Cloud Security Jobs in the North of England

Cloud Security
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 220 103
Rank change year-on-year +85 -117 +244
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 271 179 588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.36% 1.02% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 1.23% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 84 158 243
10th Percentile £45,375 £36,425 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £42,500 £49,045
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -19.23% +13.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £100,114
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% +5.34%

All Process and 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 10,925 14,586 16,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 95.01% 83.43% 96.85%
Number of salaries quoted 5,720 11,195 8,014
10th Percentile £25,480 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,658 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in the North of England

Cloud Security
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Cloud Security in the North of England

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 14 May 2025.

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 14 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 West +82 235 £74,870 +49.74% 42
Yorkshire +38 26 £52,500 -12.50% 34
North East +24 10 £70,000 +64.71% 9
Cloud Security
England

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 3 (1.11%) IIS
2 2 (0.74%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 213 (78.60%) AWS
1 213 (78.60%) Azure
2 181 (66.79%) GCP
3 10 (3.69%) IaaS
3 10 (3.69%) SaaS
4 8 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (2.95%) GitHub
4 8 (2.95%) PaaS
5 7 (2.58%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (1.85%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.48%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.11%) Serverless
9 2 (0.74%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.74%) AWS KMS
9 2 (0.74%) Azure AKS
9 2 (0.74%) Mimecast
9 2 (0.74%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.74%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.37%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.96%) Firewall
2 16 (5.90%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (1.85%) Network Security
4 4 (1.48%) VPN
5 3 (1.11%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.37%) LAN
7 1 (0.37%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.37%) WAN
7 1 (0.37%) WebEx
7 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.48%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.11%) MySQL
2 3 (1.11%) Power BI
3 2 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.37%) DB2
4 1 (0.37%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (2.58%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.74%) Git
2 2 (0.74%) GitLab
3 1 (0.37%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.37%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.37%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.37%) Travis CI
General
1 172 (63.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 42 (15.50%) Social Skills
3 29 (10.70%) Finance
4 22 (8.12%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.17%) Banking
6 11 (4.06%) Law
7 7 (2.58%) Retail
8 6 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.74%) Automotive
10 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 199 (73.43%) Senior
2 185 (68.27%) Senior Software Engineer
2 185 (68.27%) Software Engineer
3 39 (14.39%) Cloud Engineer
4 30 (11.07%) Security Engineer
5 27 (9.96%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 21 (7.75%) AWS Engineer
7 18 (6.64%) Architect
8 17 (6.27%) Security Architect
9 13 (4.80%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 10 (3.69%) Lead
11 8 (2.95%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (2.58%) AWS Software Engineer
13 6 (2.21%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 6 (2.21%) DevOps Engineer
13 6 (2.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 5 (1.85%) Security Manager
14 5 (1.85%) Senior Security Engineer
15 4 (1.48%) Cloud Software Engineer
15 4 (1.48%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (66.05%) Node.js
2 178 (65.68%) .NET
3 10 (3.69%) REST
3 10 (3.69%) Web Services
4 6 (2.21%) React
5 5 (1.85%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.85%) OAuth
6 4 (1.48%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.11%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.11%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.74%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.74%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.74%) SAML
8 2 (0.74%) scikit-learn
8 2 (0.74%) TensorFlow
9 1 (0.37%) FIDO
9 1 (0.37%) JWT
9 1 (0.37%) Kafka
9 1 (0.37%) OpenID
9 1 (0.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 187 (69.00%) Self-Motivation
2 174 (64.21%) Cyberattack
3 172 (63.47%) Linux Command Line
4 33 (12.18%) Security Posture
5 19 (7.01%) Management Information System
6 17 (6.27%) Cloud Native
7 16 (5.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 14 (5.17%) Social Media
9 11 (4.06%) Product Ownership
10 10 (3.69%) Cloud Security Posture
10 10 (3.69%) Public Cloud
11 7 (2.58%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.48%) Private Cloud
14 3 (1.11%) Algorithms
14 3 (1.11%) Cyber Defence
14 3 (1.11%) Data Centre
14 3 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
15 2 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
15 2 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 186 (68.63%) Linux
2 20 (7.38%) Windows
3 14 (5.17%) Windows Vista
4 7 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.11%) Unix
6 1 (0.37%) Debian
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (70.85%) Agile
2 189 (69.74%) Software Engineering
3 182 (67.16%) Data Engineering
4 178 (65.68%) Microservices
5 177 (65.31%) Mentoring
5 177 (65.31%) Scrum
6 174 (64.21%) Machine Learning
6 174 (64.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 174 (64.21%) User Experience
7 39 (14.39%) Cybersecurity
8 36 (13.28%) DevOps
9 33 (12.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (10.70%) Vulnerability Management
11 28 (10.33%) Information Security
11 28 (10.33%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (8.86%) Risk Management
12 24 (8.86%) Security Architecture
13 23 (8.49%) DevSecOps
14 22 (8.12%) Incident Response
14 22 (8.12%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 201 (74.17%) Python
2 177 (65.31%) JavaScript
3 175 (64.58%) Go
3 175 (64.58%) Java
4 173 (63.84%) Rust
5 172 (63.47%) C++
6 13 (4.80%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.69%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.32%) Bash
9 6 (2.21%) Bicep
10 4 (1.48%) C#
11 3 (1.11%) SQL
12 1 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 185 (68.27%) AWS Certification
2 175 (64.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 174 (64.21%) Security Cleared
4 172 (63.47%) AWS Certified Developer
4 172 (63.47%) DV Cleared
5 20 (7.38%) CISSP
6 19 (7.01%) CISM
6 19 (7.01%) Degree
7 16 (5.90%) CEH
7 16 (5.90%) CISA
7 16 (5.90%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (5.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 15 (5.54%) Master's Degree
9 14 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (5.17%) DBS Check
10 10 (3.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 7 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.85%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.74%) CRISC
13 2 (0.74%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (7.38%) NIST
3 18 (6.64%) GDPR
4 3 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.11%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.74%) GRC
6 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.37%) NCSC
6 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (2.95%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.21%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.21%) Docker
3 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (10.33%) Terraform
2 12 (4.43%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.21%) Ansible
4 3 (1.11%) SCCM
5 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.37%) Automic
6 1 (0.37%) Consul
6 1 (0.37%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.37%) Istio
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.37%) Rancher
Vendors
1 15 (5.54%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.06%) Ping Identity
3 5 (1.85%) Google
4 4 (1.48%) Cisco
4 4 (1.48%) VMware
5 3 (1.11%) Hitachi
5 3 (1.11%) IBM
6 2 (0.74%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (0.74%) Tenable
6 2 (0.74%) Varonis
7 1 (0.37%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.37%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.37%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.37%) Imperva
7 1 (0.37%) Juniper
7 1 (0.37%) Meraki
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle
7 1 (0.37%) Splunk
7 1 (0.37%) Zscaler