Cloud Security Jobs

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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 172 310
Rank change year-on-year -156 +138 -29
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 865 2,050 2,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.81% 2.18% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 2.29% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 673 1,017 1,044
10th Percentile £39,200 £42,874 £43,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,970 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £65,351 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.01% +13.65% -4.96%

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 89,168 89,599 164,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.34% 95.45% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 61,788 54,096 83,725
10th Percentile £29,500 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 6 June 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 6 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 -158 767 £65,000 -13.33% 212
UK excluding London -191 504 £57,500 -12.01% 120
Work from Home -148 318 £62,500 -16.67% 123
London -95 303 £82,500 +3.13% 101
North of England -128 181 £52,500 -19.66% 32
South East -86 107 £50,000 -28.57% 35
North West -114 90 £50,000 -23.08% 14
Midlands -67 81 £66,853 -10.86% 15
South West -87 65 £57,263 -18.20% 23
Yorkshire -73 60 £60,000 -10.76% 14
West Midlands -74 55 £75,000 - 10
Scotland -113 38 £60,000 -3.91% 9
North East -5 31 £42,500 -12.37% 4
East Midlands -28 25 £60,500 -12.00% 5
East of England -55 18 £72,500 +52.70% 6
Northern Ireland +16 9 £90,000 +80.00% 2
Isle of Man - 4 £46,500 -
Wales +4 3 £85,000 +88.89%

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 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (3.35%) 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%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.12%) IIS
5 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 488 (56.42%) Azure
2 257 (29.71%) AWS
3 192 (22.20%) Microsoft 365
4 121 (13.99%) GCP
5 96 (11.10%) SaaS
6 87 (10.06%) Entra ID
7 82 (9.48%) PaaS
8 75 (8.67%) Azure DevOps
9 73 (8.44%) IaaS
10 58 (6.71%) Cloud Computing
11 44 (5.09%) Azure Sentinel
12 37 (4.28%) Azure AKS
13 35 (4.05%) Serverless
14 33 (3.82%) Microsoft Purview
15 27 (3.12%) AWS CloudFormation
16 26 (3.01%) GitHub
17 18 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
18 17 (1.97%) Amazon S3
18 17 (1.97%) Azure API Management
18 17 (1.97%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 187 (21.62%) Firewall
2 122 (14.10%) Network Security
3 54 (6.24%) WAN
4 51 (5.90%) DNS
4 51 (5.90%) VPN
5 45 (5.20%) LAN
6 35 (4.05%) Internet
7 29 (3.35%) Wireless
8 25 (2.89%) SD-WAN
9 22 (2.54%) DKIM
9 22 (2.54%) DMARC
10 18 (2.08%) Software-Defined Networking
10 18 (2.08%) TCP/IP
11 17 (1.97%) WLAN
12 16 (1.85%) Intrusion Detection
13 13 (1.50%) Wireshark
14 12 (1.39%) BGP
15 11 (1.27%) VoIP
15 11 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
16 10 (1.16%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.43%) SQL Server
2 17 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (0.92%) NoSQL
4 7 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (0.81%) Power BI
5 6 (0.69%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.46%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.35%) Oracle Exadata
8 2 (0.23%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.23%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.12%) Big Data
9 1 (0.12%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.12%) Flink
9 1 (0.12%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 32 (3.70%) Jenkins
2 24 (2.77%) Git
3 17 (1.97%) GitLab
4 9 (1.04%) SonarQube
5 8 (0.92%) Burp Suite
6 7 (0.81%) JIRA
6 7 (0.81%) Katalon Studio
7 6 (0.69%) Metasploit
8 4 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.35%) Maven
9 3 (0.35%) Selenium
10 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.23%) JMeter
11 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.12%) Gatling
11 1 (0.12%) JUnit
11 1 (0.12%) MLflow
11 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.12%) sqlmap
11 1 (0.12%) Vagrant
General
1 252 (29.13%) Social Skills
2 173 (20.00%) Finance
3 85 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 57 (6.59%) Banking
6 48 (5.55%) Retail
7 34 (3.93%) Presentation Skills
8 32 (3.70%) Marketing
9 31 (3.58%) Law
9 31 (3.58%) Legal
10 29 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
11 25 (2.89%) Public Sector
12 12 (1.39%) Tech for Good
13 11 (1.27%) Back Office
14 9 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.92%) Games
16 7 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.81%) Retail Banking
17 4 (0.46%) Investment Banking
17 4 (0.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 168 (19.42%) Architect
2 149 (17.23%) Senior
3 135 (15.61%) Security Engineer
4 131 (15.14%) Analyst
5 107 (12.37%) Security Analyst
6 105 (12.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 93 (10.75%) Lead
8 78 (9.02%) Security Architect
9 69 (7.98%) Cloud Architect
10 53 (6.13%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 53 (6.13%) Information Analyst
10 53 (6.13%) Information Security Analyst
10 53 (6.13%) Senior Security Engineer
11 51 (5.90%) Consultant
12 41 (4.74%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 38 (4.39%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 37 (4.28%) Azure Engineer
15 36 (4.16%) Security Manager
16 33 (3.82%) Cloud Security Architect
17 29 (3.35%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.31%) YAML
2 12 (1.39%) ARM Templates
2 12 (1.39%) SailPoint
3 10 (1.16%) .NET
3 10 (1.16%) JSON
4 9 (1.04%) Middleware
4 9 (1.04%) OAuth
4 9 (1.04%) React
4 9 (1.04%) SAML
5 8 (0.92%) Laravel
6 7 (0.81%) Azure Blueprints
6 7 (0.81%) REST
7 6 (0.69%) AngularJS
7 6 (0.69%) Kafka
8 5 (0.58%) AWS CDK
8 5 (0.58%) CSS
8 5 (0.58%) Node.js
8 5 (0.58%) RESTful
8 5 (0.58%) XML
9 4 (0.46%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 70 (8.09%) Cloud Native
1 70 (8.09%) Management Information System
2 69 (7.98%) Security Posture
3 57 (6.59%) Data Centre
4 46 (5.32%) Public Cloud
5 40 (4.62%) Cyberattack
6 38 (4.39%) Cyber Threat
7 31 (3.58%) Security Operations Centre
8 24 (2.77%) Cloud Security Posture
9 19 (2.20%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.85%) PKI
10 16 (1.85%) Product Ownership
11 14 (1.62%) Driving Licence
11 14 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (1.50%) Private Cloud
13 12 (1.39%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 12 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
14 11 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 155 (17.92%) Windows
2 93 (10.75%) Linux
3 79 (9.13%) Windows Server
4 29 (3.35%) Unix
5 19 (2.20%) Windows 10
6 16 (1.85%) Android
6 16 (1.85%) Apple iOS
7 13 (1.50%) Ubuntu
8 11 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (1.04%) Solaris
10 5 (0.58%) Kali Linux
11 4 (0.46%) Rocky
11 4 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.46%) Windows XP
12 3 (0.35%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (35.26%) Cybersecurity
2 257 (29.71%) Information Security
3 211 (24.39%) DevOps
4 171 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
5 160 (18.50%) Agile
6 138 (15.95%) CI/CD
7 130 (15.03%) SIEM
8 117 (13.53%) Infrastructure as Code
9 116 (13.41%) Identity Access Management
10 102 (11.79%) Security Operations
11 100 (11.56%) DevSecOps
12 98 (11.33%) Incident Response
13 93 (10.75%) Security Architecture
13 93 (10.75%) Vulnerability Management
14 78 (9.02%) Application Security
15 72 (8.32%) Roadmaps
16 70 (8.09%) Containerisation
17 66 (7.63%) Risk Management
18 63 (7.28%) Data Loss Prevention
19 62 (7.17%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 142 (16.42%) Python
2 104 (12.02%) PowerShell
3 52 (6.01%) SQL
4 42 (4.86%) Bash
5 28 (3.24%) Java
6 24 (2.77%) Bicep
7 19 (2.20%) JavaScript
8 14 (1.62%) C#
9 11 (1.27%) Go
10 8 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (0.92%) PHP
10 8 (0.92%) Rust
10 8 (0.92%) Scala
11 5 (0.58%) C
11 5 (0.58%) R
12 4 (0.46%) AWK
12 4 (0.46%) sed
12 4 (0.46%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.35%) C++
14 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 163 (18.84%) CISSP
2 121 (13.99%) Degree
3 74 (8.55%) Cisco Certification
4 71 (8.21%) Azure Certification
5 70 (8.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 68 (7.86%) CISM
7 60 (6.94%) AWS Certification
8 59 (6.82%) CCSP
9 44 (5.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 41 (4.74%) CEH
11 39 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
12 37 (4.28%) Security Cleared
13 27 (3.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 24 (2.77%) OSCP
14 24 (2.77%) SC Cleared
15 22 (2.54%) Master's Degree
16 18 (2.08%) CREST Certified
17 16 (1.85%) SANS
18 15 (1.73%) CCSK
18 15 (1.73%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (18.50%) NIST
2 142 (16.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 69 (7.98%) PCI DSS
4 33 (3.82%) GDPR
5 32 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
6 28 (3.24%) GRC
7 24 (2.77%) SLA
8 14 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 13 (1.50%) NIST 800
10 12 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 12 (1.39%) NCSC
11 8 (0.92%) ISO 9001
12 7 (0.81%) COBIT
12 7 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 7 (0.81%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.69%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.35%) ISO 31000
14 3 (0.35%) QA
System Software
1 112 (12.95%) Active Directory
2 71 (8.21%) Docker
3 31 (3.58%) Hyper-V
4 20 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.58%) vSphere
9 1 (0.12%) LXC
9 1 (0.12%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 106 (12.25%) Kubernetes
2 103 (11.91%) Terraform
3 45 (5.20%) CASB
4 40 (4.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 39 (4.51%) Ansible
6 21 (2.43%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.85%) Nmap
8 11 (1.27%) FortiGate
8 11 (1.27%) Istio
9 8 (0.92%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.92%) Puppet
10 7 (0.81%) QRadar
10 7 (0.81%) SCCM
11 6 (0.69%) Nagios
12 5 (0.58%) Argo
12 5 (0.58%) Nessus
12 5 (0.58%) OfficeScan
12 5 (0.58%) WSUS
13 4 (0.46%) cPanel
13 4 (0.46%) Plesk
Vendors
1 279 (32.25%) Microsoft
2 55 (6.36%) Cisco
3 54 (6.24%) Google
4 34 (3.93%) Splunk
5 29 (3.35%) ServiceNow
6 25 (2.89%) VMware
7 23 (2.66%) CyberArk
8 21 (2.43%) Qualys
8 21 (2.43%) Rapid7
9 20 (2.31%) Palo Alto
10 16 (1.85%) Juniper
11 15 (1.73%) Barracuda Networks
11 15 (1.73%) BeyondTrust
11 15 (1.73%) CheckPoint
11 15 (1.73%) Oracle
12 14 (1.62%) Zscaler
13 11 (1.27%) Apple
13 11 (1.27%) ConnectWise
13 11 (1.27%) Fortinet
13 11 (1.27%) Thycotic