Cloud Security Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 358 171 365
Rank change year-on-year -187 +194 -35
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 498 1,211 670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.68% 2.07% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 2.17% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 410 518 345
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,999 £32,895
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,568 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,956 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +14.71% -5.74%
75th Percentile £72,433 £89,771 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £105,375 £88,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,636 55,896 68,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.65% 95.56% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 41,817 28,997 41,145
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cloud Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cloud Security in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Cloud Security in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
North of England -122 177 £52,500 -19.66% 46
South East -88 107 £50,000 -27.27% 82
North West -103 84 £50,000 -16.67% 17
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
Scotland -101 40 £59,526 -8.91% 18
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
Northern Ireland +18 7 £90,000 +80.00% 3
Isle of Man - 4 £46,500 -
Wales +4 2 £72,500 +61.11%
Cloud Security
UK

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 20 (4.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.80%) CloudStack
4 1 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.20%) Confluence
4 1 (0.20%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 281 (56.43%) Azure
2 143 (28.71%) AWS
3 116 (23.29%) Microsoft 365
4 70 (14.06%) GCP
5 54 (10.84%) PaaS
6 47 (9.44%) SaaS
7 42 (8.43%) Entra ID
8 40 (8.03%) Cloud Computing
9 39 (7.83%) Azure DevOps
10 38 (7.63%) IaaS
11 19 (3.82%) Azure Sentinel
11 19 (3.82%) GitHub
12 16 (3.21%) Serverless
13 12 (2.41%) Amazon S3
13 12 (2.41%) Mimecast
14 11 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (2.21%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (2.01%) Azure Logic Apps
15 10 (2.01%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 104 (20.88%) Firewall
2 74 (14.86%) Network Security
3 33 (6.63%) DNS
3 33 (6.63%) WAN
4 32 (6.43%) LAN
5 29 (5.82%) Internet
5 29 (5.82%) VPN
6 25 (5.02%) DKIM
6 25 (5.02%) DMARC
7 18 (3.61%) Software-Defined Networking
8 17 (3.41%) WLAN
9 16 (3.21%) Wireless
10 14 (2.81%) SD-WAN
11 12 (2.41%) BGP
12 11 (2.21%) VoIP
13 10 (2.01%) Broadband
13 10 (2.01%) Intrusion Detection
13 10 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (1.81%) TCP/IP
15 8 (1.61%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (1.41%) Power BI
3 5 (1.00%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.80%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.40%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.20%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (4.82%) Jenkins
2 10 (2.01%) Git
3 6 (1.20%) Burp Suite
4 5 (1.00%) GitLab
5 4 (0.80%) Metasploit
6 3 (0.60%) Maven
6 3 (0.60%) Selenium
6 3 (0.60%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.40%) JIRA
7 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.20%) sqlmap
8 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 141 (28.31%) Social Skills
2 87 (17.47%) Finance
3 58 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (7.63%) Retail
5 29 (5.82%) Banking
6 18 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.81%) Legal
8 13 (2.61%) Law
9 11 (2.21%) Back Office
10 10 (2.01%) Public Sector
10 10 (2.01%) Tech for Good
11 8 (1.61%) Games
11 8 (1.61%) Marketing
12 5 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.40%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.40%) Police
13 2 (0.40%) Publishing
13 2 (0.40%) Welsh Language
14 1 (0.20%) Advertising
14 1 (0.20%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 112 (22.49%) Analyst
2 94 (18.88%) Security Analyst
3 86 (17.27%) Architect
4 83 (16.67%) Senior
5 73 (14.66%) Cloud Engineer
6 55 (11.04%) Security Engineer
7 51 (10.24%) Information Analyst
7 51 (10.24%) Information Security Analyst
8 50 (10.04%) Lead
9 34 (6.83%) Security Architect
10 32 (6.43%) Cloud Architect
11 29 (5.82%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 29 (5.82%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 27 (5.42%) Network Engineer
13 22 (4.42%) Senior Analyst
13 22 (4.42%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 22 (4.42%) Team Leader
14 21 (4.22%) Security Manager
15 20 (4.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 20 (4.02%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.61%) .NET
1 8 (1.61%) Laravel
1 8 (1.61%) Middleware
2 6 (1.20%) AngularJS
3 5 (1.00%) JSON
3 5 (1.00%) YAML
4 4 (0.80%) LAMP
4 4 (0.80%) LDAP
5 3 (0.60%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.40%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.40%) Django
