Cloud Security Engineer Contracts

Cloud Security Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Security Engineer daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 534 606 794
Rank change year-on-year +72 +188 -83
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 32 40 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.083% 0.080% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% 0.085% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 31 26
10th Percentile £453 £450 £488
25th Percentile £500 £526 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £688
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -9.09% +18.03%
75th Percentile £635 £695 £784
90th Percentile £765 £700 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £695 £650
% change year-on-year -17.27% +6.92% +18.18%

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 35,672 46,944 81,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.92% 94.15% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,921 32,148 57,528
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,658 1,511 1,784
10th Percentile £14.73 £14.93 £13.02
25th Percentile £20.30 £19.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £44.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% +71.15% +30.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.90 £43.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year +0.34% +98.86% +22.22%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security Engineer in the UK

Cloud Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security Engineer over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security Engineer in the UK

Cloud Security Engineer
Top 7 Contract 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 20 September 2024. 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 26 £575 -8.00% 11
London +71 19 £575 +5.99% 7
Work from Home +93 13 £500 -23.08% 6
UK excluding London +37 8 £575 -17.27% 3
South West +16 5 £575 -11.54%
Scotland +34 2 £775 +38.39%
South East +18 1 £500 -28.06% 2

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 2024, 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 32 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 19 (59.38%) Azure
3 17 (53.13%) Terraform
4 14 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (43.75%) Python
5 13 (40.63%) GCP
6 11 (34.38%) AWS
7 10 (31.25%) CI/CD
8 9 (28.13%) Security Posture
9 8 (25.00%) DevSecOps
10 7 (21.88%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (21.88%) DevOps
11 6 (18.75%) Kubernetes
11 6 (18.75%) NIST
12 5 (15.63%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (15.63%) Cloud Security Posture
13 4 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 4 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
13 4 (12.50%) Docker
13 4 (12.50%) Entra ID
13 4 (12.50%) Kotlin
13 4 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
13 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
13 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
13 4 (12.50%) Firewall
13 4 (12.50%) Active Directory
13 4 (12.50%) Agile
13 4 (12.50%) Finance
13 4 (12.50%) Retail
14 3 (9.38%) Windows

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 1 (3.13%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 19 (59.38%) Azure
2 13 (40.63%) GCP
3 11 (34.38%) AWS
4 5 (15.63%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (12.50%) Entra ID
6 3 (9.38%) Serverless
7 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.13%) Cloudflare
8 1 (3.13%) CloudFront
8 1 (3.13%) GitHub
8 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
8 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.13%) Route 53
8 1 (3.13%) SaaS
8 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) Firewall
2 3 (9.38%) Network Security
3 1 (3.13%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
1 1 (3.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Git
1 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.13%) CircleCI
2 1 (3.13%) GitLab
2 1 (3.13%) Snyk
General
1 4 (12.50%) Finance
1 4 (12.50%) Retail
2 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) OpenID
1 2 (6.25%) SAML
2 1 (3.13%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.13%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (3.13%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Security Posture
2 5 (15.63%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.13%) PKI
3 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Windows
2 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 14 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (31.25%) CI/CD
4 8 (25.00%) DevSecOps
5 7 (21.88%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (21.88%) DevOps
6 4 (12.50%) Agile
6 4 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 4 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 3 (9.38%) Security Operations
7 3 (9.38%) Security Testing
7 3 (9.38%) Threat Modelling
7 3 (9.38%) Vulnerability Management
8 2 (6.25%) Computer Science
8 2 (6.25%) Data Loss Prevention
8 2 (6.25%) Kalman Filter
8 2 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (6.25%) Secure Coding
8 2 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) Python
2 4 (12.50%) Kotlin
3 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.25%) Bash
5 1 (3.13%) Bicep
5 1 (3.13%) Go
5 1 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.38%) AWS Certification
2 3 (9.38%) Azure Certification
2 3 (9.38%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) CISM
3 2 (6.25%) CISSP
3 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.25%) Degree
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 4 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (53.13%) Terraform
2 6 (18.75%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.25%) WSUS
4 1 (3.13%) Ansible
4 1 (3.13%) CASB
4 1 (3.13%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 3 (9.38%) Palo Alto
2 2 (6.25%) AlgoSec
2 2 (6.25%) F5
2 2 (6.25%) Fortinet
2 2 (6.25%) Google
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.25%) Tufin
3 1 (3.13%) CA
3 1 (3.13%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle
3 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.13%) SAP
3 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds