Cloud Security Specialist Jobs

Cloud Security Specialist
UK

The median Cloud Security Specialist salary in the UK is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 703 - 980
Rank change year-on-year - - +207
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Security Specialist 3 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% - 0.001%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% - 0.001%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £70,000 - -
25th Percentile £75,625 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - -
75th Percentile £103,125 - -
90th Percentile £108,000 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 49,511 93,886 92,389
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.48% 94.63% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 27,626 67,255 58,266
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Cloud Security Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security Specialist in the UK

Cloud Security Specialist
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Security Specialist in the UK

Cloud Security Specialist
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security Specialist over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Security Specialist in the UK

Cloud Security Specialist
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
London - 2 £90,000 - 1
England - 2 £90,000 - 3
Work from Home - 1 £72,500 - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
UK excluding London - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2025, Cloud Security Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) IaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) CISSP
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) CCSP
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (33.33%) CCNP
3 1 (33.33%) CCNA
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) CISA
3 1 (33.33%) GCIA
3 1 (33.33%) GSEC
3 1 (33.33%) GCIH
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Information Management
3 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Google
3 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001

Cloud Security Specialist 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) IaaS
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
2 2 (66.67%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (33.33%) Data Encryption
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Information Management
3 1 (33.33%) Internal Audit
3 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) CCSP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) CCSK
2 1 (33.33%) CISA
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) FFIEC
2 1 (33.33%) GCED
2 1 (33.33%) GCIA
2 1 (33.33%) GCIH
2 1 (33.33%) GIAC
2 1 (33.33%) GREM
2 1 (33.33%) GSEC
2 1 (33.33%) SANS
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Google