Cloud Security Consultant Contracts in England

Cloud Security Consultant
UK > England

The median Cloud Security Consultant daily rate in England is £576, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 503 571 749
Rank change year-on-year +68 +178 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Consultant 11 18 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.035% 0.045% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.048% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 14
10th Percentile £466 £313 £459
25th Percentile £517 £406 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £576 £513 £650
Median % change year-on-year +12.44% -21.15% +8.33%
75th Percentile £713 £619 £813
90th Percentile £788 £675 -
UK median daily rate £576 £513 £625
% change year-on-year +12.44% -18.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 28,953 37,638 64,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 93.75% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,172 45,824
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £418 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,111 1,422 1,621
10th Percentile £15.10 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.15 £19.25 £16.69
Median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%
75th Percentile £66.61 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Cloud Security Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security Consultant in England

Cloud Security Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security Consultant in England

Cloud Security Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security Consultant in England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security Consultant in England

Cloud Security Consultant
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 Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 31 October 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 +50 6 £561 -13.65%
East of England +18 3 £700 -
Midlands - 1 £500 -
West Midlands - 1 £500 -
Cloud Security Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Cloud Security Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 7 (63.64%) Azure
3 5 (45.45%) AWS
3 5 (45.45%) SIEM
3 5 (45.45%) NIST
4 4 (36.36%) Cloud Enablement
4 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
4 4 (36.36%) Firewall
4 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
5 3 (27.27%) Degree
5 3 (27.27%) AWS Certification
5 3 (27.27%) GCP
5 3 (27.27%) Serverless
5 3 (27.27%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (27.27%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (18.18%) SD-WAN
6 2 (18.18%) Key Management
6 2 (18.18%) RBAC
6 2 (18.18%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (18.18%) Data Encryption
6 2 (18.18%) Database Security
6 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (18.18%) SDLC
6 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (18.18%) Terraform
6 2 (18.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (18.18%) Security Auditing
6 2 (18.18%) Threat Detection

Cloud Security Consultant 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) AWS
3 3 (27.27%) GCP
3 3 (27.27%) Serverless
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (18.18%) SD-WAN
2 2 (18.18%) WAN
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) PKI
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
3 1 (9.09%) YubiKey
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 5 (45.45%) SIEM
3 4 (36.36%) Cloud Enablement
4 3 (27.27%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (18.18%) Data Encryption
5 2 (18.18%) Database Security
5 2 (18.18%) Ethical Hacking
5 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (18.18%) Key Management
5 2 (18.18%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (18.18%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (18.18%) RBAC
5 2 (18.18%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (18.18%) SDLC
5 2 (18.18%) Security Auditing
5 2 (18.18%) Threat Detection
6 1 (9.09%) Application Packaging
6 1 (9.09%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Certification
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (18.18%) CISM
2 2 (18.18%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) NIST
2 3 (27.27%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Remedy