Cloud Security Posture Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Cloud Security Posture
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Security Posture in contract job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 - 104
Rank change year-on-year - - +30
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security Posture 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.20% - 0.054%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.52% - 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £505 - -
25th Percentile £541 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £575 £550 £675
% change year-on-year +4.55% -18.52% +5.88%

All Generic Skills
Yorkshire

Cloud Security Posture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 762 333 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.50% 35.61% 27.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 211 293
10th Percentile £317 £200 £233
25th Percentile £419 £313 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £477 £438
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% +9.03% -16.67%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £569
90th Percentile £650 £675 £600
England median daily rate £510 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -6.42% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 6 38
10th Percentile £14.25 £28.86 £11.58
25th Percentile £15.50 £32.67 £12.25
Median hourly rate £21.30 £38.75 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year -45.03% +164.96% +37.58%
75th Percentile £57.25 £42.25 £21.16
90th Percentile £57.78 £69.57 £23.75
England median hourly rate £32.25 £37.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -12.84% +13.85% +44.54%

Cloud Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Security Posture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Cloud Security Posture job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Cloud Security Posture
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Cloud Security Posture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Cloud Security Posture

Cloud Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security Posture in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security Posture in Yorkshire

Cloud Security Posture
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security Posture within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 February 2026. 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
West Yorkshire - 4 £600 - 1
Cloud Security Posture
England

Cloud Security Posture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Security Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Application Security
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) Data Security
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 2 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bicep
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (50.00%) CCSP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (50.00%) GDPR
2 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (50.00%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft