Cloud Security Job Trends

Cloud Security
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Cloud Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 187 318
Rank change year-on-year +2 +131 -120
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 1,146 890 671
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.78% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 1.99% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 804 509 504
10th Percentile £46,000 £44,500 £43,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £57,019
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -2.68% -0.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £91,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +20.83% -8.19%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Cloud Security falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78,515 44,640 67,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.47% 89.25% 80.94%
Number of salaries quoted 54,079 25,322 43,171
10th Percentile £30,975 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,236 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cloud Security relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in the UK

Cloud Security
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cloud Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cloud Security

Cloud Security
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Security in the UK

Cloud Security
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security within the UK over the 6 months to 16 August 2026. 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 +2 1,036 £75,000 +3.45% 303
UK excluding London -49 595 £67,500 -6.90% 240
London +59 498 £85,000 +13.33% 114
Work from Home -29 366 £75,000 +7.14% 172
Midlands +15 142 £67,500 -6.90% 34
North of England -94 141 £67,303 +0.17% 72
South East -53 119 £65,000 -3.70% 79
West Midlands -1 116 £72,500 - 24
South West -6 104 £75,000 -9.09% 34
North West -76 86 £75,000 +5.72% 44
Wales -36 38 £83,750 +39.58% 6
East of England -34 33 £60,000 -14.29% 9
Yorkshire -29 28 £55,000 -12.00% 19
North East -43 27 £47,000 -39.55% 9
East Midlands -7 26 £50,000 -16.67% 10
Scotland +4 14 £65,029 -31.55% 7
Northern Ireland -70 9 £55,000 +15.18% 2
Channel Islands +6 3 £75,000 +66.67%

