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 22 April 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 505 576
Rank change year-on-year -70 +71 +85
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 42 21 12
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.091% 0.071% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.098% 0.077% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 16 8
10th Percentile £410 £408 £466
25th Percentile £509 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.30% -4.41%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £663
90th Percentile £688 £597 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £593 £569 £495
% change year-on-year +4.18% +14.90% -15.02%

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 42,785 27,291 40,291
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.29% 92.62% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,469 17,875 26,294
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,747 1,005 2,616
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.41 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.87 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.25 £30.20 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.90% -13.71% -22.22%
75th Percentile £65.74 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.10 £75.40 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.85 £29.23 £36.50
% change year-on-year +50.00% -19.92% -15.12%

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 22 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security Engineer in the UK

Cloud Security Engineer
Top 10 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 22 April 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 -92 41 £525 -4.55% 12
London -30 29 £518 -5.91% 2
UK excluding London -86 11 £593 +4.18% 11
Work from Home -28 9 £531 -3.41% 12
East of England - 5 £675 -
North West -39 4 £580 -22.67% 2
North of England -65 4 £580 -22.67% 2
West Midlands -59 1 £538 -8.51% 5
Midlands -67 1 £538 -8.51% 5
Scotland - 1 £575 -

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

For the 6 months to 22 April 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 42 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 27 (64.29%) AWS
3 19 (45.24%) CI/CD
4 14 (33.33%) Azure
5 12 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (28.57%) Terraform
6 11 (26.19%) DevSecOps
7 10 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (23.81%) GCP
7 10 (23.81%) Identity Access Management
7 10 (23.81%) Microservices
7 10 (23.81%) Python
8 9 (21.43%) Kubernetes
9 8 (19.05%) AI
9 8 (19.05%) DevOps
9 8 (19.05%) Docker
9 8 (19.05%) NIST
10 7 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (16.67%) Fintech
10 7 (16.67%) Google
10 7 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
11 6 (14.29%) GDPR
11 6 (14.29%) Java
11 6 (14.29%) Microsoft
11 6 (14.29%) PCI DSS
11 6 (14.29%) REST
11 6 (14.29%) SaaS
11 6 (14.29%) Security Architecture
11 6 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud

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 27 (64.29%) AWS
2 14 (33.33%) Azure
3 10 (23.81%) GCP
4 7 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (14.29%) SaaS
5 6 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (11.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 5 (11.90%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (11.90%) GitHub
6 5 (11.90%) IaaS
6 5 (11.90%) PaaS
7 4 (9.52%) AWS CloudTrail
7 4 (9.52%) Serverless
8 3 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (7.14%) AWS KMS
8 3 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (7.14%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) Firewall
2 1 (2.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Git
2 1 (2.38%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.38%) Metasploit
2 1 (2.38%) sqlmap
General
1 6 (14.29%) Finance
2 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (11.90%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.38%) Legal
4 1 (2.38%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.29%) REST
2 5 (11.90%) .NET
2 5 (11.90%) NestJS
3 3 (7.14%) Node.js
3 3 (7.14%) Web Services
4 2 (4.76%) RESTful
5 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (2.38%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.52%) Security Posture
3 3 (7.14%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (7.14%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.38%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.38%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
1 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 19 (45.24%) CI/CD
3 12 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (26.19%) DevSecOps
5 10 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (23.81%) Identity Access Management
5 10 (23.81%) Microservices
6 8 (19.05%) AI
6 8 (19.05%) DevOps
7 7 (16.67%) Fintech
7 7 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
8 6 (14.29%) Security Architecture
9 5 (11.90%) Agile
9 5 (11.90%) API Development
9 5 (11.90%) Containerisation
9 5 (11.90%) Data Protection
9 5 (11.90%) Incident Response
9 5 (11.90%) TOGAF
9 5 (11.90%) Vulnerability Management
10 4 (9.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (23.81%) Python
2 6 (14.29%) Java
3 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.14%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.76%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) CISSP
2 4 (9.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 4 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (7.14%) CCSP
3 3 (7.14%) Degree
3 3 (7.14%) OSCP
3 3 (7.14%) SANS
4 2 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.76%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.38%) CISM
5 1 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.38%) MCSE
5 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.05%) NIST
2 6 (14.29%) GDPR
2 6 (14.29%) PCI DSS
3 5 (11.90%) GRC
4 4 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.38%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.38%) NCSC
5 1 (2.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (19.05%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (28.57%) Terraform
2 9 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.38%) Ansible
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (16.67%) Google
2 6 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.90%) Ping Identity
3 5 (11.90%) Rapid7
4 3 (7.14%) Cisco
4 3 (7.14%) Citrix
4 3 (7.14%) EMC
5 1 (2.38%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.38%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.38%) Splunk