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 £60,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 532 727 696
Rank change year-on-year +195 -31 +89
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 43 28 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.039% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.041% 0.097%
Number of salaries quoted 40 20 11
10th Percentile £42,500 £55,847 £43,500
25th Percentile £47,231 £56,219 £52,340
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £59,526 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.64% -4.76% -9.09%
75th Percentile £95,000 £62,833 £77,715
90th Percentile - £90,000 -
UK median annual salary £74,870 £59,526 £75,000
% change year-on-year +25.78% -20.63% +1.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 36,103 67,726 52,846
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.94% 94.86% 89.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,704 47,866 30,035
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

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 17 May 2025.

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 17 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 of England +61 26 £52,500 -11.80% 3
North West +14 17 £67,435 +13.29% 2
Yorkshire +65 8 £52,500 -11.80% 1
Scotland +119 6 £95,000 +59.59%
South West +114 6 £95,000 +59.59% 1
East of England - 3 £45,000 - 1
South East +78 2 £53,000 - 4
North East - 1 £45,000 -
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 17 May 2025, 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 43 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 34 (79.07%) AWS
3 28 (65.12%) Roadmaps
4 24 (55.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (53.49%) Firewall
6 22 (51.16%) Finance
7 20 (46.51%) DevOps
8 18 (41.86%) Security Posture
9 15 (34.88%) NIST
10 14 (32.56%) VPN
10 14 (32.56%) Network Security
11 13 (30.23%) NCSC
11 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
11 13 (30.23%) Terraform
12 12 (27.91%) Threat Modelling
12 12 (27.91%) Accessibility
12 12 (27.91%) Strategic Roadmap
12 12 (27.91%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 12 (27.91%) Technology Transformation
12 12 (27.91%) Network Design
12 12 (27.91%) CISSP
12 12 (27.91%) CISM
12 12 (27.91%) Mentoring
13 11 (25.58%) Vulnerability Management
13 11 (25.58%) Cloud Security Posture
13 11 (25.58%) Cloud Native
14 10 (23.26%) Product Ownership
14 10 (23.26%) Azure
14 10 (23.26%) AWS Certification
14 10 (23.26%) Banking

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 34 (79.07%) AWS
2 10 (23.26%) Azure
3 5 (11.63%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (11.63%) SaaS
4 3 (6.98%) GitHub
5 2 (4.65%) IaaS
5 2 (4.65%) Mimecast
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 23 (53.49%) Firewall
2 14 (32.56%) Network Security
2 14 (32.56%) VPN
3 2 (4.65%) DHCP
3 2 (4.65%) DNS
3 2 (4.65%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.65%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (51.16%) Finance
2 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
3 10 (23.26%) Banking
4 9 (20.93%) Law
5 3 (6.98%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.63%) AngularJS
1 5 (11.63%) React
2 3 (6.98%) REST
2 3 (6.98%) Web Services
3 1 (2.33%) OAuth
3 1 (2.33%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 18 (41.86%) Security Posture
2 11 (25.58%) Cloud Native
2 11 (25.58%) Cloud Security Posture
3 10 (23.26%) Product Ownership
4 7 (16.28%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.33%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.28%) Linux
1 7 (16.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 28 (65.12%) Roadmaps
3 24 (55.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 20 (46.51%) DevOps
5 12 (27.91%) Mentoring
5 12 (27.91%) Network Design
5 12 (27.91%) Strategic Roadmap
5 12 (27.91%) Technology Transformation
5 12 (27.91%) Threat Modelling
5 12 (27.91%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 11 (25.58%) Vulnerability Management
7 9 (20.93%) Data Engineering
7 9 (20.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (20.93%) Security Monitoring
7 9 (20.93%) Security Operations
7 9 (20.93%) Technology Roadmap
8 8 (18.60%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (18.60%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (16.28%) Information Security
9 7 (16.28%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.60%) Python
2 7 (16.28%) TypeScript
3 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (27.91%) CISM
1 12 (27.91%) CISSP
2 10 (23.26%) AWS Certification
3 9 (20.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (4.65%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (34.88%) NIST
2 13 (30.23%) NCSC
3 12 (27.91%) Accessibility
4 3 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 7 (16.28%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (30.23%) Terraform
2 2 (4.65%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (9.30%) Ping Identity
2 2 (4.65%) Cisco
2 2 (4.65%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.65%) Tenable
2 2 (4.65%) Varonis