Cloud Security Engineer Contract Job Trends

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 20 November 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 570 522 603
Rank change year-on-year -48 +81 +146
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 33 39 18
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.092% 0.11% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.12% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 27 14
10th Percentile - £458 £485
25th Percentile £400 £500 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £638
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -13.73% +9.91%
75th Percentile £518 £625 £683
90th Percentile £626 £720 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -28.26% -11.54% +4.00%

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 32,551 33,872 43,069
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.95% 92.83% 93.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,631 20,441 29,172
10th Percentile £280 £300 £290
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £647
90th Percentile £725 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,916 1,254 1,535
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.56 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.63 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.40% -20.83% +55.17%
75th Percentile £55.58 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +85.74%

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 20 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security Engineer in the UK

Cloud Security Engineer
Top 8 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 20 November 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 -29 30 £425 -22.73% 12
Work from Home +4 18 £425 -22.73% 5
London -22 17 £425 -22.73% 7
UK excluding London -25 11 £413 -28.26% 7
North of England - 10 £400 - 2
North West - 9 £413 - 2
North East - 1 £400 -
East of England - 1 £650 -

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

For the 6 months to 20 November 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 33 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 20 (60.61%) Azure
3 17 (51.52%) AWS
4 12 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 10 (30.30%) CI/CD
6 10 (30.30%) Terraform
7 9 (27.27%) Azure Certification
7 9 (27.27%) DevOps
8 8 (24.24%) NIST
8 8 (24.24%) Zscaler
9 7 (21.21%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (21.21%) DevSecOps
9 7 (21.21%) Entra ID
9 7 (21.21%) Firewall
9 7 (21.21%) Information Security
9 7 (21.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (21.21%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (21.21%) REST
10 6 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (18.18%) GCP
10 6 (18.18%) Kubernetes
10 6 (18.18%) Microservices
10 6 (18.18%) Python
10 6 (18.18%) Security Operations
10 6 (18.18%) Server Hardening
10 6 (18.18%) SharePoint
11 5 (15.15%) Agile
11 5 (15.15%) API Development

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 6 (18.18%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (60.61%) Azure
2 17 (51.52%) AWS
3 7 (21.21%) Azure Sentinel
3 7 (21.21%) Entra ID
3 7 (21.21%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (18.18%) GCP
5 4 (12.12%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (12.12%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (9.09%) Serverless
7 2 (6.06%) Amazon Macie
7 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (6.06%) AWS KMS
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.06%) Azure AKS
7 2 (6.06%) GitHub
7 2 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.21%) Firewall
2 5 (15.15%) Network Security
3 4 (12.12%) VPN
4 1 (3.03%) LAN
4 1 (3.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 2 (6.06%) BigQuery
1 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Git
1 1 (3.03%) GitLab
General
1 17 (51.52%) Finance
2 5 (15.15%) Banking
3 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) REST
2 5 (15.15%) NestJS
3 3 (9.09%) Node.js
4 2 (6.06%) RESTful
5 1 (3.03%) .NET
5 1 (3.03%) AWS CDK
5 1 (3.03%) OAuth
5 1 (3.03%) OAuth2
5 1 (3.03%) SAML
5 1 (3.03%) Serverless Framework
5 1 (3.03%) Spring
5 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Security Posture
2 4 (12.12%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) CSOC
4 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) PKI
4 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 12 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (30.30%) CI/CD
4 9 (27.27%) DevOps
5 7 (21.21%) DevSecOps
5 7 (21.21%) Information Security
6 6 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (18.18%) Microservices
6 6 (18.18%) Security Operations
6 6 (18.18%) Server Hardening
7 5 (15.15%) Agile
7 5 (15.15%) API Development
7 5 (15.15%) Data Loss Prevention
7 5 (15.15%) Fintech
7 5 (15.15%) Threat Modelling
8 4 (12.12%) Data Protection
8 4 (12.12%) SIEM
8 4 (12.12%) Threat Detection
9 3 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
9 3 (9.09%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.18%) Python
2 4 (12.12%) Bash
3 3 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.03%) Bicep
5 1 (3.03%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Azure Certification
2 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (12.12%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
4 3 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 3 (9.09%) CCSP
5 2 (6.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.03%) CISSP
6 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.03%) OSCP
6 1 (3.03%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (24.24%) NIST
2 7 (21.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (12.12%) NCSC
3 4 (12.12%) PCI DSS
4 2 (6.06%) GDPR
5 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (3.03%) GRC
5 1 (3.03%) JSP 440
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (30.30%) Terraform
2 6 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 3 (9.09%) QRadar
4 2 (6.06%) Ansible
5 1 (3.03%) Argo
5 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (24.24%) Zscaler
3 5 (15.15%) Darktrace
3 5 (15.15%) Ping Identity
4 4 (12.12%) Google
5 1 (3.03%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.03%) Cisco
5 1 (3.03%) Cribl.io
5 1 (3.03%) IBM
5 1 (3.03%) Meraki
5 1 (3.03%) Rapid7
5 1 (3.03%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.03%) Varonis