Cloud Security Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cloud Security
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 201 127
Rank change year-on-year +60 -74 +90
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 185 152 490
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.87% 1.00% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 1.13% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 103 340
10th Percentile £429 £415 £475
25th Percentile £500 £516 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £635
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -5.51% +1.60%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £725
90th Percentile £739 £750 £791
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 13
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +75.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,020 13,413 23,039
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.13% 87.92% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,197 8,959 16,290
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 580 529
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.38 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Cloud Security
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Cloud Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

Cloud Security
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.

Cloud Security daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cloud Security over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Cloud Security daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Security
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cloud Security.

Cloud Security hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Security
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 (3.24%) nginx
2 5 (2.70%) Confluence
2 5 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.70%) Traefik
3 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.08%) SAS
4 1 (0.54%) CMS
4 1 (0.54%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.54%) IIS
4 1 (0.54%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.54%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.54%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.54%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.54%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.54%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.54%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.54%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 99 (53.51%) Azure
2 75 (40.54%) AWS
3 42 (22.70%) GCP
4 39 (21.08%) Entra ID
5 20 (10.81%) Azure Sentinel
6 19 (10.27%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (8.65%) IaaS
7 16 (8.65%) Serverless
8 15 (8.11%) GitHub
9 14 (7.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 13 (7.03%) SaaS
11 12 (6.49%) PaaS
12 11 (5.95%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (4.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (4.86%) Power Platform
14 8 (4.32%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (4.32%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 31 (16.76%) Firewall
2 20 (10.81%) Network Security
3 11 (5.95%) DNS
4 9 (4.86%) VPN
5 8 (4.32%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.78%) HTTP
7 4 (2.16%) BGP
7 4 (2.16%) LAN
7 4 (2.16%) OSPF
7 4 (2.16%) SSL
7 4 (2.16%) WAN
7 4 (2.16%) Wireless
8 3 (1.62%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (1.62%) NGFW
8 3 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.08%) Internet
9 2 (1.08%) IPsec
9 2 (1.08%) NetScaler
9 2 (1.08%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.08%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.41%) MongoDB
2 9 (4.86%) Power BI
3 6 (3.24%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (3.24%) MySQL
4 4 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (2.16%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.62%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (1.62%) Metadata
5 3 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.54%) IDMS
6 1 (0.54%) QlikView
6 1 (0.54%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (12.97%) GitLab
2 14 (7.57%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.86%) Git
4 7 (3.78%) JIRA
5 3 (1.62%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.62%) Jasmine
5 3 (1.62%) JUnit
5 3 (1.62%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (1.08%) Burp Suite
6 2 (1.08%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.08%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.54%) Snyk
7 1 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 48 (25.95%) Social Skills
2 42 (22.70%) Finance
3 21 (11.35%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.27%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.24%) Banking
7 3 (1.62%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.62%) Military
8 2 (1.08%) Digital Health
8 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.08%) Legal
8 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.54%) Automotive
9 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (25.95%) Architect
2 31 (16.76%) Security Engineer
3 27 (14.59%) Senior
4 24 (12.97%) Security Architect
5 22 (11.89%) Cloud Architect
6 20 (10.81%) Cloud Engineer
6 20 (10.81%) Consultant
7 17 (9.19%) Azure Engineer
8 15 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
