Cloud Security Contracts in England

Cloud Security
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 208 157 236
Rank change year-on-year -51 +79 -65
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 431 770 836
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.16% 1.64% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.82% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 537 556
10th Percentile £425 £450 £463
25th Percentile £500 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £725
90th Percentile £780 £788 £813
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +9.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 1
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £27.67
Median % change year-on-year - +152.98% -53.50%
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +75.00% -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,789 42,321 64,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 89.92% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,644 29,706 45,695
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,352 1,534 1,708
10th Percentile £12.81 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.73 £15.30
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.63 £49.77
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.35 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in England

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in England

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in England

Cloud Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Security in England

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
London -33 272 £600 -7.69% 95
North of England -39 42 £638 +15.91% 31
South West +12 35 £600 -11.11% 22
South East -25 28 £536 -23.39% 41
Midlands +6 24 £630 +14.55% 15
North West -11 23 £676 +9.92% 15
West Midlands +1 20 £635 +5.83% 10
Yorkshire -31 19 £600 +9.09% 12
East of England -6 5 £775 +55.00% 5
East Midlands +9 2 £625 +25.00% 5
Cloud Security
UK

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.70%) nginx
3 3 (0.70%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 2 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.46%) Confluence
4 2 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.23%) CMS
5 1 (0.23%) IIS
5 1 (0.23%) Traefik
Applications
1 10 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 178 (41.30%) Azure
2 131 (30.39%) AWS
3 69 (16.01%) GCP
4 62 (14.39%) IaaS
5 49 (11.37%) SaaS
6 44 (10.21%) Entra ID
7 42 (9.74%) PaaS
8 33 (7.66%) Microsoft 365
9 29 (6.73%) AWS CloudFormation
10 25 (5.80%) Serverless
11 18 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (3.94%) Azure Sentinel
13 12 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (2.32%) OCI
15 9 (2.09%) Azure Monitor
16 8 (1.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (1.86%) Azure Logic Apps
16 8 (1.86%) GitHub
17 7 (1.62%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 82 (19.03%) Firewall
2 62 (14.39%) Network Security
3 30 (6.96%) VPN
4 29 (6.73%) WAN
5 23 (5.34%) DNS
6 16 (3.71%) SD-WAN
7 13 (3.02%) LAN
8 10 (2.32%) Internet
9 8 (1.86%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (1.16%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.93%) BGP
11 4 (0.93%) NGFW
11 4 (0.93%) OSPF
11 4 (0.93%) WLAN
12 3 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (0.70%) DHCP
12 3 (0.70%) EIGRP
12 3 (0.70%) MPLS
12 3 (0.70%) Multicast
12 3 (0.70%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.09%) Data Lake
2 8 (1.86%) DynamoDB
3 7 (1.62%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.16%) Big Data
4 5 (1.16%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.16%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.93%) Bigtable
5 4 (0.93%) Cloud Spanner
5 4 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.93%) MySQL
5 4 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.93%) Power BI
5 4 (0.93%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.93%) SAP BW
6 3 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.70%) OLAP
6 3 (0.70%) OLTP
7 2 (0.46%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 18 (4.18%) GitLab
1 18 (4.18%) Jenkins
2 13 (3.02%) Git
3 7 (1.62%) JIRA
4 5 (1.16%) Burp Suite
5 4 (0.93%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.70%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.46%) JMeter
7 2 (0.46%) Selenium
7 2 (0.46%) Snyk
7 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.23%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.23%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.23%) NUnit
General
1 110 (25.52%) Finance
2 73 (16.94%) Social Skills
3 57 (13.23%) Banking
4 24 (5.57%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.18%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.78%) Retail
8 9 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.86%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.39%) Legal
10 6 (1.39%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.93%) Military
11 4 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.70%) Automotive
12 3 (0.70%) Marketing
13 2 (0.46%) Law
13 2 (0.46%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.23%) French Language
14 1 (0.23%) German Language
14 1 (0.23%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 154 (35.73%) Architect
2 86 (19.95%) Security Architect
3 62 (14.39%) Security Engineer
4 58 (13.46%) Consultant
5 54 (12.53%) Cloud Architect
6 47 (10.90%) Security Consultant
7 45 (10.44%) Senior
8 42 (9.74%) Cloud Engineer
9 28 (6.50%) Cloud Security Architect
10 22 (5.10%) Security Manager
11 20 (4.64%) AWS Architect
11 20 (4.64%) Azure Engineer
12 17 (3.94%) Senior Architect
12 17 (3.94%) Senior Security Architect
13 16 (3.71%) Lead
14 15 (3.48%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 14 (3.25%) Project Manager
16 13 (3.02%) Analyst
16 13 (3.02%) DevOps Engineer
16 13 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.02%) Kafka
1 13 (3.02%) SailPoint
1 13 (3.02%) SAML
2 12 (2.78%) Node.js
2 12 (2.78%) OpenID
3 9 (2.09%) .NET
4 8 (1.86%) JWT
5 6 (1.39%) OAuth
5 6 (1.39%) Web Services
5 6 (1.39%) YAML
6 5 (1.16%) ARM Templates
6 5 (1.16%) JSON
6 5 (1.16%) OAuth2
6 5 (1.16%) React
6 5 (1.16%) Spring
6 5 (1.16%) Spring Boot
7 4 (0.93%) GWT
7 4 (0.93%) JAX-RS
7 4 (0.93%) REST
7 4 (0.93%) Restlet
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.73%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.03%) Management Information System
2 26 (6.03%) Security Posture
3 24 (5.57%) PKI
4 19 (4.41%) Public Cloud
5 16 (3.71%) IoT
5 16 (3.71%) Mobile App
6 13 (3.02%) Operational Technology
7 12 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
8 9 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 8 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.62%) Cloud Security Posture
10 7 (1.62%) Enterprise Cloud
10 7 (1.62%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.39%) Cyber Defence
11 6 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.39%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
12 5 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.19%) Linux
2 23 (5.34%) Windows
3 9 (2.09%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.16%) Kali Linux
4 5 (1.16%) Unix
5 3 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.23%) Android
7 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.23%) CentOS
7 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (29.00%) Cybersecurity
2 101 (23.43%) DevOps
3 98 (22.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 81 (18.79%) CI/CD
5 80 (18.56%) Information Security
6 73 (16.94%) Security Architecture
7 72 (16.71%) DevSecOps
8 70 (16.24%) SIEM
9 67 (15.55%) Application Security
10 60 (13.92%) Identity Access Management
11 56 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
12 49 (11.37%) Migration
12 49 (11.37%) Penetration Testing
13 47 (10.90%) Agile
13 47 (10.90%) Microservices
14 37 (8.58%) Containerisation
15 35 (8.12%) Incident Response
16 34 (7.89%) Data Loss Prevention
17 31 (7.19%) Risk Assessment
18 30 (6.96%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 50 (11.60%) Python
2 31 (7.19%) Java
3 29 (6.73%) PowerShell
4 13 (3.02%) SQL
5 10 (2.32%) Bash
6 9 (2.09%) C#
7 8 (1.86%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (1.39%) Bicep
8 6 (1.39%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.16%) Go
9 5 (1.16%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.16%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.93%) PHP
10 4 (0.93%) Ruby
11 3 (0.70%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.23%) Korn
12 1 (0.23%) Perl
12 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.23%) Scala
12 1 (0.23%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 64 (14.85%) Security Cleared
2 60 (13.92%) Degree
3 59 (13.69%) CISSP
4 57 (13.23%) SC Cleared
5 43 (9.98%) CISM
6 25 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (3.94%) CISA
8 16 (3.71%) AWS Certification
8 16 (3.71%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (3.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 12 (2.78%) Azure Certification
10 12 (2.78%) CRISC
11 9 (2.09%) GIAC
12 8 (1.86%) CCSP
12 8 (1.86%) Master's Degree
12 8 (1.86%) SANS
13 7 (1.62%) CCNP
13 7 (1.62%) CCSK
13 7 (1.62%) CEH
13 7 (1.62%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (16.01%) NIST
2 48 (11.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (5.57%) GDPR
4 20 (4.64%) PCI DSS
5 17 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 13 (3.02%) NCSC
7 12 (2.78%) GRC
8 8 (1.86%) COBIT
9 7 (1.62%) NIST 800
10 4 (0.93%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.93%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.70%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.70%) GPG13
11 3 (0.70%) ISA99
12 2 (0.46%) COSO
12 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.46%) ISO 31000
12 2 (0.46%) QA
12 2 (0.46%) SLA
13 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 44 (10.21%) Active Directory
2 34 (7.89%) Docker
3 14 (3.25%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.86%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.46%) KVM
6 2 (0.46%) Squid
6 2 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.46%) XenApp
7 1 (0.23%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 1 (0.23%) NFS
Systems Management
1 89 (20.65%) Terraform
2 50 (11.60%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.94%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (2.09%) CASB
5 7 (1.62%) Ansible
6 4 (0.93%) FortiGate
6 4 (0.93%) Packer
6 4 (0.93%) SCCM
6 4 (0.93%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 3 (0.70%) Argo
7 3 (0.70%) HAProxy
7 3 (0.70%) Nessus
8 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.46%) SCDPM
8 2 (0.46%) SCOrch
8 2 (0.46%) SCVMM
8 2 (0.46%) WSUS
9 1 (0.23%) HP SIM
9 1 (0.23%) Puppet
9 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 96 (22.27%) Microsoft
2 35 (8.12%) Google
3 21 (4.87%) Palo Alto
4 16 (3.71%) Cisco
5 15 (3.48%) Oracle
5 15 (3.48%) ServiceNow
6 13 (3.02%) CyberArk
7 12 (2.78%) SAP
7 12 (2.78%) VMware
8 11 (2.55%) BeyondTrust
9 10 (2.32%) Splunk
10 7 (1.62%) Databricks
10 7 (1.62%) F5
11 6 (1.39%) CheckPoint
11 6 (1.39%) Citrix
11 6 (1.39%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.39%) Zscaler
12 5 (1.16%) CrowdStrike
13 4 (0.93%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.93%) Salesforce