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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 68 68
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 +44
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 12 3 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.65% 0.36% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 0.42% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 16
10th Percentile £470 £603 £500
25th Percentile £500 £606 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £625 £538
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +16.28% -18.87%
75th Percentile £550 £644 £575
90th Percentile £559 £648 £594
Yorkshire median daily rate £531 £638 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +15.91% -15.38%

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 660 711 1,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 90.53% 84.74% 90.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 457 834
10th Percentile £302 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £625
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 26 18
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.15 £13.81
Median hourly rate £22.14 £12.90 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.63% -30.27% -4.39%
75th Percentile £34.46 £23.63 £21.31
90th Percentile £81.25 £33.75 £25.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +64.00% -32.50% +5.90%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +7 9 £538 -14.00% 8
Halifax - 3 £550 -
Bradford - 2 - - 1
Huddersfield - 1 - -
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 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
3 3 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (25.00%) GCP
4 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 2 (16.67%) GitHub
4 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (8.33%) AWS KMS
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Fabric
5 1 (8.33%) Serverless
5 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
1 3 (25.00%) Network Security
2 2 (16.67%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (16.67%) VPN
3 1 (8.33%) DNS
3 1 (8.33%) SSL
3 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) CircleCI
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Architect
1 3 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security Architect
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Identity Management Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) IT Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Security Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) NHS
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) SIEM
2 3 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) Application Security
3 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) Observability
3 2 (16.67%) RBAC
3 2 (16.67%) Security Architecture
3 2 (16.67%) SOAR
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) Bicep
2 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (8.33%) CISM
2 1 (8.33%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (8.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (25.00%) NIST
3 2 (16.67%) GDPR
3 2 (16.67%) SOC 2
4 1 (8.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (8.33%) GRC
4 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
4 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
1 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Grafana
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Kustomize
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (8.33%) Nessus
3 1 (8.33%) Puppet
3 1 (8.33%) SCCM
3 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Google
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco
2 2 (16.67%) Citrix
2 2 (16.67%) McAfee
3 1 (8.33%) OpenAI
3 1 (8.33%) Qualys
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk