Cloud Security
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cloud Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Security over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 316 159 297
Rank change year-on-year -157 +138 -33
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 882 2,450 2,139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.90% 2.34% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 2.45% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 677 1,147 1,108
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £47,000 £53,970 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £71,750
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +1.05% +2.50%
75th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £109,865 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.08% +13.04% -7.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cloud Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in the UK

Cloud Security
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Security in the UK

Cloud Security
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 27 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 -147 786 £65,000 -10.34% 241
UK excluding London -180 527 £56,500 -13.08% 149
Work from Home -121 356 £65,000 -7.14% 123
London -92 296 £81,250 +4.17% 114
North of England -130 177 £52,500 -13.22% 48
South East -66 109 £50,000 -24.53% 21
South West -29 103 £59,526 -20.63% 22
North West -124 85 £50,000 -16.00% 15
Midlands -80 72 £65,000 -10.96% 20
Yorkshire -68 62 £60,000 -10.16% 20
West Midlands -66 43 £75,000 +2.74% 14
Scotland -127 40 £59,526 -8.42% 16
North East +10 30 £42,500 -12.82% 15
East Midlands -19 28 £60,000 -11.11% 6
East of England -50 16 £72,500 +52.70% 13
Northern Ireland +27 7 £90,000 +89.47% 5
Isle of Man - 4 £46,500 - 1
Wales +6 1 £60,000 +20.00% 7

Cloud Security
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:

