Cloud Security Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Cloud Security
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Cloud Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 59 74
Rank change year-on-year -46 +15 -46
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 24 4 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.83% 0.58% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 0.68% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 13 2 3
10th Percentile - £76,000 £41,600
25th Percentile £46,000 £77,500 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £82,500 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -43.03% +28.91% +60.00%
75th Percentile £50,250 £85,000 £66,000
90th Percentile £75,437 - -
North East median annual salary £47,000 £77,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -39.35% +72.22% +12.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,084 592 835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 71.69% 85.67% 83.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,587 385 447
10th Percentile £34,700 £25,000 £25,453
25th Percentile £42,500 £28,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% - -15.49%
75th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £60,866
90th Percentile £100,000 £72,000 £78,800
North East median annual salary £55,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +29.41% -10.53% -5.00%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Cloud Security
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Cloud Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Cloud Security

Cloud Security
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Security in Tyne and Wear

Cloud Security
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -54 16 £59,053 -28.42% 10
Prudhoe - 7 £47,000 -
Sunderland - 1 - -
Cloud Security
North East

Cloud Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 7 (29.17%) SharePoint
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) AWS
2 8 (33.33%) Serverless
3 7 (29.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (29.17%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (29.17%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (29.17%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (29.17%) Amazon S3
3 7 (29.17%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (29.17%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (29.17%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (29.17%) OneDrive
3 7 (29.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (20.83%) Azure
4 5 (20.83%) GCP
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (8.33%) IaaS
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) DHCP
1 5 (20.83%) DNS
2 2 (8.33%) Internet
2 2 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Git
General
1 9 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Law
3 5 (20.83%) Local Government
4 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) AWS Engineer
1 7 (29.17%) Cloud Engineer
1 7 (29.17%) Senior
2 6 (25.00%) Consultant
2 6 (25.00%) Security Consultant
3 5 (20.83%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Systems Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Architect
4 4 (16.67%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Security Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Technical Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Technical Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Trainee
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) Terraform
2 2 (8.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (29.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (20.83%) Cyber Security Posture
3 5 (20.83%) IoT
3 5 (20.83%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
5 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Windows
1 5 (20.83%) Windows Server
2 2 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Continuous Improvement
2 12 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (50.00%) Migration
3 10 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 10 (41.67%) DevOps
3 10 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (37.50%) Project Delivery
5 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (29.17%) Cost Management
6 7 (29.17%) Cost Optimisation
6 7 (29.17%) Identity Management
6 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure Automation
6 7 (29.17%) ITIL
6 7 (29.17%) Service Management
7 6 (25.00%) Risk Management
7 6 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
8 5 (20.83%) IT Strategy
8 5 (20.83%) Regulatory Compliance
9 4 (16.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) Bash
1 7 (29.17%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) DBS Check
1 5 (20.83%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) CISSP
2 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (4.17%) CCSP
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.17%) CISM
3 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.33%) NIST
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) Docker
2 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 5 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (20.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) SCCM
2 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.83%) Aruba
2 5 (20.83%) VMware
3 4 (16.67%) Google
4 2 (8.33%) Adobe