Cloud Security Engineer Jobs

Cloud Security Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Security Engineer salary in the UK is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 850 860 1019
Rank change year-on-year +10 +159 -97
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 54 59 244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.049% 0.064% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.070% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 43 57 48
10th Percentile £56,219 £50,000 £51,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +15.25% -7.81%
75th Percentile - £115,000 £94,063
90th Percentile £99,500 £150,000 £103,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £90,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +44.00% - -25.01%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 104,121 84,323 165,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 91.19% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 73,469 54,972 85,174
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,603 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%

Cloud Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cloud Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security Engineer in the UK

Cloud Security Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Security Engineer in the UK

Cloud Security Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Security Engineer in the UK

Cloud Security Engineer
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +19 41 £82,500 -8.33% 17
UK excluding London -33 31 £90,000 +44.00% 6
Work from Home +23 21 £75,000 -37.50% 11
London +62 12 £90,000 -5.26% 12
South East -24 9 £90,000 +44.00% 3
West Midlands -4 7 £75,000 +138.10% 1
Midlands -31 7 £75,000 +138.10% 1
North of England +15 6 £90,000 +28.57%
Northern Ireland - 4 £90,000 -
Yorkshire +68 3 £90,000 -
North West -21 3 £90,000 +28.57%
South West - 2 £74,763 - 2
Scotland - 2 £74,763 -
Wales +11 1 £90,000 +100.00%

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Cloud Security Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Cloud Security Engineer in the job title.

1 54 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 24 (44.44%) AWS
3 21 (38.89%) SaaS
4 20 (37.04%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (37.04%) Azure
5 17 (31.48%) Finance
5 17 (31.48%) DevOps
5 17 (31.48%) Terraform
6 16 (29.63%) Python
7 13 (24.07%) SIEM
8 11 (20.37%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (18.52%) CI/CD
10 9 (16.67%) Jenkins
11 8 (14.81%) Kubernetes
11 8 (14.81%) Cloud Native
11 8 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (12.96%) DevSecOps
12 7 (12.96%) GCP
12 7 (12.96%) Firewall
12 7 (12.96%) Agile
13 6 (11.11%) PaaS
13 6 (11.11%) Docker
13 6 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (11.11%) Roadmaps
14 5 (9.26%) Product Ownership
14 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 5 (9.26%) Data Loss Prevention
14 5 (9.26%) Cyber Threat
14 5 (9.26%) GitHub
14 5 (9.26%) Public Cloud

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (1.85%) Apache
1 1 (1.85%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 24 (44.44%) AWS
2 21 (38.89%) SaaS
3 20 (37.04%) Azure
4 8 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (12.96%) GCP
6 6 (11.11%) PaaS
7 5 (9.26%) GitHub
8 4 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (5.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (5.56%) Amazon S3
9 3 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (5.56%) AWS CloudTrail
9 3 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (3.70%) Amazon ELB
10 2 (3.70%) OCI
10 2 (3.70%) Serverless
11 1 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.85%) Cloudflare
11 1 (1.85%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.96%) Firewall
2 2 (3.70%) Internet
3 1 (1.85%) HTTP
3 1 (1.85%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.85%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (1.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 9 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.85%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.85%) Metasploit
2 1 (1.85%) sqlmap
General
1 17 (31.48%) Finance
2 5 (9.26%) Banking
3 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.85%) Legal
4 1 (1.85%) Retail
4 1 (1.85%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.85%) OAuth
1 1 (1.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.26%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (9.26%) Product Ownership
2 5 (9.26%) Public Cloud
3 4 (7.41%) Cyber Security Posture
4 3 (5.56%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.85%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.26%) Unix
2 1 (1.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 20 (37.04%) Cybersecurity
3 17 (31.48%) DevOps
4 13 (24.07%) SIEM
5 11 (20.37%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (18.52%) CI/CD
7 7 (12.96%) Agile
7 7 (12.96%) DevSecOps
8 6 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (11.11%) Roadmaps
9 5 (9.26%) Data Loss Prevention
9 5 (9.26%) Information Security
9 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (9.26%) Use Case
10 4 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (7.41%) Open Source
10 4 (7.41%) Patch Management
10 4 (7.41%) Penetration Testing
10 4 (7.41%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 3 (5.56%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (29.63%) Python
2 4 (7.41%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.70%) Bash
4 1 (1.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (7.41%) Degree
1 4 (7.41%) Master's Degree
2 3 (5.56%) CISSP
3 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.85%) CCSK
4 1 (1.85%) CCSP
4 1 (1.85%) CISA
4 1 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.85%) CISM
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.85%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (5.56%) NIST
2 1 (1.85%) NCSC
2 1 (1.85%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (31.48%) Terraform
2 8 (14.81%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.41%) Ansible
4 3 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.70%) CASB
Vendors
1 5 (9.26%) Google
2 3 (5.56%) Computacenter
2 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.70%) Oracle
4 1 (1.85%) CA
4 1 (1.85%) Imperva
4 1 (1.85%) Red Hat