Cloud Security Contracts

Cloud Security
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Cloud Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Security over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 206 148 212
Rank change year-on-year -58 +64 -37
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 492 1,075 1,218
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.13% 1.80% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 2.00% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 692 771
10th Percentile £425 £455 £463
25th Percentile £507 £524 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £725 £713 £720
90th Percentile £780 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 15 6
10th Percentile - - £28.84
25th Percentile - - £32.50
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +75.00% -15.79%
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - £76.00 £56.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cloud Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,597 53,655 80,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,227 37,238 56,437
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,746 1,926
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.27
Median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.98 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.34 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +3.72% +80.00% -8.00%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cloud Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in the UK

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in the UK

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in the UK

Cloud Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Security in the UK

Cloud Security
Top 15 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 -60 401 £600 -5.44% 238
London -44 245 £630 -3.08% 115
Work from Home -69 154 £600 -5.51% 96
UK excluding London -65 151 £600 - 145
North of England -52 37 £650 +18.18% 46
South East -14 34 £510 -27.14% 21
Midlands +17 29 £615 +11.82% 22
West Midlands +19 27 £615 +11.82% 15
Scotland +21 24 £700 +47.37% 15
South West -2 23 £550 -18.52% 19
North West -29 20 £676 +8.16% 14
Yorkshire -23 17 £600 +9.09% 20
East of England +3 8 £700 +27.27% 14
East Midlands +17 2 £625 +25.00% 7
Wales +16 2 £650 +73.33% 7

