Cloud Security Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Security Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £638, 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 365 401 502
Rank change year-on-year +36 +101 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Consultant 4 12 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.057% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.061% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 4
10th Percentile £511 £294 £616
25th Percentile £528 £313 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £400 £650
Median % change year-on-year +59.38% -38.46% -
75th Percentile £781 £594 £675
90th Percentile £838 £600 -
UK median daily rate £576 £513 £625
% change year-on-year +12.44% -18.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 15,430 19,609 28,575
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 93.93% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,847 13,032 20,128
10th Percentile £220 £213 £215
25th Percentile £375 £381 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,078 1,268 1,341
10th Percentile £14.73 £14.25 £12.48
25th Percentile £19.41 £18.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% +89.36% +31.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £70.30
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 the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Cloud Security Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

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

Cloud Security Consultant
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 Consultant within the UK excluding London 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
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 the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Security Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Enablement
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) SIEM
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) NIST
3 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) Serverless
4 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (25.00%) RBAC
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) CISSP
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
4 1 (25.00%) CISM
4 1 (25.00%) Firewall
4 1 (25.00%) Security Management
4 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection

Cloud Security Consultant 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Enablement
3 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) SIEM
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) RBAC
4 1 (25.00%) Security Management
4 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
4 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CISM
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft