Cloud Security Contracts in the South West

Cloud Security
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 113 125 142
Rank change year-on-year +12 +17 -33
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 35 35 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.07% 1.03% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.16% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 26 19
10th Percentile £300 £600 £463
25th Percentile £500 £622 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +26.32%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £731
90th Percentile £708 £788 £860
England median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate - £70.00 £27.67
% change year-on-year - +152.98% -53.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,686 3,015 3,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.07% 89.10% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,682 2,172 2,330
10th Percentile £238 £313 £300
25th Percentile £401 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 366 317 205
10th Percentile £13.85 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £28.44 £15.40 £23.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £48.74
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +17.97% +8.31%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.31 £69.36
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Cloud Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in the South West

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in the South West

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in the South West

Cloud Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Security in the South West

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Wiltshire +1 18 £600 -7.69% 3
Bristol +13 13 £563 -22.41% 11
Gloucestershire -3 2 £575 -11.54% 4
Somerset - 2 £700 - 2
Cloud Security
England

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (5.71%) Exchange Server 2013
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (45.71%) Azure
2 12 (34.29%) AWS
3 6 (17.14%) Azure Monitor
3 6 (17.14%) Entra ID
4 5 (14.29%) GCP
5 4 (11.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (11.43%) AWS CloudTrail
6 3 (8.57%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (5.71%) IaaS
7 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (5.71%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) Network Security
2 1 (2.86%) Firewall
2 1 (2.86%) FTP
2 1 (2.86%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Burp Suite
General
1 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Finance
4 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.86%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Architect
1 12 (34.29%) Security Architect
2 11 (31.43%) Security Engineer
3 8 (22.86%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
4 7 (20.00%) Cloud Security Architect
5 4 (11.43%) Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Enterprise Architect
5 4 (11.43%) Enterprise Security Architect
5 4 (11.43%) Java Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Enterprise Architect
5 4 (11.43%) SOC Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Consultant
6 3 (8.57%) Ethical Hacker
6 3 (8.57%) Security Consultant
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Architect
8 1 (2.86%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) GWT
1 4 (11.43%) JAX-RS
1 4 (11.43%) REST
1 4 (11.43%) Restlet
1 4 (11.43%) SAML
1 4 (11.43%) Spring
1 4 (11.43%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.86%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.86%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Security Posture
2 5 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 4 (11.43%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (11.43%) Insider Threat
3 4 (11.43%) Public Cloud
4 3 (8.57%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (8.57%) Operational Technology
4 3 (8.57%) SCADA
5 2 (5.71%) Cyber Security Posture
5 2 (5.71%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.86%) Cyberattack
6 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Kali Linux
1 3 (8.57%) Linux
2 2 (5.71%) Windows
2 2 (5.71%) Windows Server
2 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (25.71%) Agile
2 9 (25.71%) Security Architecture
3 8 (22.86%) DevSecOps
3 8 (22.86%) SIEM
4 7 (20.00%) Information Security
5 6 (17.14%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (14.29%) Incident Response
7 4 (11.43%) Application Security
7 4 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (11.43%) DevOps
7 4 (11.43%) Digital Strategy
7 4 (11.43%) Kalman Filter
7 4 (11.43%) Log Analytics
7 4 (11.43%) Risk Assessment
7 4 (11.43%) SOAR
7 4 (11.43%) Threat Detection
7 4 (11.43%) Threat Modelling
7 4 (11.43%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) Python
2 4 (11.43%) Java
3 2 (5.71%) C#
3 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.86%) Bash
4 1 (2.86%) Julia
4 1 (2.86%) Perl
4 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 8 (22.86%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) CISSP
3 4 (11.43%) Degree
4 3 (8.57%) CISM
4 3 (8.57%) OSCP
5 2 (5.71%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (5.71%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.71%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.86%) CCNP
6 1 (2.86%) CCSP
6 1 (2.86%) CISA
6 1 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (34.29%) NIST
2 6 (17.14%) PCI DSS
3 5 (14.29%) GDPR
3 5 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (11.43%) NCSC
5 3 (8.57%) ISA99
5 3 (8.57%) NIST 800
6 2 (5.71%) COBIT
6 2 (5.71%) COSO
7 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
7 1 (2.86%) GRC
7 1 (2.86%) HIPAA
7 1 (2.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.71%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.86%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) Terraform
2 5 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (11.43%) Trend Micro Deep Security
4 2 (5.71%) SCCM
4 2 (5.71%) SCDPM
4 2 (5.71%) SCVMM
4 2 (5.71%) WSUS
5 1 (2.86%) Backup Exec
5 1 (2.86%) HP SIM
5 1 (2.86%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 16 (45.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) Google
2 5 (14.29%) Splunk
3 3 (8.57%) LogRhythm
4 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.86%) Citrix
5 1 (2.86%) Commvault
5 1 (2.86%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.86%) HP
5 1 (2.86%) Okta
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle
5 1 (2.86%) SAP
5 1 (2.86%) Symantec
5 1 (2.86%) Veritas