Cloud Security Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Security Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £59,526 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 727 709 778
Rank change year-on-year -18 +69 -105
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 30 52 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.042% 0.086% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.097% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 22 12 10
10th Percentile £52,500 £45,268 £44,875
25th Percentile £56,219 £61,180 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,526 £63,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.63% -1.92% -22.02%
75th Percentile £62,833 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,283 - £75,750
UK median annual salary £59,526 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -14.96% -3.45% -9.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,217 53,628 67,833
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.16% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 47,585 30,477 42,470
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cloud Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Cloud Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cloud Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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 of England +56 8 £59,526 -14.29% 1
South East -35 8 - - 1
Scotland - 6 £57,263 -
Yorkshire +89 5 £59,526 -14.29%
South West - 3 £59,526 - 2
Northern Ireland - 3 £90,000 - 1
North West - 3 £59,526 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £53,750 -
Midlands - 2 £53,750 - 1
Cloud Security Engineer
UK

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Cloud Security Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Security Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 23 (76.67%) Cybersecurity
3 22 (73.33%) Azure
4 20 (66.67%) Finance
5 19 (63.33%) Jenkins
5 19 (63.33%) Terraform
6 18 (60.00%) Python
7 17 (56.67%) PaaS
8 16 (53.33%) DevOps
8 16 (53.33%) GCP
8 16 (53.33%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (46.67%) CI/CD
9 14 (46.67%) Docker
9 14 (46.67%) Kubernetes
9 14 (46.67%) Public Cloud
9 14 (46.67%) GitHub
9 14 (46.67%) Use Case
9 14 (46.67%) Agile
9 14 (46.67%) Banking
9 14 (46.67%) Google
9 14 (46.67%) Product Ownership
9 14 (46.67%) Roadmaps
10 9 (30.00%) AWS
11 6 (20.00%) SIEM
12 5 (16.67%) Firewall
12 5 (16.67%) Mentoring
12 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
13 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
14 3 (10.00%) SaaS

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 22 (73.33%) Azure
2 17 (56.67%) PaaS
3 16 (53.33%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (53.33%) GCP
4 14 (46.67%) GitHub
5 9 (30.00%) AWS
6 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 3 (10.00%) IaaS
6 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (6.67%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 19 (63.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.67%) Git
General
1 20 (66.67%) Finance
2 14 (46.67%) Banking
3 2 (6.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 14 (46.67%) Product Ownership
1 14 (46.67%) Public Cloud
2 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) Cyber Security Posture
2 3 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Unix
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
1 3 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 23 (76.67%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (53.33%) DevOps
3 16 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (46.67%) Agile
4 14 (46.67%) CI/CD
4 14 (46.67%) Roadmaps
4 14 (46.67%) Use Case
5 6 (20.00%) SIEM
6 5 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (10.00%) Benchmarking
7 3 (10.00%) Change Management
7 3 (10.00%) Cyber Resilience
7 3 (10.00%) Information Security
7 3 (10.00%) Patch Management
7 3 (10.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 2 (6.67%) Cloud Operations
8 2 (6.67%) Computer Science
8 2 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 18 (60.00%) Python
2 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (10.00%) CISM
1 3 (10.00%) CISSP
2 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.67%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) GDPR
1 3 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (10.00%) NIST
2 2 (6.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (46.67%) Docker
2 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (63.33%) Terraform
2 14 (46.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (46.67%) Google
2 3 (10.00%) Computacenter
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft