Cloud Security Contracts in Manchester

Cloud Security
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 72 96
Rank change year-on-year -13 +24 -20
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 12 37 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.83% 2.08% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 2.30% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 21 43
10th Percentile £474 £531 -
25th Percentile £547 £600 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £663
90th Percentile £659 £715 £675
North West median daily rate £676 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +8.16% - +14.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,245 1,609 2,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 86.34% 90.49% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 843 1,180 1,822
10th Percentile £325 £317 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £588
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 56 52
10th Percentile £12.46 £15.74 £11.40
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.49 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +34.21% +17.07%
75th Percentile £61.25 £40.63 £56.25
90th Percentile £73.30 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £23.22
% change year-on-year -23.83% +50.72% +29.66%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in Manchester

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in Manchester

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in Manchester

Cloud Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Security in Manchester

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (16.67%) nginx
1 2 (16.67%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
2 2 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Azure App Service
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (8.33%) PaaS
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Network Security
2 2 (16.67%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Burp Suite
2 2 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Automotive
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Ethical Hacker
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Full Stack Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Network Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Principal Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) cloud-init
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (8.33%) Django
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (16.67%) Clustering
2 2 (16.67%) PKI
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
2 3 (25.00%) Kali Linux
3 2 (16.67%) CentOS
3 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (8.33%) Android
4 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (33.33%) Microservices
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
5 3 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Purple Team
6 2 (16.67%) Architectural Design
6 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
6 2 (16.67%) Cost Reduction
6 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 2 (16.67%) Load Balancing
6 2 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
2 2 (16.67%) Go
2 2 (16.67%) Ruby
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Bicep
3 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) OSCP
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Consul
2 2 (16.67%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (16.67%) Graphite
2 2 (16.67%) HAProxy
2 2 (16.67%) Istio
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) linkerd
2 2 (16.67%) Packer
2 2 (16.67%) Podman
2 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 2 (16.67%) Puppet
2 2 (16.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco
1 2 (16.67%) PagerDuty
1 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
1 2 (16.67%) Splunk
1 2 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft