Cloud Security
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cloud Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Security over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 172 311
Rank change year-on-year -167 +139 -37
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 852 2,188 2,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.85% 2.21% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 2.31% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 677 1,056 1,034
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,874 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £71,200
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +5.34% +1.71%
75th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £65,956 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.82% +14.71% -4.17%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security.

Salary trend for Cloud Security in the UK

Cloud Security
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Security in the UK

Cloud Security
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -150 756 £65,000 -13.33% 218
UK excluding London -189 496 £57,500 -12.82% 135
Work from Home -137 339 £63,675 -15.10% 115
London -86 299 £80,000 - 112
North of England -116 178 £52,500 -19.23% 43
South East -91 107 £50,000 -25.93% 35
North West -109 85 £50,000 -16.67% 17
Midlands -70 73 £65,000 -13.33% 20
South West -80 69 £59,526 -20.63% 18
Yorkshire -68 63 £60,000 -12.43% 18
West Midlands -50 47 £75,000 - 16
Scotland -108 39 £59,526 -14.29% 14
North East +7 30 £42,500 -12.82% 8
East Midlands -14 25 £60,500 -12.00% 4
East of England -38 19 £72,500 +52.70% 4
Northern Ireland +16 7 £90,000 +80.00% 2
Isle of Man - 4 £46,500 - 1
Wales 0 2 £72,500 +61.11%

