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 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 336 175 306
Rank change year-on-year -161 +131 -24
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 851 2,126 2,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.84% 2.17% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 2.27% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 674 1,042 1,031
10th Percentile £39,300 £42,874 £43,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £54,228 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £85,938 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £65,956 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.82% +14.71% -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 85,989 93,723 157,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.40% 95.55% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 60,364 55,437 82,675
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
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 26 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 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
England -150 755 £65,000 -13.33% 289
UK excluding London -187 498 £57,500 -12.82% 187
Work from Home -140 333 £62,500 -16.67% 138
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
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
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 (3.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.47%) CloudStack
4 3 (0.35%) Confluence
5 2 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.24%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.12%) Apache
6 1 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.12%) IIS
6 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 487 (57.23%) Azure
2 252 (29.61%) AWS
3 191 (22.44%) Microsoft 365
4 132 (15.51%) GCP
5 91 (10.69%) PaaS
6 85 (9.99%) Entra ID
7 84 (9.87%) SaaS
8 80 (9.40%) Azure DevOps
9 75 (8.81%) IaaS
10 61 (7.17%) Cloud Computing
11 43 (5.05%) Azure Sentinel
12 37 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
13 34 (4.00%) Serverless
14 33 (3.88%) Azure AKS
14 33 (3.88%) GitHub
15 25 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (2.12%) Power Platform
17 17 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
17 17 (2.00%) Amazon S3
17 17 (2.00%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 190 (22.33%) Firewall
2 126 (14.81%) Network Security
3 57 (6.70%) WAN
4 52 (6.11%) DNS
5 50 (5.88%) VPN
6 48 (5.64%) LAN
7 41 (4.82%) Internet
8 26 (3.06%) Wireless
9 25 (2.94%) DKIM
9 25 (2.94%) DMARC
9 25 (2.94%) SD-WAN
10 23 (2.70%) TCP/IP
11 18 (2.12%) Software-Defined Networking
12 17 (2.00%) WLAN
13 16 (1.88%) Wireshark
14 15 (1.76%) Intrusion Detection
15 12 (1.41%) BGP
16 11 (1.29%) VoIP
16 11 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
17 10 (1.18%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
1 16 (1.88%) SQL Server
2 7 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (0.82%) NoSQL
2 7 (0.82%) Power BI
3 5 (0.59%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.47%) RDBMS
5 3 (0.35%) Oracle Exadata
5 3 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.24%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.24%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 39 (4.58%) Jenkins
2 21 (2.47%) Git
3 17 (2.00%) GitLab
4 8 (0.94%) SonarQube
5 7 (0.82%) Katalon Studio
6 6 (0.71%) Burp Suite
6 6 (0.71%) JIRA
7 4 (0.47%) Metasploit
8 3 (0.35%) Maven
8 3 (0.35%) Selenium
9 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.24%) JMeter
9 2 (0.24%) 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
1 246 (28.91%) Social Skills
2 184 (21.62%) Finance
3 80 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (7.76%) Banking
5 54 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 49 (5.76%) Retail
7 34 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
8 32 (3.76%) Law
9 30 (3.53%) Legal
9 30 (3.53%) Marketing
10 27 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
11 24 (2.82%) Public Sector
12 12 (1.41%) Tech for Good
13 11 (1.29%) Back Office
14 9 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.94%) Games
16 7 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.59%) Retail Banking
18 4 (0.47%) Manufacturing
19 3 (0.35%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 166 (19.51%) Architect
2 144 (16.92%) Senior
3 133 (15.63%) Analyst
4 128 (15.04%) Security Engineer
5 109 (12.81%) Security Analyst
6 102 (11.99%) Cloud Engineer
7 93 (10.93%) Lead
8 76 (8.93%) Security Architect
9 68 (7.99%) Cloud Architect
10 56 (6.58%) Information Analyst
10 56 (6.58%) Information Security Analyst
11 49 (5.76%) Consultant
11 49 (5.76%) Senior Security Engineer
12 47 (5.52%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 37 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 35 (4.11%) Azure Engineer
14 35 (4.11%) Security Manager
14 35 (4.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 33 (3.88%) Cloud Security Architect
16 30 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.12%) YAML
2 12 (1.41%) SailPoint
3 11 (1.29%) ARM Templates
3 11 (1.29%) OAuth
4 9 (1.06%) .NET
4 9 (1.06%) Middleware
4 9 (1.06%) React
4 9 (1.06%) SAML
5 8 (0.94%) JSON
5 8 (0.94%) Laravel
6 7 (0.82%) REST
