Cloud Security Jobs

Cloud Security
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Cloud Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Security over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 227 330 170
Rank change year-on-year +103 -160 +130
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 765 881 2,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.39% 0.89% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.04% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 433 677 1,085
10th Percentile £45,750 £40,000 £42,874
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £108,600 £100,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,000 £57,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -14.81% +17.39%

All Process and 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 51,728 84,924 96,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.83% 85.58% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 26,848 59,902 56,809
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,010 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,415 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 12 May 2025.

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 12 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 +82 716 £70,000 +7.69% 722
UK excluding London +109 496 £69,000 +20.00% 412
Work from Home +146 409 £67,500 +8.00% 480
North of England +93 272 £70,000 +33.33% 93
North West +88 235 £74,870 +49.74% 47
London +52 225 £77,500 -3.13% 433
South East +82 92 £65,000 +30.00% 158
Midlands +42 43 £60,000 -7.69% 45
South West +46 38 £71,250 +19.70% 37
West Midlands +54 37 £60,000 -20.00% 36
Yorkshire +34 27 £53,750 -10.42% 37
East of England +51 23 £65,250 -10.00% 28
Scotland +91 18 £95,000 +59.59% 32
North East +25 10 £70,000 +64.71% 9
East Midlands +22 6 £70,000 +16.67% 8
Northern Ireland +37 5 £110,000 +22.22% 19
Wales +43 4 £75,000 +3.45% 13
Isle of Man +13 2 £34,500 -25.81%

