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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 674 865 933
Rank change year-on-year +191 +68 +303
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security Posture 38 25 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.068% 0.025% 0.044%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.19% 0.071% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 22 14 3
10th Percentile - £82,500 £57,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £92,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £95,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% +26.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £55,000 £106,563 £83,125
90th Percentile £77,925 £112,125 £88,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £97,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year -48.72% +11.43% -

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 20,451 35,274 43,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.60% 35.31% 43.45%
Number of salaries quoted 9,862 23,051 23,100
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,427
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,250
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 £109,865
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,975 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.95% -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 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Security Posture in the UK

Cloud Security Posture
Top 11 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 19 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 +161 38 £50,000 -47.37% 17
UK excluding London +209 24 £50,000 -48.72% 10
Work from Home +139 17 £50,000 -47.37% 17
London +102 13 £62,000 -34.74% 7
North of England - 9 £45,000 - 3
South East +101 8 £62,500 -34.21% 2
Yorkshire - 7 £50,000 - 2
East of England - 5 £47,500 - 1
South West - 2 £51,058 - 1
North East - 1 £45,000 -
North West - 1 £45,000 - 1

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 31 (81.58%) AWS
2 16 (42.11%) Azure
3 12 (31.58%) GCP
4 6 (15.79%) SaaS
5 4 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (10.53%) Entra ID
6 3 (7.89%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (7.89%) GitHub
6 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (7.89%) Miro
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (39.47%) Firewall
2 8 (21.05%) DNS
3 4 (10.53%) DHCP
3 4 (10.53%) TCP/IP
3 4 (10.53%) VLAN
4 1 (2.63%) Network Security
4 1 (2.63%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
1 1 (2.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.63%) Metasploit
2 1 (2.63%) Postman
2 1 (2.63%) REST Assured
2 1 (2.63%) SoapUI
General
1 17 (44.74%) Law
2 10 (26.32%) Finance
3 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Legal
4 3 (7.89%) Marketing
5 2 (5.26%) Retail
6 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (52.63%) Security Engineer
2 11 (28.95%) Cloud Engineer
2 11 (28.95%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 10 (26.32%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (18.42%) Senior
5 5 (13.16%) Vulnerability Manager
6 4 (10.53%) Architect
6 4 (10.53%) Incident Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) SOC Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Data Manager
7 3 (7.89%) IT Architect
7 3 (7.89%) IT Director
7 3 (7.89%) IT Manager
7 3 (7.89%) IT Security Manager
7 3 (7.89%) Security Architect
7 3 (7.89%) Security Manager
7 3 (7.89%) Senior IT Manager
7 3 (7.89%) Senior Manager
7 3 (7.89%) Senior Security Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) RESTful
2 1 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.63%) HTML
2 1 (2.63%) JWT
2 1 (2.63%) OAuth
2 1 (2.63%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.63%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 38 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 12 (31.58%) Cloud Native
3 8 (21.05%) Management Information System
4 5 (13.16%) Cyber Security Posture
5 4 (10.53%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (7.89%) Machine to Machine
6 3 (7.89%) PKI
6 3 (7.89%) Virtual Team
7 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Linux
1 2 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 19 (50.00%) DevOps
2 19 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 17 (44.74%) Security Operations
3 17 (44.74%) Vulnerability Management
4 16 (42.11%) Security Monitoring
5 15 (39.47%) Agile
6 13 (34.21%) Information Security
7 12 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (31.58%) Data Loss Prevention
8 11 (28.95%) Data Engineering
8 11 (28.95%) Mentoring
8 11 (28.95%) Technology Roadmap
8 11 (28.95%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 10 (26.32%) CI/CD
9 10 (26.32%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (23.68%) Threat Intelligence
11 6 (15.79%) DevSecOps
11 6 (15.79%) ITIL
11 6 (15.79%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.68%) Python
2 4 (10.53%) TypeScript
3 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.63%) Bash
4 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (36.84%) CISSP
2 13 (34.21%) AWS Certification
3 11 (28.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 8 (21.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 8 (21.05%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (21.05%) Degree
5 6 (15.79%) CCSP
6 3 (7.89%) CCSK
6 3 (7.89%) CISM
6 3 (7.89%) GIAC
6 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
6 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
7 2 (5.26%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.63%) ISTQB
8 1 (2.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) GDPR
1 4 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.89%) NIST
2 3 (7.89%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.63%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (21.05%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 9 (23.68%) CASB
3 5 (13.16%) Terraform
4 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (7.89%) Progress Chef
4 3 (7.89%) Puppet
5 2 (5.26%) Ansible
6 1 (2.63%) Nessus
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) Alibaba
2 3 (7.89%) Google
2 3 (7.89%) ServiceNow
2 3 (7.89%) Symantec
2 3 (7.89%) Zscaler
3 1 (2.63%) Splunk