Cloud Security Jobs in England

Cloud Security
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 170 324
Rank change year-on-year -150 +154 -52
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 755 1,927 1,723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.86% 2.21% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 2.31% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 598 917 894
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,874 £46,250
25th Percentile £47,125 £53,970 £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 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,355 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74,345 83,353 132,402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.31% 95.57% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 54,380 49,710 73,171
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,452 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,095 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cloud Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in England

Cloud Security
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Cloud Security in England

Cloud Security
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in England over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Security in England

Cloud Security
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security within the England region over the 6 months to 26 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
London -84 297 £80,000 - 170
North of England -122 177 £52,500 -19.66% 47
South East -88 107 £50,000 -27.27% 82
North West -103 84 £50,000 -16.67% 18
Midlands -70 76 £65,000 -13.33% 16
South West -66 69 £59,526 -20.63% 16
Yorkshire -67 63 £60,000 -12.43% 19
West Midlands -43 50 £75,000 -2.28% 14
North East +9 30 £42,500 -12.82% 10
East Midlands -24 25 £60,500 -12.00% 2
East of England -26 18 £72,500 +52.70% 8
Cloud Security
UK

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (4.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (3.44%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.53%) CloudStack
4 3 (0.40%) Confluence
5 2 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.26%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.13%) Apache
6 1 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.13%) IIS
6 1 (0.13%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 441 (58.41%) Azure
2 224 (29.67%) AWS
3 176 (23.31%) Microsoft 365
4 113 (14.97%) GCP
5 77 (10.20%) PaaS
6 74 (9.80%) Entra ID
7 73 (9.67%) Azure DevOps
8 71 (9.40%) SaaS
9 64 (8.48%) IaaS
10 57 (7.55%) Cloud Computing
11 42 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
12 34 (4.50%) Serverless
13 33 (4.37%) Microsoft Purview
14 29 (3.84%) GitHub
15 26 (3.44%) Azure AKS
16 21 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
17 18 (2.38%) Power Platform
18 16 (2.12%) Azure Logic Apps
19 14 (1.85%) Azure API Management
20 13 (1.72%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 171 (22.65%) Firewall
2 112 (14.83%) Network Security
3 52 (6.89%) WAN
4 46 (6.09%) LAN
5 44 (5.83%) DNS
6 39 (5.17%) VPN
7 27 (3.58%) Internet
8 26 (3.44%) Wireless
9 23 (3.05%) TCP/IP
10 22 (2.91%) SD-WAN
11 18 (2.38%) Software-Defined Networking
12 17 (2.25%) DKIM
12 17 (2.25%) DMARC
12 17 (2.25%) WLAN
13 16 (2.12%) Wireshark
14 12 (1.59%) BGP
15 11 (1.46%) Intrusion Detection
15 11 (1.46%) VoIP
15 11 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
16 10 (1.32%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (1.99%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (0.93%) Power BI
4 6 (0.79%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.53%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.40%) Oracle Exadata
6 3 (0.40%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.26%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.26%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 31 (4.11%) Jenkins
2 21 (2.78%) Git
3 16 (2.12%) GitLab
4 8 (1.06%) SonarQube
5 7 (0.93%) Katalon Studio
6 6 (0.79%) Burp Suite
7 5 (0.66%) JIRA
8 4 (0.53%) Metasploit
9 3 (0.40%) Maven
9 3 (0.40%) Selenium
10 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.26%) JMeter
10 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.13%) Gatling
11 1 (0.13%) JUnit
11 1 (0.13%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.13%) sqlmap
11 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 222 (29.40%) Social Skills
2 166 (21.99%) Finance
3 77 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (7.42%) Banking
5 44 (5.83%) Retail
6 43 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
8 28 (3.71%) Legal
9 27 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
10 24 (3.18%) Law
10 24 (3.18%) Public Sector
11 23 (3.05%) Marketing
12 12 (1.59%) Tech for Good
13 11 (1.46%) Back Office
14 9 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.06%) Games
16 7 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.66%) Retail Banking
18 4 (0.53%) Manufacturing
19 3 (0.40%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 148 (19.60%) Architect
2 132 (17.48%) Senior
3 116 (15.36%) Analyst
3 116 (15.36%) Security Engineer
4 96 (12.72%) Security Analyst
5 93 (12.32%) Cloud Engineer
6 88 (11.66%) Lead
7 69 (9.14%) Security Architect
8 57 (7.55%) Cloud Architect
9 48 (6.36%) Information Analyst
9 48 (6.36%) Information Security Analyst
10 41 (5.43%) Senior Security Engineer
11 38 (5.03%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 35 (4.64%) Security Manager
13 34 (4.50%) Azure Engineer
14 32 (4.24%) Consultant
