Cloud Security Engineer Contract Job Trends

Cloud Security Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Security Engineer daily rate in the UK is £518, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 600 511 573
Rank change year-on-year -89 +62 +61
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 65 33 23
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.10% 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.11% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 27 17
10th Percentile £414 £400 £443
25th Percentile £475 £403 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +21.76% -29.17% -
75th Percentile £588 £500 £675
90th Percentile £688 £583 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £610 £456 £575
% change year-on-year +33.70% -20.65% -14.50%
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 48,237 29,379 40,107
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 91.96% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,223 18,754 25,817
10th Percentile £325 £287 £285
25th Percentile £417 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,243 1,333 2,768
10th Percentile £15.75 £13.75 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.44 £16.62
Median hourly rate £43.00 £26.45 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.57% -29.47% -12.79%
75th Percentile £67.50 £55.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.25 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% +1.07%

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 8 July 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 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 8 July 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 -75 61 £518 +21.76% 17
London -40 44 £518 +21.76% 6
Work from Home -43 24 £588 +38.24% 12
UK excluding London -105 16 £610 +33.70% 12
North West -51 5 £475 +18.75% 6
West Midlands -56 5 £675 +14.89%
Midlands -57 5 £675 +14.89%
North of England -83 5 £475 +18.75% 6
East of England - 4 £675 -
Scotland - 2 £593 -

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

For the 6 months to 8 July 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 65 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 32 (49.23%) AWS
3 31 (47.69%) Azure
4 24 (36.92%) CI/CD
5 21 (32.31%) Terraform
6 19 (29.23%) GCP
7 15 (23.08%) Python
8 14 (21.54%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (20.00%) Kubernetes
9 13 (20.00%) Microsoft
9 13 (20.00%) Security Architecture
10 11 (16.92%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (16.92%) DevSecOps
10 11 (16.92%) Firewall
11 10 (15.38%) AI
11 10 (15.38%) DevOps
11 10 (15.38%) Google
11 10 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
11 10 (15.38%) NIST
11 10 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
11 10 (15.38%) PowerShell
11 10 (15.38%) RBAC
11 10 (15.38%) Threat Modelling
12 9 (13.85%) SIEM
12 9 (13.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (12.31%) Agile
13 8 (12.31%) Docker
13 8 (12.31%) SaaS
13 8 (12.31%) Security Operations
14 7 (10.77%) CISSP

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 (1.54%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 32 (49.23%) AWS
2 31 (47.69%) Azure
3 19 (29.23%) GCP
4 9 (13.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 8 (12.31%) SaaS
6 6 (9.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (9.23%) Entra ID
6 6 (9.23%) GitHub
7 5 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 5 (7.69%) AWS CloudTrail
7 5 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (6.15%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (6.15%) IaaS
8 4 (6.15%) PaaS
9 3 (4.62%) AWS KMS
9 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (4.62%) OCI
9 3 (4.62%) Serverless
10 2 (3.08%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.92%) Firewall
2 4 (6.15%) Network Security
3 3 (4.62%) VPN
4 2 (3.08%) BGP
4 2 (3.08%) DHCP
4 2 (3.08%) DNS
4 2 (3.08%) Internet
4 2 (3.08%) OSPF
4 2 (3.08%) SD-WAN
4 2 (3.08%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (1.54%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.54%) Metasploit
2 1 (1.54%) sqlmap
General
1 9 (13.85%) Finance
2 7 (10.77%) Public Sector
3 6 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.69%) Social Skills
5 4 (6.15%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.54%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.15%) .NET
2 3 (4.62%) SAML
3 2 (3.08%) NestJS
3 2 (3.08%) REST
3 2 (3.08%) Web Services
4 1 (1.54%) JSON
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 18 (27.69%) Cloud Native
2 16 (24.62%) Security Posture
3 11 (16.92%) Cloud Security Posture
4 4 (6.15%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (4.62%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.62%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.08%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.54%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.54%) PKI
7 1 (1.54%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.54%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.54%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.69%) Linux
2 4 (6.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 24 (36.92%) CI/CD
3 14 (21.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (20.00%) Security Architecture
5 11 (16.92%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (16.92%) DevSecOps
6 10 (15.38%) AI
6 10 (15.38%) DevOps
6 10 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
6 10 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
6 10 (15.38%) RBAC
6 10 (15.38%) Threat Modelling
7 9 (13.85%) SIEM
8 8 (12.31%) Agile
8 8 (12.31%) Security Operations
9 7 (10.77%) Data Protection
9 7 (10.77%) Fintech
9 7 (10.77%) Microservices
9 7 (10.77%) Zero Trust
10 6 (9.23%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.08%) Python
2 10 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 7 (10.77%) Java
4 6 (9.23%) Bash
5 2 (3.08%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.54%) Bicep
6 1 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 7 (10.77%) CISSP
1 7 (10.77%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.23%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.69%) Degree
4 4 (6.15%) Azure Certification
4 4 (6.15%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (4.62%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (3.08%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.08%) CCIE
6 2 (3.08%) CCIE Security
6 2 (3.08%) CCNP
6 2 (3.08%) CCSP
6 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.08%) Master's Degree
6 2 (3.08%) OSCP
6 2 (3.08%) SANS
7 1 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.54%) MCSE
7 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.38%) NIST
2 5 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (7.69%) PCI DSS
3 4 (6.15%) GDPR
4 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.54%) GRC
System Software
1 8 (12.31%) Docker
2 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (32.31%) Terraform
2 13 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (9.23%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (6.15%) Ansible
5 3 (4.62%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.08%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 13 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.38%) Google
3 7 (10.77%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (6.15%) Rapid7
5 3 (4.62%) Cisco
5 3 (4.62%) Citrix
5 3 (4.62%) EMC
5 3 (4.62%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.08%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.08%) Ping Identity
6 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.08%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.54%) Okta
7 1 (1.54%) Oracle