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

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 214 155 234
Rank change year-on-year -59 +79 -67
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 421 796 853
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.15% 1.67% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.85% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 552 576
10th Percentile £425 £450 £463
25th Percentile £500 £525 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £630
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -0.79% +9.57%
75th Percentile £731 £725 £725
90th Percentile £788 £788 £808
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 15 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 31,458 42,946 64,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.64% 89.97% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,501 30,170 46,065
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,315 1,518 1,726
10th Percentile £12.83 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.45%

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 3 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 3 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 -31 268 £610 -6.15% 121
North of England -40 42 £638 +15.91% 40
South West +4 32 £600 -7.69% 22
South East -25 27 £540 -22.86% 36
Midlands +6 22 £630 +14.55% 14
North West -19 22 £676 +8.16% 18
Yorkshire -27 20 £600 +9.09% 16
West Midlands +3 19 £635 +5.83% 10
East of England -6 5 £775 +55.00% 4
East Midlands +7 2 £625 +25.00% 4
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 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.43%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.95%) nginx
4 3 (0.71%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 2 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.48%) Traefik
6 1 (0.24%) Confluence
6 1 (0.24%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 176 (41.81%) Azure
2 127 (30.17%) AWS
3 69 (16.39%) GCP
4 61 (14.49%) IaaS
5 49 (11.64%) SaaS
6 43 (10.21%) Entra ID
7 41 (9.74%) PaaS
8 34 (8.08%) Microsoft 365
9 27 (6.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 25 (5.94%) Serverless
11 18 (4.28%) Azure Sentinel
12 17 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (2.38%) OCI
16 9 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
17 8 (1.90%) Azure Logic Apps
17 8 (1.90%) GitHub
18 7 (1.66%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 83 (19.71%) Firewall
2 61 (14.49%) Network Security
3 30 (7.13%) VPN
3 30 (7.13%) WAN
4 24 (5.70%) DNS
5 17 (4.04%) SD-WAN
6 14 (3.33%) LAN
7 9 (2.14%) Internet
8 8 (1.90%) Intrusion Detection
9 6 (1.43%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.95%) BGP
10 4 (0.95%) MPLS
10 4 (0.95%) Multicast
10 4 (0.95%) NGFW
10 4 (0.95%) OSPF
10 4 (0.95%) WLAN
11 3 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (0.71%) DHCP
11 3 (0.71%) EIGRP
11 3 (0.71%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.14%) Data Lake
2 8 (1.90%) DynamoDB
3 7 (1.66%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.19%) Big Data
4 5 (1.19%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.95%) BigQuery
5 4 (0.95%) Bigtable
5 4 (0.95%) Cloud Spanner
5 4 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.95%) MySQL
5 4 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.95%) Power BI
5 4 (0.95%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.95%) SAP BW
6 3 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.71%) OLAP
6 3 (0.71%) OLTP
7 2 (0.48%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 19 (4.51%) GitLab
1 19 (4.51%) Jenkins
2 14 (3.33%) Git
3 7 (1.66%) Burp Suite
4 5 (1.19%) JIRA
5 4 (0.95%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.71%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.48%) JMeter
7 2 (0.48%) Selenium
7 2 (0.48%) Snyk
7 2 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.24%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.24%) NUnit
General
1 109 (25.89%) Finance
2 76 (18.05%) Social Skills
3 56 (13.30%) Banking
4 23 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (4.51%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.85%) Retail
8 8 (1.90%) Financial Institution
8 8 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.43%) Legal
9 6 (1.43%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.95%) Military
12 3 (0.71%) Marketing
13 2 (0.48%) Automotive
13 2 (0.48%) Law
13 2 (0.48%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.24%) Electronics
14 1 (0.24%) French Language
14 1 (0.24%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 154 (36.58%) Architect
2 86 (20.43%) Security Architect
3 56 (13.30%) Consultant
3 56 (13.30%) Security Engineer
4 55 (13.06%) Cloud Architect
5 46 (10.93%) Security Consultant
6 45 (10.69%) Senior
7 35 (8.31%) Cloud Engineer
8 28 (6.65%) Cloud Security Architect
9 22 (5.23%) AWS Architect
9 22 (5.23%) Security Manager
10 21 (4.99%) Azure Engineer
11 18 (4.28%) Senior Architect
12 17 (4.04%) Senior Security Architect
13 16 (3.80%) Lead
14 14 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
15 13 (3.09%) Analyst
16 12 (2.85%) Project Manager
16 12 (2.85%) Solutions Architect
17 11 (2.61%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.33%) SailPoint
2 13 (3.09%) Kafka
2 13 (3.09%) SAML
3 12 (2.85%) Node.js
