Cloud Security Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Cloud Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 262 192
Rank change year-on-year +16 -70 -4
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 295 377 521
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.70% 1.02% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 1.16% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 201 253 429
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £47,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £88,750 £91,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year - +4.40% -7.40%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,255 32,619 28,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.29% 88.31% 90.65%
Number of salaries quoted 19,005 14,900 21,194
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,000 £41,250 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,070
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cloud Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cloud Security

Cloud Security
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Security in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South East +19 97 £60,000 -7.69% 60
North of England -38 55 £62,733 -3.49% 25
South West +14 45 £69,000 +36.56% 25
Midlands -6 45 £72,500 +36.02% 28
West Midlands +9 34 £72,500 +36.02% 21
Yorkshire -25 26 £53,750 +2.38% 5
North West -1 25 £68,442 -4.93% 14
East of England +20 23 £75,000 +1.35% 7
Wales - 16 £61,000 - 7
East Midlands -12 11 £75,000 +62.16% 7
Scotland -3 10 £70,000 +5.26% 11
North East +1 4 £75,000 +20.97% 6
Northern Ireland - 4 £52,000 - 3
Cloud Security
UK

Cloud Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 25 (8.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (6.78%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.05%) Confluence
4 4 (1.36%) nginx
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) Camunda
5 1 (0.34%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
1 4 (1.36%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 158 (53.56%) Azure
2 93 (31.53%) AWS
3 54 (18.31%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (15.93%) GCP
5 40 (13.56%) Entra ID
6 23 (7.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 23 (7.80%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (6.78%) Amazon EC2
7 20 (6.78%) Azure Sentinel
8 18 (6.10%) GitHub
8 18 (6.10%) SaaS
8 18 (6.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 17 (5.76%) Amazon S3
10 14 (4.75%) Azure Logic Apps
10 14 (4.75%) OneDrive
10 14 (4.75%) Serverless
11 13 (4.41%) Power Platform
12 12 (4.07%) Azure Key Vault
12 12 (4.07%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (3.73%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 58 (19.66%) Firewall
2 27 (9.15%) DNS
2 27 (9.15%) VPN
3 24 (8.14%) Network Security
4 15 (5.08%) TCP/IP
5 14 (4.75%) HTTP
6 13 (4.41%) WAN
7 12 (4.07%) Wireless
8 11 (3.73%) LAN
9 10 (3.39%) FTP
9 10 (3.39%) SMTP
9 10 (3.39%) SSH
10 8 (2.71%) SD-WAN
10 8 (2.71%) VLAN
10 8 (2.71%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (2.37%) MPLS
12 6 (2.03%) Intrusion Detection
12 6 (2.03%) SSL
12 6 (2.03%) VoIP
13 5 (1.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.12%) BigQuery
2 18 (6.10%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (2.71%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.69%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.36%) Power BI
6 3 (1.02%) MySQL
7 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.68%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.68%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.34%) Big Data
8 1 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.34%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.34%) Redis
8 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (6.44%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.41%) Git
3 11 (3.73%) JIRA
4 10 (3.39%) Vagrant
5 8 (2.71%) Burp Suite
6 7 (2.37%) Metasploit
7 4 (1.36%) Snyk
8 3 (1.02%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.68%) GitLab
9 2 (0.68%) Subversion
10 1 (0.34%) Ant
10 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.34%) git-flow
10 1 (0.34%) Gradle
10 1 (0.34%) JUnit
10 1 (0.34%) Maven
10 1 (0.34%) Mockito
10 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
General
1 110 (37.29%) Social Skills
2 28 (9.49%) Public Sector
3 26 (8.81%) Finance
3 26 (8.81%) Law
4 21 (7.12%) Marketing
5 13 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.05%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.03%) Military
9 5 (1.69%) Advertising
9 5 (1.69%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.36%) Automotive
10 4 (1.36%) Retail
11 3 (1.02%) Billing
11 3 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.68%) Digital Health
12 2 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.34%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 74 (25.08%) Architect
2 40 (13.56%) Cloud Engineer
3 35 (11.86%) Security Architect
4 31 (10.51%) Security Engineer
5 30 (10.17%) Cloud Architect
6 25 (8.47%) GCP Architect
6 25 (8.47%) Information Architect
6 25 (8.47%) Information Security Architect
7 24 (8.14%) Enterprise Architect
7 24 (8.14%) Enterprise Information Architect
7 24 (8.14%) Enterprise Security Architect
7 24 (8.14%) Senior
8 23 (7.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 21 (7.12%) Azure Engineer
9 21 (7.12%) DevOps Engineer
10 20 (6.78%) Platform Architect
11 16 (5.42%) Analyst
