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 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 90 71
Rank change year-on-year +6 -19 +54
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 18 16 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.46% 0.92% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.10% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 33
10th Percentile £513 - £505
25th Percentile £550 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +9.09% -14.73%
75th Percentile £612 £638 £575
90th Percentile £700 £675 £605
England median daily rate £600 £600 £636
% change year-on-year - -5.70% +1.80%

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 1,151 1,460 1,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 93.12% 84.34% 90.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 708 875 1,275
10th Percentile £263 £275 £275
25th Percentile £380 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £623
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 68 56
10th Percentile £16.25 £11.62 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.23 £12.15 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.14 £13.37 £13.16
Median % change year-on-year +65.66% +1.56% -29.63%
75th Percentile £25.13 £21.63 £21.48
90th Percentile £34.15 £54.50 £46.74
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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
South Yorkshire -7 7 £604 - 16
West Yorkshire +9 6 £550 -8.33% 33
East Yorkshire - 4 - - 5
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon Macie
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Direct Connect
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
2 2 (11.11%) AWS KMS
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (11.11%) GCP
2 2 (11.11%) GitHub
2 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (11.11%) Serverless
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (11.11%) DNS
2 2 (11.11%) Network Security
2 2 (11.11%) SSL
2 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (11.11%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
1 2 (11.11%) GitLab
1 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (55.56%) Finance
2 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Architect
2 5 (27.78%) Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) SOC Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Programme Director
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security Architect
5 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Junior
5 2 (11.11%) Junior Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Junior Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Lead
5 2 (11.11%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Security Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Identity Management Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 6 (33.33%) DevOps
1 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (33.33%) Observability
2 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (27.78%) Incident Management
2 5 (27.78%) Incident Response
2 5 (27.78%) ITIL
2 5 (27.78%) Risk Management
2 5 (27.78%) Threat Intelligence
2 5 (27.78%) Zero Trust
3 4 (22.22%) Chaos Engineering
3 4 (22.22%) Data Analysis
3 4 (22.22%) DevSecOps
3 4 (22.22%) Information Security
3 4 (22.22%) ISMS
3 4 (22.22%) Microservices
3 4 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Python
1 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) CISMP
1 4 (22.22%) GSEC
2 2 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) CISM
3 1 (5.56%) CISSP
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (5.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (55.56%) GDPR
2 8 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (33.33%) NIST
4 3 (16.67%) SOC 2
5 2 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (5.56%) GRC
6 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
6 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Ansible
1 2 (11.11%) Grafana
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.11%) Kustomize
1 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
1 2 (11.11%) Puppet
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Nessus
2 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Google
1 2 (11.11%) Splunk
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Qualys