Cloud Security Engineer Contracts

Cloud Security Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Security Engineer daily rate in the UK is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 562 624
Rank change year-on-year +47 +62 +174
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 33 23 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.053% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.057% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 17 39
10th Percentile £400 £443 £415
25th Percentile £403 £519 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% - -20.00%
75th Percentile £500 £675 £695
90th Percentile £583 £735 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £575 £695
% change year-on-year -20.65% -17.27% +12.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 29,294 40,276 53,656
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.97% 93.01% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,671 25,908 37,253
10th Percentile £287 £285 £313
25th Percentile £400 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.13%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,326 2,804 1,565
10th Percentile £13.75 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.36 £16.65 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.45 £37.50 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -29.47% -14.05% +74.52%
75th Percentile £55.25 £62.96 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £74.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%

Cloud Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cloud Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security Engineer in the UK

Cloud Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security Engineer in the UK

Cloud Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security Engineer in the UK

Cloud Security Engineer
Top 11 Contract 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 6 July 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 +65 29 £425 -29.17% 25
Work from Home +45 22 £425 -25.27% 24
UK excluding London +55 15 £456 -20.65% 14
London +39 14 £425 -29.17% 14
North of England - 9 £400 - 5
North West - 8 £400 - 2
Midlands - 3 £588 - 2
West Midlands - 3 £588 - 1
South West +37 2 £519 -9.78%
South East +41 1 £550 +10.00% 5
North East - 1 £400 - 2

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, Cloud Security Engineer 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 featuring Cloud Security Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 25 (75.76%) Azure
3 15 (45.45%) Finance
4 14 (42.42%) Microsoft
5 13 (39.39%) AWS
6 12 (36.36%) Firewall
6 12 (36.36%) Zscaler
7 9 (27.27%) Entra ID
7 9 (27.27%) Windows
7 9 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (27.27%) Azure Certification
8 8 (24.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (24.24%) Information Security
8 8 (24.24%) Banking
8 8 (24.24%) Server Hardening
9 7 (21.21%) Fintech
9 7 (21.21%) Python
9 7 (21.21%) SharePoint
9 7 (21.21%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (18.18%) NIST
10 6 (18.18%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (18.18%) PowerShell
10 6 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
10 6 (18.18%) Terraform
10 6 (18.18%) Security Operations
10 6 (18.18%) Darktrace
10 6 (18.18%) Data Loss Prevention
11 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
11 5 (15.15%) GCP
11 5 (15.15%) Security Cleared

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (21.21%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 25 (75.76%) Azure
2 13 (39.39%) AWS
3 9 (27.27%) Entra ID
3 9 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (21.21%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (18.18%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (15.15%) GCP
7 4 (12.12%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (9.09%) Amazon Macie
8 3 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (9.09%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (9.09%) AWS KMS
9 2 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (3.03%) Cloudflare
10 1 (3.03%) Google Workspace
10 1 (3.03%) IBM Cloud
10 1 (3.03%) Route 53
10 1 (3.03%) SaaS
10 1 (3.03%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (36.36%) Firewall
2 4 (12.12%) Network Security
3 3 (9.09%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) GitLab
General
1 15 (45.45%) Finance
2 8 (24.24%) Banking
3 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) .NET
1 2 (6.06%) SAML
2 1 (3.03%) OAuth
2 1 (3.03%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (9.09%) Security Posture
2 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.06%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (6.06%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.03%) PKI
3 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (27.27%) Windows
2 1 (3.03%) Mac OS
2 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 8 (24.24%) Information Security
2 8 (24.24%) Server Hardening
3 7 (21.21%) Fintech
4 6 (18.18%) Data Loss Prevention
4 6 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
4 6 (18.18%) Security Operations
5 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (12.12%) DevOps
7 3 (9.09%) Agile
7 3 (9.09%) CI/CD
7 3 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (9.09%) Migration
7 3 (9.09%) SIEM
8 2 (6.06%) Incident Management
8 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (6.06%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (6.06%) RBAC
8 2 (6.06%) Refactoring
8 2 (6.06%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.21%) Python
2 6 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 4 (12.12%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Azure Certification
2 8 (24.24%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (15.15%) Security Cleared
4 4 (12.12%) AWS Certification
5 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
6 2 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (3.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.03%) CCSP
7 1 (3.03%) CISSP
7 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (3.03%) Degree
7 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
7 1 (3.03%) OSCP
7 1 (3.03%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) NIST
2 3 (9.09%) PCI DSS
3 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 3 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) Terraform
2 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
3 3 (9.09%) QRadar
4 2 (6.06%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.03%) Argo
5 1 (3.03%) Cilium
5 1 (3.03%) Grafana
5 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (42.42%) Microsoft
2 12 (36.36%) Zscaler
3 6 (18.18%) Darktrace
4 3 (9.09%) Splunk
5 2 (6.06%) Rapid7
5 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.06%) Varonis
6 1 (3.03%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.03%) Google
6 1 (3.03%) IBM
6 1 (3.03%) Netskope