14 32 (4.24%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 28 (3.71%) Network Engineer
16 27 (3.58%) Cloud Security Architect
16 27 (3.58%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.38%) YAML
2 12 (1.59%) SailPoint
3 11 (1.46%) ARM Templates
4 9 (1.19%) .NET
4 9 (1.19%) Middleware
4 9 (1.19%) OAuth
4 9 (1.19%) React
5 8 (1.06%) Laravel
5 8 (1.06%) SAML
6 7 (0.93%) JSON
6 7 (0.93%) REST
6 7 (0.93%) web3js
7 6 (0.79%) AngularJS
7 6 (0.79%) Azure Blueprints
7 6 (0.79%) Kafka
8 5 (0.66%) AWS CDK
8 5 (0.66%) CSS
8 5 (0.66%) Node.js
9 4 (0.53%) LAMP
9 4 (0.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (8.61%) Management Information System
2 63 (8.34%) Cloud Native
2 63 (8.34%) Security Posture
3 51 (6.75%) Public Cloud
4 45 (5.96%) Data Centre
5 37 (4.90%) Cyber Threat
6 32 (4.24%) Cyberattack
7 30 (3.97%) Security Operations Centre
8 24 (3.18%) Cloud Security Posture
9 20 (2.65%) PKI
9 20 (2.65%) Product Ownership
10 17 (2.25%) Onboarding
10 17 (2.25%) Private Cloud
11 14 (1.85%) Driving Licence
12 13 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (1.46%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 11 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
15 9 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
16 8 (1.06%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 141 (18.68%) Windows
2 80 (10.60%) Linux
3 75 (9.93%) Windows Server
4 20 (2.65%) Unix
5 19 (2.52%) Windows 10
6 14 (1.85%) Android
6 14 (1.85%) Apple iOS
7 11 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (1.19%) Solaris
8 9 (1.19%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.40%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.40%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.40%) Windows XP
11 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (36.42%) Cybersecurity
2 232 (30.73%) Information Security
3 200 (26.49%) DevOps
4 156 (20.66%) Agile
5 151 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 133 (17.62%) CI/CD
7 118 (15.63%) SIEM
8 108 (14.30%) Infrastructure as Code
9 104 (13.77%) Identity Access Management
10 89 (11.79%) DevSecOps
11 86 (11.39%) Incident Response
11 86 (11.39%) Vulnerability Management
12 85 (11.26%) Security Operations
13 83 (10.99%) Security Architecture
14 77 (10.20%) Application Security
15 70 (9.27%) Roadmaps
16 64 (8.48%) Containerisation
16 64 (8.48%) Data Loss Prevention
17 59 (7.81%) Risk Management
18 56 (7.42%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 130 (17.22%) Python
2 94 (12.45%) PowerShell
3 46 (6.09%) SQL
4 35 (4.64%) Bash
5 23 (3.05%) Bicep
5 23 (3.05%) Java
6 19 (2.52%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.85%) C#
8 9 (1.19%) Rust
9 8 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (1.06%) PHP
9 8 (1.06%) Scala
10 7 (0.93%) Go
11 5 (0.66%) C
11 5 (0.66%) R
11 5 (0.66%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.53%) AWK
12 4 (0.53%) sed
13 3 (0.40%) C++
14 1 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 154 (20.40%) CISSP
2 113 (14.97%) Degree
3 72 (9.54%) Cisco Certification
4 68 (9.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 67 (8.87%) Azure Certification
6 62 (8.21%) CISM
7 57 (7.55%) CCSP
8 54 (7.15%) AWS Certification
9 48 (6.36%) CEH
10 38 (5.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 37 (4.90%) Security Cleared
12 33 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
13 25 (3.31%) SC Cleared
14 24 (3.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 22 (2.91%) Master's Degree
16 20 (2.65%) SANS
17 16 (2.12%) OSCP
18 15 (1.99%) CISA
18 15 (1.99%) CompTIA CySA+
18 15 (1.99%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (19.21%) NIST
2 131 (17.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 71 (9.40%) PCI DSS
4 29 (3.84%) Cyber Essentials
4 29 (3.84%) GDPR
5 27 (3.58%) GRC
6 22 (2.91%) SLA
7 14 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 13 (1.72%) NIST 800
9 11 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 11 (1.46%) NCSC
10 8 (1.06%) SOC 2
11 7 (0.93%) COBIT
11 7 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 6 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.66%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.40%) Accessibility
14 3 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.40%) ISO 31000
14 3 (0.40%) QA
System Software
1 102 (13.51%) Active Directory
2 62 (8.21%) Docker
3 31 (4.11%) Hyper-V
4 24 (3.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.66%) vSphere
9 3 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.13%) LXC
10 1 (0.13%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 93 (12.32%) Kubernetes
2 90 (11.92%) Terraform
3 41 (5.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 40 (5.30%) CASB
5 34 (4.50%) Ansible
6 20 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (2.25%) Nmap
8 11 (1.46%) FortiGate
9 10 (1.32%) Istio
10 7 (0.93%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.93%) Puppet
10 7 (0.93%) QRadar
10 7 (0.93%) SCCM
11 6 (0.79%) Nagios
12 5 (0.66%) Argo
12 5 (0.66%) OfficeScan
12 5 (0.66%) WSUS
13 4 (0.53%) cPanel
13 4 (0.53%) Plesk
14 3 (0.40%) Nessus
Vendors
1 245 (32.45%) Microsoft
2 53 (7.02%) Google
3 48 (6.36%) Cisco
4 35 (4.64%) Splunk
5 27 (3.58%) VMware
6 24 (3.18%) Rapid7
6 24 (3.18%) ServiceNow
7 22 (2.91%) Qualys
8 19 (2.52%) CyberArk
9 16 (2.12%) Juniper
10 15 (1.99%) Palo Alto
11 14 (1.85%) Thycotic
12 13 (1.72%) Barracuda Networks
12 13 (1.72%) Oracle
13 11 (1.46%) Apple
13 11 (1.46%) BeyondTrust
13 11 (1.46%) CheckPoint
13 11 (1.46%) ConnectWise
13 11 (1.46%) Sophos
14 10 (1.32%) Zscaler