Cloud Security Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Cloud Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Security over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 149 340
Rank change year-on-year -180 +191 -38
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 527 1,431 720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.75% 2.32% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 2.42% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 409 588 382
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £31,600
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,091 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% +13.04% -7.63%
75th Percentile £71,250 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,114 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £71,750
% change year-on-year -10.34% +1.05% +2.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Cloud Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,145 59,105 66,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.43% 95.64% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 40,986 30,311 41,402
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cloud Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Cloud Security in the UK excluding London

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 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 -130 177 £52,500 -13.22% 48
South East -66 109 £50,000 -24.53% 20
South West -29 103 £59,526 -20.63% 22
North West -124 85 £50,000 -16.00% 15
Midlands -80 72 £65,000 -10.96% 20
Yorkshire -68 62 £60,000 -10.16% 20
West Midlands -66 43 £75,000 +2.74% 14
Scotland -127 40 £59,526 -8.42% 15
North East +10 30 £42,500 -12.82% 15
East Midlands -19 28 £60,000 -11.11% 6
East of England -50 16 £72,500 +52.70% 13
Northern Ireland +27 7 £90,000 +89.47% 5
Isle of Man - 4 £46,500 - 1
Wales +6 1 £60,000 +20.00% 7
Cloud Security
UK

Cloud Security
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:

