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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 205 145 212
Rank change year-on-year -60 +67 -35
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 484 1,037 1,210
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.14% 1.81% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 2.02% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 677 774
10th Percentile £425 £450 £463
25th Percentile £508 £525 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £725 £715 £721
90th Percentile £782 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 15 6
10th Percentile - - £28.84
25th Percentile - - £32.50
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +75.00% -15.79%
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - £76.00 £56.63
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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -54 404 £600 -4.00% 226
London -42 253 £625 -3.85% 115
Work from Home -75 146 £600 -5.51% 108
UK excluding London -79 142 £600 - 142
North of England -45 39 £650 +18.18% 47
South East -11 33 £500 -28.57% 38
Scotland +26 23 £700 +38.27% 14
Midlands -1 23 £635 +15.45% 20
South West -5 22 £550 -15.38% 19
North West -19 22 £676 +8.16% 16
West Midlands +9 21 £635 +8.09% 16
Yorkshire -29 17 £600 +9.09% 23
East of England +1 8 £700 +40.00% 3
East Midlands +14 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 9 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.03%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.83%) nginx
4 3 (0.62%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 2 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.41%) Confluence
5 2 (0.41%) Traefik
6 1 (0.21%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.03%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.21%) SAP CAR
2 1 (0.21%) SAP POS DM
2 1 (0.21%) SAP Retail
2 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 207 (42.77%) Azure
2 151 (31.20%) AWS
3 80 (16.53%) GCP
4 60 (12.40%) IaaS
5 50 (10.33%) SaaS
6 45 (9.30%) Entra ID
7 40 (8.26%) PaaS
8 36 (7.44%) Microsoft 365
9 29 (5.99%) AWS CloudFormation
10 28 (5.79%) Serverless
11 26 (5.37%) Azure Sentinel
12 19 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (2.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 13 (2.69%) Cloud Computing
15 12 (2.48%) OCI
16 10 (2.07%) GitHub
17 9 (1.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 8 (1.65%) Azure Logic Apps
18 8 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
18 8 (1.65%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 99 (20.45%) Firewall
2 72 (14.88%) Network Security
3 32 (6.61%) WAN
4 30 (6.20%) VPN
5 27 (5.58%) DNS
6 18 (3.72%) SD-WAN
7 16 (3.31%) LAN
8 11 (2.27%) Internet
9 9 (1.86%) Intrusion Detection
9 9 (1.86%) TCP/IP
10 6 (1.24%) NGFW
11 5 (1.03%) WLAN
12 4 (0.83%) BGP
12 4 (0.83%) DHCP
12 4 (0.83%) MPLS
12 4 (0.83%) Multicast
12 4 (0.83%) OSPF
12 4 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
13 3 (0.62%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.07%) Data Lake
2 8 (1.65%) NoSQL
3 6 (1.24%) Big Data
3 6 (1.24%) DynamoDB
3 6 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.03%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.03%) SAP BW
5 4 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (0.83%) BigQuery
5 4 (0.83%) Bigtable
5 4 (0.83%) Cloud Spanner
5 4 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.83%) MySQL
5 4 (0.83%) Power BI
6 3 (0.62%) OLAP
6 3 (0.62%) OLTP
6 3 (0.62%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.41%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 23 (4.75%) Jenkins
2 19 (3.93%) GitLab
3 16 (3.31%) Git
4 7 (1.45%) Burp Suite
5 5 (1.03%) JIRA
6 4 (0.83%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.62%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.41%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.41%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.41%) JMeter
8 2 (0.41%) Selenium
8 2 (0.41%) Snyk
8 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.21%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.21%) NUnit
General
1 107 (22.11%) Finance
2 86 (17.77%) Social Skills
3 47 (9.71%) Banking
4 39 (8.06%) Public Sector
5 33 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.89%) Retail
8 11 (2.27%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.86%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.24%) Legal
12 5 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.83%) French Language
13 4 (0.83%) German Language
13 4 (0.83%) Military
14 3 (0.62%) Automotive
14 3 (0.62%) Marketing
15 2 (0.41%) Electronics
15 2 (0.41%) Local Government
15 2 (0.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 180 (37.19%) Architect
2 93 (19.21%) Security Architect
3 58 (11.98%) Security Engineer
4 56 (11.57%) Consultant
5 52 (10.74%) Senior
6 49 (10.12%) Cloud Architect
7 45 (9.30%) Security Consultant
8 39 (8.06%) Cloud Engineer
9 29 (5.99%) Security Manager
10 25 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
11 23 (4.75%) Azure Engineer
12 22 (4.55%) Lead
12 22 (4.55%) Senior Architect
13 21 (4.34%) Cloud Security Architect
13 21 (4.34%) Senior Security Architect
14 20 (4.13%) AWS Architect
15 17 (3.51%) Analyst
15 17 (3.51%) DevOps Engineer
16 15 (3.10%) Cloud Consultant
17 14 (2.89%) Cloud Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.96%) SailPoint