Cloud Security
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 9 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.42%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.81%) nginx
4 2 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.41%) Confluence
4 2 (0.41%) IIS
4 2 (0.41%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 2 (0.41%) Traefik
Applications
1 12 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.02%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.20%) Trello
4 1 (0.20%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.20%) SAP CAR
2 1 (0.20%) SAP POS DM
2 1 (0.20%) SAP Retail
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 231 (46.95%) Azure
2 149 (30.28%) AWS
3 81 (16.46%) GCP
4 66 (13.41%) IaaS
5 49 (9.96%) SaaS
6 45 (9.15%) PaaS
7 44 (8.94%) Microsoft 365
8 40 (8.13%) Entra ID
9 32 (6.50%) Serverless
10 30 (6.10%) Azure Sentinel
11 28 (5.69%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (2.64%) Cloud Computing
13 13 (2.64%) OCI
14 10 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (2.03%) GitHub
14 10 (2.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (1.63%) CloudFront
16 8 (1.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 114 (23.17%) Firewall
2 79 (16.06%) Network Security
3 35 (7.11%) VPN
4 30 (6.10%) WAN
5 27 (5.49%) DNS
6 18 (3.66%) SD-WAN
7 17 (3.46%) LAN
8 10 (2.03%) Internet
9 9 (1.83%) Intrusion Detection
9 9 (1.83%) TCP/IP
10 6 (1.22%) DMZ
10 6 (1.22%) NGFW
10 6 (1.22%) WLAN
11 4 (0.81%) BGP
11 4 (0.81%) DHCP
11 4 (0.81%) MPLS
11 4 (0.81%) Multicast
11 4 (0.81%) OSPF
12 3 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (0.61%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.83%) Data Lake
2 8 (1.63%) NoSQL
3 6 (1.22%) Big Data
4 5 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.02%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.02%) SAP BW
5 4 (0.81%) BigQuery
5 4 (0.81%) Bigtable
5 4 (0.81%) Cloud Spanner
5 4 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.81%) DynamoDB
5 4 (0.81%) Power BI
6 3 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.61%) MySQL
6 3 (0.61%) OLAP
6 3 (0.61%) OLTP
7 2 (0.41%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (4.27%) Jenkins
2 19 (3.86%) GitLab
3 14 (2.85%) Git
4 7 (1.42%) Burp Suite
5 4 (0.81%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.81%) JIRA
6 3 (0.61%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.41%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.41%) JMeter
7 2 (0.41%) Selenium
7 2 (0.41%) Snyk
7 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.20%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.20%) NUnit
8 1 (0.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 99 (20.12%) Finance
2 89 (18.09%) Social Skills
3 43 (8.74%) Banking
4 42 (8.54%) Public Sector
5 38 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.85%) Retail
8 11 (2.24%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.63%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.42%) Legal
11 6 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.81%) Automotive
12 4 (0.81%) French Language
12 4 (0.81%) German Language
12 4 (0.81%) Local Government
12 4 (0.81%) Military
13 2 (0.41%) Electronics
13 2 (0.41%) Marketing
13 2 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 186 (37.80%) Architect
2 91 (18.50%) Security Architect
3 57 (11.59%) Consultant
4 53 (10.77%) Security Engineer
5 52 (10.57%) Senior
6 51 (10.37%) Cloud Architect
7 48 (9.76%) Security Consultant
8 39 (7.93%) Cloud Engineer
9 32 (6.50%) Solutions Architect
10 24 (4.88%) Lead
10 24 (4.88%) Security Manager
10 24 (4.88%) Senior Architect
11 23 (4.67%) Azure Engineer
11 23 (4.67%) Senior Security Architect
12 20 (4.07%) Analyst
12 20 (4.07%) Cloud Security Architect
13 19 (3.86%) DevOps Engineer
14 18 (3.66%) AWS Architect
15 17 (3.46%) Cloud Consultant
16 16 (3.25%) Cloud Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (5.08%) SailPoint
2 18 (3.66%) SAML
3 14 (2.85%) Node.js
4 9 (1.83%) REST
5 7 (1.42%) OpenID
5 7 (1.42%) Spring
5 7 (1.42%) Spring Boot
6 6 (1.22%) GWT
6 6 (1.22%) JAX-RS
6 6 (1.22%) OAuth
6 6 (1.22%) Restlet
6 6 (1.22%) YAML
7 5 (1.02%) JSON
7 5 (1.02%) Kafka
7 5 (1.02%) OAuth2
7 5 (1.02%) React
8 4 (0.81%) .NET
8 4 (0.81%) CSS
8 4 (0.81%) RESTful
9 3 (0.61%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.54%) Management Information System
2 41 (8.33%) Security Posture
3 36 (7.32%) Cloud Native
4 34 (6.91%) PKI
5 20 (4.07%) Public Cloud
6 19 (3.86%) Security Operations Centre
7 18 (3.66%) IoT
8 16 (3.25%) Mobile App
9 14 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (2.64%) Cyber Threat
11 12 (2.44%) Operational Technology
12 10 (2.03%) Cloud Security Posture
12 10 (2.03%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (1.42%) Cyber Defence
14 7 (1.42%) Data Centre
14 7 (1.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 7 (1.42%) Product Ownership
15 6 (1.22%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 37 (7.52%) Linux
2 26 (5.28%) Windows
3 10 (2.03%) Unix
4 7 (1.42%) Kali Linux
4 7 (1.42%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.41%) Android
6 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.41%) CentOS
7 1 (0.20%) AIX
7 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (28.66%) Cybersecurity
2 129 (26.22%) DevOps
3 112 (22.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 92 (18.70%) CI/CD
4 92 (18.70%) Security Architecture
5 86 (17.48%) Information Security
6 76 (15.45%) Application Security
7 74 (15.04%) SIEM
8 65 (13.21%) Identity Access Management
9 64 (13.01%) Problem-Solving
10 62 (12.60%) DevSecOps
11 58 (11.79%) Agile
12 55 (11.18%) Migration
13 51 (10.37%) Containerisation
14 49 (9.96%) Microservices
15 47 (9.55%) Penetration Testing
16 46 (9.35%) Incident Response
17 41 (8.33%) High Availability
18 40 (8.13%) Analytics
19 38 (7.72%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 55 (11.18%) Python
2 25 (5.08%) PowerShell
3 24 (4.88%) Java
4 18 (3.66%) Kusto Query Language
5 15 (3.05%) Bash
6 13 (2.64%) SQL
7 8 (1.63%) C#
8 6 (1.22%) Go
8 6 (1.22%) Ruby
8 6 (1.22%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.81%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.81%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.61%) Bicep
10 3 (0.61%) PHP
11 2 (0.41%) ABAP
11 2 (0.41%) Julia
11 2 (0.41%) Perl
11 2 (0.41%) SOQL
11 2 (0.41%) SOSL
12 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (16.67%) CISSP
2 81 (16.46%) Degree
3 78 (15.85%) Security Cleared
4 69 (14.02%) SC Cleared
5 52 (10.57%) CISM
6 34 (6.91%) Cisco Certification
7 32 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (6.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 29 (5.89%) Azure Certification
10 23 (4.67%) CISA
10 23 (4.67%) CRISC
11 20 (4.07%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (2.85%) CompTIA Security+
13 12 (2.44%) CCSP
13 12 (2.44%) DV Cleared
14 11 (2.24%) AWS Certification
14 11 (2.24%) CCSK
14 11 (2.24%) GIAC
15 10 (2.03%) Master's Degree
16 9 (1.83%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (16.06%) NIST
2 65 (13.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (4.88%) PCI DSS
4 21 (4.27%) GRC
5 18 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 18 (3.66%) NCSC
6 15 (3.05%) GDPR
7 10 (2.03%) COBIT
8 8 (1.63%) NIST 800
9 6 (1.22%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.81%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.81%) ISO 31000
10 4 (0.81%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.81%) QA
11 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.61%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.61%) GPG13
11 3 (0.61%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 47 (9.55%) Active Directory
2 40 (8.13%) Docker
3 13 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.02%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.61%) XenApp
7 2 (0.41%) KVM
7 2 (0.41%) Squid
7 2 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.20%) IAG
8 1 (0.20%) NFS
8 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 100 (20.33%) Terraform
2 50 (10.16%) Kubernetes
3 21 (4.27%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (3.86%) Ansible
5 8 (1.63%) CASB
6 5 (1.02%) FortiGate
6 5 (1.02%) Packer
7 4 (0.81%) Argo
7 4 (0.81%) HAProxy
7 4 (0.81%) Puppet
7 4 (0.81%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.41%) Consul
9 2 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.41%) Istio
9 2 (0.41%) linkerd
9 2 (0.41%) Nessus
9 2 (0.41%) Podman
9 2 (0.41%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 120 (24.39%) Microsoft
2 37 (7.52%) Google
3 26 (5.28%) Palo Alto
4 23 (4.67%) CyberArk
4 23 (4.67%) ServiceNow
5 22 (4.47%) BeyondTrust
6 19 (3.86%) Oracle
7 17 (3.46%) Cisco
8 16 (3.25%) F5
9 13 (2.64%) VMware
10 12 (2.44%) Zscaler
11 11 (2.24%) Fortinet
12 10 (2.03%) Splunk
13 8 (1.63%) Databricks
13 8 (1.63%) SAP
14 7 (1.42%) Citrix
14 7 (1.42%) CrowdStrike
15 6 (1.22%) Okta
16 5 (1.02%) CheckPoint
17 4 (0.81%) Salesforce