Cloud Security Posture
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Security Posture in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Security Posture over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 876 928 1218
Rank change year-on-year +52 +290 -305
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security Posture 26 44 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.043% 0.007%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.074% 0.10% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 15 3 1
10th Percentile £82,500 £57,000 -
25th Percentile £87,500 £63,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +7.14% +48.94%
75th Percentile £104,375 £83,125 -
90th Percentile £112,000 £88,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £97,500 £87,500 -
% change year-on-year +11.43% - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Cloud Security Posture is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,043 43,311 74,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.36% 42.74% 47.65%
Number of salaries quoted 23,056 23,480 33,820
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,550 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Cloud Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cloud Security Posture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security Posture in the UK

Cloud Security Posture
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Security Posture in the UK

Cloud Security Posture
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security Posture over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Security Posture in the UK

Cloud Security Posture
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security Posture within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +82 25 £95,000 +26.67% 4
London +125 23 £95,000 +46.15% 1
UK excluding London -34 3 £97,500 +11.43% 4
South East -35 2 £95,000 - 1
Work from Home +71 1 £95,000 +72.73% 3
Scotland -66 1 £100,000 - 2

Cloud Security Posture
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 18 (69.23%) AWS
1 18 (69.23%) Azure
2 10 (38.46%) GCP
3 8 (30.77%) GitHub
4 7 (26.92%) Azure API Management
4 7 (26.92%) Azure Key Vault
4 7 (26.92%) Entra ID
5 6 (23.08%) SaaS
6 5 (19.23%) IaaS
6 5 (19.23%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (19.23%) PaaS
7 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 12 (46.15%) Firewall
2 7 (26.92%) DNS
2 7 (26.92%) SD-WAN
2 7 (26.92%) WAN
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) GitLab
1 7 (26.92%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 18 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 15 (57.69%) Finance
3 7 (26.92%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (26.92%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (19.23%) Legal
5 3 (11.54%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.85%) Law
6 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Security Manager
2 7 (26.92%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Security Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Security Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (15.38%) Cloud Security Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Data Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Data Manager
5 3 (11.54%) Data Protection Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Data Protection Manager
5 3 (11.54%) Engineering Manager
5 3 (11.54%) IT Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) IT Manager
5 3 (11.54%) Lead
5 3 (11.54%) Senior
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior IT Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior IT Manager
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) YAML
2 1 (3.85%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 26 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 7 (26.92%) Enterprise Cloud
3 5 (19.23%) Cloud Native
4 3 (11.54%) PKI
4 3 (11.54%) Virtual Team
5 1 (3.85%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (3.85%) Cyberattack
5 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (26.92%) Windows
1 7 (26.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 16 (61.54%) Information Security
3 15 (57.69%) Agile
4 14 (53.85%) Identity Access Management
5 13 (50.00%) Incident Response
6 12 (46.15%) Scrum
7 11 (42.31%) CI/CD
7 11 (42.31%) DevSecOps
8 10 (38.46%) Data Loss Prevention
8 10 (38.46%) Data Security
9 9 (34.62%) Computer Science
10 8 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (26.92%) DevOps
11 7 (26.92%) IT Strategy
11 7 (26.92%) Microservices
11 7 (26.92%) RBAC
11 7 (26.92%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) PowerShell
1 7 (26.92%) Python
1 7 (26.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (65.38%) CISSP
2 15 (57.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 15 (57.69%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (46.15%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (42.31%) Degree
5 8 (30.77%) AWS Certification
5 8 (30.77%) CCSK
5 8 (30.77%) CCSP
6 7 (26.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (26.92%) Azure Certification
6 7 (26.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (7.69%) CISM
8 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.85%) CASP
8 1 (3.85%) CEH
8 1 (3.85%) GIAC
8 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
8 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (57.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (46.15%) NIST
3 7 (26.92%) PCI DSS
4 5 (19.23%) NIST 800
5 2 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (7.69%) GDPR
5 2 (7.69%) SOC 2
6 1 (3.85%) GRC
6 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (3.85%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (34.62%) Kubernetes
2 7 (26.92%) Terraform
3 5 (19.23%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (11.54%) CASB
Vendors
1 19 (73.08%) Microsoft
2 7 (26.92%) Google
3 5 (19.23%) CA
4 3 (11.54%) Netskope
4 3 (11.54%) Symantec
4 3 (11.54%) Zscaler