Cloud Security Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 28 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 250 187 263
Rank change year-on-year -63 +76 -6
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 152 299 265
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.72% 1.31% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.47% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 207 189
10th Percentile £453 £413 £418
25th Percentile £513 £500 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.69%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +75.00% -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,539 20,364 27,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.81% 89.00% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,308 13,875 19,205
10th Percentile £250 £263 £250
25th Percentile £380 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £498
Median % change year-on-year - +0.50% +10.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £694 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,172 1,273 1,370
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.71 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £15.64 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +66.67% +3.75%
75th Percentile £61.60 £63.75 £48.70
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £36.25 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.45% +39.42% +14.89%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Security in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
North of England -29 37 £638 +15.91% 25
South West 0 33 £600 -11.11% 13
Midlands +3 28 £613 +11.36% 24
South East -30 28 £540 -22.86% 31
West Midlands +2 24 £635 +15.45% 16
Scotland +29 21 £700 +52.17% 2
North West -4 21 £650 +4.00% 10
Yorkshire -19 16 £600 +9.09% 9
East of England -9 5 £775 +55.00% 2
East Midlands +8 1 £625 +25.00% 8
Cloud Security
UK

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (1.32%) Exchange Server 2013
1 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.32%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.66%) CMS
2 1 (0.66%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.66%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 68 (44.74%) Azure
2 40 (26.32%) AWS
3 23 (15.13%) Entra ID
4 17 (11.18%) IaaS
4 17 (11.18%) PaaS
5 11 (7.24%) SaaS
6 10 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (6.58%) Azure Logic Apps
6 10 (6.58%) GCP
7 9 (5.92%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (4.61%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (3.29%) AWS CloudTrail
10 5 (3.29%) CloudFront
10 5 (3.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.63%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 4 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.63%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (2.63%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 30 (19.74%) Network Security
2 16 (10.53%) Firewall
3 15 (9.87%) VPN
4 11 (7.24%) DNS
5 6 (3.95%) WAN
6 5 (3.29%) LAN
7 3 (1.97%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.97%) WLAN
8 1 (0.66%) 4G
8 1 (0.66%) 5G
8 1 (0.66%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.66%) FTP
8 1 (0.66%) Internet
8 1 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.66%) Modbus
8 1 (0.66%) SMTP
8 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.95%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.63%) Relational Database
2 4 (2.63%) SAP BW
3 3 (1.97%) Bigtable
3 3 (1.97%) Cloud Spanner
4 2 (1.32%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.66%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (2.63%) Git
1 4 (2.63%) Jenkins
1 4 (2.63%) JIRA
2 3 (1.97%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.66%) NUnit
3 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (15.79%) Finance
2 19 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 15 (9.87%) Public Sector
4 13 (8.55%) Banking
5 8 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.26%) Retail
6 4 (2.63%) Automotive
6 4 (2.63%) Legal
7 3 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.97%) Military
7 3 (1.97%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.66%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.66%) French Language
8 1 (0.66%) German Language
8 1 (0.66%) Law
8 1 (0.66%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 50 (32.89%) Architect
2 29 (19.08%) Security Engineer
3 22 (14.47%) Cloud Engineer
3 22 (14.47%) Security Architect
4 16 (10.53%) Consultant
5 15 (9.87%) Security Consultant
6 14 (9.21%) Cloud Architect
7 13 (8.55%) Senior
8 11 (7.24%) Cloud Security Architect
9 10 (6.58%) Security Manager
10 9 (5.92%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (5.26%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 8 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 6 (3.95%) SOC Engineer
13 5 (3.29%) Applications Engineer
13 5 (3.29%) Lead
