Cloud Security Architect Jobs

Cloud Security Architect
UK

The median Cloud Security Architect salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 870 868 1129
Rank change year-on-year -2 +261 -309
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Security Architect 35 105 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.036% 0.10% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.11% 0.063%
Number of salaries quoted 28 74 79
10th Percentile £65,000 - £71,250
25th Percentile £71,875 £56,219 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £68,515 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.76% -19.39% +11.48%
75th Percentile £100,313 £97,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,250 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £59,526 £85,000
% change year-on-year +26.00% -29.97% +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 92,813 95,219 148,250
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.52% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,625 59,878 85,347
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Cloud Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cloud Security Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security Architect in the UK

Cloud Security Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security Architect.

Salary trend for Cloud Security Architect in the UK

Cloud Security Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security Architect over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Security Architect in the UK

Cloud Security Architect
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +50 28 £80,000 +16.76% 6
UK excluding London -33 17 £75,000 +26.00% 3
London +95 14 £86,250 -4.17% 4
South East +25 8 £75,000 -30.23%
Work from Home +27 6 £110,000 +84.79% 3
North of England +16 4 £70,000 +17.60%
Yorkshire +80 2 £87,500 +27.71%
North West +9 2 £70,000 +17.60%
Scotland -65 2 £78,750 +32.30%
Northern Ireland +27 1 £62,000 -42.33% 1
South West -23 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 £75,000 - 1
Midlands - 1 £75,000 - 1

Cloud Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Cloud Security Architect 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 featuring Cloud Security Architect in the job title.

1 35 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 20 (57.14%) Azure
3 16 (45.71%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (34.29%) AWS
5 11 (31.43%) Microsoft
6 10 (28.57%) Finance
6 10 (28.57%) Security Architecture
7 7 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (20.00%) DevOps
7 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
7 7 (20.00%) Incident Response
8 6 (17.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (17.14%) GCP
8 6 (17.14%) Degree
8 6 (17.14%) Computer Science
8 6 (17.14%) CISSP
8 6 (17.14%) Azure Certification
9 5 (14.29%) Roadmaps
9 5 (14.29%) Security Posture
9 5 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (14.29%) Information Security
9 5 (14.29%) Google
9 5 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (14.29%) Terraform
9 5 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (14.29%) AWS Certification
9 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (14.29%) NIST

Cloud Security Architect Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 20 (57.14%) Azure
2 12 (34.29%) AWS
3 6 (17.14%) GCP
4 5 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (8.57%) Azure AKS
5 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (5.71%) IaaS
6 2 (5.71%) PaaS
6 2 (5.71%) SaaS
7 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) DHCP
1 1 (2.86%) DNS
1 1 (2.86%) Firewall
1 1 (2.86%) HTTP
1 1 (2.86%) LAN
1 1 (2.86%) Network Security
1 1 (2.86%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.86%) WAN
1 1 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
1 2 (5.71%) RDBMS
1 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Vagrant
General
1 10 (28.57%) Finance
2 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Legal
4 1 (2.86%) Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.86%) Retail
4 1 (2.86%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) SAML
2 2 (5.71%) JSON
2 2 (5.71%) OAuth
2 2 (5.71%) RESTful
2 2 (5.71%) Web Services
2 2 (5.71%) XML
3 1 (2.86%) HTML
3 1 (2.86%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Security Posture
2 4 (11.43%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (8.57%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.71%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.86%) Cyberattack
5 1 (2.86%) Educational Technology
5 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Life Science
5 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 16 (45.71%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (28.57%) Security Architecture
4 7 (20.00%) DevOps
4 7 (20.00%) Incident Response
5 6 (17.14%) Computer Science
6 5 (14.29%) Information Security
6 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (14.29%) Roadmaps
7 4 (11.43%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (11.43%) TOGAF
8 3 (8.57%) Architectural Patterns
8 3 (8.57%) Business Strategy
8 3 (8.57%) Decision-Making
8 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (8.57%) Observability
8 3 (8.57%) Platform Engineering
9 2 (5.71%) Cost Reduction
9 2 (5.71%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) Azure Certification
1 6 (17.14%) CISSP
1 6 (17.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (17.14%) Degree
2 5 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 5 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 5 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (11.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.86%) CCSK
4 1 (2.86%) CCSP
4 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (14.29%) NIST
3 4 (11.43%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.86%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.86%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) LXC
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) Google
3 3 (8.57%) AppDynamics
3 3 (8.57%) New Relic