Cloud Security Job Trends in England

Cloud Security
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Cloud Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 205 281
Rank change year-on-year -29 +76 -148
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 627 552 792
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.84% 1.51% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.62% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 445 423 606
10th Percentile £41,550 £45,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,900 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,300 £100,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 56,480 34,092 69,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 76.07% 93.08% 85.99%
Number of salaries quoted 35,677 20,470 53,153
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in England

Cloud Security
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cloud Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cloud Security

Cloud Security
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in England over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Security in England

Cloud Security
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 11 April 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
London +63 336 £80,000 -5.88% 112
South East -43 84 £62,500 -3.85% 77
South West -30 62 £70,000 -3.45% 26
North of England -107 60 £50,000 -28.57% 38
Midlands -37 56 £67,500 +26.64% 23
West Midlands -20 37 £67,500 +26.64% 16
Yorkshire -57 30 £50,000 -4.76% 16
North West -76 22 £72,500 -3.16% 18
East of England -36 19 £85,000 +25.00% 10
East Midlands -37 19 £67,500 -15.63% 7
North East -29 8 £40,000 -36.51% 5
Cloud Security
UK

Cloud Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 34 (5.42%) SharePoint
2 32 (5.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.80%) IIS
4 4 (0.64%) Confluence
5 2 (0.32%) Apache
6 1 (0.16%) Camunda
6 1 (0.16%) Drupal
6 1 (0.16%) nginx
6 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.48%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.16%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.16%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.16%) Magento
1 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 336 (53.59%) Azure
2 301 (48.01%) AWS
3 114 (18.18%) GCP
4 106 (16.91%) Microsoft 365
5 80 (12.76%) GitHub
6 70 (11.16%) Entra ID
7 66 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
8 59 (9.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 56 (8.93%) Azure Sentinel
10 55 (8.77%) SaaS
11 43 (6.86%) Serverless
12 38 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 33 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
13 33 (5.26%) PaaS
14 31 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
15 29 (4.63%) IaaS
16 23 (3.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 22 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
18 20 (3.19%) Amazon EC2
18 20 (3.19%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 125 (19.94%) Firewall
2 89 (14.19%) Network Security
3 67 (10.69%) VPN
4 31 (4.94%) DNS
4 31 (4.94%) WAN
5 28 (4.47%) LAN
6 27 (4.31%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (3.51%) SD-WAN
8 20 (3.19%) BGP
9 19 (3.03%) DHCP
10 18 (2.87%) MPLS
11 16 (2.55%) Intrusion Detection
12 14 (2.23%) OSPF
13 13 (2.07%) DSL
13 13 (2.07%) TCP/IP
14 11 (1.75%) Cisco ASA
14 11 (1.75%) Cisco ISE
15 10 (1.59%) IPsec
16 9 (1.44%) VLAN
16 9 (1.44%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (0.96%) Power BI
4 5 (0.80%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.48%) MySQL
6 3 (0.48%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.32%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.16%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.16%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.16%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.16%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.16%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.16%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.16%) Redis
8 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 44 (7.02%) Jenkins
2 43 (6.86%) GitLab
3 10 (1.59%) TeamCity
4 8 (1.28%) CircleCI
5 7 (1.12%) Snyk
6 6 (0.96%) JIRA
7 5 (0.80%) Git
8 4 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.32%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.16%) Ant
10 1 (0.16%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.16%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.16%) Gatling
10 1 (0.16%) Gradle
10 1 (0.16%) JUnit
10 1 (0.16%) Maven
10 1 (0.16%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.16%) Mockito
10 1 (0.16%) Subversion
10 1 (0.16%) Vagrant
General
1 146 (23.29%) Social Skills
2 112 (17.86%) Finance
3 57 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 50 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (7.66%) Retail
6 43 (6.86%) Banking
7 31 (4.94%) Law
8 28 (4.47%) Public Sector
9 21 (3.35%) Legal
10 17 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.91%) Aviation
12 12 (1.91%) Financial Institution
12 12 (1.91%) Marketing
13 10 (1.59%) Advertising
14 8 (1.28%) Military
15 7 (1.12%) Back Office
15 7 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.12%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.80%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 145 (23.13%) Security Engineer
2 133 (21.21%) Cloud Engineer
3 106 (16.91%) Senior
4 89 (14.19%) Architect
5 85 (13.56%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 54 (8.61%) Azure Engineer
7 53 (8.45%) Security Architect
8 44 (7.02%) Analyst
8 44 (7.02%) Consultant
9 43 (6.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 43 (6.86%) Security Analyst
10 42 (6.70%) AWS Engineer
11 40 (6.38%) Lead
12 33 (5.26%) Security Manager
13 29 (4.63%) Security Consultant
14 27 (4.31%) Operations Engineer
15 25 (3.99%) Platform Engineer
