Cloud Security Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 258 177 266
Rank change year-on-year -81 +89 -35
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 140 317 270
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.69% 1.38% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.55% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 222 194
10th Percentile £413 £450 £414
25th Percentile £500 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £689 £700 £675
90th Percentile £725 £786 £746
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +75.00% -15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,041 20,494 27,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.15% 89.42% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,189 14,100 19,120
10th Percentile £250 £259 £236
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,063 1,256 1,368
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.34 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.21%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.29
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.73 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.76% +40.19% +7.00%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Security in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
North of England -45 39 £650 +18.18% 45
South East -16 31 £516 -26.25% 36
Scotland +27 23 £700 +47.37% 14
Midlands +3 23 £635 +15.45% 20
South West -4 22 £550 -15.38% 17
North West -7 22 £676 +8.16% 14
West Midlands +3 21 £635 +8.09% 16
Yorkshire -26 17 £600 +9.09% 23
East of England +4 8 £700 +40.00% 3
East Midlands +15 2 £625 +25.00% 4
Cloud Security
UK

Cloud Security
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 (1.43%) nginx
1 2 (1.43%) Traefik
2 1 (0.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 57 (40.71%) Azure
2 37 (26.43%) AWS
3 20 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 14 (10.00%) IaaS
5 13 (9.29%) PaaS
6 11 (7.86%) GCP
7 10 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (5.71%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (5.71%) SaaS
8 8 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.57%) AWS CloudTrail
11 5 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (3.57%) CloudFront
12 4 (2.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 4 (2.86%) OCI
13 3 (2.14%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 25 (17.86%) Network Security
2 19 (13.57%) Firewall
3 15 (10.71%) DNS
3 15 (10.71%) VPN
4 6 (4.29%) WAN
5 5 (3.57%) LAN
5 5 (3.57%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.14%) Internet
6 3 (2.14%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.14%) WLAN
7 1 (0.71%) Broadband
7 1 (0.71%) DHCP
7 1 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.71%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.57%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.86%) Relational Database
2 4 (2.86%) SAP BW
3 3 (2.14%) Bigtable
3 3 (2.14%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (4.29%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.57%) Git
3 3 (2.14%) Burp Suite
3 3 (2.14%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.43%) GitLab
4 2 (1.43%) JIRA
5 1 (0.71%) NUnit
5 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.86%) Finance
3 15 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.14%) Retail
5 8 (5.71%) Banking
6 4 (2.86%) Legal
6 4 (2.86%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.14%) French Language
7 3 (2.14%) German Language
7 3 (2.14%) Military
8 2 (1.43%) Automotive
9 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.71%) Law
9 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.71%) Marketing
9 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (25.71%) Architect
2 22 (15.71%) Security Engineer
3 21 (15.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 18 (12.86%) Consultant
5 17 (12.14%) Security Consultant
6 13 (9.29%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (9.29%) Senior
7 12 (8.57%) Security Manager
8 10 (7.14%) Security Architect
9 8 (5.71%) Project Manager
9 8 (5.71%) Security Project Manager
10 7 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 6 (4.29%) SOC Engineer
12 5 (3.57%) Analyst
12 5 (3.57%) Applications Engineer
12 5 (3.57%) Developer
12 5 (3.57%) Lead
13 4 (2.86%) Java Developer
13 4 (2.86%) SAP Consultant
13 4 (2.86%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.29%) SAML
2 5 (3.57%) .NET
2 5 (3.57%) OAuth
2 5 (3.57%) OAuth2
2 5 (3.57%) REST
3 4 (2.86%) GWT
3 4 (2.86%) JAX-RS