13 5 (3.29%) Project Manager
13 5 (3.29%) Security Project Manager
14 4 (2.63%) Analyst
14 4 (2.63%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.89%) SAML
2 7 (4.61%) .NET
3 5 (3.29%) OAuth
3 5 (3.29%) OAuth2
3 5 (3.29%) OpenID
4 3 (1.97%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.97%) GWT
4 3 (1.97%) JAX-RS
4 3 (1.97%) JSON
4 3 (1.97%) REST
4 3 (1.97%) Restlet
4 3 (1.97%) Spring
4 3 (1.97%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.97%) Web Services
4 3 (1.97%) YAML
5 2 (1.32%) Django
5 2 (1.32%) Node.js
6 1 (0.66%) CSS
6 1 (0.66%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.66%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.50%) Security Posture
2 18 (11.84%) Cloud Native
3 11 (7.24%) Public Cloud
4 9 (5.92%) Operational Technology
5 7 (4.61%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.95%) PKI
7 5 (3.29%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (3.29%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (3.29%) Private Cloud
7 5 (3.29%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (2.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (2.63%) Cyberattack
8 4 (2.63%) IoT
8 4 (2.63%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.97%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.97%) Insider Threat
9 3 (1.97%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.24%) Windows
2 4 (2.63%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.97%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (1.32%) Android
4 2 (1.32%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (36.18%) Cybersecurity
2 39 (25.66%) DevOps
3 29 (19.08%) Identity Access Management
4 28 (18.42%) DevSecOps
5 27 (17.76%) CI/CD
5 27 (17.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (17.11%) Security Architecture
7 22 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (13.82%) Agile
8 21 (13.82%) Information Security
9 20 (13.16%) Microservices
10 19 (12.50%) Incident Response
11 17 (11.18%) Application Security
12 16 (10.53%) SIEM
13 14 (9.21%) Change Management
14 13 (8.55%) Analytics
14 13 (8.55%) Roadmaps
15 12 (7.89%) Vulnerability Management
16 11 (7.24%) Penetration Testing
16 11 (7.24%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (11.18%) Python
2 15 (9.87%) Java
3 10 (6.58%) PowerShell
4 7 (4.61%) C#
5 4 (2.63%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (2.63%) SQL
6 3 (1.97%) PHP
6 3 (1.97%) Ruby
7 2 (1.32%) Bicep
7 2 (1.32%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.66%) C++
Qualifications
1 25 (16.45%) Security Cleared
2 23 (15.13%) Degree
2 23 (15.13%) SC Cleared
3 22 (14.47%) CISSP
4 17 (11.18%) Azure Certification
5 15 (9.87%) CISM
6 9 (5.92%) AWS Certification
7 7 (4.61%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (4.61%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (3.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (3.95%) CISA
8 6 (3.95%) DV Cleared
9 5 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (3.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.63%) CCSP
10 4 (2.63%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.63%) MBA
11 3 (1.97%) CCNP
11 3 (1.97%) CEH
11 3 (1.97%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (15.13%) NIST
2 15 (9.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (4.61%) Disclosure Scotland
4 6 (3.95%) NCSC
5 5 (3.29%) COBIT
5 5 (3.29%) GDPR
6 4 (2.63%) GRC
7 3 (1.97%) ISA99
7 3 (1.97%) NIST 800
7 3 (1.97%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.32%) COSO
8 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.66%) AUTOSAR
9 1 (0.66%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.66%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (13.82%) Active Directory
2 12 (7.89%) Docker
3 5 (3.29%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.66%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 1 (0.66%) RACF
4 1 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (13.16%) Terraform
2 12 (7.89%) Single Sign-On
3 9 (5.92%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.63%) Ansible
4 4 (2.63%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 2 (1.32%) Nessus
5 2 (1.32%) SCCM
5 2 (1.32%) SCDPM
5 2 (1.32%) SCVMM
5 2 (1.32%) WSUS
6 1 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.66%) Backup Exec
6 1 (0.66%) CASB
6 1 (0.66%) HP SIM
6 1 (0.66%) Kibana
6 1 (0.66%) logstash
6 1 (0.66%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 48 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.26%) Cisco
2 8 (5.26%) Google
3 6 (3.95%) Palo Alto
3 6 (3.95%) Splunk
3 6 (3.95%) Zscaler
4 5 (3.29%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (3.29%) Okta
4 5 (3.29%) Oracle
4 5 (3.29%) SAP
4 5 (3.29%) VMware
5 4 (2.63%) LogRhythm
6 3 (1.97%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.97%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.32%) Citrix
7 2 (1.32%) F5
8 1 (0.66%) Commvault
8 1 (0.66%) HP
8 1 (0.66%) Symantec
8 1 (0.66%) Veritas