Cloud Security Engineer Jobs

Cloud Security Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Security Engineer salary in the UK is £59,526 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 850 872 980
Rank change year-on-year +22 +108 -104
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 48 108 221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.12% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 37 63 53
10th Percentile £54,731 £61,180 £53,750
25th Percentile £56,219 £64,375 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,526 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.96% -3.45% -9.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £104,375 £93,750
90th Percentile £91,000 £150,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,526 £63,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.63% -1.92% -22.02%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Cloud Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cloud Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security Engineer in the UK

Cloud Security Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Security Engineer in the UK

Cloud Security Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security Engineer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Security Engineer in the UK

Cloud Security Engineer
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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 +31 37 £59,526 -20.63% 9
Work from Home +66 30 £59,526 -29.97% 15
UK excluding London -31 30 £59,526 -6.63% 6
London +75 13 £59,526 -29.97% 5
North of England +50 8 £59,526 -14.29% 1
South East -26 8 - - 1
Scotland - 6 £57,263 -
Yorkshire +87 5 £59,526 -14.29%
North West - 3 £59,526 - 1
South West - 3 £59,526 - 2
Northern Ireland - 3 £90,000 - 1
Midlands - 2 £66,250 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £57,500 -
West Midlands - 1 £75,000 - 1

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Cloud Security Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Cloud Security Engineer in the job title.

1 48 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 34 (70.83%) Cybersecurity
3 32 (66.67%) Azure
4 28 (58.33%) Python
5 27 (56.25%) Finance
6 25 (52.08%) Terraform
7 23 (47.92%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (45.83%) Jenkins
8 22 (45.83%) AWS
9 21 (43.75%) PaaS
9 21 (43.75%) DevOps
9 21 (43.75%) GCP
10 20 (41.67%) CI/CD
11 19 (39.58%) Docker
11 19 (39.58%) Public Cloud
11 19 (39.58%) Agile
12 18 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (37.50%) Roadmaps
13 17 (35.42%) Product Ownership
13 17 (35.42%) Kubernetes
13 17 (35.42%) GitHub
13 17 (35.42%) Banking
13 17 (35.42%) Google
13 17 (35.42%) Use Case
14 10 (20.83%) SIEM
15 8 (16.67%) SaaS
15 8 (16.67%) Information Security
15 8 (16.67%) Firewall
16 7 (14.58%) CISSP
16 7 (14.58%) ISO/IEC 27001

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (2.08%) Apache
1 1 (2.08%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 32 (66.67%) Azure
2 22 (45.83%) AWS
3 21 (43.75%) GCP
3 21 (43.75%) PaaS
4 18 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (35.42%) GitHub
6 8 (16.67%) SaaS
7 5 (10.42%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (8.33%) IaaS
9 3 (6.25%) Entra ID
9 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (6.25%) Serverless
10 2 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (4.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (4.17%) Amazon S3
10 2 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (4.17%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (2.08%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (4.17%) Network Security
3 1 (2.08%) HTTP
3 1 (2.08%) HTTPS
3 1 (2.08%) Internet
3 1 (2.08%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.08%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (2.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 22 (45.83%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.08%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.08%) Git
2 1 (2.08%) Metasploit
2 1 (2.08%) sqlmap
General
1 27 (56.25%) Finance
2 17 (35.42%) Banking
3 2 (4.17%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.08%) Legal
4 1 (2.08%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.25%) OAuth
2 2 (4.17%) JWT
3 1 (2.08%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (39.58%) Public Cloud
2 17 (35.42%) Product Ownership
3 6 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (12.50%) Security Posture
4 5 (10.42%) Cloud Native
5 4 (8.33%) Cyber Security Posture
6 3 (6.25%) PKI
7 2 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (2.08%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.42%) Unix
2 3 (6.25%) Windows
2 3 (6.25%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 34 (70.83%) Cybersecurity
3 23 (47.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (43.75%) DevOps
5 20 (41.67%) CI/CD
6 19 (39.58%) Agile
7 18 (37.50%) Roadmaps
8 17 (35.42%) Use Case
9 10 (20.83%) SIEM
10 8 (16.67%) Information Security
11 6 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 5 (10.42%) Mentoring
13 4 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 4 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
13 4 (8.33%) Patch Management
13 4 (8.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 3 (6.25%) Data Loss Prevention
14 3 (6.25%) Security Architecture
14 3 (6.25%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 28 (58.33%) Python
2 3 (6.25%) C#
2 3 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.17%) Bash
3 2 (4.17%) Go
3 2 (4.17%) Java
3 2 (4.17%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.17%) Lua
3 2 (4.17%) Ruby
3 2 (4.17%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (14.58%) CISSP
2 5 (10.42%) CISM
3 3 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.25%) Degree
3 3 (6.25%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.17%) CISA
4 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.08%) CCSK
5 1 (2.08%) CCSP
5 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.08%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (14.58%) NIST
2 3 (6.25%) GDPR
2 3 (6.25%) NCSC
3 1 (2.08%) NIST 800
System Software
1 19 (39.58%) Docker
2 4 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (52.08%) Terraform
2 17 (35.42%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.08%) Ansible
4 1 (2.08%) CASB
Vendors
1 17 (35.42%) Google
2 5 (10.42%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.25%) Computacenter
4 1 (2.08%) CA
4 1 (2.08%) Imperva
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle
4 1 (2.08%) Red Hat