Cloud Security Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Cloud Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Security over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 228 337 164
Rank change year-on-year +109 -173 +190
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 496 524 1,266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.27% 0.74% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 0.88% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 242 407 545
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £38,999
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -14.81% +17.39%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,433 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £100,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% +7.14%

All Process and 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 36,419 59,619 57,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.92% 83.98% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,159 41,251 29,495
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,716 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,100 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 12 May 2025.

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 12 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 +93 272 £70,000 +33.33% 97
North West +88 235 £74,870 +49.74% 48
South East +82 92 £65,000 +30.00% 158
Midlands +42 43 £60,000 -7.69% 44
South West +46 38 £71,250 +19.70% 37
West Midlands +54 37 £60,000 -20.00% 35
Yorkshire +34 27 £53,750 -10.42% 40
East of England +51 23 £65,250 -10.00% 28
Scotland +91 18 £95,000 +59.59% 33
North East +25 10 £70,000 +64.71% 9
East Midlands +22 6 £70,000 +16.67% 8
Northern Ireland +37 5 £110,000 +22.22% 19
Wales +43 4 £75,000 +3.45% 14
Isle of Man +13 2 £34,500 -25.81%
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 10 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.21%) Confluence
4 3 (0.60%) Apache
4 3 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.60%) IIS
5 2 (0.40%) nginx
5 2 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.40%) Oracle Smart View
2 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 318 (64.11%) Azure
2 309 (62.30%) AWS
3 209 (42.14%) GCP
4 60 (12.10%) SaaS
5 39 (7.86%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (6.25%) PaaS
7 22 (4.44%) IaaS
7 22 (4.44%) Serverless
8 20 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (3.43%) Amazon EC2
9 17 (3.43%) Amazon S3
10 16 (3.23%) Entra ID
11 15 (3.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 13 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (2.62%) Azure Sentinel
12 13 (2.62%) Power Platform
13 12 (2.42%) GitHub
14 11 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (2.02%) AWS KMS
16 9 (1.81%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 101 (20.36%) Firewall
2 43 (8.67%) Network Security
3 31 (6.25%) VPN
4 19 (3.83%) Intrusion Detection
5 13 (2.62%) TCP/IP
6 11 (2.22%) DNS
7 8 (1.61%) DHCP
7 8 (1.61%) WAN
8 6 (1.21%) SD-WAN
8 6 (1.21%) VLAN
9 4 (0.81%) IP Telephony
9 4 (0.81%) LAN
9 4 (0.81%) SSL
9 4 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.60%) Wireless
11 2 (0.40%) FTP
11 2 (0.40%) HTTP
11 2 (0.40%) SAN
11 2 (0.40%) SMTP
11 2 (0.40%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.02%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (2.42%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.81%) MySQL
4 5 (1.01%) Power BI
5 4 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.60%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.60%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.40%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.20%) Big Data
8 1 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.20%) DB2
8 1 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.20%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (5.65%) Jenkins
2 21 (4.23%) Git
3 9 (1.81%) GitLab
4 8 (1.61%) Vagrant
5 7 (1.41%) JIRA
6 5 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.81%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.81%) Vite
7 4 (0.81%) webpack
8 3 (0.60%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (0.60%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.20%) Travis CI
General
1 181 (36.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 91 (18.35%) Social Skills
3 68 (13.71%) Finance
4 39 (7.86%) Law
5 35 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (4.03%) Retail
7 19 (3.83%) Banking
8 16 (3.23%) Legal
9 15 (3.02%) Telecoms
10 11 (2.22%) Games
11 9 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.61%) Public Sector
13 6 (1.21%) Automotive
13 6 (1.21%) Aviation
14 5 (1.01%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.81%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.81%) Marketing
16 2 (0.40%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 227 (45.77%) Senior
2 190 (38.31%) Software Engineer
3 186 (37.50%) Senior Software Engineer
4 106 (21.37%) Cloud Engineer
5 67 (13.51%) Security Engineer
6 46 (9.27%) Architect
7 45 (9.07%) Lead
8 44 (8.87%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 33 (6.65%) Security Architect
10 30 (6.05%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 29 (5.85%) AWS Engineer
11 29 (5.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 26 (5.24%) Azure Engineer
13 18 (3.63%) Analyst
14 17 (3.43%) DevOps Engineer
15 16 (3.23%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 16 (3.23%) Security Manager
16 14 (2.82%) Cloud Architect
16 14 (2.82%) Lead Cloud Engineer
17 13 (2.62%) Cloud Security Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (38.71%) Node.js
2 179 (36.09%) .NET
3 12 (2.42%) REST
4 10 (2.02%) React
5 8 (1.61%) ARM Templates
5 8 (1.61%) Web Services
6 7 (1.41%) SAML
7 6 (1.21%) OAuth
8 4 (0.81%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (0.81%) Enzyme
8 4 (0.81%) Jest
8 4 (0.81%) Kafka
8 4 (0.81%) Next.js
8 4 (0.81%) OpenAPI
8 4 (0.81%) Parceljs
8 4 (0.81%) Svelte
8 4 (0.81%) Vue
8 4 (0.81%) WebAssembly
9 3 (0.60%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 193 (38.91%) Self-Motivation
2 174 (35.08%) Cyberattack
3 172 (34.68%) Linux Command Line
4 65 (13.10%) Security Posture
5 47 (9.48%) Management Information System
6 31 (6.25%) Cloud Native
7 27 (5.44%) Cloud Security Posture
8 24 (4.84%) Public Cloud
9 17 (3.43%) Algorithms
9 17 (3.43%) Cyber Threat
9 17 (3.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 14 (2.82%) Social Media
11 11 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
11 11 (2.22%) Product Ownership
12 10 (2.02%) Cyber Defence
13 9 (1.81%) Security Operations Centre
14 8 (1.61%) PKI
14 8 (1.61%) Private Cloud
15 7 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
15 7 (1.41%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 210 (42.34%) Linux
2 63 (12.70%) Windows
3 16 (3.23%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.82%) Windows Vista
5 9 (1.81%) Android
5 9 (1.81%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.81%) VMS
6 7 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.60%) Unix
7 3 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.40%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.40%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.20%) Debian
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (44.96%) Agile
2 217 (43.75%) Software Engineering
3 202 (40.73%) Mentoring
4 188 (37.90%) Microservices
5 186 (37.50%) Data Engineering
5 186 (37.50%) Machine Learning
6 185 (37.30%) User Experience
7 182 (36.69%) Scrum
8 178 (35.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 103 (20.77%) DevOps
10 100 (20.16%) Cybersecurity
11 67 (13.51%) Information Security
12 65 (13.10%) CI/CD
12 65 (13.10%) Infrastructure as Code
13 59 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
13 59 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
14 53 (10.69%) Roadmaps
15 50 (10.08%) Computer Science
15 50 (10.08%) Incident Response
15 50 (10.08%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 262 (52.82%) Python
2 188 (37.90%) Go
2 188 (37.90%) Java
3 182 (36.69%) JavaScript
4 174 (35.08%) C++
4 174 (35.08%) Rust
5 37 (7.46%) PowerShell
6 22 (4.44%) Bash
7 19 (3.83%) TypeScript
8 12 (2.42%) Bicep
9 9 (1.81%) SQL
10 8 (1.61%) Perl
11 7 (1.41%) Groovy
12 5 (1.01%) C#
13 4 (0.81%) Ruby
14 3 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.60%) PHP
14 3 (0.60%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.40%) C
Qualifications
1 211 (42.54%) Security Cleared
2 204 (41.13%) AWS Certification
3 182 (36.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 179 (36.09%) DV Cleared
5 172 (34.68%) AWS Certified Developer
6 73 (14.72%) CISSP
7 63 (12.70%) Degree
8 50 (10.08%) CISM
9 35 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
10 33 (6.65%) SC Cleared
11 27 (5.44%) Azure Certification
12 24 (4.84%) CEH
13 22 (4.44%) CISA
13 22 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
14 19 (3.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 17 (3.43%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (3.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 15 (3.02%) Master's Degree
17 14 (2.82%) DBS Check
18 6 (1.21%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (12.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 55 (11.09%) NIST
3 37 (7.46%) GDPR
4 23 (4.64%) Accessibility
5 16 (3.23%) NCSC
6 13 (2.62%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (2.22%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 9 (1.81%) HIPAA
9 6 (1.21%) SLA
10 4 (0.81%) COBIT
10 4 (0.81%) GRC
10 4 (0.81%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
System Software
1 35 (7.06%) Docker
2 25 (5.04%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.01%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.81%) DFS Replication
7 3 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.20%) Firmware
8 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (14.92%) Terraform
2 56 (11.29%) Kubernetes
3 28 (5.65%) Ansible
4 11 (2.22%) QRadar
5 9 (1.81%) CASB
6 8 (1.61%) Grafana
6 8 (1.61%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.21%) ArcSight ESM
8 5 (1.01%) Nessus
8 5 (1.01%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.60%) Nagios
10 3 (0.60%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.60%) SCCM
11 2 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.40%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.40%) ZENworks
12 1 (0.20%) Automic
12 1 (0.20%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 93 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.43%) Google
3 14 (2.82%) Splunk
4 13 (2.62%) VMware
5 11 (2.22%) Cisco
6 10 (2.02%) Ping Identity
7 9 (1.81%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.61%) Juniper
9 7 (1.41%) IBM
10 6 (1.21%) ArcSight
10 6 (1.21%) LogLogic
10 6 (1.21%) McAfee
10 6 (1.21%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.01%) Oracle
11 5 (1.01%) SolarWinds
12 4 (0.81%) HubSpot
12 4 (0.81%) LogicMonitor
12 4 (0.81%) Meraki
12 4 (0.81%) Veeam
12 4 (0.81%) Zscaler