Cloud Security Engineer Contract Job Trends

Cloud Security Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Security Engineer daily rate in the UK is £521, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 499 566
Rank change year-on-year -79 +67 +61
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 55 22 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.076% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.083% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 17 8
10th Percentile £419 £404 £470
25th Percentile £475 £410 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £488 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.92% -18.75% -
75th Percentile £578 £575 £681
90th Percentile £688 £596 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £643 £550 £495
% change year-on-year +16.82% +11.11% -23.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 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 45,089 26,570 40,007
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.35% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,438 17,201 25,885
10th Percentile £325 £288 £280
25th Percentile £413 £405 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -4.00% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,017 1,072 2,851
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.53 £17.85 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.79% -25.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £59.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.23 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.39% -36.94% -5.88%

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 3 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security Engineer 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 3 June 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 -87 53 £518 +6.15% 30
London -57 37 £518 +16.62% 11
Work from Home -36 17 £550 +15.79% 13
UK excluding London -94 15 £643 +16.82% 26
Midlands -53 5 £675 +14.89% 2
West Midlands -55 5 £675 +14.89% 2
North West -34 4 £495 +23.81% 4
North of England -75 4 £495 +23.81% 4
East of England - 4 £675 -
Scotland - 2 £593 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 3 June 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 55 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 27 (49.09%) AWS
2 27 (49.09%) Azure
3 23 (41.82%) CI/CD
4 19 (34.55%) Terraform
5 15 (27.27%) Microsoft
6 13 (23.64%) GCP
7 12 (21.82%) Cybersecurity
7 12 (21.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (20.00%) DevOps
8 11 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
8 11 (20.00%) Python
9 10 (18.18%) Kubernetes
9 10 (18.18%) NIST
10 9 (16.36%) DevSecOps
10 9 (16.36%) Firewall
10 9 (16.36%) Google
10 9 (16.36%) Security Architecture
11 8 (14.55%) AI
11 8 (14.55%) Docker
11 8 (14.55%) Threat Modelling
11 8 (14.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (12.73%) Agile
12 7 (12.73%) Azure Sentinel
12 7 (12.73%) Fintech
12 7 (12.73%) Java
12 7 (12.73%) Microservices
12 7 (12.73%) SIEM
13 6 (10.91%) CISSP
13 6 (10.91%) Data Protection

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 27 (49.09%) AWS
1 27 (49.09%) Azure
2 13 (23.64%) GCP
3 8 (14.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 7 (12.73%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (10.91%) Entra ID
5 6 (10.91%) GitHub
5 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Purview
5 6 (10.91%) SaaS
6 5 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 5 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (7.27%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (7.27%) AWS CloudTrail
7 4 (7.27%) IaaS
7 4 (7.27%) PaaS
8 3 (5.45%) AWS KMS
8 3 (5.45%) OCI
9 2 (3.64%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.64%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.36%) Firewall
2 1 (1.82%) Network Security
2 1 (1.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (1.82%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.82%) Metasploit
2 1 (1.82%) sqlmap
General
1 6 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (10.91%) Finance
1 6 (10.91%) Public Sector
2 4 (7.27%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (3.64%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.82%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.82%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.27%) .NET
2 2 (3.64%) NestJS
2 2 (3.64%) REST
2 2 (3.64%) Web Services
3 1 (1.82%) JSON
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.82%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 11 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 8 (14.55%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (5.45%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.45%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.82%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.82%) PKI
5 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.45%) Linux
1 3 (5.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (5.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 23 (41.82%) CI/CD
3 12 (21.82%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (21.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (20.00%) DevOps
4 11 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
5 9 (16.36%) DevSecOps
5 9 (16.36%) Security Architecture
6 8 (14.55%) AI
6 8 (14.55%) Threat Modelling
7 7 (12.73%) Agile
7 7 (12.73%) Fintech
7 7 (12.73%) Microservices
7 7 (12.73%) SIEM
8 6 (10.91%) Data Protection
8 6 (10.91%) RBAC
9 5 (9.09%) Containerisation
9 5 (9.09%) Scrum
9 5 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
9 5 (9.09%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 11 (20.00%) Python
2 7 (12.73%) Java
3 6 (10.91%) PowerShell
4 4 (7.27%) Bash
5 2 (3.64%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (10.91%) CISSP
2 5 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 5 (9.09%) Degree
3 3 (5.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (5.45%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (5.45%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.64%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.64%) CCSP
4 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.64%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.64%) OSCP
4 2 (3.64%) SANS
4 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.82%) CISM
5 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.82%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.18%) NIST
2 6 (10.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (9.09%) GDPR
3 5 (9.09%) PCI DSS
4 3 (5.45%) GRC
5 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (14.55%) Docker
2 2 (3.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (34.55%) Terraform
2 10 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.45%) Progress Chef
3 3 (5.45%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.82%) Ansible
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.36%) Google
3 4 (7.27%) Rapid7
4 3 (5.45%) Cisco
4 3 (5.45%) Citrix
4 3 (5.45%) EMC
4 3 (5.45%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.64%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.82%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.82%) Okta
6 1 (1.82%) Oracle