Cloud Security Contracts in London

Cloud Security
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Cloud Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Security over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 122 205
Rank change year-on-year -55 +83 -73
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 245 536 551
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.39% 2.04% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 2.25% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 372 358
10th Percentile £428 £463 £475
25th Percentile £528 £533 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £775 £738 £750
90th Percentile £798 £836 £825
England median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +9.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £27.67
Median % change year-on-year - +189.12% -
England median hourly rate - £70.00 £43.59
% change year-on-year - +60.61% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Cloud Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,656 23,861 35,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 90.97% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,212 17,181 25,922
10th Percentile £340 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 269 419
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.40 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +12.63%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.25 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.40 £80.45 £69.45
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in London

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in London

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in London

Cloud Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Security in London

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Central London +6 30 £619 +3.13% 7
East London -12 9 £585 -22.00% 2
South London +6 2 £675 +35.00%
Cloud Security
England

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.82%) nginx
5 1 (0.41%) Confluence
5 1 (0.41%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 99 (40.41%) Azure
2 75 (30.61%) AWS
3 45 (18.37%) GCP
4 43 (17.55%) IaaS
5 37 (15.10%) SaaS
6 27 (11.02%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (10.61%) PaaS
8 20 (8.16%) Serverless
9 18 (7.35%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (6.94%) Entra ID
11 10 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (4.08%) Azure Sentinel
12 8 (3.27%) OCI
13 7 (2.86%) GitHub
14 6 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (2.04%) Mimecast
16 4 (1.63%) Amazon EMR
16 4 (1.63%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 57 (23.27%) Firewall
2 27 (11.02%) Network Security
3 23 (9.39%) WAN
4 15 (6.12%) SD-WAN
5 11 (4.49%) VPN
6 10 (4.08%) DNS
6 10 (4.08%) LAN
7 6 (2.45%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (2.04%) Internet
9 4 (1.63%) BGP
9 4 (1.63%) MPLS
9 4 (1.63%) Multicast
9 4 (1.63%) OSPF
10 3 (1.22%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (1.22%) DHCP
10 3 (1.22%) EIGRP
10 3 (1.22%) SSH
10 3 (1.22%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.82%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.82%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.86%) Data Lake
2 5 (2.04%) Big Data
3 4 (1.63%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.63%) DynamoDB
3 4 (1.63%) MySQL
3 4 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.63%) Power BI
4 3 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.22%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.22%) OLAP
4 3 (1.22%) OLTP
4 3 (1.22%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.82%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.41%) Bigtable
6 1 (0.41%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (6.12%) GitLab
1 15 (6.12%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.45%) Git
3 4 (1.63%) Burp Suite
3 4 (1.63%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.22%) JIRA
5 2 (0.82%) JMeter
5 2 (0.82%) Selenium
6 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.41%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 74 (30.20%) Finance
2 54 (22.04%) Social Skills
3 24 (9.80%) Banking
4 14 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.49%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (4.08%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.63%) Local Government
11 3 (1.22%) Retail
11 3 (1.22%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.82%) Legal
12 2 (0.82%) Marketing
13 1 (0.41%) Electronics
13 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 105 (42.86%) Architect
2 65 (26.53%) Security Architect
3 40 (16.33%) Cloud Architect
4 33 (13.47%) Senior
5 29 (11.84%) Consultant
6 23 (9.39%) Security Consultant
7 21 (8.57%) Security Engineer
8 20 (8.16%) Senior Architect
9 19 (7.76%) AWS Architect
9 19 (7.76%) Senior Security Architect
10 17 (6.94%) Cloud Security Architect
11 14 (5.71%) Security Manager
