Cloud Security Engineer Jobs in London

Cloud Security Engineer
England > London

The median Cloud Security Engineer salary in London is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 492 572
Rank change year-on-year +105 +80 +201
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 13 13 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.10% 0.055% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.059% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 11 11 52
10th Percentile £62,500 - £63,875
25th Percentile £73,750 £56,219 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £59,526 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.59% -20.63% -3.23%
75th Percentile £86,250 £76,875 £105,625
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £150,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,526 £70,000
% change year-on-year +0.80% -14.96% -9.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,452 22,183 33,419
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 94.12% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 7,427 16,676 24,569
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Cloud Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security Engineer in London

Cloud Security Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Cloud Security Engineer in London

Cloud Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security Engineer in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Security Engineer in London

Cloud Security Engineer
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 5 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
Central London +32 2 £67,250 -
South London - 1 £72,500 -
Cloud Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 London region featuring Cloud Security Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 10 (76.92%) Azure
2 10 (76.92%) AWS
3 7 (53.85%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (53.85%) Security Posture
4 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
4 6 (46.15%) SIEM
5 5 (38.46%) GCP
5 5 (38.46%) Security Operations
5 5 (38.46%) Finance
5 5 (38.46%) NIST
6 4 (30.77%) Incident Response
6 4 (30.77%) Security Architecture
6 4 (30.77%) Data Loss Prevention
6 4 (30.77%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (23.08%) Security Hardening
7 3 (23.08%) AWS Certification
7 3 (23.08%) Splunk
7 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (23.08%) Vulnerability Management
7 3 (23.08%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (23.08%) GDPR
7 3 (23.08%) Security Monitoring
7 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
7 3 (23.08%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (23.08%) Agile
7 3 (23.08%) Banking
7 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
7 3 (23.08%) Microsoft

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 10 (76.92%) AWS
1 10 (76.92%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) GCP
3 3 (23.08%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
4 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (15.38%) IaaS
4 2 (15.38%) PaaS
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
4 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (7.69%) AWS KMS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) NAS
2 1 (7.69%) Network Security
2 1 (7.69%) SAN
2 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
2 1 (7.69%) WAN
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
5 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
1 2 (15.38%) React
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (7.69%) OAuth
2 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Security Posture
2 3 (23.08%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 2 (15.38%) Public Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Cyberattack
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (7.69%) PKI
4 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 7 (53.85%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (46.15%) SIEM
4 5 (38.46%) Security Operations
5 4 (30.77%) Data Loss Prevention
5 4 (30.77%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (30.77%) Incident Response
5 4 (30.77%) Security Architecture
6 3 (23.08%) Agile
6 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
6 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
6 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (23.08%) Security Hardening
6 3 (23.08%) Security Monitoring
6 3 (23.08%) Vulnerability Management
6 3 (23.08%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 2 (15.38%) CRM
7 2 (15.38%) Information Security
7 2 (15.38%) Penetration Testing
7 2 (15.38%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
1 3 (23.08%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (23.08%) AWS Certification
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (15.38%) CCSK
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.69%) CCNA
3 1 (7.69%) CCNP
3 1 (7.69%) CCSP
3 1 (7.69%) CISA
3 1 (7.69%) CISSP
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) FFIEC
3 1 (7.69%) GCIA
3 1 (7.69%) GCIH
3 1 (7.69%) GIAC
3 1 (7.69%) GREM
3 1 (7.69%) GSEC
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) NIST
2 3 (23.08%) GDPR
2 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
3 2 (15.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) CASB
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
1 3 (23.08%) Splunk
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco
2 2 (15.38%) Google
2 2 (15.38%) Ping Identity
3 1 (7.69%) Dell
3 1 (7.69%) EMC
3 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
3 1 (7.69%) SonicWALL
3 1 (7.69%) VMware