Cloud Security Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cloud Security Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Security Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 327 412
Rank change year-on-year +33 +85 +170
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 21 14 18
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.11% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.11% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 12
10th Percentile - £413 £575
25th Percentile £400 £450 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £638
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -21.57% -15.00%
75th Percentile £478 £625 £659
90th Percentile £522 £655 £699
UK median daily rate £425 £575 £613
% change year-on-year -26.09% -6.12% -15.52%

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 9,509 12,350 21,193
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 93.55% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,318 8,294 14,941
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% -1.40%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 385 506
10th Percentile £12.77 £16.64 £16.98
25th Percentile £16.25 £27.84 £24.81
Median hourly rate £34.48 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.38% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.61 £66.56
90th Percentile £70.81 £75.00 £78.46
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% - +67.45%

Cloud Security Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Cloud Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Security Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Cloud Security Engineer over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

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 4 August 2025, 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 21 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 16 (76.19%) Azure
3 14 (66.67%) Finance
4 11 (52.38%) Microsoft
4 11 (52.38%) Zscaler
5 9 (42.86%) Firewall
5 9 (42.86%) AWS
6 8 (38.10%) Server Hardening
6 8 (38.10%) Azure Certification
7 7 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (33.33%) Entra ID
7 7 (33.33%) Fintech
7 7 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (33.33%) Windows
7 7 (33.33%) Information Security
7 7 (33.33%) Banking
8 6 (28.57%) SharePoint
8 6 (28.57%) Data Loss Prevention
8 6 (28.57%) Darktrace
8 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (23.81%) Security Operations
9 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
10 4 (19.05%) Python
10 4 (19.05%) NIST
11 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
11 3 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 3 (14.29%) Terraform
11 3 (14.29%) QRadar

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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (28.57%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (76.19%) Azure
2 9 (42.86%) AWS
3 7 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 7 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 7 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon Macie
6 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (9.52%) GCP
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (4.76%) AWS KMS
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.76%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (4.76%) OCI
7 1 (4.76%) Route 53
7 1 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (42.86%) Firewall
2 3 (14.29%) VPN
3 2 (9.52%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) GitLab
General
1 14 (66.67%) Finance
2 7 (33.33%) Banking
3 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) .NET
2 1 (4.76%) OAuth
2 1 (4.76%) OAuth2
2 1 (4.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
1 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (4.76%) PKI
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 8 (38.10%) Server Hardening
3 7 (33.33%) Fintech
3 7 (33.33%) Information Security
4 6 (28.57%) Data Loss Prevention
5 5 (23.81%) Security Operations
6 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (9.52%) Agile
7 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (9.52%) Data Management
7 2 (9.52%) DevOps
7 2 (9.52%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (9.52%) Migration
7 2 (9.52%) SIEM
7 2 (9.52%) Threat Modelling
8 1 (4.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (4.76%) Data Protection
8 1 (4.76%) Microservices
8 1 (4.76%) OWASP
8 1 (4.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
2 4 (19.05%) Python
3 2 (9.52%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Azure Certification
2 7 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.76%) CCSP
5 1 (4.76%) CISSP
5 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) OSCP
5 1 (4.76%) SANS
5 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) NIST
2 3 (14.29%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) QRadar
1 3 (14.29%) Terraform
2 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) Microsoft
1 11 (52.38%) Zscaler
2 6 (28.57%) Darktrace
3 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
3 2 (9.52%) Splunk
3 2 (9.52%) Varonis
4 1 (4.76%) IBM
4 1 (4.76%) Rapid7