Cloud Security Contracts in Yorkshire

Cloud Security
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 83 60
Rank change year-on-year +13 -23 +64
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 22 17 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.16% 1.01% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 1.17% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 53
10th Percentile £505 £563 £500
25th Percentile £550 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £738 £675 £575
90th Percentile £750 £875 £616
England median daily rate £600 £600 £635
% change year-on-year - -5.44% +1.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Cloud Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in Yorkshire

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in Yorkshire

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in Yorkshire

Cloud Security
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 within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Yorkshire +29 18 £625 +4.17% 18
South Yorkshire +1 4 £700 -30.00% 9
Cloud Security
England

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (22.73%) Confluence
1 5 (22.73%) nginx
1 5 (22.73%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) AWS
2 7 (31.82%) Entra ID
3 6 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (27.27%) AWS Fargate
3 6 (27.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (18.18%) Azure
4 4 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (18.18%) Slack
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (9.09%) GCP
5 2 (9.09%) Serverless
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) DNS
1 6 (27.27%) TCP/IP
2 3 (13.64%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) MongoDB
2 4 (18.18%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (18.18%) MySQL
2 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) GitLab
1 6 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 5 (22.73%) JIRA
3 4 (18.18%) Cucumber
3 4 (18.18%) Jasmine
3 4 (18.18%) JUnit
4 3 (13.64%) Git
General
1 4 (18.18%) Banking
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Military
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Senior
2 7 (31.82%) Architect
3 5 (22.73%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (18.18%) Developer
4 4 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Java Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Cloud Security Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Lead
6 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Security Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Identity Management Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Java Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (4.55%) Lead Java Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) cloud-init
1 6 (27.27%) Kafka
1 6 (27.27%) Keycloak
2 4 (18.18%) RESTful
2 4 (18.18%) Spring
2 4 (18.18%) Spring Boot
2 4 (18.18%) Spring Security
2 4 (18.18%) Swagger
3 3 (13.64%) OpenAPI
3 3 (13.64%) Spring Batch
4 1 (4.55%) OAuth
4 1 (4.55%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) PKI
2 3 (13.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) Linux
1 10 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (27.27%) CentOS
2 6 (27.27%) Unix
3 1 (4.55%) Mac OS
3 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) CI/CD
2 12 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (50.00%) DevOps
4 10 (45.45%) Observability
5 9 (40.91%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (36.36%) Microservices
6 8 (36.36%) Test Automation
7 6 (27.27%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 6 (27.27%) Identity Management
7 6 (27.27%) Secrets Management
7 6 (27.27%) Static Application Security Testing
7 6 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (22.73%) Agile
8 5 (22.73%) Incident Management
8 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
8 5 (22.73%) Mobile Device Management
9 4 (18.18%) API Design
9 4 (18.18%) BDD
9 4 (18.18%) Coaching
9 4 (18.18%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Bash
2 8 (36.36%) Python
3 6 (27.27%) Go
4 4 (18.18%) Java
4 4 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 10 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 7 (31.82%) AWS Certification
3 2 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.55%) CISM
4 1 (4.55%) CISSP
4 1 (4.55%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (4.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) NCSC
2 3 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (4.55%) GDPR
3 1 (4.55%) GRC
3 1 (4.55%) NIST
3 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.55%) SLA
3 1 (4.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 8 (36.36%) Terraform
3 6 (27.27%) Consul
3 6 (27.27%) Grafana
3 6 (27.27%) Istio
3 6 (27.27%) Jamf Pro
3 6 (27.27%) linkerd
3 6 (27.27%) Packer
3 6 (27.27%) Prometheus
3 6 (27.27%) Rancher
3 6 (27.27%) ZABBIX
4 5 (22.73%) HAProxy
5 1 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (4.55%) Nessus
5 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Okta
1 6 (27.27%) Splunk
2 5 (22.73%) Apple
2 5 (22.73%) ESET
3 2 (9.09%) Google
4 1 (4.55%) Qualys