Cloud Security Jobs in the North West

Cloud Security
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 205 99
Rank change year-on-year +88 -106 +173
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 235 86 268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.93% 0.87% 3.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% 1.05% 3.58%
Number of salaries quoted 53 75 68
10th Percentile £55,250 £38,600 £46,112
25th Percentile £62,500 £45,000 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £50,000 £59,763
Median % change year-on-year +49.74% -16.34% -4.38%
75th Percentile £77,500 £66,250 £80,313
90th Percentile £79,750 £76,750 £98,103
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% +6.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,669 8,165 7,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.77% 82.81% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,125 6,197 3,919
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £30,831
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in the North West

Cloud Security
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Cloud Security in the North West

Cloud Security
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in the North West over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Security in the North West

Cloud Security
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Manchester +107 140 £74,870 +25.78% 41
Lancashire - 71 £45,000 - 19
Cheshire +26 22 £64,750 +41.53% 3
Cumbria - 2 £70,000 -
Cloud Security
England

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (0.85%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 198 (84.26%) Azure
2 197 (83.83%) AWS
3 177 (75.32%) GCP
4 6 (2.55%) GitHub
5 5 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (2.13%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.13%) SaaS
6 2 (0.85%) AWS KMS
6 2 (0.85%) Azure AKS
6 2 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (0.85%) IaaS
6 2 (0.85%) PaaS
6 2 (0.85%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.43%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.43%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.43%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.81%) Firewall
2 14 (5.96%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.43%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.85%) MySQL
1 2 (0.85%) Power BI
2 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.43%) DB2
2 1 (0.43%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.13%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.85%) Git
2 2 (0.85%) GitLab
3 1 (0.43%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.43%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.43%) Travis CI
General
1 172 (73.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 34 (14.47%) Social Skills
3 28 (11.91%) Finance
4 17 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.38%) Banking
6 7 (2.98%) Retail
7 3 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.85%) Automotive
8 2 (0.85%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Law
Job Titles
1 186 (79.15%) Senior
2 183 (77.87%) Senior Software Engineer
2 183 (77.87%) Software Engineer
3 18 (7.66%) Cloud Engineer
4 17 (7.23%) Security Engineer
5 16 (6.81%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 15 (6.38%) Architect
6 15 (6.38%) Security Architect
7 12 (5.11%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (2.98%) Lead
9 6 (2.55%) AWS Software Engineer
10 5 (2.13%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 4 (1.70%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (1.70%) Security Manager
11 4 (1.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 4 (1.70%) Senior Security Engineer
12 3 (1.28%) Cyber Threat Analyst
12 3 (1.28%) DevOps Engineer
12 3 (1.28%) Lead DevOps
12 3 (1.28%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (75.74%) Node.js
2 174 (74.04%) .NET
3 8 (3.40%) REST
4 7 (2.98%) Web Services
5 5 (2.13%) React
6 4 (1.70%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.85%) OAuth
7 2 (0.85%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.85%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.85%) SAML
7 2 (0.85%) scikit-learn
7 2 (0.85%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.43%) FIDO
8 1 (0.43%) JSON
8 1 (0.43%) JWT
8 1 (0.43%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 186 (79.15%) Self-Motivation
2 174 (74.04%) Cyberattack
3 172 (73.19%) Linux Command Line
4 23 (9.79%) Security Posture
5 14 (5.96%) Management Information System
5 14 (5.96%) Social Media
5 14 (5.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 10 (4.26%) Cloud Native
6 10 (4.26%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.26%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.55%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.28%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.28%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.85%) Life Science
10 1 (0.43%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.43%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.43%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 181 (77.02%) Linux
2 16 (6.81%) Windows
3 14 (5.96%) Windows Vista
4 7 (2.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (79.15%) Agile
2 184 (78.30%) Software Engineering
3 177 (75.32%) Microservices
4 176 (74.89%) Scrum
5 175 (74.47%) Mentoring
6 174 (74.04%) Machine Learning
6 174 (74.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 173 (73.62%) Data Engineering
8 172 (73.19%) User Experience
9 32 (13.62%) Cybersecurity
10 22 (9.36%) Information Security
10 22 (9.36%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (8.94%) Risk Management
11 21 (8.94%) Security Architecture
12 20 (8.51%) DevSecOps
13 19 (8.09%) DevOps
13 19 (8.09%) Incident Response
14 18 (7.66%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (7.66%) Vulnerability Management
15 16 (6.81%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 192 (81.70%) Python
2 175 (74.47%) Java
3 173 (73.62%) Go
3 173 (73.62%) JavaScript
3 173 (73.62%) Rust
4 172 (73.19%) C++
5 11 (4.68%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.55%) Bash
7 4 (1.70%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.28%) Bicep
9 2 (0.85%) SQL
10 1 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 176 (74.89%) AWS Certification
2 175 (74.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 174 (74.04%) Security Cleared
4 172 (73.19%) AWS Certified Developer
4 172 (73.19%) DV Cleared
5 19 (8.09%) CISSP
6 18 (7.66%) CISM
7 17 (7.23%) Degree
8 16 (6.81%) CISA
9 15 (6.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 15 (6.38%) CEH
9 15 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (5.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (5.96%) DBS Check
10 14 (5.96%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.85%) CRISC
11 2 (0.85%) SC Cleared
12 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (7.23%) NIST
3 16 (6.81%) GDPR
4 2 (0.85%) GRC
4 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.13%) Docker
3 3 (1.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (8.09%) Terraform
2 6 (2.55%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.43%) Ansible
4 1 (0.43%) Automic
4 1 (0.43%) Consul
4 1 (0.43%) Istio
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.43%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (3.83%) Ping Identity
2 7 (2.98%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.28%) Hitachi
3 3 (1.28%) IBM
4 2 (0.85%) Google
5 1 (0.43%) Cloudera
5 1 (0.43%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.43%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.43%) Imperva
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle
5 1 (0.43%) Splunk