Cloud Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 39 (3.40%) SharePoint
2 32 (2.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.44%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.35%) IIS
5 3 (0.26%) Confluence
6 2 (0.17%) Apache
7 1 (0.087%) Drupal
7 1 (0.087%) nginx
7 1 (0.087%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.087%) Maya
2 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.087%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite
2 3 (0.26%) Infor LN
2 3 (0.26%) Infor M3
2 3 (0.26%) Sage X3
2 3 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.17%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.087%) Magento
4 1 (0.087%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 547 (47.73%) Azure
2 527 (45.99%) AWS
3 200 (17.45%) GCP
4 156 (13.61%) Microsoft 365
5 153 (13.35%) Serverless
6 107 (9.34%) GitHub
7 104 (9.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 98 (8.55%) Entra ID
9 80 (6.98%) PaaS
10 73 (6.37%) Azure DevOps
11 72 (6.28%) SaaS
12 71 (6.20%) Azure Sentinel
13 70 (6.11%) Cloud Computing
14 63 (5.50%) IaaS
15 62 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
15 62 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
16 59 (5.15%) GitHub Actions
17 55 (4.80%) Amazon S3
18 51 (4.45%) Amazon ECS
19 43 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 174 (15.18%) Network Security
2 151 (13.18%) Firewall
3 89 (7.77%) VPN
4 36 (3.14%) DNS
5 24 (2.09%) WAN
6 17 (1.48%) DHCP
7 14 (1.22%) LAN
7 14 (1.22%) SD-WAN
8 13 (1.13%) Intrusion Detection
8 13 (1.13%) TCP/IP
9 11 (0.96%) Internet
10 10 (0.87%) VLAN
11 9 (0.79%) Wireless
12 8 (0.70%) BGP
13 6 (0.52%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.52%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (0.52%) DSL
13 6 (0.52%) NGFW
13 6 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (0.44%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (1.75%) SQL Server
3 19 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
4 18 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (1.22%) Power BI
6 6 (0.52%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.52%) Redis
7 5 (0.44%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.26%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.26%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.17%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.17%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.17%) Metadata
10 2 (0.17%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.087%) Big Data
11 1 (0.087%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.087%) Flink
11 1 (0.087%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 39 (3.40%) GitLab
2 30 (2.62%) Git
3 29 (2.53%) Jenkins
4 27 (2.36%) Snyk
5 9 (0.79%) TeamCity
6 7 (0.61%) JIRA
7 6 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.35%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.26%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.17%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.17%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.17%) Metasploit
10 2 (0.17%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.087%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.087%) Gatling
11 1 (0.087%) JMeter
11 1 (0.087%) Selenium
11 1 (0.087%) Vagrant
General
1 260 (22.69%) Social Skills
2 161 (14.05%) Finance
3 105 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
3 105 (9.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 96 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 68 (5.93%) Law
6 37 (3.23%) Legal
7 36 (3.14%) Banking
8 33 (2.88%) Retail
9 23 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
11 15 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (1.31%) Telecoms
12 13 (1.13%) Local Government
13 12 (1.05%) Marketing
14 11 (0.96%) Aviation
15 8 (0.70%) Aerospace
16 7 (0.61%) Billing
16 7 (0.61%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 237 (20.68%) Architect
2 215 (18.76%) Senior
3 209 (18.24%) Security Engineer
4 180 (15.71%) Cloud Engineer
5 150 (13.09%) Security Architect
6 107 (9.34%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 103 (8.99%) Cloud Architect
8 102 (8.90%) Consultant
8 102 (8.90%) Lead
9 82 (7.16%) Security Consultant
10 80 (6.98%) Cloud Security Architect
11 76 (6.63%) Analyst
12 65 (5.67%) Azure Engineer
13 55 (4.80%) AWS Engineer
13 55 (4.80%) Security Analyst
13 55 (4.80%) Senior Architect
14 54 (4.71%) DevOps Engineer
15 50 (4.36%) Security Manager
16 44 (3.84%) IT Support
17 43 (3.75%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (2.97%) AWS CDK
2 25 (2.18%) Node.js
3 19 (1.66%) ARM Templates
4 17 (1.48%) OpenID
5 16 (1.40%) SAML
6 15 (1.31%) .NET
6 15 (1.31%) REST
7 14 (1.22%) OAuth
8 11 (0.96%) JWT
9 9 (0.79%) eBPF
9 9 (0.79%) OAuth2
10 8 (0.70%) Middleware
10 8 (0.70%) YAML
11 7 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (0.61%) Kafka
12 6 (0.52%) GraphQL
12 6 (0.52%) RESTful
12 6 (0.52%) Ruby on Rails
12 6 (0.52%) Spring Boot
