Cloud Security Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Security Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 390 413 518
Rank change year-on-year +23 +105 -81
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Architect 10 25 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.048% 0.11% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.12% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 5
10th Percentile £435 £668 £675
25th Percentile £544 £675 £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £715 £770
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -7.14% +18.01%
75th Percentile £781 £725 £803
90th Percentile £785 £783 £846
UK median daily rate £775 £700 £700
% change year-on-year +10.71% - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,247 21,469 29,158
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.25% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,616 14,937 20,515
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,085 1,398
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Cloud Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South West +7 7 £375 -46.43% 2
North of England +17 2 £775 +8.58% 1
North West +15 2 £775 +8.58% 1
South East +8 1 £750 +4.90%
Cloud Security Architect
UK

Cloud Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Security Architect in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (50.00%) Azure
4 4 (40.00%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (30.00%) Finance
5 3 (30.00%) Security Posture
5 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (20.00%) SCDPM
6 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
6 2 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
6 2 (20.00%) NIST
6 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (20.00%) Product Strategy
6 2 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 2 (20.00%) Cyberattack
6 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
6 2 (20.00%) Data Flow Diagram
6 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
6 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns

Cloud Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2013
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (40.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (30.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (20.00%) Cyberattack
3 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (20.00%) Cryptography
3 2 (20.00%) Data Flow Diagram
3 2 (20.00%) Data Security
3 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (20.00%) Product Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (10.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (10.00%) Network Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) SCCM
1 2 (20.00%) SCDPM
1 2 (20.00%) SCVMM
1 2 (20.00%) WSUS
2 1 (10.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (10.00%) HP SIM
2 1 (10.00%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix
2 1 (10.00%) Commvault
2 1 (10.00%) HP
2 1 (10.00%) Okta
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Symantec
2 1 (10.00%) Veritas