Cloud Security Job Trends in Dorset

Cloud Security
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Cloud Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 47 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 6 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Dorset 1.28% 0.52% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 0.57% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32,500 £47,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £50,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - -
75th Percentile £37,500 £52,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £69,000 £51,058 £70,576
% change year-on-year +35.14% -27.65% +18.56%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dorset

Cloud Security falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Dorset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 364 352 317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 77.78% 91.43% 89.55%
Number of salaries quoted 271 187 270
10th Percentile £27,707 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £42,188 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -9.09% +12.24%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £63,750 £73,875
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.94%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cloud Security relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in Dorset

Cloud Security
Salary Trend in Dorset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Cloud Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Cloud Security

Cloud Security
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 9 January 2026. 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
Poole -5 5 £35,000 -30.00% 2
Cloud Security
South West

Cloud Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (83.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Entra ID
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (83.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) DNS
1 5 (83.33%) VoIP
1 5 (83.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 5 (83.33%) Advertising
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) ICT Support
1 5 (83.33%) ICT Support Technician
1 5 (83.33%) ICT Technician
1 5 (83.33%) Support Technician
2 1 (16.67%) Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Android
1 5 (83.33%) Apple iOS
1 5 (83.33%) Mac OS
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Asset Management
1 5 (83.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security
2 1 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
2 1 (16.67%) SIEM
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) MCP
2 1 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
1 5 (83.33%) Hyper-V
1 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (83.33%) VMware