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 30 October 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 515 616
Rank change year-on-year -26 +101 +157
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 33 36 22
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.096% 0.098% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.11% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 24 17
10th Percentile - £454 £438
25th Percentile £400 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% -10.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £478 £625 £688
90th Percentile £553 £754 £697
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -30.43% -11.54% -

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 31,095 34,091 44,073
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.85% 92.88% 93.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,673 20,564 30,031
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.96% -2.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,734 1,304 1,535
10th Percentile £13.85 £15.07 £14.69
25th Percentile £17.31 £20.28 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.14 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.05% -15.26% +62.28%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.10 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% -15.73% +89.81%

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 30 October 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 30 October 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 -3 30 £425 -26.09% 6
Work from Home +10 21 £425 -19.05% 4
London +5 17 £425 -22.73% 2
UK excluding London -32 11 £400 -30.43% 7
North of England - 9 £400 - 3
North West - 8 £400 - 1
South West 0 1 £550 -4.35%
East of England - 1 £650 -
North East - 1 £400 -

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

For the 6 months to 30 October 2025, 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 33 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 21 (63.64%) Azure
3 16 (48.48%) AWS
4 12 (36.36%) Microsoft
5 10 (30.30%) Azure Certification
5 10 (30.30%) Firewall
5 10 (30.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (27.27%) Zscaler
7 8 (24.24%) DevOps
7 8 (24.24%) Information Security
7 8 (24.24%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (24.24%) Terraform
8 7 (21.21%) CI/CD
8 7 (21.21%) Entra ID
8 7 (21.21%) NIST
8 7 (21.21%) Python
8 7 (21.21%) Server Hardening
8 7 (21.21%) SharePoint
9 6 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (18.18%) Darktrace
9 6 (18.18%) Data Loss Prevention
9 6 (18.18%) Fintech
9 6 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (18.18%) Security Operations
9 6 (18.18%) SIEM
9 6 (18.18%) Windows
10 5 (15.15%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 5 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
10 5 (15.15%) GCP

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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (21.21%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (63.64%) Azure
2 16 (48.48%) AWS
3 8 (24.24%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (21.21%) Entra ID
5 6 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (15.15%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 5 (15.15%) GCP
7 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (9.09%) Amazon Macie
8 3 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (9.09%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (9.09%) AWS KMS
9 2 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (3.03%) Cloudflare
10 1 (3.03%) GitHub
10 1 (3.03%) IBM Cloud
10 1 (3.03%) Route 53
10 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (30.30%) Firewall
2 5 (15.15%) Network Security
3 4 (12.12%) VPN
4 1 (3.03%) LAN
4 1 (3.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 2 (6.06%) BigQuery
1 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) GitLab
General
1 17 (51.52%) Finance
2 6 (18.18%) Banking
3 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) REST
2 2 (6.06%) NestJS
3 1 (3.03%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.03%) OAuth
3 1 (3.03%) OAuth2
3 1 (3.03%) SAML
3 1 (3.03%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Security Posture
2 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.09%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (6.06%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.03%) CSOC
4 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) PKI
4 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 10 (30.30%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (24.24%) DevOps
3 8 (24.24%) Information Security
4 7 (21.21%) CI/CD
4 7 (21.21%) Server Hardening
5 6 (18.18%) Data Loss Prevention
5 6 (18.18%) Fintech
5 6 (18.18%) Security Operations
5 6 (18.18%) SIEM
6 5 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (15.15%) Threat Detection
7 4 (12.12%) Agile
7 4 (12.12%) DevSecOps
7 4 (12.12%) Threat Modelling
8 3 (9.09%) Data Protection
8 3 (9.09%) Incident Response
8 3 (9.09%) Migration
9 2 (6.06%) RBAC
9 2 (6.06%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.21%) Python
2 5 (15.15%) PowerShell
3 4 (12.12%) Bash
4 1 (3.03%) Bicep
4 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (30.30%) Azure Certification
2 6 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (15.15%) Security Cleared
4 4 (12.12%) AWS Certification
5 3 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
6 2 (6.06%) CCSP
7 1 (3.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.21%) NIST
2 6 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (9.09%) NCSC
3 3 (9.09%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.03%) GDPR
4 1 (3.03%) JSP 440
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) Terraform
2 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
3 3 (9.09%) QRadar
4 2 (6.06%) Ansible
5 1 (3.03%) Argo
5 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 9 (27.27%) Zscaler
3 6 (18.18%) Darktrace
4 3 (9.09%) Google
5 2 (6.06%) Ping Identity
5 2 (6.06%) Varonis
6 1 (3.03%) Cisco
6 1 (3.03%) Cribl.io
6 1 (3.03%) IBM
6 1 (3.03%) Meraki
6 1 (3.03%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.03%) Splunk