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 12 February 2026.

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

 6 months to
12 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 500 593
Rank change year-on-year -53 +93 +118
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 36 27 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.090% 0.087% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.094% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 15 10
10th Percentile £400 £495 £470
25th Percentile £413 £525 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -5.17% +14.00%
75th Percentile £581 £597 £664
90th Percentile £638 £620 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £588 £560
% change year-on-year -4.26% +4.91% +1.82%

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 36,458 28,796 41,269
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.54% 92.96% 93.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,924 17,765 27,180
10th Percentile £300 £288 £275
25th Percentile £406 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £489
% change year-on-year -0.52% -2.35% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,214 834 2,292
10th Percentile £14.53 £15.92 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £16.45
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% -2.23%
75th Percentile £62.44 £63.75 £60.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.60 £32.13 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.87% -8.20% -

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -67 35 £525 -4.55% 14
London -32 26 £518 -5.91% 12
Work from Home -6 12 £525 -4.55% 5
UK excluding London -55 6 £563 -4.26% 4
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 12 February 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 36 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 25 (69.44%) AWS
3 17 (47.22%) CI/CD
4 13 (36.11%) Azure
4 13 (36.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (33.33%) DevSecOps
5 12 (33.33%) Microservices
6 11 (30.56%) Terraform
7 10 (27.78%) Identity Access Management
8 9 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (25.00%) Python
8 9 (25.00%) REST
9 8 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (22.22%) Kubernetes
9 8 (22.22%) NIST
10 7 (19.44%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (19.44%) API Development
10 7 (19.44%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (19.44%) DevOps
10 7 (19.44%) Docker
10 7 (19.44%) GCP
10 7 (19.44%) GDPR
10 7 (19.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (19.44%) NestJS
10 7 (19.44%) Ping Identity
10 7 (19.44%) Threat Modelling
11 6 (16.67%) Agile
11 6 (16.67%) Data Protection
11 6 (16.67%) GitHub
11 6 (16.67%) Microsoft

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 25 (69.44%) AWS
2 13 (36.11%) Azure
3 8 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (19.44%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (19.44%) Azure Sentinel
4 7 (19.44%) GCP
5 6 (16.67%) GitHub
6 5 (13.89%) IaaS
6 5 (13.89%) PaaS
6 5 (13.89%) SaaS
7 4 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (11.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 4 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail
7 4 (11.11%) AWS KMS
7 4 (11.11%) Serverless
8 3 (8.33%) Entra ID
8 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (8.33%) OCI
9 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) Network Security
2 2 (5.56%) Firewall
2 2 (5.56%) VPN
3 1 (2.78%) LAN
3 1 (2.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Git
General
1 9 (25.00%) Finance
2 5 (13.89%) Presentation Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.00%) REST
2 7 (19.44%) NestJS
3 5 (13.89%) .NET
4 3 (8.33%) Node.js
4 3 (8.33%) Web Services
5 2 (5.56%) RESTful
6 1 (2.78%) AWS CDK
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (2.78%) Serverless Framework
6 1 (2.78%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Security Posture
2 4 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.11%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (8.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.78%) CSOC
5 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 17 (47.22%) CI/CD
3 13 (36.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (33.33%) DevSecOps
4 12 (33.33%) Microservices
5 10 (27.78%) Identity Access Management
6 9 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (19.44%) API Development
7 7 (19.44%) DevOps
7 7 (19.44%) Threat Modelling
8 6 (16.67%) Agile
8 6 (16.67%) Data Protection
9 5 (13.89%) AI
9 5 (13.89%) SIEM
9 5 (13.89%) Threat Detection
9 5 (13.89%) TOGAF
10 4 (11.11%) Migration
10 4 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
10 4 (11.11%) Project Planning
10 4 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) Python
2 5 (13.89%) Java
3 4 (11.11%) TypeScript
4 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.56%) Bash
6 1 (2.78%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 4 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 4 (11.11%) CCSP
2 4 (11.11%) CISSP
2 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) Degree
3 3 (8.33%) OSCP
3 3 (8.33%) SANS
4 2 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.56%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.78%) CISM
5 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.22%) NIST
2 7 (19.44%) GDPR
2 7 (19.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (16.67%) PCI DSS
4 5 (13.89%) GRC
5 4 (11.11%) NCSC
6 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (2.78%) HIPAA
6 1 (2.78%) JSP 440
6 1 (2.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (19.44%) Docker
2 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (30.56%) Terraform
2 8 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.78%) Ansible
3 1 (2.78%) Argo
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Ping Identity
2 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.89%) Google
3 5 (13.89%) Rapid7
4 3 (8.33%) Citrix
5 1 (2.78%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.78%) Cisco
5 1 (2.78%) Cribl.io
5 1 (2.78%) Meraki
5 1 (2.78%) Splunk
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