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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 197 149 206
Rank change year-on-year -48 +57 -35
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 506 993 1,215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.18% 1.77% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.98% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 649 774
10th Percentile £425 £450 £463
25th Percentile £509 £516 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.28%
75th Percentile £725 £713 £725
90th Percentile £780 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 15 5
10th Percentile - - £28.60
25th Percentile - - £30.00
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +75.00% -17.95%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - £76.00 £46.00
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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 June 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 14 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 1 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
England -51 424 £600 -4.00% 223
London -27 268 £620 -4.62% 109
Work from Home -68 155 £600 -5.51% 125
UK excluding London -75 149 £600 - 123
North of England -43 42 £638 +15.91% 37
South West +1 32 £600 -7.69% 22
South East -28 27 £540 -22.86% 33
Scotland +25 24 £650 +40.54% 11
Midlands +7 24 £630 +14.55% 15
North West -8 22 £676 +8.16% 15
West Midlands +3 21 £635 +5.83% 11
Yorkshire -24 20 £600 +9.09% 16
East of England -6 6 £700 +40.00% 5
East Midlands +9 2 £625 +25.00% 4

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 11 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.19%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.79%) nginx
4 3 (0.59%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.40%) Confluence
5 2 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.40%) Traefik
6 1 (0.20%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.99%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Maximo
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
1 211 (41.70%) Azure
2 160 (31.62%) AWS
3 88 (17.39%) GCP
4 62 (12.25%) IaaS
5 51 (10.08%) SaaS
6 50 (9.88%) Entra ID
7 42 (8.30%) PaaS
8 36 (7.11%) Microsoft 365
9 29 (5.73%) AWS CloudFormation
10 28 (5.53%) Azure Sentinel
10 28 (5.53%) Serverless
11 20 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (2.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 13 (2.57%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (2.17%) OCI
15 10 (1.98%) GitHub
16 9 (1.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (1.78%) Azure Monitor
16 9 (1.78%) Power Platform
17 8 (1.58%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 97 (19.17%) Firewall
2 78 (15.42%) Network Security
3 32 (6.32%) VPN
3 32 (6.32%) WAN
4 26 (5.14%) DNS
5 17 (3.36%) SD-WAN
6 16 (3.16%) LAN
7 9 (1.78%) Internet
8 8 (1.58%) Intrusion Detection
8 8 (1.58%) TCP/IP
9 6 (1.19%) NGFW
10 5 (0.99%) WLAN
11 4 (0.79%) BGP
11 4 (0.79%) MPLS
11 4 (0.79%) Multicast
11 4 (0.79%) OSPF
12 3 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (0.59%) DHCP
12 3 (0.59%) EIGRP
12 3 (0.59%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.98%) Data Lake
2 8 (1.58%) NoSQL
3 7 (1.38%) DynamoDB
4 6 (1.19%) Big Data
4 6 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.99%) Relational Database
5 5 (0.99%) SAP BW
5 5 (0.99%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.79%) BigQuery
6 4 (0.79%) Bigtable
6 4 (0.79%) Cloud Spanner
6 4 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.79%) MySQL
6 4 (0.79%) Power BI
7 3 (0.59%) OLAP
7 3 (0.59%) OLTP
8 2 (0.40%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 25 (4.94%) Jenkins
2 20 (3.95%) GitLab
3 17 (3.36%) Git
4 7 (1.38%) Burp Suite
5 6 (1.19%) JIRA
6 4 (0.79%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.59%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.40%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.40%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.40%) JMeter
8 2 (0.40%) Selenium
8 2 (0.40%) Snyk
8 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.20%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.20%) NUnit
General
1 113 (22.33%) Finance
2 83 (16.40%) Social Skills
3 63 (12.45%) Banking
4 41 (8.10%) Public Sector
5 33 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.57%) Retail
8 9 (1.78%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.38%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.19%) Legal
12 5 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.79%) Military
14 3 (0.59%) Automotive
14 3 (0.59%) Marketing
15 2 (0.40%) Electronics
15 2 (0.40%) Law
15 2 (0.40%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.40%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 191 (37.75%) Architect
2 98 (19.37%) Security Architect
3 63 (12.45%) Security Engineer
4 61 (12.06%) Consultant
5 57 (11.26%) Cloud Architect
6 51 (10.08%) Senior
7 48 (9.49%) Security Consultant
8 41 (8.10%) Cloud Engineer
9 30 (5.93%) Security Manager
10 29 (5.73%) Cloud Security Architect
11 25 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
12 24 (4.74%) Azure Engineer
13 21 (4.15%) AWS Architect
13 21 (4.15%) Lead
14 20 (3.95%) Senior Architect
15 19 (3.75%) Senior Security Architect
16 16 (3.16%) DevOps Engineer
17 14 (2.77%) Analyst
17 14 (2.77%) Project Manager
18 13 (2.57%) Cloud Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.74%) SailPoint
2 19 (3.75%) SAML
3 16 (3.16%) OpenID
4 15 (2.96%) Node.js
5 12 (2.37%) Kafka
6 10 (1.98%) .NET
7 8 (1.58%) JWT
8 7 (1.38%) OAuth
8 7 (1.38%) REST
8 7 (1.38%) Spring
8 7 (1.38%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.38%) Web Services
8 7 (1.38%) YAML
9 6 (1.19%) GWT
9 6 (1.19%) JAX-RS
9 6 (1.19%) OAuth2
9 6 (1.19%) Restlet
10 5 (0.99%) JSON
10 5 (0.99%) React
11 4 (0.79%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 40 (7.91%) Security Posture
2 34 (6.72%) Management Information System
3 33 (6.52%) Cloud Native
4 30 (5.93%) PKI
5 19 (3.75%) Public Cloud
6 17 (3.36%) Mobile App
7 16 (3.16%) IoT
8 15 (2.96%) Security Operations Centre
9 13 (2.57%) Cyber Threat
9 13 (2.57%) Operational Technology
10 10 (1.98%) Cloud Security Posture
10 10 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.98%) Product Ownership
11 8 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 8 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.58%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.38%) Cyber Defence
12 7 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
13 6 (1.19%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.72%) Linux
2 24 (4.74%) Windows
3 9 (1.78%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.38%) Kali Linux
5 5 (0.99%) Unix
6 4 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.40%) Android
8 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.40%) CentOS
8 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (29.84%) Cybersecurity
2 126 (24.90%) DevOps
3 112 (22.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 101 (19.96%) CI/CD
5 87 (17.19%) Information Security
6 83 (16.40%) Application Security
6 83 (16.40%) Security Architecture
7 78 (15.42%) SIEM
8 75 (14.82%) DevSecOps
9 70 (13.83%) Identity Access Management
10 67 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
11 60 (11.86%) Agile
12 58 (11.46%) Migration
13 55 (10.87%) Penetration Testing
14 53 (10.47%) Microservices
15 51 (10.08%) Containerisation
16 46 (9.09%) Incident Response
17 39 (7.71%) Analytics
18 38 (7.51%) Computer Science
19 37 (7.31%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 60 (11.86%) Python
2 33 (6.52%) Java
3 28 (5.53%) PowerShell
4 14 (2.77%) SQL
5 13 (2.57%) Bash
5 13 (2.57%) Kusto Query Language
6 10 (1.98%) C#
7 7 (1.38%) Ruby
7 7 (1.38%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.19%) Bicep
8 6 (1.19%) Go
8 6 (1.19%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.79%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.79%) PHP
10 3 (0.59%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.40%) ABAP
12 1 (0.20%) C++
12 1 (0.20%) Perl
12 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.20%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 76 (15.02%) Security Cleared
2 75 (14.82%) Degree
3 70 (13.83%) CISSP
4 68 (13.44%) SC Cleared
5 47 (9.29%) CISM
6 33 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (4.35%) Azure Certification
8 21 (4.15%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (3.36%) CISA
10 16 (3.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 13 (2.57%) AWS Certification
11 13 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (2.37%) CompTIA Security+
12 12 (2.37%) CRISC
13 11 (2.17%) CCSP
13 11 (2.17%) GIAC
14 10 (1.98%) Master's Degree
15 9 (1.78%) DV Cleared
16 8 (1.58%) CCNP
16 8 (1.58%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (14.62%) NIST
2 54 (10.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (4.55%) PCI DSS
4 22 (4.35%) GDPR
5 19 (3.75%) NCSC
6 17 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 12 (2.37%) GRC
8 8 (1.58%) COBIT
8 8 (1.58%) Disclosure Scotland
9 7 (1.38%) NIST 800
10 4 (0.79%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.79%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.79%) QA
11 3 (0.59%) GPG13
11 3 (0.59%) ISA99
12 2 (0.40%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.40%) COSO
12 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.40%) ISO 31000
12 2 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (10.47%) Active Directory
2 40 (7.91%) Docker
3 16 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.58%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.40%) KVM
6 2 (0.40%) Squid
6 2 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.40%) XenApp
7 1 (0.20%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 1 (0.20%) NFS
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 100 (19.76%) Terraform
2 57 (11.26%) Kubernetes
3 24 (4.74%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (3.16%) Ansible
5 11 (2.17%) CASB
6 5 (0.99%) Packer
6 5 (0.99%) SCCM
7 4 (0.79%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.79%) HAProxy
7 4 (0.79%) Puppet
7 4 (0.79%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 3 (0.59%) Argo
8 3 (0.59%) Nessus
9 2 (0.40%) Istio
9 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.40%) Podman
9 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.40%) SCVMM
9 2 (0.40%) WSUS
9 2 (0.40%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 120 (23.72%) Microsoft
2 39 (7.71%) Google
3 23 (4.55%) CyberArk
3 23 (4.55%) Palo Alto
3 23 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 21 (4.15%) BeyondTrust
5 20 (3.95%) Oracle
6 18 (3.56%) Cisco
7 14 (2.77%) SAP
8 13 (2.57%) Zscaler
9 12 (2.37%) VMware
10 11 (2.17%) Splunk
11 9 (1.78%) CrowdStrike
12 8 (1.58%) Databricks
12 8 (1.58%) F5
13 7 (1.38%) Citrix
13 7 (1.38%) Okta
13 7 (1.38%) Salesforce
14 6 (1.19%) CheckPoint
14 6 (1.19%) Fortinet