Cloud Security Leader
UK

The median Cloud Security Leader salary in the UK is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 901 964 1213
Rank change year-on-year +63 +249 -332
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Security Lead 4 9 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% 0.009% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.009% 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 3 9 7
10th Percentile £84,500 £75,208 £85,000
25th Percentile £87,500 £79,570 £88,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £93,852 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% -14.68% +10.00%
75th Percentile £98,750 £108,133 £125,000
90th Percentile £99,500 £110,000 £133,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - £93,852 -

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 92,813 95,219 148,250
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.52% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,625 59,878 85,347
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Cloud Security Lead
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security Lead in the UK

Cloud Security Lead
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Security Lead in the UK

Cloud Security Lead
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security Lead over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Security Lead in the UK

Cloud Security Lead
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security Lead within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 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 +111 4 £95,000 +5.56% 1
London - 4 £95,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Cloud Security Lead 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 Lead in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) NIST
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (75.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) CISSP
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Information Security
2 3 (75.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (50.00%) Google
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (25.00%) Snowflake

Cloud Security Lead 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) IaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Information Security
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (25.00%) Information Security Management
4 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) RBAC
4 1 (25.00%) Security Management
4 1 (25.00%) SIEM
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (75.00%) CISSP
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (25.00%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
2 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (25.00%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Google
3 1 (25.00%) Databricks