2 19 (3.93%) SAML
3 15 (3.10%) Node.js
4 10 (2.07%) Kafka
5 9 (1.86%) .NET
6 8 (1.65%) OpenID
7 7 (1.45%) OAuth
7 7 (1.45%) REST
7 7 (1.45%) Spring
7 7 (1.45%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.45%) Web Services
7 7 (1.45%) YAML
8 6 (1.24%) GWT
8 6 (1.24%) JAX-RS
8 6 (1.24%) OAuth2
8 6 (1.24%) Restlet
9 5 (1.03%) JSON
9 5 (1.03%) React
10 4 (0.83%) CSS
10 4 (0.83%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.85%) Security Posture
2 36 (7.44%) Management Information System
3 34 (7.02%) Cloud Native
4 29 (5.99%) PKI
5 19 (3.93%) Public Cloud
6 18 (3.72%) IoT
7 16 (3.31%) Mobile App
8 15 (3.10%) Security Operations Centre
9 13 (2.69%) Operational Technology
10 12 (2.48%) Cyber Threat
11 11 (2.27%) Cloud Security Posture
12 10 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (1.86%) Onboarding
13 9 (1.86%) Product Ownership
14 8 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
15 7 (1.45%) Cyber Defence
16 6 (1.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 6 (1.24%) Insider Threat
17 5 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (7.44%) Linux
2 26 (5.37%) Windows
3 8 (1.65%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.45%) Kali Linux
4 7 (1.45%) Unix
5 4 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.41%) Android
6 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.41%) CentOS
7 1 (0.21%) AIX
7 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (29.96%) Cybersecurity
2 118 (24.38%) DevOps
3 101 (20.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 92 (19.01%) CI/CD
5 86 (17.77%) Information Security
5 86 (17.77%) Security Architecture
6 77 (15.91%) Application Security
7 67 (13.84%) DevSecOps
7 67 (13.84%) SIEM
8 66 (13.64%) Identity Access Management
9 62 (12.81%) Problem-Solving
10 59 (12.19%) Agile
11 54 (11.16%) Migration
12 49 (10.12%) Containerisation
12 49 (10.12%) Penetration Testing
13 47 (9.71%) Microservices
14 43 (8.88%) Incident Response
15 38 (7.85%) Analytics
15 38 (7.85%) Computer Science
15 38 (7.85%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 55 (11.36%) Python
2 25 (5.17%) Java
3 23 (4.75%) PowerShell
4 14 (2.89%) SQL
5 13 (2.69%) Bash
5 13 (2.69%) Kusto Query Language
6 9 (1.86%) C#
7 7 (1.45%) Ruby
7 7 (1.45%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.24%) Go
9 5 (1.03%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.83%) Bicep
10 4 (0.83%) PHP
11 3 (0.62%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.62%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.41%) ABAP
13 1 (0.21%) C++
13 1 (0.21%) Perl
13 1 (0.21%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.21%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 80 (16.53%) Degree
2 75 (15.50%) CISSP
3 71 (14.67%) Security Cleared
4 63 (13.02%) SC Cleared
5 53 (10.95%) CISM
6 32 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (5.37%) Cisco Certification
8 23 (4.75%) CISA
9 22 (4.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 22 (4.55%) Azure Certification
10 19 (3.93%) CRISC
11 13 (2.69%) AWS Certification
11 13 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (2.48%) CCSP
12 12 (2.48%) CompTIA Security+
13 10 (2.07%) DV Cleared
13 10 (2.07%) GIAC
13 10 (2.07%) Master's Degree
14 8 (1.65%) CCSK
14 8 (1.65%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (16.32%) NIST
2 59 (12.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (4.96%) PCI DSS
4 19 (3.93%) GDPR
5 18 (3.72%) GRC
5 18 (3.72%) NCSC
6 17 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 14 (2.89%) COBIT
8 7 (1.45%) Disclosure Scotland
9 6 (1.24%) NIST 800
10 4 (0.83%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.83%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.83%) QA
11 3 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.62%) GPG13
12 2 (0.41%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.41%) COSO
12 2 (0.41%) ISA99
12 2 (0.41%) ISO 31000
12 2 (0.41%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 50 (10.33%) Active Directory
2 41 (8.47%) Docker
3 13 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.24%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.41%) KVM
6 2 (0.41%) Squid
6 2 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.41%) XenApp
7 1 (0.21%) NFS
7 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 95 (19.63%) Terraform
2 49 (10.12%) Kubernetes
3 24 (4.96%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (3.10%) Ansible
5 11 (2.27%) CASB
6 5 (1.03%) Packer
7 4 (0.83%) Argo
7 4 (0.83%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.83%) HAProxy
7 4 (0.83%) Puppet
7 4 (0.83%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.62%) Nessus
8 3 (0.62%) SCCM
9 2 (0.41%) Consul
9 2 (0.41%) Istio
9 2 (0.41%) Podman
9 2 (0.41%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.41%) SCOrch
9 2 (0.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 110 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.85%) Google
3 23 (4.75%) CyberArk
3 23 (4.75%) Palo Alto
4 22 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 21 (4.34%) BeyondTrust
6 19 (3.93%) Oracle
7 17 (3.51%) Cisco
8 13 (2.69%) Zscaler
9 12 (2.48%) SAP
9 12 (2.48%) VMware
10 11 (2.27%) Splunk
11 9 (1.86%) CrowdStrike
12 8 (1.65%) Databricks
12 8 (1.65%) F5
13 6 (1.24%) CheckPoint
13 6 (1.24%) Citrix
13 6 (1.24%) Fortinet
13 6 (1.24%) Okta
14 4 (0.83%) Salesforce