Cloud Security Job Trends in the North of England

Cloud Security
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Cloud Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 136 185
Rank change year-on-year -108 +49 -114
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 55 122 174
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.38% 1.76% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 1.85% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 43 97 160
10th Percentile £40,500 £42,500 £35,675
25th Percentile £45,625 £47,231 £42,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.54% +23.81% -19.23%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,500 £82,040 £75,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% -10.34%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,844 6,587 12,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 75.81% 95.12% 85.37%
Number of salaries quoted 6,338 3,639 10,098
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,620
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in the North of England

Cloud Security
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cloud Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cloud Security

Cloud Security
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Security in the North of England

Cloud Security
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 15 March 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
Yorkshire -48 31 £50,000 -4.76% 14
North West -57 21 £67,500 -9.62% 18
North East -21 3 £40,000 -37.01% 5
Cloud Security
England

Cloud Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (54.55%) Azure
2 17 (30.91%) AWS
3 13 (23.64%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
5 9 (16.36%) Entra ID
6 6 (10.91%) Amazon S3
7 5 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (9.09%) GitHub
7 5 (9.09%) SaaS
8 4 (7.27%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (7.27%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 4 (7.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (5.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (5.45%) GCP
9 3 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (5.45%) Power Platform
10 2 (3.64%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (3.64%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.55%) VPN
2 6 (10.91%) Firewall
2 6 (10.91%) LAN
2 6 (10.91%) SD-WAN
2 6 (10.91%) WAN
3 4 (7.27%) Asterisk PBX
3 4 (7.27%) BGP
3 4 (7.27%) DHCP
3 4 (7.27%) DNS
3 4 (7.27%) MPLS
3 4 (7.27%) Network Security
3 4 (7.27%) Software-Defined Networking
3 4 (7.27%) VoIP
3 4 (7.27%) VPLS
4 2 (3.64%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (3.64%) DMVPN
4 2 (3.64%) Wireless
5 1 (1.82%) HTTP
5 1 (1.82%) SAN
5 1 (1.82%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
1 2 (3.64%) MySQL
1 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.82%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.82%) Power BI
2 1 (1.82%) Redis
2 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (1.82%) JIRA
2 1 (1.82%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (1.82%) Snyk
General
1 11 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.27%) Finance
3 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.64%) Law
4 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Legal
5 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (32.73%) Security Engineer
2 10 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
3 9 (16.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (16.36%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 8 (14.55%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 7 (12.73%) Senior
6 6 (10.91%) IT Engineer
7 5 (9.09%) IT Support
8 4 (7.27%) Consultant
8 4 (7.27%) IT Support Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Support Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) 3rd Line Support
9 3 (5.45%) Architect
9 3 (5.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Lead
10 2 (3.64%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) Network Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.27%) .NET
1 4 (7.27%) AWS CDK
1 4 (7.27%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (5.45%) NestJS
2 3 (5.45%) Node.js
2 3 (5.45%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (5.45%) REST
3 2 (3.64%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (3.64%) WCF
4 1 (1.82%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.82%) RESTful
4 1 (1.82%) Software Packaging
4 1 (1.82%) Spring
4 1 (1.82%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.82%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.09%) Security Posture
3 4 (7.27%) PKI
4 3 (5.45%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (5.45%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.64%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.82%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) IoT
6 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.82%) NHS
6 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.55%) Windows
2 7 (12.73%) Linux
3 4 (7.27%) VMS
4 1 (1.82%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (38.18%) Cybersecurity
2 19 (34.55%) CI/CD
2 19 (34.55%) DevOps
3 17 (30.91%) Continuous Improvement
4 16 (29.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (23.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (23.64%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 12 (21.82%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (21.82%) Identity Management
7 11 (20.00%) Observability
8 10 (18.18%) Incident Management
8 10 (18.18%) Migration
8 10 (18.18%) Security Architecture
8 10 (18.18%) SIEM
9 8 (14.55%) Incident Response
9 8 (14.55%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (10.91%) Agile
10 6 (10.91%) Microservices
10 6 (10.91%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (10.91%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (32.73%) PowerShell
2 11 (20.00%) Bash
3 7 (12.73%) Python
4 5 (9.09%) Bicep
5 4 (7.27%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.45%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.45%) SQL
7 2 (3.64%) C#
7 2 (3.64%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (10.91%) CCNA
1 6 (10.91%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 5 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.45%) CISSP
4 2 (3.64%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.64%) CCNP
4 2 (3.64%) Degree
5 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.82%) CISM
5 1 (1.82%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.82%) OSCP
5 1 (1.82%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (9.09%) NIST
3 4 (7.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (7.27%) GRC
3 4 (7.27%) SOC 2
4 3 (5.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (5.45%) GDPR
5 1 (1.82%) NCSC
5 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 13 (23.64%) Active Directory
2 7 (12.73%) Docker
3 6 (10.91%) VMware NSX
3 6 (10.91%) vSphere
4 4 (7.27%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (7.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (5.45%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (3.64%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (23.64%) Terraform
2 12 (21.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (16.36%) Kubernetes
4 6 (10.91%) Ansible
5 4 (7.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (7.27%) Prometheus
5 4 (7.27%) WSUS
6 2 (3.64%) Argo
6 2 (3.64%) Grafana
7 1 (1.82%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 25 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.73%) VMware
3 6 (10.91%) Splunk
4 3 (5.45%) Cisco
5 2 (3.64%) Databricks
5 2 (3.64%) Qualys
6 1 (1.82%) Apple
6 1 (1.82%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.82%) Cribl.io
6 1 (1.82%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.82%) Facebook
6 1 (1.82%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.82%) Foundry
6 1 (1.82%) Google
6 1 (1.82%) Juniper
6 1 (1.82%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.82%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.82%) SAP
6 1 (1.82%) Zscaler