Cloud Security Engineer Contract Job Trends

Cloud Security Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Security Engineer daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 562 513 578
Rank change year-on-year -49 +65 +175
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 29 28 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.078% 0.084% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.090% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 16 12
10th Percentile £400 £500 -
25th Percentile £406 £519 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -10.20% +13.43%
75th Percentile £581 £603 £655
90th Percentile £638 £635 £686
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £775 £625
% change year-on-year -27.42% +24.00% +6.38%

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 33,780 30,959 40,080
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.21% 92.73% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,373 19,013 26,849
10th Percentile £300 £300 £281
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,964 958 1,543
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £18.24 £21.01 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -27.78% +38.46%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.49 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £46.18
% change year-on-year -20.81% -31.23% +77.62%

Cloud Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Security Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Security Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Cloud Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Security Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Security Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Cloud Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security Engineer over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security Engineer in the UK

Cloud Security Engineer
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. 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
England -37 28 £525 -4.55% 16
London -12 20 £434 -21.14% 10
Work from Home -8 9 £425 -22.73% 7
UK excluding London -38 6 £563 -27.42% 20
North of England - 4 £475 - 1
North West - 4 £475 - 1
East of England - 2 £613 -

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 31 December 2025, Cloud Security Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Cloud Security Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 15 (51.72%) Azure
3 14 (48.28%) AWS
4 11 (37.93%) CI/CD
4 11 (37.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (31.03%) Azure Sentinel
6 8 (27.59%) DevOps
6 8 (27.59%) DevSecOps
6 8 (27.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
6 8 (27.59%) Terraform
7 7 (24.14%) NIST
7 7 (24.14%) REST
8 6 (20.69%) Azure Certification
8 6 (20.69%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (20.69%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (20.69%) Microservices
9 5 (17.24%) API Development
9 5 (17.24%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (17.24%) Entra ID
9 5 (17.24%) GCP
9 5 (17.24%) GRC
9 5 (17.24%) Kubernetes
9 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (17.24%) NestJS
9 5 (17.24%) Network Security
9 5 (17.24%) Ping Identity
9 5 (17.24%) SIEM
10 4 (13.79%) Agile
10 4 (13.79%) Amazon EKS

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (51.72%) Azure
2 14 (48.28%) AWS
3 9 (31.03%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (17.24%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (17.24%) Entra ID
4 5 (17.24%) GCP
4 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (13.79%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (13.79%) Serverless
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.90%) GitHub
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.45%) AWS KMS
8 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.45%) Datadog
8 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) Network Security
2 4 (13.79%) Firewall
3 3 (10.34%) VPN
4 1 (3.45%) LAN
4 1 (3.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 2 (6.90%) BigQuery
1 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 11 (37.93%) Finance
2 2 (6.90%) Banking
2 2 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) REST
2 5 (17.24%) NestJS
3 3 (10.34%) Node.js
4 2 (6.90%) RESTful
5 1 (3.45%) .NET
5 1 (3.45%) AWS CDK
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (3.45%) Serverless Framework
5 1 (3.45%) Spring
5 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Security Posture
2 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 4 (13.79%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.45%) CSOC
3 1 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 11 (37.93%) CI/CD
2 11 (37.93%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (27.59%) DevOps
3 8 (27.59%) DevSecOps
4 6 (20.69%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (20.69%) Identity Access Management
4 6 (20.69%) Microservices
5 5 (17.24%) API Development
5 5 (17.24%) SIEM
6 4 (13.79%) Agile
6 4 (13.79%) Data Protection
6 4 (13.79%) Incident Response
6 4 (13.79%) Information Security
6 4 (13.79%) Security Operations
6 4 (13.79%) Threat Detection
6 4 (13.79%) Threat Modelling
7 3 (10.34%) Data Loss Prevention
7 3 (10.34%) SOAR
8 2 (6.90%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) Python
2 2 (6.90%) Bash
2 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
3 1 (3.45%) Bicep
3 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Azure Certification
2 4 (13.79%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (10.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (10.34%) CCSP
3 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.90%) CISSP
5 1 (3.45%) CISM
5 1 (3.45%) Degree
5 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) OSCP
5 1 (3.45%) SANS
5 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (27.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (24.14%) NIST
3 5 (17.24%) GRC
4 4 (13.79%) NCSC
4 4 (13.79%) PCI DSS
5 3 (10.34%) GDPR
6 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (3.45%) HIPAA
6 1 (3.45%) JSP 440
6 1 (3.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) Terraform
2 5 (17.24%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.90%) Ansible
3 2 (6.90%) QRadar
4 1 (3.45%) Argo
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) Ping Identity
3 4 (13.79%) Google
4 2 (6.90%) Darktrace
4 2 (6.90%) Zscaler
5 1 (3.45%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.45%) Cisco
5 1 (3.45%) Cribl.io
5 1 (3.45%) Meraki
5 1 (3.45%) Rapid7
5 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.45%) Splunk