Cloud Security Jobs in England

Cloud Security
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Cloud Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Security over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 305 167
Rank change year-on-year +87 -138 +154
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 725 784 2,020
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.50% 0.91% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 1.07% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 409 601 953
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £42,874
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,000 £53,970
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% +6.08%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% +7.14%

All Process and 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 45,472 73,407 86,016
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.00% 85.49% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 24,183 53,973 50,952
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,256
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,410 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in England

Cloud Security
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Cloud Security in England

Cloud Security
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

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 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 +87 273 £70,000 +33.33% 90
North West +87 235 £74,870 +49.74% 46
London +51 228 £78,750 -1.56% 349
South East +88 93 £65,000 +30.00% 152
Midlands +41 47 £60,000 -7.69% 41
West Midlands +57 41 £55,000 -26.67% 35
South West +47 38 £71,250 +19.70% 35
Yorkshire +32 28 £55,000 -8.33% 36
East of England +45 23 £65,250 -10.00% 26
North East +30 10 £70,000 +64.71% 8
East Midlands +24 6 £70,000 +16.67% 5
Cloud Security
UK

Cloud Security
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:

Application Platforms
1 18 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.24%) Confluence
4 8 (1.10%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.97%) IIS
6 5 (0.69%) Apache
7 2 (0.28%) nginx
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
3 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Endur
1 2 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 472 (65.10%) Azure
2 443 (61.10%) AWS
3 282 (38.90%) GCP
4 84 (11.59%) SaaS
5 61 (8.41%) Microsoft 365
6 50 (6.90%) Serverless
7 49 (6.76%) PaaS
8 40 (5.52%) Entra ID
9 34 (4.69%) IaaS
10 33 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
11 32 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
12 29 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 26 (3.59%) Amazon S3
14 25 (3.45%) AWS KMS
15 24 (3.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 23 (3.17%) Azure Sentinel
17 20 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
18 18 (2.48%) Power Platform
19 17 (2.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 16 (2.21%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 137 (18.90%) Firewall
2 79 (10.90%) Network Security
3 43 (5.93%) VPN
4 27 (3.72%) WAN
5 25 (3.45%) DNS
5 25 (3.45%) Intrusion Detection
6 19 (2.62%) SD-WAN
6 19 (2.62%) Wi-Fi
7 16 (2.21%) TCP/IP
8 15 (2.07%) LAN
9 14 (1.93%) DHCP
9 14 (1.93%) Wireless
10 13 (1.79%) BGP
11 12 (1.66%) Cisco ASA
11 12 (1.66%) MPLS
11 12 (1.66%) OSPF
11 12 (1.66%) WLAN
12 10 (1.38%) VLAN
13 9 (1.24%) SSL
14 8 (1.10%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.48%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (1.52%) Big Data
4 10 (1.38%) MySQL
5 8 (1.10%) Data Lake
6 7 (0.97%) DynamoDB
6 7 (0.97%) Power BI
7 5 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.69%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.55%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.28%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.28%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.14%) DB2
11 1 (0.14%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (5.10%) Git
1 37 (5.10%) Jenkins
2 12 (1.66%) JIRA
3 9 (1.24%) GitLab
4 8 (1.10%) Vagrant
5 5 (0.69%) Cypress.io
5 5 (0.69%) Postman
5 5 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (0.69%) Vite
5 5 (0.69%) webpack
6 4 (0.55%) JMeter
6 4 (0.55%) Locust
6 4 (0.55%) Robot Framework
6 4 (0.55%) Selenium
7 3 (0.41%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.14%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.14%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.14%) Travis CI
General
1 197 (27.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 158 (21.79%) Social Skills
3 128 (17.66%) Finance
4 58 (8.00%) Law
5 54 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.72%) Banking
7 25 (3.45%) Telecoms
8 24 (3.31%) Retail
9 22 (3.03%) Legal
10 18 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
10 18 (2.48%) Public Sector
11 12 (1.66%) Games
12 11 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.24%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.24%) Marketing
14 8 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.83%) Automotive
15 6 (0.83%) Aviation
15 6 (0.83%) Back Office
16 4 (0.55%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 285 (39.31%) Senior
2 206 (28.41%) Software Engineer
3 197 (27.17%) Senior Software Engineer
4 141 (19.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 105 (14.48%) Security Engineer
6 92 (12.69%) Architect
7 60 (8.28%) Lead
8 51 (7.03%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 50 (6.90%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 49 (6.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 48 (6.62%) Security Architect
12 42 (5.79%) AWS Engineer
12 42 (5.79%) Azure Engineer
13 41 (5.66%) Cloud Architect
14 37 (5.10%) Security Manager
15 35 (4.83%) AWS Architect
16 29 (4.00%) Analyst
17 24 (3.31%) Senior Security Engineer
18 21 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
19 20 (2.76%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (29.66%) Node.js
2 193 (26.62%) .NET
3 21 (2.90%) REST
4 20 (2.76%) Kafka
5 17 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
6 16 (2.21%) React
6 16 (2.21%) Web Services
7 10 (1.38%) YAML
8 9 (1.24%) AngularJS
8 9 (1.24%) Azure Blueprints
9 8 (1.10%) ARM Templates
10 7 (0.97%) Next.js
10 7 (0.97%) OAuth
10 7 (0.97%) SAML
10 7 (0.97%) Vue
11 6 (0.83%) Spring
11 6 (0.83%) Spring Boot
12 5 (0.69%) Enzyme
12 5 (0.69%) Parceljs
12 5 (0.69%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 198 (27.31%) Self-Motivation
2 181 (24.97%) Cyberattack
3 178 (24.55%) Linux Command Line
4 109 (15.03%) Security Posture
5 103 (14.21%) Management Information System
6 62 (8.55%) Cloud Native
7 45 (6.21%) Public Cloud
8 41 (5.66%) Cloud Security Posture
9 23 (3.17%) Cyber Threat
10 22 (3.03%) Data Centre
11 18 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
11 18 (2.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 17 (2.34%) Algorithms
13 15 (2.07%) PKI
14 14 (1.93%) Product Ownership
14 14 (1.93%) Social Media
15 13 (1.79%) Cyber Defence
15 13 (1.79%) Security Operations Centre
16 10 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
17 7 (0.97%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 241 (33.24%) Linux
2 95 (13.10%) Windows
3 27 (3.72%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.93%) Windows Vista
5 13 (1.79%) VMS
6 9 (1.24%) Android
6 9 (1.24%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.69%) Unix
10 4 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.41%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.41%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.14%) Debian
13 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (36.69%) Agile
2 251 (34.62%) Software Engineering
3 239 (32.97%) Mentoring
4 216 (29.79%) Microservices
5 203 (28.00%) Machine Learning
6 200 (27.59%) Scrum
7 197 (27.17%) User Experience
8 195 (26.90%) Data Engineering
9 184 (25.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 167 (23.03%) DevOps
11 153 (21.10%) Cybersecurity
12 150 (20.69%) CI/CD
13 129 (17.79%) Infrastructure as Code
14 111 (15.31%) Information Security
15 106 (14.62%) Incident Response
16 94 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
17 88 (12.14%) Security Architecture
18 85 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
19 82 (11.31%) Computer Science
19 82 (11.31%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 331 (45.66%) Python
2 229 (31.59%) Java
3 202 (27.86%) Go
4 193 (26.62%) JavaScript
5 181 (24.97%) C++
5 181 (24.97%) Rust
6 66 (9.10%) PowerShell
7 34 (4.69%) Bash
8 33 (4.55%) TypeScript
9 27 (3.72%) SQL
10 14 (1.93%) Bicep
11 8 (1.10%) C#
11 8 (1.10%) Perl
12 7 (0.97%) Groovy
13 4 (0.55%) Ruby
14 3 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.41%) PHP
14 3 (0.41%) R
14 3 (0.41%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.28%) C
Qualifications
1 253 (34.90%) Security Cleared
2 243 (33.52%) AWS Certification
3 212 (29.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 188 (25.93%) DV Cleared
5 178 (24.55%) AWS Certified Developer
6 108 (14.90%) Degree
7 101 (13.93%) CISSP
8 65 (8.97%) SC Cleared
9 63 (8.69%) CISM
10 51 (7.03%) Computer Science Degree
11 38 (5.24%) Cisco Certification
12 37 (5.10%) Azure Certification
13 36 (4.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 33 (4.55%) CISA
15 27 (3.72%) CEH
16 21 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
17 20 (2.76%) Master's Degree
18 16 (2.21%) CCSP
19 15 (2.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 15 (2.07%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (15.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 105 (14.48%) NIST
3 96 (13.24%) GDPR
4 38 (5.24%) PCI DSS
5 27 (3.72%) HIPAA
6 21 (2.90%) Cyber Essentials
7 20 (2.76%) SOC 2
8 18 (2.48%) Accessibility
9 16 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 16 (2.21%) GRC
10 13 (1.79%) NCSC
11 12 (1.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (1.10%) SLA
13 7 (0.97%) QA
14 5 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.69%) COBIT
14 5 (0.69%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
16 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 61 (8.41%) Docker
2 56 (7.72%) Active Directory
3 18 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.38%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.69%) Firmware
8 4 (0.55%) DFS Replication
8 4 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.28%) vSphere
10 1 (0.14%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 139 (19.17%) Terraform
2 116 (16.00%) Kubernetes
3 45 (6.21%) Ansible
4 26 (3.59%) Grafana
4 26 (3.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 26 (3.59%) Prometheus
5 19 (2.62%) CASB
6 10 (1.38%) QRadar
6 10 (1.38%) SCCM
6 10 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (0.97%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.83%) ArcSight ESM
9 5 (0.69%) HP Fortify
9 5 (0.69%) Istio
9 5 (0.69%) Nessus
10 4 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.55%) ZENworks
11 3 (0.41%) linkerd
11 3 (0.41%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 151 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.17%) Google
3 37 (5.10%) Cisco
4 25 (3.45%) VMware
5 19 (2.62%) Meraki
6 18 (2.48%) Splunk
7 17 (2.34%) Ping Identity
8 16 (2.21%) SolarWinds
9 14 (1.93%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.66%) Juniper
11 11 (1.52%) CheckPoint
12 10 (1.38%) Dynatrace
13 9 (1.24%) IBM
14 8 (1.10%) Databricks
14 8 (1.10%) Infoblox
14 8 (1.10%) Palo Alto
15 7 (0.97%) Zscaler
16 6 (0.83%) ArcSight
16 6 (0.83%) CyberArk
16 6 (0.83%) LogLogic