Cloud Security Jobs in Manchester

Cloud Security
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 160 82
Rank change year-on-year +107 -78 +135
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 135 63 213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 6.05% 1.22% 4.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.36% 1.41% 4.51%
Number of salaries quoted 48 53 63
10th Percentile £58,875 £35,750 £47,618
25th Percentile £62,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £59,526 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +25.78% - -7.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £79,125 £81,250 £97,290
North West median annual salary £74,870 £50,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +49.74% -16.00% -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,124 4,475 4,724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 95.20% 86.37% 96.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,298 3,415 2,525
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -5.22% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,840 £68,857 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £82,500 £83,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in Manchester

Cloud Security
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Cloud Security in Manchester

Cloud Security
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in Manchester over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Security in Manchester

Cloud Security
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 9 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
Bolton - 14 £75,000 - 2
Altrincham +2 6 - - 2
Stockport - 6 - - 2
Oldham - 6 - -
Cheadle - 6 - -
Heywood - 6 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 5 - - 2
Bury - 5 - - 3
Stalybridge - 5 - -
Sale - 3 - -
Dukinfield - 3 - -
Salford +9 1 £57,500 +9.52%
Cloud Security
North West

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (1.48%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 100 (74.07%) AWS
2 99 (73.33%) Azure
3 82 (60.74%) GCP
4 6 (4.44%) GitHub
5 5 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (3.70%) SaaS
6 3 (2.22%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.48%) AWS KMS
7 2 (1.48%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.48%) IaaS
7 2 (1.48%) PaaS
7 2 (1.48%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.74%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 15 (11.11%) Firewall
2 14 (10.37%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.48%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.74%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.48%) MySQL
1 2 (1.48%) Power BI
2 1 (0.74%) DB2
2 1 (0.74%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.74%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (2.96%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.74%) CircleCI
2 1 (0.74%) Git
2 1 (0.74%) GitLab
2 1 (0.74%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (0.74%) TeamCity
2 1 (0.74%) Travis CI
General
1 77 (57.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 33 (24.44%) Social Skills
3 26 (19.26%) Finance
4 17 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (11.11%) Banking
6 7 (5.19%) Retail
7 3 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.48%) Automotive
8 2 (1.48%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.48%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (66.67%) Senior
2 87 (64.44%) Senior Software Engineer
2 87 (64.44%) Software Engineer
3 16 (11.85%) Cloud Engineer
3 16 (11.85%) Security Engineer
4 15 (11.11%) Architect
4 15 (11.11%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 15 (11.11%) Security Architect
5 11 (8.15%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (4.44%) AWS Software Engineer
7 5 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 5 (3.70%) Lead
8 4 (2.96%) Security Manager
8 4 (2.96%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 4 (2.96%) Senior Security Engineer
9 3 (2.22%) Analyst
9 3 (2.22%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (2.22%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 3 (2.22%) Cyber Threat Analyst
9 3 (2.22%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (61.48%) Node.js
2 79 (58.52%) .NET
3 8 (5.93%) REST
4 7 (5.19%) Web Services
5 5 (3.70%) React
6 4 (2.96%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.48%) PyTorch
7 2 (1.48%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.48%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.74%) JSON
8 1 (0.74%) OAuth
8 1 (0.74%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.74%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 91 (67.41%) Self-Motivation
2 79 (58.52%) Cyberattack
3 77 (57.04%) Linux Command Line
4 22 (16.30%) Security Posture
5 14 (10.37%) Management Information System
5 14 (10.37%) Social Media
5 14 (10.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 10 (7.41%) Cloud Native
6 10 (7.41%) Product Ownership
6 10 (7.41%) Public Cloud
7 6 (4.44%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.22%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.48%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.48%) Life Science
10 1 (0.74%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 86 (63.70%) Linux
2 16 (11.85%) Windows
3 14 (10.37%) Windows Vista
4 7 (5.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (67.41%) Agile
2 88 (65.19%) Software Engineering
3 81 (60.00%) Microservices
3 81 (60.00%) Scrum
4 79 (58.52%) Machine Learning
4 79 (58.52%) Mentoring
5 78 (57.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 77 (57.04%) Data Engineering
6 77 (57.04%) User Experience
7 32 (23.70%) Cybersecurity
8 22 (16.30%) Information Security
9 21 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (15.56%) Risk Management
9 21 (15.56%) Security Architecture
10 19 (14.07%) DevSecOps
10 19 (14.07%) Incident Response
11 17 (12.59%) DevOps
11 17 (12.59%) Vulnerability Management
12 16 (11.85%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (11.85%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 96 (71.11%) Python
2 79 (58.52%) Java
3 78 (57.78%) Go
3 78 (57.78%) JavaScript
4 77 (57.04%) C++
4 77 (57.04%) Rust
5 11 (8.15%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.70%) Bash
7 3 (2.22%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.48%) SQL
9 1 (0.74%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 80 (59.26%) AWS Certification
1 80 (59.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 79 (58.52%) Security Cleared
3 77 (57.04%) AWS Certified Developer
3 77 (57.04%) DV Cleared
4 18 (13.33%) CISM
4 18 (13.33%) CISSP
5 17 (12.59%) Degree
6 16 (11.85%) CISA
7 15 (11.11%) CEH
8 14 (10.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 14 (10.37%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (10.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (10.37%) DBS Check
8 14 (10.37%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.48%) CRISC
9 2 (1.48%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.74%) MCSA
10 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (11.85%) GDPR
2 16 (11.85%) NIST
3 2 (1.48%) GRC
3 2 (1.48%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (5.19%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.96%) Docker
3 3 (2.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (11.11%) Terraform
2 5 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.74%) Automic
3 1 (0.74%) Consul
3 1 (0.74%) Istio
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.74%) Rancher
3 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (5.93%) Ping Identity
2 6 (4.44%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.22%) Hitachi
3 3 (2.22%) IBM
4 2 (1.48%) Google
5 1 (0.74%) Cloudera
5 1 (0.74%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.74%) Imperva
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle
5 1 (0.74%) Splunk