Cloud Security Contracts in the North West

Cloud Security
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 96 120
Rank change year-on-year -20 +24 -17
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 22 59 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.82% 1.92% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 2.12% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 33 52
10th Percentile £405 £516 £525
25th Percentile £588 £565 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £676 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year +8.16% - +15.26%
75th Percentile £725 £650 £656
90th Percentile - £723 £675
England median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate - £70.00 £43.59
% change year-on-year - +60.61% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,300 2,778 3,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.98% 90.31% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,459 1,950 2,599
10th Percentile £311 £313 £250
25th Percentile £406 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 138 168
10th Percentile £10.96 £16.25 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £22.60 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.19 £35.52 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -31.89% +54.23% +27.12%
75th Percentile £46.18 £49.24 £50.01
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Cloud Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in the North West

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in the North West

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in the North West over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in the North West

Cloud Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Security in the North West

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 17 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
Manchester -22 12 £625 - 14
Cheshire -3 9 £688 +11.87% 2
Lancashire +8 1 £400 -
Cloud Security
England

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (9.09%) nginx
1 2 (9.09%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) Entra ID
3 3 (13.64%) GCP
3 3 (13.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (4.55%) Azure App Service
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.55%) PaaS
5 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) Network Security
2 3 (13.64%) DNS
2 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.55%) DHCP
3 1 (4.55%) VLAN
3 1 (4.55%) VPN
3 1 (4.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Burp Suite
2 2 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) GitLab
2 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (13.64%) Finance
1 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
1 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Automotive
2 1 (4.55%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Architect
2 5 (22.73%) Security Manager
3 4 (18.18%) Project Manager
3 4 (18.18%) Security Project Manager
4 3 (13.64%) Ethical Hacker
4 3 (13.64%) Security Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Active Directory Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Network Security Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) cloud-init
2 1 (4.55%) .NET
2 1 (4.55%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.55%) Django
2 1 (4.55%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (9.09%) Clustering
2 2 (9.09%) PKI
2 2 (9.09%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.55%) Cyberattack
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Linux
2 3 (13.64%) Kali Linux
3 2 (9.09%) CentOS
3 2 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.55%) Android
4 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.55%) Windows
4 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (36.36%) Application Security
3 7 (31.82%) Agile
3 7 (31.82%) Decision-Making
4 6 (27.27%) Business Case
4 6 (27.27%) Business Development
4 6 (27.27%) Data Strategy
4 6 (27.27%) DevOps
4 6 (27.27%) Pricing Strategy
4 6 (27.27%) Threat Management
5 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
5 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (18.18%) Microservices
6 4 (18.18%) Penetration Testing
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Deployment
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (13.64%) Ethical Hacking
7 3 (13.64%) Purple Team
7 3 (13.64%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) Python
2 2 (9.09%) Bash
2 2 (9.09%) Go
2 2 (9.09%) Ruby
2 2 (9.09%) SQL
3 1 (4.55%) Bicep
3 1 (4.55%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) CISA
1 6 (27.27%) CISM
1 6 (27.27%) CISSP
1 6 (27.27%) Degree
1 6 (27.27%) Master's Degree
1 6 (27.27%) MBA
2 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) OSCP
3 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) PCI DSS
2 2 (9.09%) NCSC
3 1 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.09%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) Ansible
2 2 (9.09%) Consul
2 2 (9.09%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (9.09%) Graphite
2 2 (9.09%) HAProxy
2 2 (9.09%) Istio
2 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.09%) linkerd
2 2 (9.09%) Packer
2 2 (9.09%) Podman
2 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
2 2 (9.09%) Puppet
2 2 (9.09%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Cisco
2 2 (9.09%) PagerDuty
2 2 (9.09%) Palo Alto
2 2 (9.09%) Splunk
2 2 (9.09%) VMware
3 1 (4.55%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) Zscaler