12 12 (4.90%) Lead
13 11 (4.49%) DevOps Engineer
14 10 (4.08%) Analyst
14 10 (4.08%) Cloud Consultant
14 10 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
15 9 (3.67%) Cloud Security Consultant
15 9 (3.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.49%) SailPoint
2 7 (2.86%) Kafka
3 6 (2.45%) Node.js
4 5 (2.04%) React
5 3 (1.22%) CSS
5 3 (1.22%) HTML
5 3 (1.22%) Middleware
5 3 (1.22%) OpenID
5 3 (1.22%) RESTful
5 3 (1.22%) SAML
5 3 (1.22%) YAML
6 2 (0.82%) .NET
6 2 (0.82%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.82%) EDI
6 2 (0.82%) Express.js
6 2 (0.82%) JSON
6 2 (0.82%) LDAP
6 2 (0.82%) MERN Stack
6 2 (0.82%) Web Services
7 1 (0.41%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.39%) Management Information System
2 22 (8.98%) PKI
3 14 (5.71%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.71%) Mobile App
4 13 (5.31%) IoT
5 12 (4.90%) Security Posture
6 8 (3.27%) Cloud Security Posture
6 8 (3.27%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.04%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.04%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.63%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.22%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.20%) Linux
2 11 (4.49%) Windows
3 7 (2.86%) Unix
4 5 (2.04%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.63%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (26.53%) Cybersecurity
1 65 (26.53%) DevOps
2 60 (24.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 56 (22.86%) Security Architecture
4 53 (21.63%) Information Security
5 41 (16.73%) DevSecOps
5 41 (16.73%) SIEM
6 39 (15.92%) CI/CD
7 34 (13.88%) Application Security
8 32 (13.06%) Identity Access Management
8 32 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (12.65%) Penetration Testing
10 29 (11.84%) Data Loss Prevention
11 28 (11.43%) Agile
11 28 (11.43%) Containerisation
12 24 (9.80%) Microservices
12 24 (9.80%) Migration
13 23 (9.39%) SDLC
14 22 (8.98%) Computer Science
15 21 (8.57%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 30 (12.24%) Python
2 15 (6.12%) PowerShell
3 9 (3.67%) Java
4 8 (3.27%) Bash
4 8 (3.27%) SQL
5 5 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.22%) Go
6 3 (1.22%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.82%) C#
7 2 (0.82%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.41%) Korn
8 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.41%) PHP
8 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.41%) Scala
8 1 (0.41%) SOQL
8 1 (0.41%) SOSL
8 1 (0.41%) tcsh
8 1 (0.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 41 (16.73%) Degree
2 37 (15.10%) CISSP
3 34 (13.88%) Security Cleared
4 32 (13.06%) SC Cleared
5 27 (11.02%) CISM
6 19 (7.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (4.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 10 (4.08%) CRISC
10 8 (3.27%) CCSK
10 8 (3.27%) CISA
10 8 (3.27%) SANS
11 6 (2.45%) GIAC
12 5 (2.04%) AWS Certification
13 4 (1.63%) CCNP
13 4 (1.63%) CCSP
14 3 (1.22%) Azure Certification
14 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (1.22%) OSCP
14 3 (1.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (20.41%) NIST
2 36 (14.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 14 (5.71%) PCI DSS
5 10 (4.08%) GDPR
6 9 (3.67%) GRC
7 6 (2.45%) NCSC
8 4 (1.63%) NIST 800
9 3 (1.22%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.22%) GPG13
9 3 (1.22%) ISO 22301
9 3 (1.22%) ISO 9001
9 3 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.82%) COBIT
10 2 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.82%) ISO 31000
10 2 (0.82%) QA
11 1 (0.41%) GxP
11 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
System Software
1 23 (9.39%) Active Directory
2 20 (8.16%) Docker
3 6 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.22%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.82%) KVM
6 2 (0.82%) Squid
6 2 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.82%) XenApp
7 1 (0.41%) NFS
Systems Management
1 64 (26.12%) Terraform
2 29 (11.84%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.86%) CASB
4 6 (2.45%) Ansible
4 6 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.63%) Argo
5 4 (1.63%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.22%) Packer
7 2 (0.82%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.82%) Nessus
8 1 (0.41%) Grafana
8 1 (0.41%) systemd
Vendors
1 48 (19.59%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.39%) Google
3 12 (4.90%) Oracle
4 10 (4.08%) CyberArk
5 9 (3.67%) BeyondTrust
5 9 (3.67%) Cisco
5 9 (3.67%) Palo Alto
5 9 (3.67%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.45%) CheckPoint
6 6 (2.45%) VMware
7 5 (2.04%) Databricks
7 5 (2.04%) F5
8 4 (1.63%) Citrix
8 4 (1.63%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.22%) Darktrace
9 3 (1.22%) Dell
9 3 (1.22%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.22%) Qualys
10 2 (0.82%) NVIDIA
10 2 (0.82%) Ping Identity