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 17 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (1.70%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.31%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.31%) Confluence
4 6 (0.78%) IIS
5 5 (0.65%) Apache
6 2 (0.26%) nginx
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.39%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.26%) Oracle Smart View
3 2 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.26%) Endur
2 2 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 477 (62.35%) Azure
2 460 (60.13%) AWS
3 286 (37.39%) GCP
4 81 (10.59%) SaaS
5 62 (8.10%) Microsoft 365
6 54 (7.06%) Serverless
7 47 (6.14%) PaaS
8 45 (5.88%) Entra ID
9 36 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
10 34 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
11 32 (4.18%) AWS CloudFormation
11 32 (4.18%) IaaS
12 28 (3.66%) Amazon S3
13 25 (3.27%) AWS KMS
13 25 (3.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 23 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
15 22 (2.88%) Azure Sentinel
16 19 (2.48%) Power Platform
17 18 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 17 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 153 (20.00%) Firewall
2 96 (12.55%) Network Security
3 51 (6.67%) VPN
4 31 (4.05%) Intrusion Detection
5 28 (3.66%) WAN
6 26 (3.40%) DNS
7 19 (2.48%) SD-WAN
7 19 (2.48%) Wi-Fi
8 16 (2.09%) TCP/IP
9 15 (1.96%) DHCP
9 15 (1.96%) LAN
9 15 (1.96%) Wireless
10 13 (1.70%) BGP
11 12 (1.57%) Cisco ASA
11 12 (1.57%) MPLS
11 12 (1.57%) OSPF
11 12 (1.57%) WLAN
12 10 (1.31%) VLAN
13 9 (1.18%) SSL
14 8 (1.05%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (2.48%) SQL Server
3 11 (1.44%) Big Data
3 11 (1.44%) MySQL
4 8 (1.05%) Data Lake
4 8 (1.05%) DynamoDB
4 8 (1.05%) Power BI
5 6 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (0.65%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (0.52%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.26%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.26%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.26%) Tableau
9 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 40 (5.23%) Jenkins
2 37 (4.84%) Git
3 12 (1.57%) GitLab
3 12 (1.57%) JIRA
4 8 (1.05%) Vagrant
5 5 (0.65%) Postman
5 5 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (0.52%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.52%) JMeter
6 4 (0.52%) Locust
6 4 (0.52%) Robot Framework
6 4 (0.52%) Selenium
6 4 (0.52%) Vite
6 4 (0.52%) webpack
7 3 (0.39%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (0.39%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 195 (25.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 170 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 143 (18.69%) Finance
4 62 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (7.97%) Law
6 29 (3.79%) Banking
6 29 (3.79%) Telecoms
7 25 (3.27%) Retail
8 22 (2.88%) Legal
9 20 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
10 19 (2.48%) Public Sector
11 16 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (1.70%) Marketing
13 11 (1.44%) Games
14 9 (1.18%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.92%) Financial Institution
17 6 (0.78%) Automotive
17 6 (0.78%) Aviation
17 6 (0.78%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 291 (38.04%) Senior
2 207 (27.06%) Software Engineer
3 198 (25.88%) Senior Software Engineer
4 150 (19.61%) Cloud Engineer
5 114 (14.90%) Security Engineer
6 108 (14.12%) Architect
7 69 (9.02%) Lead
8 61 (7.97%) Security Architect
9 58 (7.58%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 52 (6.80%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 46 (6.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 44 (5.75%) Cloud Architect
13 43 (5.62%) AWS Engineer
13 43 (5.62%) Azure Engineer
14 37 (4.84%) Security Manager
15 35 (4.58%) AWS Architect
16 33 (4.31%) Analyst
17 24 (3.14%) Senior Security Engineer
18 23 (3.01%) DevOps Engineer
19 21 (2.75%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (27.97%) Node.js
2 193 (25.23%) .NET
3 24 (3.14%) REST
4 22 (2.88%) Kafka
5 19 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
5 19 (2.48%) Web Services
6 15 (1.96%) React
7 11 (1.44%) YAML
8 9 (1.18%) AngularJS
8 9 (1.18%) ARM Templates
8 9 (1.18%) Azure Blueprints
9 8 (1.05%) OAuth
9 8 (1.05%) SAML
10 6 (0.78%) Next.js
10 6 (0.78%) SOAP
10 6 (0.78%) Spring
10 6 (0.78%) Spring Boot
10 6 (0.78%) Vue
11 5 (0.65%) AWS CDK
11 5 (0.65%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 208 (27.19%) Self-Motivation
2 181 (23.66%) Cyberattack
3 178 (23.27%) Linux Command Line
4 118 (15.42%) Security Posture
5 108 (14.12%) Management Information System
6 67 (8.76%) Cloud Native
7 46 (6.01%) Public Cloud
8 41 (5.36%) Cloud Security Posture
9 24 (3.14%) Cyber Threat
9 24 (3.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 21 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
10 21 (2.75%) Social Media
11 20 (2.61%) Data Centre
12 17 (2.22%) Algorithms
13 16 (2.09%) Cyber Defence
13 16 (2.09%) PKI
14 14 (1.83%) Product Ownership
15 13 (1.70%) Security Operations Centre
16 12 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
17 10 (1.31%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 242 (31.63%) Linux
2 101 (13.20%) Windows
3 26 (3.40%) Windows Server
4 21 (2.75%) Windows Vista
5 13 (1.70%) VMS
6 9 (1.18%) Android
6 9 (1.18%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.65%) Unix
10 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.39%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.39%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.39%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.13%) Debian
13 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (35.16%) Agile
2 252 (32.94%) Software Engineering
3 247 (32.29%) Mentoring
4 221 (28.89%) Microservices
5 204 (26.67%) Machine Learning
6 200 (26.14%) Scrum
7 196 (25.62%) Data Engineering
7 196 (25.62%) User Experience
8 185 (24.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 173 (22.61%) DevOps
10 167 (21.83%) Cybersecurity
11 153 (20.00%) CI/CD
12 139 (18.17%) Infrastructure as Code
13 119 (15.56%) Information Security
14 114 (14.90%) Incident Response
15 108 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
16 97 (12.68%) Computer Science
16 97 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
16 97 (12.68%) Security Architecture
17 93 (12.16%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 336 (43.92%) Python
2 230 (30.07%) Java
3 201 (26.27%) Go
4 192 (25.10%) JavaScript
5 182 (23.79%) Rust
6 181 (23.66%) C++
7 69 (9.02%) PowerShell
8 37 (4.84%) Bash
9 32 (4.18%) TypeScript
10 27 (3.53%) SQL
11 15 (1.96%) Bicep
12 8 (1.05%) C#
12 8 (1.05%) Perl
13 7 (0.92%) Groovy
14 4 (0.52%) Ruby
15 3 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.39%) PHP
15 3 (0.39%) R
15 3 (0.39%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.26%) C
Qualifications
1 255 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 244 (31.90%) AWS Certification
3 212 (27.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 188 (24.58%) DV Cleared
5 178 (23.27%) AWS Certified Developer
6 124 (16.21%) Degree
7 116 (15.16%) CISSP
8 75 (9.80%) CISM
9 67 (8.76%) SC Cleared
10 64 (8.37%) Computer Science Degree
11 47 (6.14%) Cisco Certification
12 45 (5.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 41 (5.36%) CISA
14 40 (5.23%) Azure Certification
15 34 (4.44%) CEH
16 30 (3.92%) Master's Degree
17 23 (3.01%) Microsoft Certification
18 22 (2.88%) DBS Check
19 17 (2.22%) CCSP
20 15 (1.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (15.56%) NIST
2 116 (15.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 106 (13.86%) GDPR
4 41 (5.36%) PCI DSS
5 27 (3.53%) HIPAA
6 25 (3.27%) Accessibility
7 22 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials
8 19 (2.48%) NCSC
8 19 (2.48%) SOC 2
9 17 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 17 (2.22%) GRC
10 14 (1.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.92%) QA
11 7 (0.92%) SLA
12 6 (0.78%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.65%) COBIT
14 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 67 (8.76%) Docker
2 55 (7.19%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.31%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.65%) Firmware
8 4 (0.52%) DFS Replication
8 4 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.26%) vSphere
10 1 (0.13%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 148 (19.35%) Terraform
2 123 (16.08%) Kubernetes
3 47 (6.14%) Ansible
4 28 (3.66%) Grafana
4 28 (3.66%) Prometheus
5 27 (3.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (3.01%) CASB
7 11 (1.44%) QRadar
7 11 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.31%) SCCM
9 8 (1.05%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.78%) ArcSight ESM
11 6 (0.78%) Nessus
12 5 (0.65%) HP Fortify
12 5 (0.65%) Istio
13 4 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.52%) ZENworks
14 3 (0.39%) Nagios
14 3 (0.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 152 (19.87%) Microsoft
2 54 (7.06%) Google
3 38 (4.97%) Cisco
4 24 (3.14%) VMware
5 19 (2.48%) Meraki
5 19 (2.48%) Splunk
6 18 (2.35%) Ping Identity
7 16 (2.09%) SolarWinds
8 13 (1.70%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.57%) Juniper
10 11 (1.44%) CheckPoint
11 10 (1.31%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.18%) Palo Alto
13 8 (1.05%) Databricks
13 8 (1.05%) IBM
13 8 (1.05%) Infoblox
13 8 (1.05%) SAP
13 8 (1.05%) Zscaler
14 6 (0.78%) Fortinet
14 6 (0.78%) Oracle