Cloud Security Job Trends in Wales

Cloud Security
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Cloud Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 - 87
Rank change year-on-year - - +20
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 14 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.34% - 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% - 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 5
10th Percentile £43,000 - £41,750
25th Percentile £51,250 - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,496 - £49,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.75%
75th Percentile £85,000 - £77,500
90th Percentile - - £79,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year - +10.94% -12.87%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 789 737 863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 75.50% 84.32% 89.90%
Number of salaries quoted 534 353 640
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £61,063
90th Percentile £78,068 £75,000 £72,433
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in Wales

Cloud Security
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Cloud Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Cloud Security

Cloud Security
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in Wales over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Security in Wales

Cloud Security
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security within the Wales region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
South Wales - 14 £61,496 - 2
Cloud Security
UK

Cloud Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) SaaS
3 4 (28.57%) GCP
3 4 (28.57%) Google Workspace
3 4 (28.57%) SurveyMonkey
4 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Azure API Management
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
6 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
6 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
6 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) Firewall
2 4 (28.57%) Bluetooth
2 4 (28.57%) DNS
2 4 (28.57%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (28.57%) Modbus
2 4 (28.57%) Network Security
2 4 (28.57%) SSL
2 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 4 (28.57%) VLAN
2 4 (28.57%) Wireshark
2 4 (28.57%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Burp Suite
1 4 (28.57%) Metasploit
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) git-flow
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Aerospace
2 4 (28.57%) Law
2 4 (28.57%) Manufacturing
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Head of Cybersecurity
1 4 (28.57%) Head of IT
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Junior
2 2 (14.29%) Junior Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Express.js
1 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
1 1 (7.14%) koa
1 1 (7.14%) Node.js
1 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) CAN bus
1 4 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (28.57%) Digital Media
1 4 (28.57%) IoT
1 4 (28.57%) Onboarding
1 4 (28.57%) Operational Technology
1 4 (28.57%) SCADA
2 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Android
1 4 (28.57%) Kali Linux
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
1 4 (28.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (57.14%) Computer Science
3 7 (50.00%) ITIL
4 5 (35.71%) Incident Response
5 4 (28.57%) AI
5 4 (28.57%) Collaborative Culture
5 4 (28.57%) Cryptography
5 4 (28.57%) Ergonomics
5 4 (28.57%) Human Factors
5 4 (28.57%) Identity Management
5 4 (28.57%) Machine Learning
5 4 (28.57%) Network Architecture
5 4 (28.57%) Psychology
5 4 (28.57%) Risk Management
5 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
5 4 (28.57%) Security Architecture
5 4 (28.57%) SIEM
5 4 (28.57%) Statistics
5 4 (28.57%) Threat Detection
5 4 (28.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) C++
2 4 (28.57%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) R
2 4 (28.57%) Rust
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Degree
2 4 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (28.57%) CEH
2 4 (28.57%) CISM
2 4 (28.57%) CISSP
2 4 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) CISMP
3 2 (14.29%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) GDPR
2 4 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (28.57%) NIST
2 4 (28.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Nessus
1 4 (28.57%) Nmap
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Cisco
2 4 (28.57%) Google
2 4 (28.57%) Qualtrics
2 4 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 4 (28.57%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) Qualys
3 1 (7.14%) Veeam