3 4 (2.86%) OpenID
3 4 (2.86%) Restlet
3 4 (2.86%) Spring
3 4 (2.86%) Spring Boot
3 4 (2.86%) Web Services
4 3 (2.14%) JSON
4 3 (2.14%) YAML
5 2 (1.43%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.43%) cloud-init
5 2 (1.43%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.71%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (0.71%) Node.js
6 1 (0.71%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.86%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.71%) Security Posture
3 11 (7.86%) Public Cloud
4 9 (6.43%) Operational Technology
5 7 (5.00%) PKI
6 5 (3.57%) Cyber Defence
6 5 (3.57%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (2.86%) Insider Threat
8 3 (2.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (2.14%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.14%) IoT
8 3 (2.14%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.14%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.43%) Clustering
9 2 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.43%) SCADA
9 2 (1.43%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.43%) Windows
2 6 (4.29%) Linux
3 3 (2.14%) Kali Linux
4 2 (1.43%) Android
4 2 (1.43%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.43%) CentOS
4 2 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.71%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (37.14%) Cybersecurity
2 27 (19.29%) DevOps
2 27 (19.29%) Identity Access Management
3 26 (18.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (16.43%) CI/CD
4 23 (16.43%) Security Architecture
5 22 (15.71%) Agile
6 21 (15.00%) Information Security
7 19 (13.57%) DevSecOps
7 19 (13.57%) Microservices
8 18 (12.86%) Incident Response
9 17 (12.14%) Change Management
9 17 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (11.43%) Application Security
11 15 (10.71%) SIEM
12 13 (9.29%) Security Monitoring
13 11 (7.86%) Analytics
13 11 (7.86%) Penetration Testing
13 11 (7.86%) Risk Management
13 11 (7.86%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (15.00%) Python
2 14 (10.00%) Java
3 6 (4.29%) C#
3 6 (4.29%) PowerShell
4 5 (3.57%) Ruby
5 3 (2.14%) Bash
5 3 (2.14%) PHP
5 3 (2.14%) SQL
6 2 (1.43%) Go
6 2 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.71%) Bicep
7 1 (0.71%) C++
7 1 (0.71%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.71%) Julia
7 1 (0.71%) Perl
7 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (17.14%) Degree
3 23 (16.43%) SC Cleared
4 22 (15.71%) CISSP
5 18 (12.86%) CISM
6 12 (8.57%) Azure Certification
7 11 (7.86%) CISA
8 8 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 7 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (5.00%) Master's Degree
10 6 (4.29%) AWS Certification
10 6 (4.29%) CRISC
10 6 (4.29%) MBA
11 5 (3.57%) CCSP
12 4 (2.86%) CISMP
12 4 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (2.86%) DV Cleared
13 3 (2.14%) CCNP
13 3 (2.14%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.29%) NIST
2 17 (12.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (5.71%) NCSC
4 7 (5.00%) COBIT
4 7 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
4 7 (5.00%) GRC
4 7 (5.00%) PCI DSS
5 5 (3.57%) GDPR
6 2 (1.43%) COSO
6 2 (1.43%) ISA99
6 2 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (1.43%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (12.14%) Active Directory
2 13 (9.29%) Docker
3 6 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.14%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (14.29%) Terraform
2 13 (9.29%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (5.71%) Kubernetes
4 7 (5.00%) Ansible
5 4 (2.86%) Trend Micro Deep Security
6 2 (1.43%) Consul
6 2 (1.43%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (1.43%) Graphite
6 2 (1.43%) HAProxy
6 2 (1.43%) Istio
6 2 (1.43%) linkerd
6 2 (1.43%) Packer
6 2 (1.43%) Podman
6 2 (1.43%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.43%) Puppet
6 2 (1.43%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.71%) CASB
7 1 (0.71%) Nessus
Vendors
1 39 (27.86%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.43%) Google
3 8 (5.71%) Cisco
3 8 (5.71%) Splunk
4 7 (5.00%) Palo Alto
5 6 (4.29%) VMware
6 5 (3.57%) SAP
6 5 (3.57%) Zscaler
7 4 (2.86%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (2.86%) LogRhythm
7 4 (2.86%) Okta
7 4 (2.86%) Oracle
8 3 (2.14%) F5
8 3 (2.14%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.43%) Citrix
9 2 (1.43%) PagerDuty
9 2 (1.43%) TippingPoint
9 2 (1.43%) Trend Micro
10 1 (0.71%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.71%) ForeScout