Cloud Security Posture Jobs

Cloud Security Posture
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Security Posture in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 683 885 925
Rank change year-on-year +202 +40 +307
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security Posture 28 25 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.024% 0.040%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.14% 0.071% 0.092%
Number of salaries quoted 12 14 4
10th Percentile £42,750 £82,500 £59,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £92,500 £69,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,529 £95,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -46.81% +22.58% +10.71%
75th Percentile £57,188 £106,563 £86,563
90th Percentile £79,500 £112,125 £89,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £97,500 £83,750
% change year-on-year -48.72% +16.42% -

All Generic Skills
UK

Cloud Security Posture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 20,320 35,437 42,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.16% 34.69% 43.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9,321 23,080 22,873
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,647
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,043 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Cloud Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cloud Security Posture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security Posture in the UK

Cloud Security Posture
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Security Posture in the UK

Cloud Security Posture
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security Posture over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Security Posture in the UK

Cloud Security Posture
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security Posture within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +163 28 £50,529 -46.81% 89
UK excluding London +205 14 £50,000 -48.72% 81
London +111 13 £62,000 -34.74% 14
Work from Home +127 7 £50,000 -47.37% 90
South East +94 6 £62,500 -34.21% 20
East of England - 4 £48,750 - 12
Yorkshire - 2 £48,750 - 9
South West - 2 £51,058 - 10
North of England - 2 £48,750 - 19

Cloud Security Posture
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 21 (75.00%) AWS
2 15 (53.57%) Azure
3 12 (42.86%) GCP
4 5 (17.86%) SaaS
5 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (14.29%) Entra ID
6 3 (10.71%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (10.71%) GitHub
6 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (10.71%) Miro
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (28.57%) DNS
2 6 (21.43%) Firewall
3 4 (14.29%) DHCP
3 4 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 4 (14.29%) VLAN
4 1 (3.57%) Network Security
4 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) Burp Suite
2 1 (3.57%) Metasploit
2 1 (3.57%) Postman
2 1 (3.57%) REST Assured
2 1 (3.57%) SoapUI
General
1 10 (35.71%) Finance
2 8 (28.57%) Law
3 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.71%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (10.71%) Legal
4 3 (10.71%) Marketing
5 2 (7.14%) Retail
6 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Security Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Senior
3 5 (17.86%) Vulnerability Manager
4 4 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Incident Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) SOC Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Data Manager
5 3 (10.71%) IT Architect
5 3 (10.71%) IT Director
5 3 (10.71%) IT Security Architect
5 3 (10.71%) IT Security Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) IT Security Manager
5 3 (10.71%) Security Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Security Manager
5 3 (10.71%) Security Solutions Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior IT Manager
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) RESTful
2 1 (3.57%) HTML
2 1 (3.57%) JWT
2 1 (3.57%) OAuth
2 1 (3.57%) OAuth2
2 1 (3.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 28 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 11 (39.29%) Cloud Native
3 8 (28.57%) Management Information System
4 5 (17.86%) Cyber Security Posture
5 4 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (10.71%) Machine to Machine
6 3 (10.71%) PKI
6 3 (10.71%) Virtual Team
7 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 15 (53.57%) Agile
3 13 (46.43%) Information Security
4 12 (42.86%) Data Loss Prevention
5 11 (39.29%) Mentoring
6 10 (35.71%) CI/CD
6 10 (35.71%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (35.71%) DevOps
7 9 (32.14%) Roadmaps
7 9 (32.14%) Threat Intelligence
8 8 (28.57%) Security Operations
8 8 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
9 7 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
10 6 (21.43%) DevSecOps
10 6 (21.43%) ITIL
10 6 (21.43%) Secrets Management
11 5 (17.86%) Creative Thinking
11 5 (17.86%) Identity Access Management
11 5 (17.86%) SIEM
11 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) Python
2 4 (14.29%) TypeScript
3 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (50.00%) CISSP
2 8 (28.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 8 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (28.57%) Degree
3 6 (21.43%) CCSP
4 4 (14.29%) AWS Certification
5 3 (10.71%) CCSK
5 3 (10.71%) CISM
5 3 (10.71%) GIAC
5 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
5 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (3.57%) ISTQB
7 1 (3.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) GDPR
1 4 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (10.71%) NIST
2 3 (10.71%) SOC 2
3 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 9 (32.14%) CASB
3 4 (14.29%) Terraform
4 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (10.71%) Progress Chef
4 3 (10.71%) Puppet
5 2 (7.14%) Ansible
6 1 (3.57%) Nessus
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Alibaba
2 3 (10.71%) Google
2 3 (10.71%) ServiceNow
2 3 (10.71%) Symantec
2 3 (10.71%) Zscaler
3 1 (3.57%) Splunk