Cloud Security Contracts in London

Cloud Security
England > London

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 160 130 201
Rank change year-on-year -30 +71 -70
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 269 512 555
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.53% 2.00% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 2.20% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 369 362
10th Percentile £425 £460 £475
25th Percentile £520 £531 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £773 £738 £750
90th Percentile £788 £803 £825
England median daily rate £600 £625 £630
% change year-on-year -4.00% -0.79% +9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £27.67
Median % change year-on-year - +189.12% -
England median hourly rate - £70.00 £27.67
% change year-on-year - +152.98% -53.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,473 23,264 35,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 90.93% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,093 16,856 26,215
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 265 402
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.49 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +9.86% +8.07%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in London

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in London

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in London

Cloud Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Security in London

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +7 37 £570 -8.06% 10
East London -19 8 £585 -22.00% 2
South London +6 2 £575 +21.05% 2
West London +2 1 £500 -28.57% 3
Cloud Security
England

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 9 (3.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.12%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.74%) nginx
5 1 (0.37%) Confluence
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 99 (36.80%) Azure
2 89 (33.09%) AWS
3 55 (20.45%) GCP
4 45 (16.73%) IaaS
5 38 (14.13%) SaaS
6 28 (10.41%) PaaS
7 23 (8.55%) Entra ID
8 22 (8.18%) Microsoft 365
9 20 (7.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (7.43%) Serverless
10 10 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (3.35%) Azure Sentinel
12 7 (2.60%) GitHub
13 6 (2.23%) Amazon EMR
13 6 (2.23%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (2.23%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (2.23%) OCI
13 6 (2.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (1.86%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 58 (21.56%) Firewall
2 29 (10.78%) Network Security
3 25 (9.29%) WAN
4 14 (5.20%) SD-WAN
5 13 (4.83%) VPN
6 10 (3.72%) DNS
6 10 (3.72%) LAN
7 8 (2.97%) Internet
8 4 (1.49%) BGP
8 4 (1.49%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (1.49%) MPLS
8 4 (1.49%) Multicast
8 4 (1.49%) OSPF
9 3 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (1.12%) DHCP
9 3 (1.12%) EIGRP
9 3 (1.12%) SSH
9 3 (1.12%) TCP/IP
9 3 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.74%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.60%) Data Lake
2 6 (2.23%) DynamoDB
3 5 (1.86%) Big Data
4 4 (1.49%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.49%) MySQL
4 4 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.49%) Power BI
5 3 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.12%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.12%) OLAP
5 3 (1.12%) OLTP
5 3 (1.12%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.74%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (0.74%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.37%) Bigtable
7 1 (0.37%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (6.32%) GitLab
1 17 (6.32%) Jenkins
2 8 (2.97%) Git
3 4 (1.49%) Burp Suite
3 4 (1.49%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.12%) JIRA
5 2 (0.74%) JMeter
5 2 (0.74%) Selenium
6 1 (0.37%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.37%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 84 (31.23%) Finance
2 53 (19.70%) Social Skills
3 39 (14.50%) Banking
4 13 (4.83%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.09%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.60%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.12%) Retail
10 3 (1.12%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.74%) Legal
11 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.74%) Marketing
12 1 (0.37%) Electronics
12 1 (0.37%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 106 (39.41%) Architect
2 61 (22.68%) Security Architect
3 40 (14.87%) Cloud Architect
4 39 (14.50%) Consultant
5 31 (11.52%) Senior
6 30 (11.15%) Security Consultant
7 29 (10.78%) Security Engineer
8 21 (7.81%) AWS Architect
9 18 (6.69%) Senior Architect
10 17 (6.32%) Cloud Security Architect
10 17 (6.32%) Senior Security Architect
11 15 (5.58%) Cloud Engineer
12 14 (5.20%) Security Manager
13 11 (4.09%) Lead
14 10 (3.72%) DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.72%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 10 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
15 9 (3.35%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (3.35%) Azure Engineer
15 9 (3.35%) Cloud Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.83%) Kafka
2 11 (4.09%) OpenID
2 11 (4.09%) SailPoint
3 7 (2.60%) JWT
4 6 (2.23%) Node.js
5 5 (1.86%) React
6 4 (1.49%) SAML
7 3 (1.12%) .NET
7 3 (1.12%) CSS
7 3 (1.12%) HTML
7 3 (1.12%) Middleware
7 3 (1.12%) RESTful
7 3 (1.12%) Web Services
7 3 (1.12%) YAML
8 2 (0.74%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.74%) EDI
8 2 (0.74%) Express.js
8 2 (0.74%) JSON
8 2 (0.74%) LDAP
8 2 (0.74%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.18%) Management Information System
2 21 (7.81%) PKI
3 15 (5.58%) Mobile App
4 13 (4.83%) IoT
4 13 (4.83%) Security Posture
5 12 (4.46%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.97%) Cloud Security Posture
6 8 (2.97%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.23%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.86%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.86%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.86%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.49%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.12%) Replication
10 3 (1.12%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 25 (9.29%) Linux
2 10 (3.72%) Windows
3 6 (2.23%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.86%) Unix
5 4 (1.49%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (28.62%) Cybersecurity
2 70 (26.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 67 (24.91%) DevOps
4 55 (20.45%) Information Security
5 49 (18.22%) CI/CD
5 49 (18.22%) Security Architecture
6 48 (17.84%) SIEM
7 46 (17.10%) DevSecOps
8 40 (14.87%) Application Security
9 36 (13.38%) Penetration Testing
9 36 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (13.01%) Identity Access Management
11 33 (12.27%) Data Loss Prevention
12 31 (11.52%) Agile
12 31 (11.52%) Migration
13 30 (11.15%) Containerisation
14 28 (10.41%) Microservices
15 26 (9.67%) Computer Science
16 22 (8.18%) SDLC
17 21 (7.81%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 35 (13.01%) Python
2 19 (7.06%) PowerShell
3 16 (5.95%) Java
4 8 (2.97%) Bash
4 8 (2.97%) SQL
5 5 (1.86%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (1.49%) Kotlin
7 3 (1.12%) Go
7 3 (1.12%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.74%) Bicep
8 2 (0.74%) C#
8 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.37%) Korn
9 1 (0.37%) PHP
9 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.37%) Scala
9 1 (0.37%) tcsh
9 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 42 (15.61%) Degree
2 40 (14.87%) Security Cleared
3 37 (13.75%) SC Cleared
4 36 (13.38%) CISSP
5 27 (10.04%) CISM
6 22 (8.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.72%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (3.35%) CRISC
9 8 (2.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 8 (2.97%) CISA
9 8 (2.97%) SANS
10 7 (2.60%) GIAC
11 6 (2.23%) AWS Certification
12 5 (1.86%) CCSK
13 4 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (1.49%) CCNP
13 4 (1.49%) CCSP
13 4 (1.49%) CEH
14 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (1.12%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (16.73%) NIST
2 33 (12.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (5.58%) GDPR
3 15 (5.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 14 (5.20%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.60%) GRC
5 7 (2.60%) NCSC
6 4 (1.49%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.49%) NIST 800
7 3 (1.12%) COBIT
7 3 (1.12%) GPG13
8 2 (0.74%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.74%) ISO 31000
8 2 (0.74%) QA
8 2 (0.74%) SLA
9 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 28 (10.41%) Active Directory
2 19 (7.06%) Docker
3 8 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.12%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.74%) KVM
6 2 (0.74%) Squid
6 2 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.74%) XenApp
7 1 (0.37%) NFS
Systems Management
1 70 (26.02%) Terraform
2 38 (14.13%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.35%) CASB
4 8 (2.97%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (2.23%) Ansible
6 4 (1.49%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.12%) Argo
7 3 (1.12%) Packer
8 2 (0.74%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.74%) Nessus
8 2 (0.74%) SCCM
8 2 (0.74%) SCOrch
9 1 (0.37%) Grafana
9 1 (0.37%) systemd
Vendors
1 49 (18.22%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.67%) Google
3 11 (4.09%) Palo Alto
3 11 (4.09%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.72%) CyberArk
4 10 (3.72%) Oracle
5 9 (3.35%) BeyondTrust
5 9 (3.35%) Cisco
6 6 (2.23%) CheckPoint
6 6 (2.23%) VMware
7 5 (1.86%) Databricks
7 5 (1.86%) F5
7 5 (1.86%) SAP
8 4 (1.49%) Citrix
8 4 (1.49%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.49%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.12%) Dell
9 3 (1.12%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.12%) Qualys
9 3 (1.12%) Unisys