Cloud Security Job Trends in Merseyside

Cloud Security
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Cloud Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 61 66
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 -15
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 7 3 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 0.58% 0.58% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.63% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 17
10th Percentile - - £47,000
25th Percentile £71,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - £50,000
75th Percentile £81,250 - £55,000
90th Percentile - - £69,000
North West median annual salary £76,250 £74,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.35% +41.90% -19.23%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 890 475 906
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 73.31% 92.05% 75.12%
Number of salaries quoted 580 210 742
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.38% -1.05%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,375 £81,783
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,890 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.08% +1.78% -9.09%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Cloud Security
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Cloud Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Cloud Security

Cloud Security
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 8 July 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
Liverpool -18 7 £72,500 - 1
Cloud Security
North West

Cloud Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) GCP
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 4 (57.14%) Operational Security Manager
1 4 (57.14%) Operations Manager
1 4 (57.14%) Security Manager
1 4 (57.14%) Security Operations Manager
2 3 (42.86%) Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Cyber Resilience
1 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (57.14%) Incident Response
1 4 (57.14%) Roadmaps
1 4 (57.14%) Security Monitoring
1 4 (57.14%) Security Operations
1 4 (57.14%) SIEM
1 4 (57.14%) Strategic Roadmap
1 4 (57.14%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 4 (57.14%) Threat Detection
1 4 (57.14%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (42.86%) Business Continuity
2 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (42.86%) Identity Management
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Bicep
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (57.14%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform