Cloud Security Engineer Contract Job Trends

Cloud Security Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Security Engineer daily rate in the UK is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 607 529 530
Rank change year-on-year -78 +1 +85
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 78 28 32
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.085% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.093% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 21 23
10th Percentile £459 - £453
25th Percentile £475 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £425 £575
Median % change year-on-year +32.41% -26.09% -11.54%
75th Percentile £618 £488 £635
90th Percentile £688 £575 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £400 £575
% change year-on-year +51.25% -30.43% -13.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £73.75 - -
Median hourly rate £77.50 - -
75th Percentile £81.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 50,623 30,078 35,169
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 90.98% 92.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,851 19,013 21,316
10th Percentile £325 £276 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £630 £623 £638
90th Percentile £734 £725 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,956 1,609 1,552
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.75 £14.86
25th Percentile £19.91 £17.30 £20.94
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -2.82%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.31 £74.86
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.87 £25.08 £43.00
% change year-on-year +66.97% -41.69% -2.05%

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 1 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security Engineer in the UK

Cloud Security Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Cloud Security Engineer
Top 11 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 1 October 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 -55 74 £575 +35.29% 108
London -63 37 £508 +17.68% 59
UK excluding London -71 37 £605 +51.25% 60
North West -26 29 £605 +51.25% 15
North of England -52 29 £605 +51.25% 20
Work from Home -63 23 £613 +48.48% 55
Midlands - 5 £675 - 5
West Midlands - 5 £675 - 3
East of England -26 1 - - 4
Scotland - 1 £610 - 8
South East - 1 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 1 October 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 78 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 52 (66.67%) Azure
3 36 (46.15%) AWS
4 31 (39.74%) Terraform
5 30 (38.46%) GCP
6 27 (34.62%) Kubernetes
7 26 (33.33%) Microsoft
8 24 (30.77%) CI/CD
9 22 (28.21%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (25.64%) Python
11 19 (24.36%) Threat Modelling
12 18 (23.08%) PowerShell
12 18 (23.08%) SIEM
13 16 (20.51%) Agile
13 16 (20.51%) DevOps
14 15 (19.23%) Bash
15 14 (17.95%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (17.95%) DevSecOps
15 14 (17.95%) Linux
16 13 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
16 13 (16.67%) Bicep
16 13 (16.67%) Change Management
16 13 (16.67%) Firewall
16 13 (16.67%) RBAC
16 13 (16.67%) Scrum
17 12 (15.38%) Entra ID
18 11 (14.10%) Degree
18 11 (14.10%) Network Security
18 11 (14.10%) Security Operations
18 11 (14.10%) Zero Trust

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:

Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 52 (66.67%) Azure
2 36 (46.15%) AWS
3 30 (38.46%) GCP
4 14 (17.95%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
6 12 (15.38%) Entra ID
7 8 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (10.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 6 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (7.69%) Serverless
9 5 (6.41%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (6.41%) AWS CloudTrail
9 5 (6.41%) AWS KMS
9 5 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (6.41%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (5.13%) Azure AKS
10 4 (5.13%) GitHub
11 3 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.67%) Firewall
2 11 (14.10%) Network Security
3 2 (2.56%) BGP
3 2 (2.56%) DHCP
3 2 (2.56%) DNS
3 2 (2.56%) Internet
3 2 (2.56%) OSPF
3 2 (2.56%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.56%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.56%) VPN
3 2 (2.56%) WAN
4 1 (1.28%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.28%) Git
2 1 (1.28%) GitLab
General
1 19 (24.36%) Finance
2 8 (10.26%) Social Skills
3 3 (3.85%) Digital Health
3 3 (3.85%) Digital Healthcare
3 3 (3.85%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.56%) Banking
5 1 (1.28%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.28%) Law
5 1 (1.28%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (39.74%) Terraform
2 4 (5.13%) ARM Templates
2 4 (5.13%) Azure Blueprints
3 3 (3.85%) SAML
4 1 (1.28%) JSON
4 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (1.28%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 36 (46.15%) Security Posture
2 28 (35.90%) Cloud Native
3 19 (24.36%) Cloud Security Posture
4 16 (20.51%) Enterprise Cloud
5 9 (11.54%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.85%) NHS
7 2 (2.56%) PKI
8 1 (1.28%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.28%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.28%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.28%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.95%) Linux
2 9 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (11.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 24 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 22 (28.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (24.36%) Threat Modelling
5 18 (23.08%) SIEM
6 16 (20.51%) Agile
6 16 (20.51%) DevOps
7 14 (17.95%) DevSecOps
8 13 (16.67%) Change Management
8 13 (16.67%) RBAC
8 13 (16.67%) Scrum
9 11 (14.10%) Security Operations
9 11 (14.10%) Zero Trust
10 10 (12.82%) Identity Access Management
10 10 (12.82%) Infrastructure Automation
10 10 (12.82%) Security Architecture
11 9 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
11 9 (11.54%) Risk Management
11 9 (11.54%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (25.64%) Python
2 18 (23.08%) PowerShell
3 15 (19.23%) Bash
4 13 (16.67%) Bicep
5 9 (11.54%) Java
6 1 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 11 (14.10%) Degree
2 9 (11.54%) Azure Certification
2 9 (11.54%) CISSP
3 8 (10.26%) AWS Certification
4 7 (8.97%) SC Cleared
4 7 (8.97%) Security Cleared
5 4 (5.13%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.56%) CCIE
7 2 (2.56%) CCIE Security
7 2 (2.56%) CCNP
8 1 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.28%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.41%) NIST
3 3 (3.85%) GDPR
4 1 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.28%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.28%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.28%) GRC
4 1 (1.28%) NCSC
4 1 (1.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (11.54%) Docker
2 4 (5.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (34.62%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.26%) Progress Chef
3 6 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (5.13%) Ansible
5 2 (2.56%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 26 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.54%) Google
3 8 (10.26%) Red Hat
4 7 (8.97%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (2.56%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.56%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.56%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.28%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.28%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.28%) New Relic
6 1 (1.28%) Okta
6 1 (1.28%) Oracle
6 1 (1.28%) Palo Alto