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 32 (3.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (2.93%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.47%) CloudStack
4 3 (0.35%) Confluence
5 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.12%) Apache
6 1 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.12%) IIS
6 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 495 (58.10%) Azure
2 249 (29.23%) AWS
3 198 (23.24%) Microsoft 365
4 135 (15.85%) GCP
5 92 (10.80%) PaaS
6 87 (10.21%) Entra ID
7 85 (9.98%) SaaS
8 79 (9.27%) Azure DevOps
9 75 (8.80%) IaaS
10 63 (7.39%) Cloud Computing
11 43 (5.05%) Azure Sentinel
12 37 (4.34%) Microsoft Purview
12 37 (4.34%) Serverless
13 35 (4.11%) GitHub
14 32 (3.76%) Azure AKS
15 23 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (2.11%) Power Platform
17 17 (2.00%) Azure API Management
18 16 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
18 16 (1.88%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 189 (22.18%) Firewall
2 125 (14.67%) Network Security
3 56 (6.57%) WAN
4 53 (6.22%) DNS
5 49 (5.75%) LAN
6 48 (5.63%) VPN
7 42 (4.93%) Internet
8 27 (3.17%) Wireless
9 26 (3.05%) DKIM
9 26 (3.05%) DMARC
10 25 (2.93%) SD-WAN
11 23 (2.70%) TCP/IP
12 18 (2.11%) Software-Defined Networking
13 17 (2.00%) WLAN
14 16 (1.88%) Wireshark
15 12 (1.41%) BGP
16 11 (1.29%) Intrusion Detection
16 11 (1.29%) VoIP
16 11 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
17 10 (1.17%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (1.88%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (0.82%) NoSQL
3 7 (0.82%) Power BI
4 4 (0.47%) RDBMS
4 4 (0.47%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.35%) Oracle Exadata
6 2 (0.23%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.23%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 41 (4.81%) Jenkins
2 22 (2.58%) Git
3 17 (2.00%) GitLab
4 10 (1.17%) SonarQube
5 7 (0.82%) Katalon Studio
6 6 (0.70%) Burp Suite
6 6 (0.70%) JIRA
7 5 (0.59%) Maven
7 5 (0.59%) Selenium
8 4 (0.47%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.23%) JMeter
9 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.12%) Gatling
10 1 (0.12%) JUnit
10 1 (0.12%) MLflow
10 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.12%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 248 (29.11%) Social Skills
2 186 (21.83%) Finance
3 80 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (8.10%) Banking
5 51 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 50 (5.87%) Retail
7 36 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
8 34 (3.99%) Law
9 31 (3.64%) Legal
9 31 (3.64%) Marketing
10 27 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
11 23 (2.70%) Public Sector
12 12 (1.41%) Tech for Good
13 11 (1.29%) Back Office
14 10 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.94%) Games
16 7 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.59%) Retail Banking
18 4 (0.47%) Manufacturing
19 3 (0.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 165 (19.37%) Architect
2 141 (16.55%) Senior
3 132 (15.49%) Analyst
4 126 (14.79%) Security Engineer
5 109 (12.79%) Security Analyst
6 103 (12.09%) Cloud Engineer
7 97 (11.38%) Lead
8 77 (9.04%) Security Architect
9 65 (7.63%) Cloud Architect
10 56 (6.57%) Information Analyst
10 56 (6.57%) Information Security Analyst
11 48 (5.63%) Senior Security Engineer
12 47 (5.52%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 45 (5.28%) Consultant
14 39 (4.58%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 37 (4.34%) Security Manager
16 35 (4.11%) Azure Engineer
17 34 (3.99%) Cloud Security Architect
18 33 (3.87%) Senior Cloud Engineer
19 31 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.11%) YAML
2 12 (1.41%) SailPoint
3 11 (1.29%) ARM Templates
3 11 (1.29%) OAuth
4 9 (1.06%) .NET
4 9 (1.06%) React
4 9 (1.06%) SAML
5 8 (0.94%) JSON
5 8 (0.94%) Laravel
5 8 (0.94%) Middleware
6 7 (0.82%) REST
6 7 (0.82%) web3js
7 6 (0.70%) AngularJS
7 6 (0.70%) Azure Blueprints
7 6 (0.70%) Kafka
8 5 (0.59%) AWS CDK
8 5 (0.59%) CSS
8 5 (0.59%) Node.js
8 5 (0.59%) RESTful
8 5 (0.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 72 (8.45%) Management Information System
2 71 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 70 (8.22%) Security Posture
4 59 (6.92%) Data Centre
5 58 (6.81%) Public Cloud
6 44 (5.16%) Cyberattack
7 39 (4.58%) Cyber Threat
8 30 (3.52%) Security Operations Centre
9 25 (2.93%) Cloud Security Posture
10 24 (2.82%) Product Ownership
11 23 (2.70%) Private Cloud
12 22 (2.58%) PKI
13 15 (1.76%) Onboarding
14 14 (1.64%) Driving Licence
15 13 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
16 12 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
17 11 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
17 11 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
18 10 (1.17%) Cyber Kill Chain
19 9 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 157 (18.43%) Windows
2 89 (10.45%) Linux
3 79 (9.27%) Windows Server
4 28 (3.29%) Unix
5 19 (2.23%) Android
5 19 (2.23%) Apple iOS
5 19 (2.23%) Windows 10
6 11 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (0.94%) Solaris
7 8 (0.94%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.35%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.35%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.23%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (36.62%) Cybersecurity
2 257 (30.16%) Information Security
3 215 (25.23%) DevOps
4 170 (19.95%) Agile
5 163 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
6 138 (16.20%) CI/CD
7 127 (14.91%) SIEM
8 124 (14.55%) Identity Access Management
9 120 (14.08%) Infrastructure as Code
10 95 (11.15%) Incident Response
11 93 (10.92%) Security Operations
11 93 (10.92%) Vulnerability Management
12 91 (10.68%) Security Architecture
13 88 (10.33%) Roadmaps
14 87 (10.21%) DevSecOps
15 83 (9.74%) Application Security
16 69 (8.10%) Containerisation
17 65 (7.63%) Risk Management
18 62 (7.28%) Data Loss Prevention
19 60 (7.04%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 138 (16.20%) Python
2 98 (11.50%) PowerShell
3 47 (5.52%) SQL
4 40 (4.69%) Bash
5 32 (3.76%) Java
6 24 (2.82%) Bicep
7 22 (2.58%) JavaScript
8 16 (1.88%) C#
9 15 (1.76%) Go
10 10 (1.17%) Rust
11 9 (1.06%) PHP
12 8 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (0.94%) Scala
13 5 (0.59%) C
13 5 (0.59%) R
13 5 (0.59%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.47%) AWK
14 4 (0.47%) sed
15 3 (0.35%) C++
15 3 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 167 (19.60%) CISSP
2 116 (13.62%) Degree
3 79 (9.27%) Cisco Certification
4 75 (8.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 74 (8.69%) Azure Certification
6 69 (8.10%) CISM
7 64 (7.51%) CCSP
8 54 (6.34%) AWS Certification
9 50 (5.87%) CEH
10 44 (5.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 37 (4.34%) Security Cleared
12 35 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
13 26 (3.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 26 (3.05%) SC Cleared
14 21 (2.46%) Master's Degree
14 21 (2.46%) OSCP
15 20 (2.35%) SANS
16 16 (1.88%) CREST Certified
17 15 (1.76%) CISA
17 15 (1.76%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (18.43%) NIST
2 145 (17.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 72 (8.45%) PCI DSS
4 33 (3.87%) GDPR
5 32 (3.76%) Cyber Essentials
6 27 (3.17%) GRC
7 22 (2.58%) SLA
8 14 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 13 (1.53%) NIST 800
10 11 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 11 (1.29%) NCSC
11 8 (0.94%) ISO 9001
11 8 (0.94%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.82%) COBIT
12 7 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 6 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.59%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.47%) ISO 31000
15 4 (0.47%) QA
16 3 (0.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 113 (13.26%) Active Directory
2 75 (8.80%) Docker
3 31 (3.64%) Hyper-V
4 25 (2.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.59%) vSphere
9 3 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.12%) LXC
10 1 (0.12%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 111 (13.03%) Kubernetes
2 98 (11.50%) Terraform
3 48 (5.63%) CASB
4 47 (5.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 36 (4.23%) Ansible
6 21 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (2.00%) Nmap
8 11 (1.29%) FortiGate
9 10 (1.17%) Istio
10 8 (0.94%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.94%) Puppet
11 7 (0.82%) Argo
11 7 (0.82%) SCCM
12 6 (0.70%) Nagios
12 6 (0.70%) QRadar
13 5 (0.59%) OfficeScan
13 5 (0.59%) WSUS
14 4 (0.47%) cPanel
14 4 (0.47%) Plesk
15 3 (0.35%) Nessus
Vendors
1 277 (32.51%) Microsoft
2 67 (7.86%) Google
3 54 (6.34%) Cisco
4 33 (3.87%) Splunk
5 28 (3.29%) VMware
6 25 (2.93%) Rapid7
7 23 (2.70%) CyberArk
8 22 (2.58%) Qualys
8 22 (2.58%) ServiceNow
9 21 (2.46%) Palo Alto
10 17 (2.00%) CheckPoint
11 16 (1.88%) Juniper
11 16 (1.88%) Zscaler
12 15 (1.76%) BeyondTrust
12 15 (1.76%) Fortinet
13 14 (1.64%) Barracuda Networks
13 14 (1.64%) Thycotic
14 12 (1.41%) Oracle
15 11 (1.29%) ConnectWise
15 11 (1.29%) Sophos