Application Platforms
1 20 (3.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.76%) Apache
3 4 (0.76%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.76%) CloudStack
4 2 (0.38%) IIS
5 1 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 290 (55.03%) Azure
2 166 (31.50%) AWS
3 123 (23.34%) Microsoft 365
4 73 (13.85%) GCP
5 52 (9.87%) PaaS
6 46 (8.73%) SaaS
7 42 (7.97%) Azure DevOps
7 42 (7.97%) Entra ID
8 38 (7.21%) Cloud Computing
9 37 (7.02%) IaaS
10 36 (6.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 25 (4.74%) GitHub
12 20 (3.80%) Azure Sentinel
13 14 (2.66%) Power Platform
14 12 (2.28%) Microsoft Purview
15 11 (2.09%) Amazon ECS
15 11 (2.09%) Mimecast
15 11 (2.09%) Serverless
16 10 (1.90%) Azure Logic Apps
17 9 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 108 (20.49%) Firewall
2 74 (14.04%) Network Security
3 64 (12.14%) DNS
4 39 (7.40%) TCP/IP
5 32 (6.07%) DHCP
5 32 (6.07%) WAN
6 31 (5.88%) HTTP
6 31 (5.88%) Internet
6 31 (5.88%) LAN
7 27 (5.12%) VPN
8 26 (4.93%) DKIM
8 26 (4.93%) DMARC
9 18 (3.42%) Software-Defined Networking
10 17 (3.23%) WLAN
11 16 (3.04%) Wireless
12 14 (2.66%) SD-WAN
13 13 (2.47%) Intrusion Detection
14 12 (2.28%) BGP
14 12 (2.28%) VoIP
15 10 (1.90%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.09%) Power BI
2 7 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.14%) SQL Server
4 5 (0.95%) Big Data
4 5 (0.95%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.95%) NoSQL
4 5 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.95%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.76%) BigQuery
5 4 (0.76%) Bigtable
5 4 (0.76%) Looker
5 4 (0.76%) MySQL
5 4 (0.76%) Tableau
6 2 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.19%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (6.07%) Jenkins
2 12 (2.28%) Git
3 5 (0.95%) Burp Suite
3 5 (0.95%) GitLab
3 5 (0.95%) Maven
3 5 (0.95%) Selenium
3 5 (0.95%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.57%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.19%) JIRA
6 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 177 (33.59%) Social Skills
2 121 (22.96%) Finance
3 59 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (8.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (7.59%) Retail
6 36 (6.83%) Banking
7 16 (3.04%) Legal
8 15 (2.85%) Law
9 11 (2.09%) Back Office
10 10 (1.90%) Tech for Good
11 9 (1.71%) Public Sector
12 8 (1.52%) Games
12 8 (1.52%) Marketing
13 6 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.38%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.38%) Police
15 2 (0.38%) Publishing
15 2 (0.38%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 112 (21.25%) Analyst
2 103 (19.54%) Architect
3 97 (18.41%) Senior
4 94 (17.84%) Security Analyst
5 84 (15.94%) Cloud Engineer
6 55 (10.44%) Security Engineer
7 52 (9.87%) Lead
8 51 (9.68%) Information Analyst
8 51 (9.68%) Information Security Analyst
9 46 (8.73%) Cloud Architect
10 38 (7.21%) Security Architect
11 31 (5.88%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 29 (5.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 28 (5.31%) Solutions Architect
14 26 (4.93%) Network Engineer
14 26 (4.93%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 22 (4.17%) Team Leader
16 21 (3.98%) Senior Analyst
17 20 (3.80%) Senior Architect
18 19 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.69%) SAML
2 29 (5.50%) HTML
2 29 (5.50%) OpenID
3 8 (1.52%) Laravel
4 6 (1.14%) .NET
4 6 (1.14%) AngularJS
4 6 (1.14%) Middleware
5 5 (0.95%) JSON
6 4 (0.76%) Kafka
6 4 (0.76%) LAMP
6 4 (0.76%) LDAP
6 4 (0.76%) YAML
7 3 (0.57%) SailPoint
8 2 (0.38%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.38%) Lambda Expressions
8 2 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (0.38%) XML
9 1 (0.19%) OAuth
9 1 (0.19%) RESTful
9 1 (0.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 71 (13.47%) Cloud Native
2 68 (12.90%) Cyberattack
3 49 (9.30%) Data Centre
4 44 (8.35%) Management Information System
5 40 (7.59%) Public Cloud
6 29 (5.50%) Cyber Threat
7 19 (3.61%) Private Cloud
7 19 (3.61%) Security Operations Centre
8 18 (3.42%) Security Posture
9 14 (2.66%) Driving Licence
9 14 (2.66%) Product Ownership
10 12 (2.28%) Onboarding
11 11 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 7 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.14%) CCTV
13 6 (1.14%) IoT
13 6 (1.14%) NHS
13 6 (1.14%) Operational Technology
13 6 (1.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 117 (22.20%) Windows
2 62 (11.76%) Linux
3 60 (11.39%) Windows Server
4 20 (3.80%) Windows 10
5 16 (3.04%) Unix
6 12 (2.28%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (2.09%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (1.14%) Android
8 6 (1.14%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.14%) Solaris
8 6 (1.14%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.57%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.57%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (33.21%) Cybersecurity
2 153 (29.03%) Information Security
3 124 (23.53%) DevOps
4 114 (21.63%) Agile
5 109 (20.68%) Infrastructure as Code
6 101 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
7 81 (15.37%) SIEM
8 73 (13.85%) Roadmaps
9 65 (12.33%) CI/CD
10 60 (11.39%) DevSecOps
11 58 (11.01%) SDLC
12 47 (8.92%) Vulnerability Management
13 46 (8.73%) Technical Leadership
14 44 (8.35%) Containerisation
15 43 (8.16%) Risk Management
16 41 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
17 40 (7.59%) Incident Response
18 39 (7.40%) Identity Access Management
18 39 (7.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 39 (7.40%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 71 (13.47%) Python
2 47 (8.92%) PowerShell
3 29 (5.50%) Bash
4 25 (4.74%) SQL
5 17 (3.23%) Bicep
6 14 (2.66%) JavaScript
7 13 (2.47%) Java
8 8 (1.52%) PHP
8 8 (1.52%) Rust
9 7 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (1.14%) Go
11 5 (0.95%) C#
11 5 (0.95%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.76%) AWK
12 4 (0.76%) C
12 4 (0.76%) R
12 4 (0.76%) Scala
12 4 (0.76%) sed
13 1 (0.19%) C++
13 1 (0.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 72 (13.66%) CISSP
2 55 (10.44%) AWS Certification
3 50 (9.49%) Degree
4 48 (9.11%) Security Cleared
5 46 (8.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 38 (7.21%) Azure Certification
7 37 (7.02%) DV Cleared
8 33 (6.26%) CISM
9 28 (5.31%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (4.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 22 (4.17%) CCSP
12 21 (3.98%) CEH
13 19 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
14 16 (3.04%) Master's Degree
15 14 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (2.28%) CompTIA Security+
16 12 (2.28%) SC Cleared
17 11 (2.09%) CompTIA CySA+
18 10 (1.90%) CRISC
18 10 (1.90%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (17.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 80 (15.18%) NIST
3 42 (7.97%) PCI DSS
4 24 (4.55%) GDPR
5 23 (4.36%) Cyber Essentials
6 19 (3.61%) GRC
7 16 (3.04%) SLA
8 8 (1.52%) NCSC
9 7 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 6 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (1.14%) NIST 800
11 5 (0.95%) COBIT
11 5 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (0.76%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.38%) ITGC
13 2 (0.38%) QA
14 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.19%) ISO 31000
14 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 70 (13.28%) Active Directory
2 50 (9.49%) Docker
3 31 (5.88%) Hyper-V
4 19 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.76%) vSphere
8 3 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 93 (17.65%) Terraform
2 59 (11.20%) Kubernetes
3 37 (7.02%) CASB
4 23 (4.36%) Ansible
5 17 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (2.09%) FortiGate
7 9 (1.71%) Nmap
8 8 (1.52%) SCCM
8 8 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.14%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.14%) Puppet
10 5 (0.95%) Argo
10 5 (0.95%) Nagios
10 5 (0.95%) OfficeScan
10 5 (0.95%) WSUS
11 4 (0.76%) cPanel
11 4 (0.76%) Plesk
12 3 (0.57%) Nessus
12 3 (0.57%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.38%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 136 (25.81%) Microsoft
2 48 (9.11%) Google
3 40 (7.59%) Cisco
4 22 (4.17%) VMware
5 16 (3.04%) Juniper
6 14 (2.66%) Splunk
7 13 (2.47%) Palo Alto
8 12 (2.28%) Barracuda Networks
8 12 (2.28%) Rapid7
9 11 (2.09%) Apple
9 11 (2.09%) ConnectWise
9 11 (2.09%) Sophos
10 10 (1.90%) Draytek
11 9 (1.71%) Oracle
11 9 (1.71%) Qualys
12 6 (1.14%) CheckPoint
12 6 (1.14%) CyberArk
12 6 (1.14%) McAfee
12 6 (1.14%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.14%) Thycotic