16 24 (3.83%) Cloud Architect
17 23 (3.67%) Automation Engineer
18 22 (3.51%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.03%) AWS CDK
2 15 (2.39%) ARM Templates
3 9 (1.44%) REST
4 8 (1.28%) Node.js
5 7 (1.12%) Loki
5 7 (1.12%) NestJS
6 5 (0.80%) .NET
7 4 (0.64%) OAuth
7 4 (0.64%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (0.64%) web3js
8 3 (0.48%) EDI
8 3 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.48%) OpenID
8 3 (0.48%) RESTful
8 3 (0.48%) SailPoint
9 2 (0.32%) Middleware
9 2 (0.32%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.32%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.32%) Spring
9 2 (0.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 108 (17.22%) Security Posture
2 107 (17.07%) Cloud Native
3 49 (7.81%) Management Information System
4 38 (6.06%) PKI
5 35 (5.58%) Cloud Security Posture
6 33 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
7 31 (4.94%) Data Centre
8 30 (4.78%) Security Operations Centre
9 23 (3.67%) Onboarding
10 21 (3.35%) Cyber Defence
11 19 (3.03%) Blog
12 11 (1.75%) Cyberattack
12 11 (1.75%) Hedge funds
13 10 (1.59%) Private Cloud
14 9 (1.44%) Driving Licence
14 9 (1.44%) Public Cloud
15 8 (1.28%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 7 (1.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 7 (1.12%) Insider Threat
16 7 (1.12%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 83 (13.24%) Windows
2 78 (12.44%) Linux
3 20 (3.19%) Windows Server
4 17 (2.71%) Android
4 17 (2.71%) Apple iOS
5 15 (2.39%) Mac OS
6 12 (1.91%) Unix
7 10 (1.59%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.96%) CentOS
8 6 (0.96%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.32%) VMS
10 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (38.92%) Cybersecurity
2 187 (29.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 172 (27.43%) CI/CD
4 156 (24.88%) Incident Response
5 135 (21.53%) DevOps
5 135 (21.53%) Security Architecture
6 122 (19.46%) SIEM
7 101 (16.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 97 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
9 95 (15.15%) Information Security
10 92 (14.67%) DevSecOps
11 87 (13.88%) Security Operations
12 84 (13.40%) Threat Modelling
12 84 (13.40%) Zero Trust
13 76 (12.12%) Agile
14 70 (11.16%) Identity Access Management
14 70 (11.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 69 (11.00%) Disaster Recovery
16 67 (10.69%) Risk Management
16 67 (10.69%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 152 (24.24%) Python
2 105 (16.75%) PowerShell
3 85 (13.56%) Bash
4 40 (6.38%) Go
5 35 (5.58%) Bicep
6 18 (2.87%) Java
7 13 (2.07%) Rust
8 11 (1.75%) SQL
9 9 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (1.28%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.96%) JavaScript
12 4 (0.64%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.32%) C#
14 1 (0.16%) C
14 1 (0.16%) C++
14 1 (0.16%) Perl
14 1 (0.16%) PHP
14 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 111 (17.70%) Degree
2 109 (17.38%) CISSP
3 102 (16.27%) Security Cleared
4 70 (11.16%) SC Cleared
5 62 (9.89%) CISM
6 43 (6.86%) DV Cleared
7 40 (6.38%) AWS Certification
8 37 (5.90%) OSCP
9 34 (5.42%) Azure Certification
10 29 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
11 28 (4.47%) CEH
12 27 (4.31%) Cisco Certification
13 26 (4.15%) GIAC
14 20 (3.19%) CompTIA Security+
14 20 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
15 17 (2.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 17 (2.71%) CISA
15 17 (2.71%) CREST Certified
16 13 (2.07%) CRISC
16 13 (2.07%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (24.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 142 (22.65%) NIST
3 69 (11.00%) GDPR
4 54 (8.61%) PCI DSS
5 51 (8.13%) GRC
6 42 (6.70%) Cyber Essentials
7 33 (5.26%) SOC 2
8 31 (4.94%) NCSC
9 19 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 17 (2.71%) JSP 440
11 16 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 9 (1.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 8 (1.28%) Accessibility
13 8 (1.28%) NIST 800
13 8 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (1.12%) Government Security Classifications
15 6 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 4 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.64%) EU AI Act
16 4 (0.64%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (9.57%) Active Directory
2 43 (6.86%) Docker
3 16 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.12%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.12%) vSphere
6 5 (0.80%) IAG
6 5 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.80%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.16%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 182 (29.03%) Terraform
2 116 (18.50%) Kubernetes
3 46 (7.34%) Ansible
4 44 (7.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (4.63%) Grafana
6 23 (3.67%) Prometheus
7 14 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (1.91%) CASB
9 11 (1.75%) Cilium
10 8 (1.28%) Argo
10 8 (1.28%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.80%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.64%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.64%) logstash
12 4 (0.64%) WSUS
13 3 (0.48%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.32%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 2 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (0.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 181 (28.87%) Microsoft
2 39 (6.22%) Google
3 36 (5.74%) CrowdStrike
4 31 (4.94%) Cisco
5 27 (4.31%) VMware
6 26 (4.15%) Palo Alto
7 22 (3.51%) Splunk
8 19 (3.03%) Meraki
9 18 (2.87%) Fortinet
10 17 (2.71%) ServiceNow
11 16 (2.55%) Tenable
11 16 (2.55%) Zscaler
12 13 (2.07%) iManage
13 12 (1.91%) SolarWinds
14 10 (1.59%) CheckPoint
15 9 (1.44%) Apple
15 9 (1.44%) Dynatrace
15 9 (1.44%) Salesforce
15 9 (1.44%) SAP
16 8 (1.28%) CyberArk