Application Platforms
1 32 (3.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.13%) Apache
4 8 (0.91%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.45%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.34%) Confluence
7 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.23%) IIS
7 2 (0.23%) nginx
7 2 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.11%) Drupal
8 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Magento
1 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 497 (56.35%) Azure
2 277 (31.41%) AWS
3 201 (22.79%) Microsoft 365
4 140 (15.87%) GCP
5 90 (10.20%) PaaS
6 84 (9.52%) Entra ID
7 83 (9.41%) SaaS
8 79 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
9 75 (8.50%) IaaS
10 61 (6.92%) Cloud Computing
11 48 (5.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 47 (5.33%) Azure Sentinel
13 41 (4.65%) GitHub
14 38 (4.31%) Microsoft Purview
15 32 (3.63%) Serverless
16 29 (3.29%) Azure AKS
17 26 (2.95%) Power Platform
18 17 (1.93%) GitHub Actions
19 16 (1.81%) Azure API Management
20 14 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 193 (21.88%) Firewall
2 126 (14.29%) Network Security
3 83 (9.41%) DNS
4 55 (6.24%) TCP/IP
5 51 (5.78%) WAN
6 47 (5.33%) VPN
7 46 (5.22%) LAN
8 44 (4.99%) Internet
9 32 (3.63%) DHCP
9 32 (3.63%) HTTP
10 28 (3.17%) Wireless
11 26 (2.95%) DKIM
11 26 (2.95%) DMARC
12 23 (2.61%) SD-WAN
13 18 (2.04%) Software-Defined Networking
14 17 (1.93%) WLAN
15 16 (1.81%) Wireshark
16 14 (1.59%) Intrusion Detection
17 12 (1.36%) BGP
17 12 (1.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (1.81%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.70%) Power BI
3 13 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (1.36%) NoSQL
4 12 (1.36%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.13%) Data Lake
5 10 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.02%) Big Data
7 8 (0.91%) BigQuery
7 8 (0.91%) Bigtable
7 8 (0.91%) Looker
7 8 (0.91%) MySQL
7 8 (0.91%) Tableau
8 5 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.45%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.34%) Oracle Exadata
11 2 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.11%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.11%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 50 (5.67%) Jenkins
2 22 (2.49%) Git
3 15 (1.70%) GitLab
4 10 (1.13%) SonarQube
5 5 (0.57%) Burp Suite
5 5 (0.57%) Katalon Studio
5 5 (0.57%) Maven
5 5 (0.57%) Selenium
6 4 (0.45%) JIRA
7 3 (0.34%) JMeter
7 3 (0.34%) Metasploit
8 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.23%) Gatling
8 2 (0.23%) JUnit
8 2 (0.23%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.11%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.11%) MLflow
9 1 (0.11%) Vagrant
General
1 275 (31.18%) Social Skills
2 217 (24.60%) Finance
3 85 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 74 (8.39%) Banking
6 56 (6.35%) Retail
7 37 (4.20%) Law
8 33 (3.74%) Legal
8 33 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
9 30 (3.40%) Marketing
10 23 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
11 20 (2.27%) Public Sector
12 12 (1.36%) Tech for Good
13 11 (1.25%) Back Office
13 11 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.91%) Games
15 4 (0.45%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.34%) Police
17 2 (0.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 177 (20.07%) Architect
2 165 (18.71%) Senior
3 133 (15.08%) Analyst
4 124 (14.06%) Security Engineer
5 112 (12.70%) Cloud Engineer
6 109 (12.36%) Security Analyst
7 97 (11.00%) Lead
8 80 (9.07%) Security Architect
9 75 (8.50%) Cloud Architect
10 52 (5.90%) Information Analyst
10 52 (5.90%) Information Security Analyst
11 47 (5.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 47 (5.33%) Senior Security Engineer
12 44 (4.99%) Consultant
13 39 (4.42%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 38 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
15 36 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
16 35 (3.97%) Cloud Security Architect
16 35 (3.97%) Senior Cloud Engineer
17 34 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (4.31%) SAML
2 31 (3.51%) HTML
3 29 (3.29%) OpenID
4 14 (1.59%) YAML
5 13 (1.47%) Kafka
6 12 (1.36%) SailPoint
7 11 (1.25%) ARM Templates
7 11 (1.25%) OAuth
8 8 (0.91%) .NET
8 8 (0.91%) JSON
8 8 (0.91%) Laravel
9 7 (0.79%) Middleware
9 7 (0.79%) React
9 7 (0.79%) REST
9 7 (0.79%) web3js
10 6 (0.68%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.68%) Azure Blueprints
11 5 (0.57%) AWS CDK
11 5 (0.57%) XML
12 4 (0.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 96 (10.88%) Cloud Native
2 74 (8.39%) Management Information System
3 72 (8.16%) Cyberattack
4 67 (7.60%) Security Posture
5 62 (7.03%) Data Centre
6 56 (6.35%) Public Cloud
7 40 (4.54%) Cyber Threat
8 33 (3.74%) Security Operations Centre
9 26 (2.95%) Product Ownership
10 24 (2.72%) PKI
11 23 (2.61%) Cloud Security Posture
11 23 (2.61%) Private Cloud
12 14 (1.59%) Driving Licence
13 13 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
14 12 (1.36%) Onboarding
15 11 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
16 9 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
16 9 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 160 (18.14%) Windows
2 91 (10.32%) Linux
3 80 (9.07%) Windows Server
4 25 (2.83%) Unix
5 20 (2.27%) Windows 10
6 19 (2.15%) Android
6 19 (2.15%) Apple iOS
7 12 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.79%) Solaris
9 7 (0.79%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.34%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.34%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (36.51%) Cybersecurity
2 260 (29.48%) Information Security
3 210 (23.81%) DevOps
4 201 (22.79%) Agile
5 166 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
6 149 (16.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 142 (16.10%) CI/CD
8 126 (14.29%) SIEM
9 119 (13.49%) Roadmaps
10 118 (13.38%) Identity Access Management
11 104 (11.79%) DevSecOps
12 97 (11.00%) Incident Response
13 92 (10.43%) Vulnerability Management
14 91 (10.32%) Security Operations
15 90 (10.20%) Security Architecture
16 82 (9.30%) Application Security
17 74 (8.39%) SDLC
18 72 (8.16%) Containerisation
19 67 (7.60%) Risk Management
20 61 (6.92%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 133 (15.08%) Python
2 101 (11.45%) PowerShell
3 41 (4.65%) Bash
4 39 (4.42%) SQL
5 30 (3.40%) Java
6 25 (2.83%) Bicep
7 21 (2.38%) JavaScript
8 16 (1.81%) Go
9 12 (1.36%) C#
10 10 (1.13%) PHP
10 10 (1.13%) Rust
11 8 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
11 8 (0.91%) Scala
12 5 (0.57%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.45%) AWK
13 4 (0.45%) C
13 4 (0.45%) R
13 4 (0.45%) sed
14 3 (0.34%) C++
14 3 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 171 (19.39%) CISSP
2 112 (12.70%) Degree
3 79 (8.96%) AWS Certification
4 78 (8.84%) Cisco Certification
5 75 (8.50%) Azure Certification
6 74 (8.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 71 (8.05%) CISM
8 67 (7.60%) Security Cleared
9 62 (7.03%) CCSP
10 55 (6.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 53 (6.01%) CEH
12 46 (5.22%) Microsoft Certification
13 40 (4.54%) DV Cleared
14 36 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
15 26 (2.95%) SC Cleared
16 21 (2.38%) Master's Degree
16 21 (2.38%) OSCP
17 19 (2.15%) SANS
18 17 (1.93%) CompTIA Security+
19 16 (1.81%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (16.33%) NIST
2 141 (15.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 74 (8.39%) PCI DSS
4 34 (3.85%) GDPR
5 33 (3.74%) Cyber Essentials
6 25 (2.83%) GRC
7 22 (2.49%) SLA
8 16 (1.81%) NCSC
9 14 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 13 (1.47%) NIST 800
11 11 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 9 (1.02%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.91%) COBIT
13 8 (0.91%) ISO 9001
14 7 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 6 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.57%) HIPAA
17 4 (0.45%) ISO 31000
17 4 (0.45%) QA
18 3 (0.34%) Accessibility
System Software
1 115 (13.04%) Active Directory
2 74 (8.39%) Docker
3 31 (3.51%) Hyper-V
4 25 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.57%) vSphere
9 3 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.11%) LXC
10 1 (0.11%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 131 (14.85%) Terraform
2 107 (12.13%) Kubernetes
3 48 (5.44%) CASB
4 46 (5.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 36 (4.08%) Ansible
6 21 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (1.93%) Nmap
8 11 (1.25%) FortiGate
9 9 (1.02%) Istio
9 9 (1.02%) Puppet
10 8 (0.91%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.91%) SCCM
11 7 (0.79%) Argo
12 6 (0.68%) Nagios
13 5 (0.57%) OfficeScan
13 5 (0.57%) QRadar
13 5 (0.57%) WSUS
14 4 (0.45%) cPanel
14 4 (0.45%) Plesk
15 3 (0.34%) Nessus
Vendors
1 273 (30.95%) Microsoft
2 77 (8.73%) Google
3 53 (6.01%) Cisco
4 36 (4.08%) Splunk
5 29 (3.29%) VMware
6 24 (2.72%) Rapid7
7 23 (2.61%) CyberArk
8 22 (2.49%) Palo Alto
9 21 (2.38%) Qualys
9 21 (2.38%) ServiceNow
10 16 (1.81%) CheckPoint
10 16 (1.81%) Fortinet
10 16 (1.81%) Juniper
10 16 (1.81%) Zscaler
11 15 (1.70%) BeyondTrust
12 14 (1.59%) Oracle
12 14 (1.59%) Thycotic
13 13 (1.47%) Barracuda Networks
14 11 (1.25%) Apple
14 11 (1.25%) Sophos