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 18 January 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 496 581
Rank change year-on-year -60 +85 +150
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 30 28 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.081% 0.088% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.088% 0.095% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 15 12
10th Percentile £400 £470 -
25th Percentile £413 £513 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -10.20% +11.36%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £673
90th Percentile £638 £620 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 - £613
% change year-on-year - - +4.26%

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 33,942 29,468 40,286
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.41% 92.82% 93.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,457 18,028 26,771
10th Percentile £300 £296 £279
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,003 894 1,815
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.91 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £18.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £40.69
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -20.13% +19.68%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £64.45
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £75.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +46.55%

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 18 January 2026.

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 18 January 2026. 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 -47 29 £525 -4.55% 14
London -13 21 £450 -18.18% 10
Work from Home -13 7 £425 -22.73% 4
UK excluding London - 6 £563 - 8
North of England - 4 £475 -
North West - 4 £475 -
East of England - 2 £613 -

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

For the 6 months to 18 January 2026, 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 30 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 17 (56.67%) AWS
3 15 (50.00%) Azure
4 14 (46.67%) CI/CD
5 13 (43.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (36.67%) DevSecOps
7 10 (33.33%) Microservices
7 10 (33.33%) Terraform
8 9 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
9 8 (26.67%) DevOps
9 8 (26.67%) GCP
9 8 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (26.67%) Kubernetes
9 8 (26.67%) NIST
9 8 (26.67%) REST
10 7 (23.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (23.33%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (23.33%) Data Protection
10 7 (23.33%) Google
10 7 (23.33%) Python
10 7 (23.33%) Threat Modelling
11 6 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (20.00%) API Development
11 6 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (20.00%) Docker
11 6 (20.00%) GDPR
11 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
11 6 (20.00%) NestJS
11 6 (20.00%) Ping Identity

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:

Cloud Services
1 17 (56.67%) AWS
2 15 (50.00%) Azure
3 8 (26.67%) GCP
4 7 (23.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (23.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (16.67%) GitHub
7 4 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (13.33%) IaaS
7 4 (13.33%) PaaS
7 4 (13.33%) SaaS
7 4 (13.33%) Serverless
8 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
8 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (10.00%) OCI
9 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (3.33%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) Network Security
2 2 (6.67%) Firewall
3 1 (3.33%) LAN
3 1 (3.33%) VPN
3 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 2 (6.67%) BigQuery
1 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Git
General
1 10 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) REST
2 6 (20.00%) NestJS
3 4 (13.33%) .NET
4 3 (10.00%) Node.js
5 2 (6.67%) RESTful
5 2 (6.67%) Web Services
6 1 (3.33%) AWS CDK
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (3.33%) Serverless Framework
6 1 (3.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 4 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 4 (13.33%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.33%) CSOC
3 1 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 14 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 13 (43.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (36.67%) DevSecOps
5 10 (33.33%) Microservices
6 9 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
7 8 (26.67%) DevOps
8 7 (23.33%) Data Protection
8 7 (23.33%) Threat Modelling
9 6 (20.00%) API Development
10 5 (16.67%) Agile
10 5 (16.67%) SIEM
11 4 (13.33%) AI
11 4 (13.33%) Incident Response
11 4 (13.33%) Information Security
11 4 (13.33%) Security Architecture
11 4 (13.33%) Threat Detection
11 4 (13.33%) TOGAF
12 3 (10.00%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 7 (23.33%) Python
2 4 (13.33%) Java
3 3 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (6.67%) Bash
4 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 5 (16.67%) CCSP
3 4 (13.33%) Azure Certification
3 4 (13.33%) CISSP
4 3 (10.00%) Degree
4 3 (10.00%) OSCP
4 3 (10.00%) SANS
4 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
5 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
6 1 (3.33%) CISM
6 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (26.67%) NIST
2 6 (20.00%) GDPR
3 5 (16.67%) GRC
3 5 (16.67%) PCI DSS
4 4 (13.33%) NCSC
5 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (3.33%) HIPAA
5 1 (3.33%) JSP 440
5 1 (3.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) Terraform
2 8 (26.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.67%) Ansible
4 1 (3.33%) Argo
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Google
2 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.00%) Ping Identity
3 4 (13.33%) Rapid7
4 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco
4 1 (3.33%) Cribl.io
4 1 (3.33%) Meraki
4 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.33%) Splunk