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

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 166 303
Rank change year-on-year -168 +137 -21
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 857 2,107 2,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 2.21% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 2.32% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 673 1,040 1,038
10th Percentile £40,000 £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% -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 87,477 90,991 161,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.84% 95.49% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,023 54,512 83,003
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 31 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 31 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 -162 761 £65,000 -13.33% 206
UK excluding London -196 503 £57,500 -12.01% 118
Work from Home -148 320 £62,500 -16.67% 108
London -91 297 £82,500 +3.13% 96
North of England -117 182 £52,500 -19.66% 37
South East -91 109 £50,000 -27.27% 31
North West -115 88 £50,000 -16.67% 11
Midlands -65 79 £65,927 -12.10% 18
South West -95 64 £57,263 -21.02% 18
Yorkshire -67 63 £60,000 -12.43% 20
West Midlands -60 53 £75,000 - 14
Scotland -111 37 £59,763 -8.55% 10
North East +2 31 £42,500 -13.71% 6
East Midlands -23 25 £60,500 -12.00% 4
East of England -42 18 £72,500 +52.70% 4
Northern Ireland +22 9 £90,000 +80.00% 1
Isle of Man - 4 £46,500 -
Wales +1 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 31 (3.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (3.15%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.47%) CloudStack
3 4 (0.47%) 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 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 480 (56.01%) Azure
2 249 (29.05%) AWS
3 190 (22.17%) Microsoft 365
4 121 (14.12%) GCP
5 94 (10.97%) SaaS
6 85 (9.92%) Entra ID
7 84 (9.80%) PaaS
8 80 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
9 72 (8.40%) IaaS
10 61 (7.12%) Cloud Computing
11 44 (5.13%) Azure Sentinel
12 36 (4.20%) Microsoft Purview
13 35 (4.08%) Azure AKS
13 35 (4.08%) Serverless
14 28 (3.27%) GitHub
15 27 (3.15%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (2.10%) Amazon S3
17 17 (1.98%) Azure API Management
17 17 (1.98%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 190 (22.17%) Firewall
2 123 (14.35%) Network Security
3 57 (6.65%) WAN
4 54 (6.30%) DNS
5 51 (5.95%) VPN
6 48 (5.60%) LAN
7 39 (4.55%) Internet
8 27 (3.15%) Wireless
9 25 (2.92%) DKIM
9 25 (2.92%) DMARC
9 25 (2.92%) SD-WAN
10 21 (2.45%) TCP/IP
11 18 (2.10%) Software-Defined Networking
12 17 (1.98%) WLAN
13 16 (1.87%) Wireshark
14 15 (1.75%) Intrusion Detection
15 12 (1.40%) BGP
16 11 (1.28%) VoIP
16 11 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
17 10 (1.17%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
1 17 (1.98%) SQL Server
2 8 (0.93%) NoSQL
3 7 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (0.82%) Power BI
4 5 (0.58%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.47%) RDBMS
6 3 (0.35%) Oracle Exadata
6 3 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.23%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.12%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 34 (3.97%) Jenkins
2 23 (2.68%) Git
3 17 (1.98%) GitLab
4 9 (1.05%) SonarQube
5 7 (0.82%) JIRA
5 7 (0.82%) Katalon Studio
6 6 (0.70%) Burp Suite
7 4 (0.47%) Metasploit
7 4 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.35%) Maven
8 3 (0.35%) Selenium
9 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.23%) JMeter
10 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.12%) Gatling
10 1 (0.12%) JUnit
10 1 (0.12%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.12%) sqlmap
10 1 (0.12%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 247 (28.82%) Social Skills
2 177 (20.65%) Finance
3 82 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (6.88%) Banking
5 58 (6.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 48 (5.60%) Retail
7 34 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
8 31 (3.62%) Law
8 31 (3.62%) Legal
9 30 (3.50%) Marketing
10 27 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
11 25 (2.92%) Public Sector
12 12 (1.40%) Tech for Good
13 11 (1.28%) Back Office
14 9 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.93%) Games
16 7 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.70%) Retail Banking
18 4 (0.47%) Investment Banking
18 4 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 165 (19.25%) Architect
2 150 (17.50%) Senior
3 135 (15.75%) Security Engineer
4 133 (15.52%) Analyst
5 109 (12.72%) Security Analyst
6 105 (12.25%) Cloud Engineer
7 95 (11.09%) Lead
8 77 (8.98%) Security Architect
9 68 (7.93%) Cloud Architect
10 56 (6.53%) Information Analyst
10 56 (6.53%) Information Security Analyst
11 55 (6.42%) Senior Security Engineer
12 52 (6.07%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 49 (5.72%) Consultant
14 42 (4.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 37 (4.32%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 35 (4.08%) Security Manager
17 34 (3.97%) Azure Engineer
18 33 (3.85%) Cloud Security Architect