13 4 (0.35%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 183 (15.97%) Cloud Native
2 146 (12.74%) Security Posture
3 75 (6.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 61 (5.32%) Onboarding
5 53 (4.62%) Management Information System
6 47 (4.10%) Cyber Threat
7 43 (3.75%) Cloud Security Posture
8 41 (3.58%) Data Centre
9 35 (3.05%) Security Operations Centre
10 30 (2.62%) NHS
10 30 (2.62%) PKI
11 23 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
12 22 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
12 22 (1.92%) Public Cloud
13 20 (1.75%) Cyber Defence
14 19 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
15 18 (1.57%) Blog
16 15 (1.31%) Cyberattack
16 15 (1.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 15 (1.31%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 115 (10.03%) Windows
2 74 (6.46%) Linux
3 37 (3.23%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.13%) VMS
5 10 (0.87%) Android
6 7 (0.61%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.52%) CentOS
7 6 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.35%) Unix
8 4 (0.35%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (37.87%) Cybersecurity
2 358 (31.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 353 (30.80%) CI/CD
4 262 (22.86%) DevOps
5 237 (20.68%) Security Architecture
6 232 (20.24%) Incident Response
7 217 (18.94%) SIEM
8 193 (16.84%) Threat Modelling
9 191 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 186 (16.23%) AI
11 176 (15.36%) DevSecOps
12 174 (15.18%) Security Operations
13 173 (15.10%) Information Security
14 169 (14.75%) Risk Management
15 163 (14.22%) Vulnerability Management
16 159 (13.87%) Mentoring
16 159 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
17 151 (13.18%) Roadmaps
18 147 (12.83%) Identity Access Management
19 136 (11.87%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 209 (18.24%) Python
2 129 (11.26%) PowerShell
3 114 (9.95%) Bash
4 61 (5.32%) Bicep
5 50 (4.36%) SQL
6 42 (3.66%) Java
7 37 (3.23%) Go
8 33 (2.88%) Kusto Query Language
9 20 (1.75%) Ruby
10 17 (1.48%) PHP
11 15 (1.31%) C#
12 14 (1.22%) Perl
13 12 (1.05%) JavaScript
14 10 (0.87%) Rust
15 6 (0.52%) COBOL
16 5 (0.44%) TypeScript
17 2 (0.17%) Scala
17 2 (0.17%) Search Processing Language
18 1 (0.087%) C
18 1 (0.087%) C++
Qualifications
1 252 (21.99%) Security Cleared
2 205 (17.89%) CISSP
3 173 (15.10%) SC Cleared
4 162 (14.14%) Degree
5 138 (12.04%) CISM
6 113 (9.86%) AWS Certification
7 80 (6.98%) Cisco Certification
8 73 (6.37%) DV Cleared
9 69 (6.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 64 (5.58%) Azure Certification
11 44 (3.84%) Microsoft Certification
12 43 (3.75%) CCSP
13 41 (3.58%) CompTIA Security+
14 40 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
15 38 (3.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 37 (3.23%) Postgraduate
17 36 (3.14%) GIAC
18 33 (2.88%) CEH
19 31 (2.71%) CRISC
20 25 (2.18%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 252 (21.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 226 (19.72%) NIST
3 132 (11.52%) GDPR
4 86 (7.50%) GRC
5 60 (5.24%) PCI DSS
6 57 (4.97%) NCSC
7 55 (4.80%) Cyber Essentials
8 51 (4.45%) SOC 2
9 21 (1.83%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 20 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 18 (1.57%) Accessibility
11 18 (1.57%) JSP 440
12 17 (1.48%) NIST 800
13 13 (1.13%) COBIT
14 11 (0.96%) Government Security Classifications
15 10 (0.87%) HIPAA
16 8 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 6 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.52%) SLA
18 4 (0.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 99 (8.64%) Active Directory
2 63 (5.50%) Docker
3 39 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
6 18 (1.57%) vSphere
7 13 (1.13%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.52%) IAG
9 5 (0.44%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.26%) KVM
11 2 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 312 (27.23%) Terraform
2 142 (12.39%) Kubernetes
3 51 (4.45%) Ansible
4 50 (4.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 33 (2.88%) Grafana
6 31 (2.71%) Prometheus
7 30 (2.62%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (1.48%) Argo
9 13 (1.13%) CASB
10 11 (0.96%) SCCM
11 10 (0.87%) Cilium
12 8 (0.70%) QRadar
13 7 (0.61%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.35%) Nessus
15 3 (0.26%) Packer
15 3 (0.26%) Proxmox
16 2 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
16 2 (0.17%) Nmap
16 2 (0.17%) Progress Chef
16 2 (0.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 321 (28.01%) Microsoft
2 74 (6.46%) CrowdStrike
3 66 (5.76%) Google
4 63 (5.50%) Palo Alto
5 52 (4.54%) VMware
6 41 (3.58%) Tenable
7 35 (3.05%) Cisco
8 33 (2.88%) Splunk
9 32 (2.79%) Oracle
10 16 (1.40%) iManage
11 15 (1.31%) Fortinet
11 15 (1.31%) Qualys
11 15 (1.31%) Zscaler
12 12 (1.05%) ScienceLogic
13 11 (0.96%) Meraki
13 11 (0.96%) Veeam
14 10 (0.87%) CyberArk
14 10 (0.87%) ServiceNow
15 9 (0.79%) Rapid7
15 9 (0.79%) SAP