Cloud Security Posture Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cloud Security Posture
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Security Posture in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Security Posture over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 441 611
Rank change year-on-year +100 +170 -115
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security Posture 4 13 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.027% 0.053% 0.002%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.094% 0.17% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 1
10th Percentile £434 - -
25th Percentile £466 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £440 £650
Median % change year-on-year +22.16% -32.31% -
75th Percentile £653 £463 -
90th Percentile £711 £493 -
UK median daily rate £469 £453 £650
% change year-on-year +3.59% -30.38% +53.39%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Cloud Security Posture is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,242 7,770 13,904
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.74% 31.54% 31.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,893 5,493 9,954
10th Percentile £325 £370 £360
25th Percentile £438 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £650
90th Percentile £825 £793 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 149 225
10th Percentile £15.95 £19.00 £13.66
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.71 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +29.93%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.90
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.26 £27.50
% change year-on-year +40.98% -19.07% +4.90%

Cloud Security Posture
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Security Posture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Security Posture trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Security Posture
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Security Posture.

Cloud Security Posture daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cloud Security Posture over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Cloud Security Posture daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Security Posture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Functions
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Head of Operations
1 1 (25.00%) Head of Security
1 1 (25.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) IT Security Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (25.00%) STIX
2 1 (25.00%) TAXII
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Data Encryption
3 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Key Management
3 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) SOAR
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Go
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) GCIH
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) CASB
2 1 (25.00%) HP Fortify
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Nessus
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) ForeScout
1 1 (25.00%) Google