9 13 (7.03%) Lead
10 11 (5.95%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (5.95%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 11 (5.95%) Security Consultant
11 10 (5.41%) Senior DevOps
12 9 (4.86%) Azure Architect
12 9 (4.86%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (4.32%) Analyst
13 8 (4.32%) Enterprise Architect
14 7 (3.78%) AWS DevOps
14 7 (3.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.86%) OAuth
2 7 (3.78%) cloud-init
2 7 (3.78%) Kafka
2 7 (3.78%) Keycloak
2 7 (3.78%) Spring
2 7 (3.78%) Spring Boot
3 6 (3.24%) Spring Security
4 5 (2.70%) SAML
5 4 (2.16%) .NET
5 4 (2.16%) ARM Templates
5 4 (2.16%) LDAP
5 4 (2.16%) OpenID
5 4 (2.16%) RESTful
6 3 (1.62%) Azure Blueprints
6 3 (1.62%) JWT
6 3 (1.62%) OpenAPI
6 3 (1.62%) REST
6 3 (1.62%) Servlets
6 3 (1.62%) Spring Batch
6 3 (1.62%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.27%) Security Posture
2 14 (7.57%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.57%) PKI
3 13 (7.03%) Management Information System
4 12 (6.49%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.95%) Data Centre
6 8 (4.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (3.78%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (3.24%) Operational Technology
8 6 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.62%) NHS
9 3 (1.62%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.62%) SCADA
10 2 (1.08%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.08%) BYOD
10 2 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.08%) Life Science
10 2 (1.08%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (14.05%) Linux
2 21 (11.35%) Windows
3 13 (7.03%) Unix
4 12 (6.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.78%) CentOS
6 6 (3.24%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.54%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.54%) VMS
7 1 (0.54%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.54%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (28.11%) DevOps
2 48 (25.95%) CI/CD
3 36 (19.46%) Identity Access Management
3 36 (19.46%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (15.68%) Cybersecurity
4 29 (15.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (14.59%) Incident Response
5 27 (14.59%) Migration
6 25 (13.51%) DevSecOps
7 22 (11.89%) Threat Modelling
7 22 (11.89%) Vulnerability Management
8 21 (11.35%) Information Security
9 20 (10.81%) Agile
9 20 (10.81%) Computer Science
9 20 (10.81%) Security Operations
10 19 (10.27%) Penetration Testing
10 19 (10.27%) Security Architecture
11 18 (9.73%) Containerisation
12 17 (9.19%) SIEM
13 16 (8.65%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (25.41%) Python
2 28 (15.14%) PowerShell
3 19 (10.27%) Bash
4 15 (8.11%) Java
5 14 (7.57%) SQL
6 8 (4.32%) Go
7 6 (3.24%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.70%) Bicep
9 3 (1.62%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.08%) C++
10 2 (1.08%) Perl
11 1 (0.54%) ABAP
11 1 (0.54%) C
11 1 (0.54%) C#
11 1 (0.54%) Korn
11 1 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (20.54%) Security Cleared
2 31 (16.76%) SC Cleared
3 30 (16.22%) CISSP
3 30 (16.22%) Degree
4 24 (12.97%) AWS Certification
5 21 (11.35%) Azure Certification
6 16 (8.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (5.41%) Master's Degree
8 9 (4.86%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (4.32%) GIAC
9 8 (4.32%) SANS
10 7 (3.78%) CISM
11 6 (3.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.24%) CEH
11 6 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (2.70%) OSCP
13 4 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (2.16%) CCNP
13 4 (2.16%) CREST Certified
13 4 (2.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (21.08%) NIST
2 19 (10.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (9.73%) GDPR
4 12 (6.49%) PCI DSS
5 11 (5.95%) NCSC
6 9 (4.86%) HIPAA
7 7 (3.78%) GRC
7 7 (3.78%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.62%) NIST 800
9 2 (1.08%) FIPS 140-2
9 2 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (1.08%) QA
9 2 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (1.08%) SLA
10 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 23 (12.43%) Active Directory
2 21 (11.35%) Docker
3 13 (7.03%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.08%) RACF
5 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (20.54%) Terraform
2 31 (16.76%) Kubernetes
3 12 (6.49%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (5.95%) Grafana
4 11 (5.95%) Prometheus
5 10 (5.41%) Ansible
6 8 (4.32%) Consul
6 8 (4.32%) Packer
7 7 (3.78%) Istio
7 7 (3.78%) Jamf Pro
7 7 (3.78%) linkerd
7 7 (3.78%) Rancher
7 7 (3.78%) ZABBIX
8 6 (3.24%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (2.70%) HAProxy
9 5 (2.70%) Nessus
9 5 (2.70%) SCCM
10 3 (1.62%) FortiGate
10 3 (1.62%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.62%) WSUS
Vendors
1 52 (28.11%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.81%) Google
3 15 (8.11%) Splunk
4 13 (7.03%) Palo Alto
5 11 (5.95%) Oracle
6 9 (4.86%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.78%) Cisco
7 7 (3.78%) CyberArk
7 7 (3.78%) Okta
8 6 (3.24%) SAP
9 5 (2.70%) Apple
9 5 (2.70%) ESET
9 5 (2.70%) Meraki
9 5 (2.70%) Zscaler
10 4 (2.16%) Qualys
10 4 (2.16%) Rapid7
11 3 (1.62%) ForgeRock
11 3 (1.62%) Fortinet
12 2 (1.08%) Arista
12 2 (1.08%) Dynatrace