6 7 (0.82%) web3js
7 6 (0.71%) AngularJS
7 6 (0.71%) Azure Blueprints
7 6 (0.71%) Kafka
8 5 (0.59%) AWS CDK
8 5 (0.59%) CSS
8 5 (0.59%) Node.js
8 5 (0.59%) RESTful
8 5 (0.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 74 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 71 (8.34%) Security Posture
3 70 (8.23%) Management Information System
4 57 (6.70%) Data Centre
5 56 (6.58%) Public Cloud
6 43 (5.05%) Cyberattack
7 38 (4.47%) Cyber Threat
8 30 (3.53%) Security Operations Centre
9 25 (2.94%) Cloud Security Posture
10 23 (2.70%) Product Ownership
11 22 (2.59%) PKI
12 19 (2.23%) Private Cloud
13 17 (2.00%) Onboarding
14 14 (1.65%) Driving Licence
15 13 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
15 13 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
16 11 (1.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 11 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
16 11 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
17 8 (0.94%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 155 (18.21%) Windows
2 89 (10.46%) Linux
3 76 (8.93%) Windows Server
4 30 (3.53%) Unix
5 19 (2.23%) Android
5 19 (2.23%) Apple iOS
5 19 (2.23%) Windows 10
6 11 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (1.06%) Solaris
7 9 (1.06%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.35%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.35%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.35%) Windows XP
10 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (36.66%) Cybersecurity
2 253 (29.73%) Information Security
3 215 (25.26%) DevOps
4 170 (19.98%) Agile
5 166 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
6 142 (16.69%) CI/CD
7 135 (15.86%) SIEM
8 122 (14.34%) Identity Access Management
9 118 (13.87%) Infrastructure as Code
10 94 (11.05%) Incident Response
10 94 (11.05%) Security Operations
11 92 (10.81%) Vulnerability Management
12 91 (10.69%) DevSecOps
13 88 (10.34%) Security Architecture
14 86 (10.11%) Roadmaps
15 83 (9.75%) Application Security
16 70 (8.23%) Containerisation
17 66 (7.76%) Data Loss Prevention
18 64 (7.52%) Risk Management
19 59 (6.93%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 144 (16.92%) Python
2 98 (11.52%) PowerShell
3 48 (5.64%) SQL
4 38 (4.47%) Bash
5 29 (3.41%) Java
6 23 (2.70%) Bicep
7 20 (2.35%) JavaScript
8 15 (1.76%) C#
9 13 (1.53%) Go
10 10 (1.18%) Rust
11 8 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
11 8 (0.94%) PHP
11 8 (0.94%) Scala
12 5 (0.59%) C
12 5 (0.59%) R
12 5 (0.59%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.47%) AWK
13 4 (0.47%) sed
14 3 (0.35%) C++
14 3 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 167 (19.62%) CISSP
2 117 (13.75%) Degree
3 78 (9.17%) Cisco Certification
4 74 (8.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 74 (8.70%) Azure Certification
5 69 (8.11%) CISM
6 63 (7.40%) CCSP
7 57 (6.70%) AWS Certification
8 48 (5.64%) CEH
9 44 (5.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 38 (4.47%) Security Cleared
11 37 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
12 27 (3.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 26 (3.06%) SC Cleared
14 22 (2.59%) Master's Degree
15 21 (2.47%) OSCP
16 20 (2.35%) SANS
17 16 (1.88%) CREST Certified
18 15 (1.76%) CCSK
18 15 (1.76%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (18.92%) NIST
2 144 (16.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 71 (8.34%) PCI DSS
4 32 (3.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 32 (3.76%) GDPR
5 27 (3.17%) GRC
6 22 (2.59%) SLA
7 14 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 13 (1.53%) NIST 800
9 12 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 11 (1.29%) NCSC
11 8 (0.94%) ISO 9001
11 8 (0.94%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.82%) COBIT
12 7 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 6 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.59%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.35%) ISO 31000
15 3 (0.35%) QA
System Software
1 107 (12.57%) Active Directory
2 73 (8.58%) Docker
3 31 (3.64%) Hyper-V
4 24 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.59%) vSphere
9 3 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.12%) LXC
10 1 (0.12%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 111 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 102 (11.99%) Terraform
3 48 (5.64%) CASB
4 44 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 36 (4.23%) Ansible
6 21 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (2.00%) Nmap
8 11 (1.29%) FortiGate
9 10 (1.18%) Istio
10 7 (0.82%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.82%) Puppet
10 7 (0.82%) QRadar
10 7 (0.82%) SCCM
11 6 (0.71%) Nagios
12 5 (0.59%) Argo
12 5 (0.59%) OfficeScan
12 5 (0.59%) WSUS
13 4 (0.47%) cPanel
13 4 (0.47%) Plesk
14 3 (0.35%) Nessus
Vendors
1 273 (32.08%) Microsoft
2 65 (7.64%) Google
3 55 (6.46%) Cisco
4 36 (4.23%) Splunk
5 28 (3.29%) VMware
6 25 (2.94%) ServiceNow
7 24 (2.82%) Rapid7
8 23 (2.70%) CyberArk
9 22 (2.59%) Qualys
10 21 (2.47%) Palo Alto
11 17 (2.00%) CheckPoint
12 16 (1.88%) Juniper
12 16 (1.88%) Zscaler
13 15 (1.76%) BeyondTrust
14 14 (1.65%) Barracuda Networks
14 14 (1.65%) Thycotic
15 13 (1.53%) Fortinet
15 13 (1.53%) Oracle
16 11 (1.29%) Apple
16 11 (1.29%) Sophos