Cloud Security Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cloud Security Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Security Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 438 588
Rank change year-on-year +106 +150 -114
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 9 19 35
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% 0.080% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.084% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 21
10th Percentile £455 £425 -
25th Percentile £519 £544 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £725
Median % change year-on-year - -17.24% +38.10%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £775
90th Percentile £665 £700 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £738
% change year-on-year - -18.64% +31.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Cloud Security Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Cloud Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Security Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Security Engineer.

Cloud Security Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cloud Security Engineer over the 6 months to 23 June 2024.

Cloud Security Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 23 June 2024, Cloud Security Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Cloud Security Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
3 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 4 (44.44%) GCP
3 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 4 (44.44%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (33.33%) Serverless
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (22.22%) Terraform
5 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
5 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 2 (22.22%) Kotlin
5 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (22.22%) Docker
5 2 (22.22%) Snyk
5 2 (22.22%) Route 53
5 2 (22.22%) DynamoDB
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
5 2 (22.22%) SaaS
5 2 (22.22%) CloudFront
5 2 (22.22%) Windows
5 2 (22.22%) Linux
5 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
6 1 (11.11%) SAML
6 1 (11.11%) Finance

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) GCP
3 3 (33.33%) Serverless
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (22.22%) CloudFront
4 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 2 (22.22%) Route 53
4 2 (22.22%) SaaS
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (22.22%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Snyk
2 1 (11.11%) CircleCI
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (11.11%) Banking
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) OpenID
1 1 (11.11%) SailPoint
1 1 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
2 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
2 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) B2B
3 1 (11.11%) Data Encryption
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Network Design
3 1 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Secure Coding
3 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Static Code Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Kotlin
2 1 (11.11%) Go
2 1 (11.11%) Python
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) CASB
3 1 (11.11%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Google