3 12 (2.85%) OpenID
4 9 (2.14%) .NET
5 8 (1.90%) JWT
6 6 (1.43%) OAuth
6 6 (1.43%) Web Services
6 6 (1.43%) YAML
7 5 (1.19%) JSON
7 5 (1.19%) OAuth2
7 5 (1.19%) React
7 5 (1.19%) Spring
7 5 (1.19%) Spring Boot
8 4 (0.95%) ARM Templates
8 4 (0.95%) CSS
8 4 (0.95%) JAX-RS
8 4 (0.95%) REST
8 4 (0.95%) Restlet
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.65%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.18%) Management Information System
2 26 (6.18%) Security Posture
3 25 (5.94%) PKI
4 17 (4.04%) Public Cloud
5 16 (3.80%) Mobile App
6 15 (3.56%) IoT
7 12 (2.85%) Operational Technology
8 11 (2.61%) Cyber Threat
9 8 (1.90%) Cloud Security Posture
9 8 (1.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 8 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.66%) Cyber Defence
10 7 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
10 7 (1.66%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.43%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
12 5 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (8.08%) Linux
2 23 (5.46%) Windows
3 9 (2.14%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.66%) Kali Linux
5 5 (1.19%) Unix
6 4 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.48%) CentOS
8 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.24%) Android
9 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (29.45%) Cybersecurity
2 98 (23.28%) DevOps
3 95 (22.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 80 (19.00%) CI/CD
5 79 (18.76%) Information Security
6 75 (17.81%) Security Architecture
7 69 (16.39%) SIEM
8 66 (15.68%) Application Security
8 66 (15.68%) DevSecOps
9 56 (13.30%) Identity Access Management
10 54 (12.83%) Problem-Solving
11 50 (11.88%) Penetration Testing
12 49 (11.64%) Agile
13 47 (11.16%) Microservices
14 44 (10.45%) Migration
15 38 (9.03%) Containerisation
16 35 (8.31%) Incident Response
17 34 (8.08%) Data Loss Prevention
18 30 (7.13%) Design Patterns
18 30 (7.13%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 51 (12.11%) Python
2 30 (7.13%) Java
3 26 (6.18%) PowerShell
4 13 (3.09%) SQL
5 11 (2.61%) Bash
6 9 (2.14%) C#
7 7 (1.66%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (1.43%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.19%) Bicep
9 5 (1.19%) Go
9 5 (1.19%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.19%) Ruby
10 4 (0.95%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.95%) PHP
11 3 (0.71%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.24%) C++
12 1 (0.24%) Korn
12 1 (0.24%) Perl
12 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.24%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 63 (14.96%) Security Cleared
2 61 (14.49%) Degree
3 58 (13.78%) CISSP
4 56 (13.30%) SC Cleared
5 43 (10.21%) CISM
6 26 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (4.04%) CISA
8 15 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (3.09%) AWS Certification
10 12 (2.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 12 (2.85%) Azure Certification
10 12 (2.85%) CRISC
11 10 (2.38%) GIAC
12 8 (1.90%) CCSP
12 8 (1.90%) Master's Degree
12 8 (1.90%) SANS
13 7 (1.66%) CCNP
13 7 (1.66%) CCSK
13 7 (1.66%) CEH
13 7 (1.66%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (16.15%) NIST
2 48 (11.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (5.23%) GDPR
3 22 (5.23%) PCI DSS
4 17 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 13 (3.09%) NCSC
6 12 (2.85%) GRC
7 8 (1.90%) COBIT
8 7 (1.66%) NIST 800
9 4 (0.95%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.95%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.71%) GPG13
10 3 (0.71%) ISA99
11 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.48%) COSO
11 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.48%) ISO 31000
11 2 (0.48%) QA
11 2 (0.48%) SLA
12 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 44 (10.45%) Active Directory
2 36 (8.55%) Docker
3 15 (3.56%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (2.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.90%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.48%) KVM
6 2 (0.48%) Squid
6 2 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.48%) XenApp
7 1 (0.24%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 1 (0.24%) NFS
Systems Management
1 87 (20.67%) Terraform
2 51 (12.11%) Kubernetes
3 17 (4.04%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (2.14%) CASB
5 8 (1.90%) Ansible
6 5 (1.19%) Packer
7 4 (0.95%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.95%) HAProxy
7 4 (0.95%) SCCM
7 4 (0.95%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 3 (0.71%) Argo
9 2 (0.48%) Consul
9 2 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.48%) Graphite
9 2 (0.48%) Istio
9 2 (0.48%) linkerd
9 2 (0.48%) Podman
9 2 (0.48%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.48%) SCVMM
9 2 (0.48%) WSUS
Vendors
1 98 (23.28%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.08%) Google
3 21 (4.99%) Palo Alto
4 17 (4.04%) Cisco
5 15 (3.56%) Oracle
6 13 (3.09%) CyberArk
6 13 (3.09%) ServiceNow
7 12 (2.85%) VMware
8 11 (2.61%) BeyondTrust
8 11 (2.61%) SAP
9 10 (2.38%) Splunk
10 8 (1.90%) F5
11 7 (1.66%) Databricks
12 6 (1.43%) CheckPoint
12 6 (1.43%) Citrix
12 6 (1.43%) Fortinet
12 6 (1.43%) Zscaler
13 5 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
14 4 (0.95%) Red Hat
14 4 (0.95%) Salesforce