19 29 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.33%) YAML
2 12 (1.40%) ARM Templates
2 12 (1.40%) SailPoint
3 10 (1.17%) .NET
3 10 (1.17%) JSON
4 9 (1.05%) Middleware
4 9 (1.05%) OAuth
4 9 (1.05%) React
4 9 (1.05%) SAML
5 8 (0.93%) Laravel
6 7 (0.82%) Azure Blueprints
6 7 (0.82%) REST
7 6 (0.70%) AngularJS
7 6 (0.70%) Kafka
7 6 (0.70%) web3js
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
Miscellaneous
1 71 (8.28%) Cloud Native
1 71 (8.28%) Management Information System
2 69 (8.05%) Security Posture
3 57 (6.65%) Data Centre
4 47 (5.48%) Public Cloud
5 43 (5.02%) Cyberattack
6 38 (4.43%) Cyber Threat
7 31 (3.62%) Security Operations Centre
8 25 (2.92%) Cloud Security Posture
9 19 (2.22%) Onboarding
10 18 (2.10%) PKI
10 18 (2.10%) Product Ownership
11 15 (1.75%) Private Cloud
12 14 (1.63%) Driving Licence
12 14 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
13 12 (1.40%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 12 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
14 11 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 152 (17.74%) Windows
2 88 (10.27%) Linux
3 75 (8.75%) Windows Server
4 29 (3.38%) Unix
5 19 (2.22%) Android
5 19 (2.22%) Apple iOS
5 19 (2.22%) Windows 10
6 11 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (1.05%) Solaris
7 9 (1.05%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.47%) Windows XP
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (35.59%) Cybersecurity
2 254 (29.64%) Information Security
3 212 (24.74%) DevOps
4 168 (19.60%) Problem-Solving
5 164 (19.14%) Agile
6 139 (16.22%) CI/CD
7 135 (15.75%) SIEM
8 121 (14.12%) Identity Access Management
9 114 (13.30%) Infrastructure as Code
10 97 (11.32%) DevSecOps
10 97 (11.32%) Incident Response
11 95 (11.09%) Security Operations
12 90 (10.50%) Vulnerability Management
13 88 (10.27%) Security Architecture
14 79 (9.22%) Application Security
15 78 (9.10%) Roadmaps
16 67 (7.82%) Containerisation
16 67 (7.82%) Data Loss Prevention
17 65 (7.58%) Risk Management
18 59 (6.88%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 141 (16.45%) Python
2 101 (11.79%) PowerShell
3 50 (5.83%) SQL
4 38 (4.43%) Bash
5 28 (3.27%) Java
6 24 (2.80%) Bicep
7 19 (2.22%) JavaScript
8 14 (1.63%) C#
9 11 (1.28%) Go
10 8 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (0.93%) PHP
10 8 (0.93%) Rust
10 8 (0.93%) Scala
11 5 (0.58%) C
11 5 (0.58%) R
12 4 (0.47%) AWK
12 4 (0.47%) sed
12 4 (0.47%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.35%) C++
14 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 167 (19.49%) CISSP
2 117 (13.65%) Degree
3 77 (8.98%) Cisco Certification
4 73 (8.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 71 (8.28%) Azure Certification
6 68 (7.93%) CISM
7 62 (7.23%) CCSP
8 58 (6.77%) AWS Certification
9 46 (5.37%) CEH
10 43 (5.02%) Microsoft Certification
11 38 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
12 37 (4.32%) Security Cleared
13 26 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 24 (2.80%) SC Cleared
15 22 (2.57%) Master's Degree
15 22 (2.57%) OSCP
16 19 (2.22%) SANS
17 16 (1.87%) CREST Certified
18 15 (1.75%) CCSK
18 15 (1.75%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (19.02%) NIST
2 146 (17.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 71 (8.28%) PCI DSS
4 33 (3.85%) GDPR
5 32 (3.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 28 (3.27%) GRC
7 24 (2.80%) SLA
8 14 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 13 (1.52%) NIST 800
10 12 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 12 (1.40%) NCSC
11 8 (0.93%) ISO 9001
11 8 (0.93%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.82%) COBIT
12 7 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 6 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.70%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.35%) Accessibility
14 3 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.35%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 106 (12.37%) Active Directory
2 69 (8.05%) Docker
3 31 (3.62%) Hyper-V
4 20 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (1.63%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.58%) vSphere
9 1 (0.12%) LXC
9 1 (0.12%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 108 (12.60%) Kubernetes
2 102 (11.90%) Terraform
3 48 (5.60%) CASB
4 42 (4.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 38 (4.43%) Ansible
6 19 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (1.98%) Nmap
8 11 (1.28%) FortiGate
8 11 (1.28%) Istio
9 7 (0.82%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.82%) Puppet
9 7 (0.82%) QRadar
9 7 (0.82%) SCCM
10 6 (0.70%) Nagios
11 5 (0.58%) Argo
11 5 (0.58%) OfficeScan
11 5 (0.58%) WSUS
12 4 (0.47%) cPanel
12 4 (0.47%) Plesk
13 3 (0.35%) Nessus
Vendors
1 274 (31.97%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.53%) Google
3 55 (6.42%) Cisco
4 36 (4.20%) Splunk
5 28 (3.27%) ServiceNow
6 24 (2.80%) Rapid7
6 24 (2.80%) VMware
7 23 (2.68%) CyberArk
8 22 (2.57%) Qualys
9 21 (2.45%) Palo Alto
10 16 (1.87%) CheckPoint
10 16 (1.87%) Juniper
11 15 (1.75%) Barracuda Networks
11 15 (1.75%) BeyondTrust
11 15 (1.75%) Zscaler
12 14 (1.63%) Thycotic
13 13 (1.52%) Oracle
14 12 (1.40%) Fortinet
15 11 (1.28%) Apple
15 11 (1.28%) Sophos