Cloud Security Contracts in West Yorkshire

Cloud Security
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 44 73 67
Rank change year-on-year +29 -6 +40
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 18 4 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 3.28% 0.40% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 0.46% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 34
10th Percentile £501 £548 £484
25th Percentile £541 £581 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -18.52%
75th Percentile £741 - £575
90th Percentile £750 - £584
Yorkshire median daily rate £700 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -10.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 502 875 1,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.61% 87.59% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 513 1,023
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 16
10th Percentile £20.11 £11.91 £12.58
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £15.10
Median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.20 £65.31
90th Percentile £99.93 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in West Yorkshire

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in West Yorkshire

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in West Yorkshire

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Leeds +16 17 £625 +4.17% 12
Halifax - 3 £550 -
Bradford - 1 - - 4
Cloud Security
Yorkshire

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 5 (27.78%) Confluence
1 5 (27.78%) nginx
1 5 (27.78%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) AWS
2 7 (38.89%) Entra ID
3 6 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
3 6 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (22.22%) Azure
4 4 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (22.22%) Slack
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (11.11%) GCP
5 2 (11.11%) Serverless
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) DNS
1 6 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 3 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) MongoDB
2 4 (22.22%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (22.22%) MySQL
2 4 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) GitLab
1 6 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (27.78%) JIRA
3 4 (22.22%) Cucumber
3 4 (22.22%) Jasmine
3 4 (22.22%) JUnit
4 3 (16.67%) Git
General
1 2 (11.11%) Finance
1 2 (11.11%) Military
1 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Senior
2 5 (27.78%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) Developer
3 4 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Java Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Architect
4 3 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Lead
5 2 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Security Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Identity Management Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) IT Security Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) Lead Java Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) cloud-init
1 6 (33.33%) Kafka
1 6 (33.33%) Keycloak
2 4 (22.22%) RESTful
2 4 (22.22%) Spring
2 4 (22.22%) Spring Boot
2 4 (22.22%) Spring Security
2 4 (22.22%) Swagger
3 3 (16.67%) OpenAPI
3 3 (16.67%) Spring Batch
4 1 (5.56%) OAuth
4 1 (5.56%) OAuth2
4 1 (5.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) PKI
2 3 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (55.56%) Linux
1 10 (55.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (33.33%) CentOS
2 6 (33.33%) Unix
3 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) CI/CD
2 9 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (38.89%) DevOps
5 6 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 6 (33.33%) Identity Management
5 6 (33.33%) Observability
5 6 (33.33%) Secrets Management
5 6 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
5 6 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (27.78%) Agile
6 5 (27.78%) Mobile Device Management
7 4 (22.22%) API Design
7 4 (22.22%) BDD
7 4 (22.22%) Coaching
7 4 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
7 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
7 4 (22.22%) Microservices
7 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 4 (22.22%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Bash
2 8 (44.44%) Python
3 6 (33.33%) Go
4 4 (22.22%) Java
4 4 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 10 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) AWS Certification
3 2 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 2 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.56%) CISM
4 1 (5.56%) CISSP
4 1 (5.56%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (5.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) NCSC
2 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) GRC
3 1 (5.56%) NIST
3 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.56%) SLA
3 1 (5.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 8 (44.44%) Terraform
3 6 (33.33%) Consul
3 6 (33.33%) Grafana
3 6 (33.33%) Istio
3 6 (33.33%) Jamf Pro
3 6 (33.33%) linkerd
3 6 (33.33%) Packer
3 6 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 6 (33.33%) Rancher
3 6 (33.33%) ZABBIX
4 5 (27.78%) HAProxy
5 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (5.56%) Nessus
5 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Okta
1 6 (33.33%) Splunk
2 5 (27.78%) Apple
2 5 (27.78%) ESET
3 2 (11.11%) Google
4 1 (5.56%) Qualys