Cloud Security Architect Contracts in England

Cloud Security Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Security Architect daily rate in England is £775 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 514 582 679
Rank change year-on-year +68 +97 -107
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Architect 28 57 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.076% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.082% 0.13% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 33 86
10th Percentile £500 £503 £580
25th Percentile £669 £625 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £780 £750 £802
90th Percentile £790 £795 £906
UK median daily rate £775 £700 £700
% change year-on-year +10.71% - +6.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,255 45,148 67,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,555 32,138 48,275
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,585 1,311 1,778
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.54
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

Cloud Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Cloud Security Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security Architect in England

Cloud Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security Architect in England

Cloud Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security Architect in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security Architect in England

Cloud Security Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Security Architect in England

Cloud Security Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
London +85 17 £780 +11.43% 4
South West +11 7 £375 -46.43% 2
North of England +23 2 £775 +8.58% 1
North West +10 2 £775 +8.58% 1
South East +7 1 £750 +4.90%
Cloud Security Architect
UK

Cloud Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Cloud Security Architect 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 job ads across the England region featuring Cloud Security Architect in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 12 (42.86%) NIST
2 12 (42.86%) Security Architecture
3 11 (39.29%) Azure
3 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
3 11 (39.29%) Architectural Patterns
4 10 (35.71%) SaaS
4 10 (35.71%) IaaS
5 9 (32.14%) Mobile App
5 9 (32.14%) IoT
5 9 (32.14%) DevSecOps
5 9 (32.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (32.14%) Serverless
5 9 (32.14%) Terraform
5 9 (32.14%) Deployment Automation
5 9 (32.14%) PaaS
5 9 (32.14%) Design Patterns
6 8 (28.57%) AWS
6 8 (28.57%) Security Testing
6 8 (28.57%) Application Security
6 8 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (28.57%) SDLC
7 6 (21.43%) Finance
8 4 (14.29%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (14.29%) Entra ID
8 4 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (10.71%) Identity Access Management
9 3 (10.71%) GCP
9 3 (10.71%) Roadmaps

Cloud Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (7.14%) Exchange Server 2013
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) Azure
2 10 (35.71%) IaaS
2 10 (35.71%) SaaS
3 9 (32.14%) PaaS
3 9 (32.14%) Serverless
4 8 (28.57%) AWS
4 8 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (14.29%) Entra ID
6 3 (10.71%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (10.71%) GCP
6 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (3.57%) Slack
8 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Network Security
2 1 (3.57%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 6 (21.43%) Finance
2 1 (3.57%) Banking
2 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
2 1 (3.57%) Legal
2 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) IoT
1 9 (32.14%) Mobile App
2 4 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (14.29%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (10.71%) Security Posture
4 2 (7.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (7.14%) Cyberattack
4 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
1 2 (7.14%) Windows Server
1 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 12 (42.86%) Security Architecture
3 11 (39.29%) Architectural Patterns
4 9 (32.14%) Deployment Automation
4 9 (32.14%) Design Patterns
4 9 (32.14%) DevSecOps
4 9 (32.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (28.57%) Application Security
5 8 (28.57%) SDLC
5 8 (28.57%) Security Testing
6 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (10.71%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (10.71%) Roadmaps
7 3 (10.71%) Strategic Roadmap
7 3 (10.71%) Vulnerability Management
8 2 (7.14%) Data Protection
8 2 (7.14%) Data Security
8 2 (7.14%) Integration Patterns
8 2 (7.14%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) CISSP
2 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.57%) Chartered Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) CISM
3 1 (3.57%) CITP
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (42.86%) NIST
2 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.57%) GDPR
3 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.14%) Hyper-V
2 2 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.57%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 9 (32.14%) Terraform
2 2 (7.14%) SCCM
2 2 (7.14%) SCDPM
2 2 (7.14%) SCVMM
2 2 (7.14%) WSUS
3 1 (3.57%) Backup Exec
3 1 (3.57%) HP SIM
3 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.57%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) AlienVault
2 1 (3.57%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.57%) Citrix
2 1 (3.57%) Commvault
2 1 (3.57%) HP
2 1 (3.57%) Okta
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle
2 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.57%) Symantec
2 1 (3.57%) Veritas