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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 540 529 611
Rank change year-on-year -11 +82 +183
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 28 30 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% 0.078% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.084% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 22 31
10th Percentile - £451 £450
25th Percentile £400 £500 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% -8.00% -12.28%
75th Percentile £488 £640 £695
90th Percentile £500 £776 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £575 £695
% change year-on-year -28.26% -17.27% +6.92%

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 30,003 35,798 46,379
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 92.95% 94.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,960 22,064 31,748
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,577 1,684 1,483
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%
75th Percentile £52.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% +4.65% +95.45%

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
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 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security Engineer in the UK

Cloud Security Engineer
Top 9 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 September 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 +18 26 £425 -26.09% 4
Work from Home +37 20 £425 -15.00% 11
London +20 15 £431 -23.33% 2
UK excluding London -4 11 £413 -28.26% 4
North of England - 8 £400 - 1
North West - 7 £400 -
South West +23 2 £519 -9.78%
South East +20 1 £550 +10.00% 3
North East - 1 £400 -

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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 28 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 21 (75.00%) Azure
3 14 (50.00%) Finance
4 13 (46.43%) AWS
5 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
6 10 (35.71%) Firewall
7 9 (32.14%) Information Security
7 9 (32.14%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (32.14%) Zscaler
8 8 (28.57%) Server Hardening
8 8 (28.57%) Azure Certification
9 7 (25.00%) Fintech
9 7 (25.00%) Entra ID
9 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (25.00%) Banking
9 7 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (25.00%) Windows
9 7 (25.00%) SharePoint
10 6 (21.43%) DevOps
10 6 (21.43%) NIST
10 6 (21.43%) Data Loss Prevention
10 6 (21.43%) Darktrace
10 6 (21.43%) GCP
10 6 (21.43%) Security Operations
10 6 (21.43%) Terraform
11 5 (17.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 5 (17.86%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
11 5 (17.86%) Python
11 5 (17.86%) CI/CD

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 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (75.00%) Azure
2 13 (46.43%) AWS
3 9 (32.14%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (25.00%) Entra ID
5 6 (21.43%) GCP
6 5 (17.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 5 (17.86%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (10.71%) Amazon Macie
8 3 (10.71%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (10.71%) AWS KMS
9 2 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (3.57%) AWS Direct Connect
10 1 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (3.57%) Cloudflare
10 1 (3.57%) IBM Cloud
10 1 (3.57%) Route 53
10 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (35.71%) Firewall
2 4 (14.29%) Network Security
3 3 (10.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 2 (7.14%) BigQuery
1 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) GitLab
General
1 14 (50.00%) Finance
2 7 (25.00%) Banking
3 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) OAuth
1 1 (3.57%) OAuth2
1 1 (3.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.14%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (7.14%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) PKI
3 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 9 (32.14%) Information Security
3 8 (28.57%) Server Hardening
4 7 (25.00%) Fintech
4 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (21.43%) Data Loss Prevention
5 6 (21.43%) DevOps
5 6 (21.43%) Security Operations
6 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
7 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (14.29%) DevSecOps
7 4 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (14.29%) SIEM
7 4 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
8 3 (10.71%) Agile
8 3 (10.71%) Data Protection
9 2 (7.14%) Data Management
9 2 (7.14%) Data Security
9 2 (7.14%) Migration
9 2 (7.14%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) Python
2 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 3 (10.71%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 7 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
4 3 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
5 2 (7.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 2 (7.14%) CCSP
6 1 (3.57%) CISSP
6 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.57%) OSCP
6 1 (3.57%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) NIST
2 3 (10.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (10.71%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Terraform
2 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 3 (10.71%) QRadar
4 2 (7.14%) Ansible
5 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
2 9 (32.14%) Zscaler
3 6 (21.43%) Darktrace
4 3 (10.71%) Google
5 2 (7.14%) Varonis
6 1 (3.57%) IBM
6 1 (3.57%) Rapid7
6 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.57%) Splunk