6 2 (0.40%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (0.40%) Node.js
6 2 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.40%) RESTful
6 2 (0.40%) XML
7 1 (0.20%) ADO
7 1 (0.20%) OAuth
7 1 (0.20%) SAML
7 1 (0.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 47 (9.44%) Cloud Native
2 45 (9.04%) Data Centre
3 41 (8.23%) Management Information System
4 39 (7.83%) Cyberattack
4 39 (7.83%) Public Cloud
5 29 (5.82%) Cyber Threat
6 20 (4.02%) Security Posture
7 19 (3.82%) Security Operations Centre
8 17 (3.41%) Private Cloud
9 14 (2.81%) Driving Licence
9 14 (2.81%) Product Ownership
10 13 (2.61%) Onboarding
11 11 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 7 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.20%) CCTV
13 6 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (1.20%) IoT
13 6 (1.20%) NHS
13 6 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 113 (22.69%) Windows
2 62 (12.45%) Linux
3 55 (11.04%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.82%) Windows 10
5 18 (3.61%) Unix
6 11 (2.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (2.21%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (1.61%) Solaris
7 8 (1.61%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.20%) Android
8 6 (1.20%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.60%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.60%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (34.54%) Cybersecurity
2 150 (30.12%) Information Security
3 124 (24.90%) DevOps
4 102 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
5 84 (16.87%) Agile
5 84 (16.87%) SIEM
6 77 (15.46%) Infrastructure as Code
7 66 (13.25%) CI/CD
8 49 (9.84%) Vulnerability Management
9 45 (9.04%) Incident Response
10 44 (8.84%) Identity Access Management
10 44 (8.84%) Roadmaps
11 43 (8.63%) Security Operations
12 42 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 41 (8.23%) Containerisation
13 41 (8.23%) Risk Management
14 39 (7.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 37 (7.43%) DevSecOps
16 34 (6.83%) Data Protection
17 33 (6.63%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 78 (15.66%) Python
2 44 (8.84%) PowerShell
3 30 (6.02%) SQL
4 27 (5.42%) Bash
5 16 (3.21%) Bicep
6 14 (2.81%) Java
6 14 (2.81%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.61%) C#
7 8 (1.61%) PHP
7 8 (1.61%) Rust
8 7 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (1.00%) C
9 5 (1.00%) R
9 5 (1.00%) Scala
9 5 (1.00%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.80%) AWK
10 4 (0.80%) Go
10 4 (0.80%) sed
11 1 (0.20%) Ruby
11 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (13.65%) CISSP
2 51 (10.24%) Degree
3 38 (7.63%) Azure Certification
4 31 (6.22%) AWS Certification
5 30 (6.02%) CISM
6 29 (5.82%) Cisco Certification
7 25 (5.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 22 (4.42%) CCSP
9 20 (4.02%) CEH
9 20 (4.02%) Security Cleared
10 18 (3.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (3.21%) Master's Degree
12 14 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (2.41%) SC Cleared
14 11 (2.21%) CompTIA CySA+
14 11 (2.21%) SANS
15 10 (2.01%) CompTIA Security+
15 10 (2.01%) CRISC
16 9 (1.81%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (18.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 88 (17.67%) NIST
3 41 (8.23%) PCI DSS
4 22 (4.42%) GDPR
5 21 (4.22%) Cyber Essentials
6 17 (3.41%) GRC
7 16 (3.21%) SLA
8 7 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 6 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (1.20%) NIST 800
10 5 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.80%) COBIT
11 4 (0.80%) NCSC
11 4 (0.80%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.40%) ITGC
12 2 (0.40%) QA
13 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.20%) ISO 31000
13 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 68 (13.65%) Active Directory
2 47 (9.44%) Docker
3 31 (6.22%) Hyper-V
4 19 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.80%) vSphere
8 3 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 58 (11.65%) Kubernetes
2 56 (11.24%) Terraform
3 35 (7.03%) CASB
4 22 (4.42%) Ansible
5 18 (3.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (2.21%) FortiGate
7 9 (1.81%) Nmap
8 8 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (1.41%) SCCM
10 5 (1.00%) Nagios
10 5 (1.00%) OfficeScan
10 5 (1.00%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.00%) Puppet
10 5 (1.00%) WSUS
11 4 (0.80%) cPanel
11 4 (0.80%) Plesk
12 3 (0.60%) Argo
12 3 (0.60%) Nessus
12 3 (0.60%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 136 (27.31%) Microsoft
2 44 (8.84%) Google
3 42 (8.43%) Cisco
4 23 (4.62%) VMware
5 16 (3.21%) Juniper
6 14 (2.81%) Splunk
7 13 (2.61%) Palo Alto
8 12 (2.41%) Barracuda Networks
8 12 (2.41%) Rapid7
9 11 (2.21%) Apple
9 11 (2.21%) ConnectWise
9 11 (2.21%) Sophos
10 10 (2.01%) Draytek
11 9 (1.81%) Oracle
11 9 (1.81%) Qualys
12 7 (1.41%) CheckPoint
13 6 (1.20%) CyberArk
13 6 (1.20%) McAfee
13 6 (1.20%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.20%) Thycotic