Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring CASB skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited CASB over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 660 813 907
Rank change year-on-year +153 +94 +151
Permanent jobs citing CASB 32 83 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.084% 0.079%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.64% 0.83% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 22 60 37
10th Percentile £66,875 £45,000 -
25th Percentile £83,438 - £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £47,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +91.49% -24.80% -21.88%
75th Percentile £110,000 £67,500 £84,000
90th Percentile £119,500 £82,750 £101,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £47,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +59.57% -32.86% +3.70%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

CASB falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,978 10,017 15,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.57% 10.17% 14.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,344 7,239 9,373
10th Percentile £37,075 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.17% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,150 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

CASB
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CASB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CASB in the UK

CASB
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CASB.

Salary trend for CASB in the UK

CASB
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CASB over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for CASB in the UK

CASB
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CASB within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +129 28 £90,000 +91.49% 40
London +110 21 £90,000 +12.50% 20
UK excluding London +161 10 £75,000 +59.57% 34
Work from Home +148 7 £87,500 +86.17% 32
South East +101 5 - - 8
Northern Ireland - 3 £110,000 - 9
Scotland +123 1 £75,000 +59.57%
East of England - 1 £52,000 - 9

CASB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (53.13%) Azure
2 14 (43.75%) AWS
2 14 (43.75%) GCP
3 6 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (18.75%) Azure AKS
4 4 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (9.38%) SaaS
6 2 (6.25%) IaaS
6 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (6.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (56.25%) Network Security
2 8 (25.00%) Firewall
3 2 (6.25%) WAN
4 1 (3.13%) LAN
4 1 (3.13%) NGFW
4 1 (3.13%) SAN
4 1 (3.13%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.13%) VoIP
4 1 (3.13%) VPN
4 1 (3.13%) Wireless
General
1 22 (68.75%) Finance
2 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Law
4 4 (12.50%) Legal
5 3 (9.38%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (9.38%) Marketing
6 1 (3.13%) Aviation
6 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Security Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Senior
3 7 (21.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Analyst
4 5 (15.63%) Security Analyst
4 5 (15.63%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Vulnerability Manager
5 4 (12.50%) Architect
5 4 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) IT Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Security Architect
5 4 (12.50%) Senior Security Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (9.38%) Data Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Data Protection Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Data Protection Manager
6 3 (9.38%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (34.38%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 25 (78.13%) Security Posture
2 14 (43.75%) Cloud Native
3 10 (31.25%) Cloud Security Posture
3 10 (31.25%) Management Information System
4 5 (15.63%) Cyber Security Posture
5 4 (12.50%) PKI
6 3 (9.38%) Virtual Team
7 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) VMS
2 4 (12.50%) Linux
2 4 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (81.25%) Cloud Security
2 20 (62.50%) Vulnerability Management
3 16 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 16 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 15 (46.88%) CI/CD
5 13 (40.63%) DevOps
6 12 (37.50%) Data Loss Prevention
6 12 (37.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 11 (34.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (34.38%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (34.38%) Forensic Analysis
7 11 (34.38%) Identity Access Management
7 11 (34.38%) Incident Response
7 11 (34.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (34.38%) Penetration Testing
7 11 (34.38%) Security Architecture
7 11 (34.38%) Threat Detection
8 10 (31.25%) Fintech
8 10 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (28.13%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 15 (46.88%) Bash
1 15 (46.88%) PowerShell
1 15 (46.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (43.75%) CISSP
2 13 (40.63%) CCSP
2 13 (40.63%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (28.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 9 (28.13%) Degree
4 5 (15.63%) AWS Certification
5 4 (12.50%) CEH
5 4 (12.50%) GCIH
5 4 (12.50%) OSCP
6 3 (9.38%) CCSK
6 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
7 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
8 1 (3.13%) CASP
8 1 (3.13%) CISM
8 1 (3.13%) CISMP
8 1 (3.13%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
8 1 (3.13%) PMP
8 1 (3.13%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (34.38%) GDPR
1 11 (34.38%) NIST
1 11 (34.38%) PCI DSS
1 11 (34.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (34.38%) Kubernetes
1 11 (34.38%) Terraform
2 5 (15.63%) Istio
2 5 (15.63%) linkerd
3 4 (12.50%) CSIRT
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (46.88%) Microsoft
2 11 (34.38%) Google
3 4 (12.50%) Zscaler
4 3 (9.38%) Symantec
5 1 (3.13%) Aruba
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco
5 1 (3.13%) Dell
5 1 (3.13%) EMC
5 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.13%) VMware