7 (21.21%) Platform Engineering
3 7 (21.21%) Security Architecture
4 6 (18.18%) Application Security
4 6 (18.18%) Design Patterns
4 6 (18.18%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (18.18%) Threat Modelling
5 5 (15.15%) OWASP
5 5 (15.15%) Patch Management
6 4 (12.12%) Agile
6 4 (12.12%) Incident Response
6 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (9.09%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) Python
2 8 (24.24%) PowerShell
3 7 (21.21%) Groovy
4 6 (18.18%) Java
5 5 (15.15%) Perl
6 4 (12.12%) SQL
7 2 (6.06%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 11 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.12%) Azure Certification
4 3 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 3 (9.09%) CEH
4 3 (9.09%) CISA
4 3 (9.09%) CISM
4 3 (9.09%) CISSP
5 2 (6.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.06%) CRISC
5 2 (6.06%) Degree
5 2 (6.06%) GIAC
5 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (6.06%) OSCP
5 2 (6.06%) PCI QSA
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.03%) OCP
6 1 (3.03%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (24.24%) NIST
2 4 (12.12%) PCI DSS
3 3 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (6.06%) QA
4 2 (6.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (3.03%) GDPR
5 1 (3.03%) HIPAA
5 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 11 (33.33%) Docker
2 9 (27.27%) Active Directory
3 5 (15.15%) DFS Replication
4 3 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (6.06%) Dovecot
5 2 (6.06%) Postfix
5 2 (6.06%) Squid
Systems Management
1 12 (36.36%) Terraform
2 8 (24.24%) Grafana
2 8 (24.24%) Prometheus
3 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
4 3 (9.09%) Ansible
5 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (6.06%) Nessus
5 2 (6.06%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (3.03%) CASB
6 1 (3.03%) Kibana
6 1 (3.03%) logstash
6 1 (3.03%) QRadar
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) ServiceNow
2 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.12%) Oracle
4 2 (6.06%) Cisco
4 2 (6.06%) CyberArk
4 2 (6.06%) Google
4 2 (6.06%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (6.06%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.03%) Commvault
5 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.03%) IBM
5 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.03%) Splunk
5 1 (3.03%) Veeam