11 16 (5.42%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (4.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 14 (4.75%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.05%) ARM Templates
2 8 (2.71%) .NET
3 6 (2.03%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (1.36%) LDAP
4 4 (1.36%) Loki
5 3 (1.02%) RESTful
6 2 (0.68%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.68%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (0.68%) OAuth
6 2 (0.68%) Spring
6 2 (0.68%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.68%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.68%) WCF
6 2 (0.68%) YAML
7 1 (0.34%) koa
7 1 (0.34%) Node.js
7 1 (0.34%) Pandas
7 1 (0.34%) React
7 1 (0.34%) Swagger
7 1 (0.34%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 56 (18.98%) Cloud Native
2 35 (11.86%) Security Posture
3 14 (4.75%) Cloud Security Posture
4 13 (4.41%) PKI
5 12 (4.07%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.05%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (3.05%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.03%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (1.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 5 (1.69%) Cyber Security Posture
9 5 (1.69%) IoT
10 4 (1.36%) ARM Cortex
10 4 (1.36%) Blog
10 4 (1.36%) CAN bus
10 4 (1.36%) Digital Media
10 4 (1.36%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.36%) Replication
10 4 (1.36%) SCADA
10 4 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 46 (15.59%) Windows
2 36 (12.20%) Linux
3 25 (8.47%) Windows Server
4 16 (5.42%) Android
5 15 (5.08%) VMS
6 11 (3.73%) Apple iOS
6 11 (3.73%) Mac OS
7 10 (3.39%) Windows 10
8 8 (2.71%) Amazon Linux
8 8 (2.71%) Ubuntu
9 6 (2.03%) Kali Linux
10 5 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.68%) Unix
12 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (25.76%) DevOps
2 61 (20.68%) CI/CD
3 60 (20.34%) Continuous Improvement
4 54 (18.31%) Cybersecurity
4 54 (18.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 53 (17.97%) Security Architecture
6 50 (16.95%) Roadmaps
7 48 (16.27%) Information Security
7 48 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (14.92%) Mentoring
9 42 (14.24%) Data Protection
9 42 (14.24%) Incident Response
10 39 (13.22%) Stakeholder Management
11 38 (12.88%) Decision-Making
12 36 (12.20%) ITIL
12 36 (12.20%) Performance Optimisation
13 35 (11.86%) Analytics
14 33 (11.19%) Cost Management
14 33 (11.19%) TOGAF
15 31 (10.51%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 73 (24.75%) Python
2 55 (18.64%) PowerShell
3 32 (10.85%) Java
4 29 (9.83%) Bash
5 22 (7.46%) Go
6 17 (5.76%) Bicep
7 13 (4.41%) SQL
8 10 (3.39%) Groovy
9 7 (2.37%) C#
9 7 (2.37%) Perl
10 6 (2.03%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (1.36%) C++
11 4 (1.36%) R
11 4 (1.36%) Rust
12 3 (1.02%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 45 (15.25%) CISSP
2 44 (14.92%) Security Cleared
3 40 (13.56%) Degree
4 38 (12.88%) CISM
5 30 (10.17%) SC Cleared
6 27 (9.15%) TOGAF Certification
7 24 (8.14%) DBS Check
8 20 (6.78%) Azure Certification
9 18 (6.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (5.42%) DV Cleared
11 14 (4.75%) AWS Certification
12 12 (4.07%) CEH
12 12 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (2.71%) CISMP
15 7 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (2.03%) CCNP
16 6 (2.03%) GSEC
17 5 (1.69%) MCP
17 5 (1.69%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (14.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 40 (13.56%) GDPR
3 35 (11.86%) GRC
4 32 (10.85%) NIST
5 17 (5.76%) PCI DSS
6 14 (4.75%) NCSC
7 13 (4.41%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (3.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (2.71%) SOC 2
10 5 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 5 (1.69%) JSP 440
11 4 (1.36%) PMO
12 3 (1.02%) RMADS
13 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.68%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.68%) QA
14 1 (0.34%) COBIT
14 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (13.90%) Active Directory
2 30 (10.17%) Docker
3 13 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (3.05%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.36%) DFS Replication
6 4 (1.36%) Dovecot
6 4 (1.36%) Postfix
6 4 (1.36%) Squid
6 4 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.36%) vSphere
7 2 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.68%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 72 (24.41%) Terraform
2 56 (18.98%) Kubernetes
3 31 (10.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (7.46%) Grafana
4 22 (7.46%) Prometheus
5 13 (4.41%) Ansible
6 9 (3.05%) Nessus
7 7 (2.37%) Nmap
8 4 (1.36%) CASB
8 4 (1.36%) Proxmox
8 4 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.68%) Nagios
9 2 (0.68%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.34%) Argo
10 1 (0.34%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.34%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.34%) Kibana
10 1 (0.34%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.34%) SCCM
Vendors
1 92 (31.19%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.85%) Google
3 20 (6.78%) Cisco
4 16 (5.42%) VMware
5 12 (4.07%) ServiceNow
6 11 (3.73%) Splunk
7 9 (3.05%) Fortinet
8 7 (2.37%) Meraki
9 6 (2.03%) Apple
9 6 (2.03%) Qualys
9 6 (2.03%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.69%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (1.69%) Samsung
10 5 (1.69%) Veeam
11 4 (1.36%) Checkmarx
11 4 (1.36%) Jaspersoft
11 4 (1.36%) Oracle
11 4 (1.36%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.36%) Qualtrics
11 4 (1.36%) Salesforce