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

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 169 306
Rank change year-on-year -154 +137 -39
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 867 2,233 2,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.88% 2.21% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 2.31% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 676 1,090 1,054
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,874 £45,725
25th Percentile £47,375 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £94,844 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -14.81% +17.39% -5.74%

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 84,735 96,775 152,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,708 57,079 82,921
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 13 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 13 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 -144 770 £65,000 -13.33% 196
UK excluding London -190 510 £57,500 -14.81% 112
Work from Home -126 341 £63,675 -15.10% 104
London -97 299 £80,000 - 96
North of England -117 179 £52,500 -19.23% 37
South East -89 107 £50,000 -23.08% 16
North West -107 86 £50,000 -16.34% 16
South West -61 85 £59,526 -20.63% 16
Midlands -69 71 £65,000 -13.33% 21
Yorkshire -69 63 £60,000 -12.43% 13
West Midlands -51 44 £75,000 - 16
Scotland -103 39 £59,526 -14.29% 11
North East +8 30 £42,500 -12.82% 8
East Midlands -11 26 £60,000 -12.73% 5
East of England -28 18 £72,500 +52.70% 6
Northern Ireland +21 7 £90,000 +80.00% 4
Isle of Man - 4 £46,500 - 1
Wales +8 2 £72,500 +45.00% 3

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 (3.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.46%) CloudStack
3 4 (0.46%) Confluence
4 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.12%) Apache
5 1 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.12%) IIS
5 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 494 (56.98%) Azure
2 266 (30.68%) AWS
3 198 (22.84%) Microsoft 365
4 134 (15.46%) GCP
5 92 (10.61%) PaaS
6 88 (10.15%) Entra ID
7 84 (9.69%) SaaS
8 80 (9.23%) Azure DevOps
9 75 (8.65%) IaaS
10 62 (7.15%) Cloud Computing
11 44 (5.07%) Azure Sentinel
12 39 (4.50%) AWS CloudFormation
13 37 (4.27%) Microsoft Purview
14 36 (4.15%) Serverless
15 35 (4.04%) GitHub
16 31 (3.58%) Azure AKS
17 18 (2.08%) Power Platform
18 17 (1.96%) Azure API Management
19 16 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
19 16 (1.85%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 191 (22.03%) Firewall
2 126 (14.53%) Network Security
3 70 (8.07%) DNS
4 55 (6.34%) WAN
5 48 (5.54%) LAN
5 48 (5.54%) VPN
6 43 (4.96%) Internet
7 40 (4.61%) TCP/IP
8 27 (3.11%) Wireless
9 26 (3.00%) DKIM
9 26 (3.00%) DMARC
10 25 (2.88%) SD-WAN
11 19 (2.19%) HTTP
12 18 (2.08%) DHCP
12 18 (2.08%) Software-Defined Networking
13 17 (1.96%) WLAN
14 16 (1.85%) Wireshark
15 12 (1.38%) BGP
15 12 (1.38%) Intrusion Detection
16 11 (1.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (1.85%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (0.81%) NoSQL
3 7 (0.81%) Power BI
4 4 (0.46%) RDBMS
4 4 (0.46%) 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%) Big Data
7 1 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 42 (4.84%) Jenkins
2 23 (2.65%) Git
3 17 (1.96%) GitLab
4 10 (1.15%) SonarQube
5 7 (0.81%) JIRA
5 7 (0.81%) Katalon Studio
6 6 (0.69%) Burp Suite
7 5 (0.58%) Maven
7 5 (0.58%) Selenium
8 4 (0.46%) 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%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.12%) MLflow
10 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.12%) sqlmap
10 1 (0.12%) Vagrant
General
1 266 (30.68%) Social Skills
2 202 (23.30%) Finance
3 82 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (7.73%) Banking
5 66 (7.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 50 (5.77%) Retail
7 36 (4.15%) Presentation Skills
8 34 (3.92%) Law
9 31 (3.58%) Legal
9 31 (3.58%) Marketing
10 25 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
11 23 (2.65%) Public Sector
12 12 (1.38%) Tech for Good
13 11 (1.27%) Back Office
14 10 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.92%) Games
16 7 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.46%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.46%) Retail Banking
18 3 (0.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 168 (19.38%) Architect
2 160 (18.45%) Senior
3 135 (15.57%) Analyst
4 126 (14.53%) Security Engineer
5 111 (12.80%) Security Analyst
6 108 (12.46%) Cloud Engineer
7 95 (10.96%) Lead
8 79 (9.11%) Security Architect
9 68 (7.84%) Cloud Architect
10 55 (6.34%) Information Analyst
10 55 (6.34%) Information Security Analyst
11 49 (5.65%) Senior Security Engineer
12 48 (5.54%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 45 (5.19%) Consultant
14 40 (4.61%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 37 (4.27%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 36 (4.15%) Security Manager
17 35 (4.04%) Cloud Security Architect
18 34 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
19 33 (3.81%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.88%) SAML
2 19 (2.19%) HTML
3 18 (2.08%) YAML
4 16 (1.85%) OpenID
5 12 (1.38%) SailPoint
6 11 (1.27%) ARM Templates
6 11 (1.27%) OAuth
7 9 (1.04%) .NET
7 9 (1.04%) React
8 8 (0.92%) JSON
8 8 (0.92%) Laravel
9 7 (0.81%) Middleware
9 7 (0.81%) REST
9 7 (0.81%) web3js
10 6 (0.69%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.69%) Azure Blueprints
10 6 (0.69%) Kafka
11 5 (0.58%) CSS
11 5 (0.58%) Node.js
11 5 (0.58%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 87 (10.03%) Cloud Native
2 72 (8.30%) Management Information System
3 70 (8.07%) Security Posture
4 60 (6.92%) Cyberattack
4 60 (6.92%) Data Centre
5 56 (6.46%) Public Cloud
6 39 (4.50%) Cyber Threat
7 31 (3.58%) Security Operations Centre
8 26 (3.00%) Cloud Security Posture
9 25 (2.88%) Product Ownership
10 23 (2.65%) Private Cloud
11 22 (2.54%) PKI
12 14 (1.61%) Driving Licence
12 14 (1.61%) Onboarding
13 13 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
14 11 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 9 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 157 (18.11%) Windows
2 88 (10.15%) Linux
3 80 (9.23%) Windows Server
4 26 (3.00%) Unix
5 19 (2.19%) Android
5 19 (2.19%) Apple iOS
5 19 (2.19%) Windows 10
6 11 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (0.81%) Solaris
7 7 (0.81%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.69%) 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
11 1 (0.12%) VMS
11 1 (0.12%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (36.68%) Cybersecurity
2 259 (29.87%) Information Security
3 217 (25.03%) DevOps
4 186 (21.45%) Agile
5 164 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
6 140 (16.15%) CI/CD
7 137 (15.80%) Infrastructure as Code
8 126 (14.53%) SIEM
9 122 (14.07%) Identity Access Management
10 105 (12.11%) Roadmaps
11 101 (11.65%) DevSecOps
12 97 (11.19%) Incident Response
13 93 (10.73%) Vulnerability Management
14 92 (10.61%) Security Architecture
15 91 (10.50%) Security Operations
16 84 (9.69%) Application Security
17 68 (7.84%) Containerisation
18 65 (7.50%) Risk Management
19 62 (7.15%) Data Loss Prevention
20 61 (7.04%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 138 (15.92%) Python
2 99 (11.42%) PowerShell
3 45 (5.19%) SQL
4 39 (4.50%) Bash
5 32 (3.69%) Java
6 24 (2.77%) Bicep
7 22 (2.54%) JavaScript
8 16 (1.85%) C#
9 15 (1.73%) Go
10 10 (1.15%) Rust
11 9 (1.04%) PHP
12 8 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (0.92%) Scala
13 5 (0.58%) C
13 5 (0.58%) R
13 5 (0.58%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.46%) AWK
14 4 (0.46%) sed
15 3 (0.35%) C++
15 3 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 172 (19.84%) CISSP
2 115 (13.26%) Degree
3 79 (9.11%) Cisco Certification
4 75 (8.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 73 (8.42%) Azure Certification
6 72 (8.30%) CISM
7 69 (7.96%) AWS Certification
8 63 (7.27%) CCSP
9 53 (6.11%) Security Cleared
10 52 (6.00%) CEH
11 44 (5.07%) Microsoft Certification
12 41 (4.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 36 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
14 27 (3.11%) DV Cleared
15 26 (3.00%) SC Cleared
16 21 (2.42%) Master's Degree
16 21 (2.42%) OSCP
17 20 (2.31%) SANS
18 16 (1.85%) CREST Certified
19 15 (1.73%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (17.99%) NIST
2 146 (16.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 73 (8.42%) PCI DSS
4 34 (3.92%) GDPR
5 32 (3.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 26 (3.00%) GRC
7 22 (2.54%) SLA
8 14 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 13 (1.50%) NIST 800
10 12 (1.38%) NCSC
11 11 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (0.92%) ISO 9001
12 8 (0.92%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.81%) COBIT
13 7 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.58%) HIPAA
16 4 (0.46%) ISO 31000
16 4 (0.46%) QA
17 3 (0.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 115 (13.26%) Active Directory
2 74 (8.54%) Docker
3 31 (3.58%) Hyper-V
4 25 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.58%) vSphere
9 3 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.12%) LXC
10 1 (0.12%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 113 (13.03%) Terraform
2 110 (12.69%) Kubernetes
3 47 (5.42%) CASB
4 46 (5.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (4.27%) Ansible
6 21 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (1.96%) Nmap
8 11 (1.27%) FortiGate
9 10 (1.15%) Istio
10 9 (1.04%) Puppet
11 8 (0.92%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.81%) Argo
12 7 (0.81%) SCCM
13 6 (0.69%) Nagios
14 5 (0.58%) OfficeScan
14 5 (0.58%) QRadar
14 5 (0.58%) WSUS
15 4 (0.46%) cPanel
15 4 (0.46%) Plesk
16 3 (0.35%) Nessus
Vendors
1 276 (31.83%) Microsoft
2 68 (7.84%) Google
3 53 (6.11%) Cisco
4 35 (4.04%) Splunk
5 28 (3.23%) VMware
6 24 (2.77%) Rapid7
7 23 (2.65%) CyberArk
8 22 (2.54%) ServiceNow
9 21 (2.42%) Palo Alto
9 21 (2.42%) Qualys
10 17 (1.96%) CheckPoint
11 16 (1.85%) Juniper
12 15 (1.73%) BeyondTrust
12 15 (1.73%) Fortinet
12 15 (1.73%) Zscaler
13 14 (1.61%) Barracuda Networks
13 14 (1.61%) Thycotic
14 12 (1.38%) Oracle
15 11 (1.27%) Apple
15 11 (1.27%) Sophos