Cloud Security Contracts in the Midlands

Cloud Security
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Cloud Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Security over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 106 177
Rank change year-on-year -5 +71 +17
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 25 36 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.94% 1.29% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.54% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 30 17
10th Percentile £501 £450 £435
25th Percentile £550 £514 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £615 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.69% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £635 £725 £650
90th Percentile £682 £750 £817
England median daily rate £600 £600 £638
% change year-on-year - -5.88% +6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Cloud Security falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,226 2,344 4,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 83.59% 84.32% 87.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,390 1,614 2,955
10th Percentile £255 £252 £250
25th Percentile £375 £387 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £495
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% -1.21% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -4.02% -0.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 106 116
10th Percentile £14.70 £14.34 £11.80
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.55 £14.47
Median hourly rate £24.18 £27.25 £16.88
Median % change year-on-year -11.27% +61.41% +12.55%
75th Percentile £35.00 £51.50 £20.75
90th Percentile £51.50 £68.13 £35.19
England median hourly rate £36.90 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.08% +27.14% +67.54%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in the Midlands

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in the Midlands

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in the Midlands

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
West Midlands -7 20 £580 -5.88% 13
East Midlands -3 1 £356 -30.20% 3
Cloud Security
England

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) AWS
2 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (12.00%) Azure Functions
2 3 (12.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 3 (12.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (12.00%) GitHub
2 3 (12.00%) IaaS
2 3 (12.00%) PaaS
2 3 (12.00%) Serverless
3 2 (8.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 12 (48.00%) Firewall
2 8 (32.00%) Network Security
3 6 (24.00%) LAN
3 6 (24.00%) NGFW
3 6 (24.00%) Wireless
4 2 (8.00%) Ethernet
4 2 (8.00%) Modbus
5 1 (4.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Legal
2 6 (24.00%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Automotive
4 1 (4.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Architect
2 6 (24.00%) Network Architect
3 4 (16.00%) SOC Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Consultant
4 3 (12.00%) Security Consultant
4 3 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Information Security Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) Security Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Security Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Administrator
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Security Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Presales Solution Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Management Information System
2 6 (24.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (24.00%) Security Posture
3 4 (16.00%) IoT
3 4 (16.00%) Operational Technology
3 4 (16.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Unix
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (28.00%) Incident Response
1 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (28.00%) Service Management
1 7 (28.00%) SIEM
2 6 (24.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (24.00%) Identity Access Management
2 6 (24.00%) Information Security
2 6 (24.00%) Migration
2 6 (24.00%) PQQ
2 6 (24.00%) Presales
2 6 (24.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 5 (20.00%) Threat Detection
3 5 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 4 (16.00%) Analytics
4 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (16.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 4 (16.00%) Data Analysis
4 4 (16.00%) Data Analytics
4 4 (16.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Degree
2 7 (28.00%) Azure Certification
3 6 (24.00%) CISSP
3 6 (24.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (16.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (8.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (8.00%) CCSP
5 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (8.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (16.00%) NIST
2 2 (8.00%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Kibana
1 4 (16.00%) logstash
2 3 (12.00%) Terraform
3 2 (8.00%) CASB
4 1 (4.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 11 (44.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (24.00%) Aruba
2 6 (24.00%) Cisco
2 6 (24.00%) Fortinet
2 6 (24.00%) Juniper
2 6 (24.00%) Zscaler
3 2 (8.00%) Google
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.00%) Proofpoint
3 2 (8.00%) TOWER Software
4 1 (4.00%) OpenAI
4 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.00%) VMware