Cloud Security Engineer Jobs in England

Cloud Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Security Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 613 807 830
Rank change year-on-year +194 +23 +116
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 55 37 118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.043% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.046% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 51 27 69
10th Percentile - - £56,219
25th Percentile £42,500 £56,219 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,526 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -14.96% -9.68%
75th Percentile £85,000 £63,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,500 £150,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £59,526 £70,000
% change year-on-year +21.80% -14.96% -8.20%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 42,728 80,514 84,327
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.43% 94.48% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,644 60,209 53,453
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,415 £38,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,915 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,822 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Cloud Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security Engineer in England

Cloud Security Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Cloud Security Engineer in England

Cloud Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security Engineer in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Security Engineer in England

Cloud Security Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 6 May 2025. 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
North of England +85 28 £52,500 -11.80% 6
North West +28 17 £60,000 +0.80% 4
London +120 13 £82,500 +38.59% 6
Yorkshire +80 9 £52,500 -11.80% 2
South West +113 6 £95,000 +59.59% 1
East of England - 5 £45,000 - 1
South East +93 3 £45,000 - 4
North East - 2 £45,000 -
Cloud Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, 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 across the England region featuring Cloud Security Engineer in the job title.

1 55 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 43 (78.18%) AWS
3 31 (56.36%) Security Posture
4 28 (50.91%) Roadmaps
5 27 (49.09%) DevOps
6 25 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (45.45%) Firewall
7 21 (38.18%) Finance
7 21 (38.18%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 20 (36.36%) Security Operations
8 20 (36.36%) Azure
8 20 (36.36%) Vulnerability Management
9 19 (34.55%) AWS Certification
10 18 (32.73%) Security Monitoring
10 18 (32.73%) Social Skills
11 17 (30.91%) Cloud Security Posture
12 15 (27.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 15 (27.27%) Technology Roadmap
12 15 (27.27%) Data Engineering
12 15 (27.27%) Terraform
12 15 (27.27%) Law
13 14 (25.45%) Cybersecurity
13 14 (25.45%) NIST
14 13 (23.64%) Cloud Native
14 13 (23.64%) Banking
15 10 (18.18%) Python
15 10 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
15 10 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 10 (18.18%) Product Ownership
16 9 (16.36%) VPN

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 43 (78.18%) AWS
2 20 (36.36%) Azure
3 7 (12.73%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (10.91%) SaaS
5 5 (9.09%) GCP
6 4 (7.27%) IaaS
7 3 (5.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (5.45%) GitHub
8 2 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.64%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.64%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.64%) Mimecast
8 2 (3.64%) PaaS
8 2 (3.64%) Serverless
8 2 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.82%) Amazon Macie
9 1 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.82%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (45.45%) Firewall
2 9 (16.36%) Network Security
2 9 (16.36%) VPN
3 2 (3.64%) DHCP
3 2 (3.64%) DNS
3 2 (3.64%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.64%) VLAN
4 1 (1.82%) NAS
4 1 (1.82%) SAN
4 1 (1.82%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.82%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (38.18%) Finance
2 18 (32.73%) Social Skills
3 15 (27.27%) Law
4 13 (23.64%) Banking
5 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.45%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.82%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.91%) AngularJS
1 6 (10.91%) React
2 3 (5.45%) REST
2 3 (5.45%) Web Services
3 2 (3.64%) OAuth
3 2 (3.64%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.82%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 31 (56.36%) Security Posture
2 17 (30.91%) Cloud Security Posture
3 13 (23.64%) Cloud Native
4 10 (18.18%) Product Ownership
5 9 (16.36%) Public Cloud
6 3 (5.45%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (5.45%) Management Information System
7 2 (3.64%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.82%) PKI
8 1 (1.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.73%) Linux
1 7 (12.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.82%) Windows
2 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 28 (50.91%) Roadmaps
3 27 (49.09%) DevOps
4 25 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (38.18%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 20 (36.36%) Security Operations
6 20 (36.36%) Vulnerability Management
7 18 (32.73%) Security Monitoring
8 15 (27.27%) Data Engineering
8 15 (27.27%) Technology Roadmap
9 14 (25.45%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (16.36%) Information Security
12 8 (14.55%) SIEM
12 8 (14.55%) Software Engineering
13 7 (12.73%) Identity Access Management
13 7 (12.73%) Mentoring
13 7 (12.73%) Technology Transformation
14 6 (10.91%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.18%) Python
2 8 (14.55%) TypeScript
3 5 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.82%) Bash
Qualifications
1 19 (34.55%) AWS Certification
2 15 (27.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 7 (12.73%) CISSP
4 6 (10.91%) CISM
5 3 (5.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (5.45%) Azure Certification
5 3 (5.45%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.64%) CCSK
6 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.82%) CISA
7 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.82%) Degree
7 1 (1.82%) FFIEC
7 1 (1.82%) GCIA
7 1 (1.82%) GCIH
7 1 (1.82%) GIAC
7 1 (1.82%) GREM
7 1 (1.82%) GSEC
7 1 (1.82%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (25.45%) NIST
2 7 (12.73%) NCSC
3 6 (10.91%) Accessibility
3 6 (10.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (5.45%) GDPR
5 2 (3.64%) PCI DSS
5 2 (3.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 7 (12.73%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.64%) Docker
3 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.82%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (27.27%) Terraform
2 2 (3.64%) Ansible
2 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.82%) CASB
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 5 (9.09%) Ping Identity
2 4 (7.27%) Cisco
3 3 (5.45%) Splunk
4 2 (3.64%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (3.64%) Google
4 2 (3.64%) Tenable
4 2 (3.64%) Varonis
5 1 (1.82%) Dell
5 1 (1.82%) EMC
5 1 (1.82%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.82%) SonicWALL
5 1 (1.82%) VMware