Cloud Security Job Trends in the South West

Cloud Security
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Cloud Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 146 111
Rank change year-on-year +12 -35 +45
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 45 46 114
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.90% 1.11% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.30% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 29 36 67
10th Percentile £32,500 - £45,783
25th Percentile £50,000 £30,000 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £51,058 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +35.14% -27.65% +18.56%
75th Percentile £81,250 £74,375 £85,000
90th Percentile £83,000 £87,500 £96,839
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.45% +10.94% -12.87%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,588 3,552 4,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.52% 85.38% 89.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,460 1,788 3,242
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £40,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,439 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% +3.69% +3.35%
75th Percentile £67,425 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,738
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in the South West

Cloud Security
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Cloud Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Cloud Security

Cloud Security
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in the South West over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Security in the South West

Cloud Security
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Bristol +1 16 £72,500 +81.25% 11
Wiltshire +11 9 £67,500 +4.45% 5
Gloucestershire +15 7 £80,000 +113.33% 7
Dorset +7 6 £35,000 -30.00% 6
Devon - 4 £54,475 - 4
Somerset -9 3 - - 3
Cloud Security
England

Cloud Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 9 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (17.78%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 32 (71.11%) Azure
2 16 (35.56%) AWS
3 15 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (31.11%) Entra ID
5 8 (17.78%) GCP
5 8 (17.78%) OneDrive
6 5 (11.11%) GitHub
6 5 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (8.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (8.89%) Serverless
7 4 (8.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (6.67%) Amazon S3
8 3 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (6.67%) SaaS
9 2 (4.44%) Mimecast
9 2 (4.44%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 15 (33.33%) Firewall
2 9 (20.00%) DNS
3 7 (15.56%) TCP/IP
3 7 (15.56%) VPN
4 5 (11.11%) Network Security
4 5 (11.11%) VoIP
4 5 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (8.89%) VLAN
6 3 (6.67%) BGP
6 3 (6.67%) DKIM
6 3 (6.67%) DMARC
6 3 (6.67%) LAN
6 3 (6.67%) MPLS
6 3 (6.67%) OSPF
6 3 (6.67%) SD-WAN
6 3 (6.67%) WAN
7 2 (4.44%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (4.44%) NGFW
7 2 (4.44%) SAN
7 2 (4.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.44%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.11%) Advertising
3 4 (8.89%) Finance
4 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Billing
4 3 (6.67%) Military
4 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.67%) Retail
5 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.22%) Electronics
6 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.22%) Marketing
6 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (22.22%) Architect
2 5 (11.11%) GCP Architect
2 5 (11.11%) ICT Support
2 5 (11.11%) ICT Support Technician
2 5 (11.11%) ICT Technician
2 5 (11.11%) Support Technician
3 4 (8.89%) Analyst
3 4 (8.89%) Consultant
3 4 (8.89%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (8.89%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (8.89%) Security Architect
3 4 (8.89%) Security Consultant
3 4 (8.89%) Security Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Engineering Manager
4 3 (6.67%) Operations Manager
4 3 (6.67%) Support Analyst
4 3 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
4 3 (6.67%) Technical Support
4 3 (6.67%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.22%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) PKI
1 6 (13.33%) Security Posture
2 4 (8.89%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.44%) CCTV
4 2 (4.44%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.44%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.22%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.22%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (2.22%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (33.33%) Windows
2 8 (17.78%) Windows Server
3 5 (11.11%) Android
3 5 (11.11%) Apple iOS
3 5 (11.11%) Mac OS
3 5 (11.11%) Windows 10
4 2 (4.44%) Linux
5 1 (2.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.89%) Incident Response
2 10 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (17.78%) Security Architecture
5 7 (15.56%) Agile
5 7 (15.56%) CI/CD
5 7 (15.56%) TOGAF
6 6 (13.33%) Cryptography
6 6 (13.33%) DevOps
6 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (13.33%) Mentoring
6 6 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
6 6 (13.33%) Security Operations
6 6 (13.33%) SIEM
6 6 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (11.11%) Project Delivery
7 5 (11.11%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 18 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 11 (24.44%) Bash
3 10 (22.22%) Python
4 1 (2.22%) Bicep
4 1 (2.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (28.89%) Security Cleared
2 11 (24.44%) DV Cleared
3 9 (20.00%) Degree
4 7 (15.56%) SC Cleared
5 6 (13.33%) CISSP
6 5 (11.11%) CISM
6 5 (11.11%) MCP
7 4 (8.89%) Azure Certification
7 4 (8.89%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (8.89%) Master's Degree
7 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (8.89%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (6.67%) AWS Certification
8 3 (6.67%) CCNP
8 3 (6.67%) CEH
8 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (4.44%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (4.44%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (4.44%) DBS Check
10 1 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.00%) GDPR
2 7 (15.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (13.33%) NIST
3 6 (13.33%) PCI DSS
4 4 (8.89%) NCSC
5 3 (6.67%) RMADS
6 2 (4.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (4.44%) GRC
7 1 (2.22%) COBIT
7 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (2.22%) JSP 440
7 1 (2.22%) NIST 800
7 1 (2.22%) QA
7 1 (2.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (31.11%) Active Directory
2 9 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (15.56%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.67%) Docker
5 2 (4.44%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (4.44%) vSphere
6 1 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (26.67%) Terraform
2 11 (24.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (11.11%) Ansible
4 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
5 2 (4.44%) Grafana
5 2 (4.44%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.22%) CASB
6 1 (2.22%) SCCM
6 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (37.78%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.00%) VMware
3 7 (15.56%) Cisco
4 5 (11.11%) Fortinet
4 5 (11.11%) Google
5 4 (8.89%) Meraki
5 4 (8.89%) Veeam
6 3 (6.67%) Palo Alto
7 2 (4.44%) SolarWinds
7 2 (4.44%) SonicWALL
8 1 (2.22%) HP
8 1 (2.22%) SAP
8 1 (2.22%) Splunk
8 1 (2.22%) Tenable