Cloud Security Jobs in the West Midlands

Cloud Security
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 210 153
Rank change year-on-year +53 -57 +48
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 37 43 117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.84% 0.58% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.70% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 27 30 37
10th Percentile £40,750 £39,000 £44,700
25th Percentile £47,250 £63,588 £66,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,688 £92,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £95,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% +6.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,019 6,107 6,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.42% 82.86% 96.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,681 4,565 3,200
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,025
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Cloud Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in the West Midlands

Cloud Security
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Cloud Security in the West Midlands

Cloud Security
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Security in the West Midlands

Cloud Security
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 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
Birmingham +26 19 £60,000 -20.00% 12
Staffordshire +21 8 £60,000 +14.29% 7
Warwickshire -7 5 - - 6
Solihull - 4 £95,000 - 2
Herefordshire - 3 £40,000 -
Cloud Security
England

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 6 (16.22%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.70%) Apache
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.70%) Confluence
3 1 (2.70%) IIS
3 1 (2.70%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 22 (59.46%) AWS
1 22 (59.46%) Azure
2 9 (24.32%) SaaS
2 9 (24.32%) Serverless
3 7 (18.92%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (16.22%) IaaS
4 6 (16.22%) PaaS
5 5 (13.51%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (13.51%) Amazon S3
5 5 (13.51%) IBM Cloud
5 5 (13.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (10.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (10.81%) Amazon ELB
6 4 (10.81%) Amazon Glacier
6 4 (10.81%) AWS KMS
6 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (8.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (8.11%) GCP
7 3 (8.11%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (21.62%) Firewall
2 4 (10.81%) SSL
3 3 (8.11%) Network Security
4 1 (2.70%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (2.70%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Vagrant
2 3 (8.11%) Bitbucket Server
2 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.11%) JIRA
3 1 (2.70%) Git
3 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (8.11%) Police
4 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Automotive
4 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.70%) German Language
5 1 (2.70%) Legal
5 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Architect
2 5 (13.51%) Lead
2 5 (13.51%) Service Manager
3 4 (10.81%) AWS Architect
3 4 (10.81%) Cloud Architect
3 4 (10.81%) Technical Manager
4 3 (8.11%) AWS Solution Architect
4 3 (8.11%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 3 (8.11%) ICT Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) ICT Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Security Manager
4 3 (8.11%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (8.11%) Technical Services Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Network Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Service Security Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.70%) ODBC
2 1 (2.70%) PySpark
2 1 (2.70%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.81%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.11%) Housing Association
3 3 (8.11%) PKI
3 3 (8.11%) PropTech
3 3 (8.11%) Security Posture
4 2 (5.41%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (5.41%) Operational Technology
4 2 (5.41%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) IoT
5 1 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.92%) Windows
2 4 (10.81%) Linux
2 4 (10.81%) VMS
3 3 (8.11%) Ubuntu
4 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (37.84%) DevOps
2 13 (35.14%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (29.73%) ITIL
4 9 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (21.62%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (21.62%) Project Management
6 7 (18.92%) Agile
6 7 (18.92%) Data Protection
6 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (18.92%) Roadmaps
6 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (16.22%) Change Management
7 6 (16.22%) Server Management
8 5 (13.51%) Cloud Operations
8 5 (13.51%) Data Security
8 5 (13.51%) Information Security
8 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (13.51%) Risk Management
8 5 (13.51%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.03%) Python
2 5 (13.51%) Java
2 5 (13.51%) PowerShell
3 3 (8.11%) Groovy
3 3 (8.11%) Perl
3 3 (8.11%) Ruby
3 3 (8.11%) Shell Script
4 2 (5.41%) C++
5 1 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) AWS Certification
2 6 (16.22%) Azure Certification
2 6 (16.22%) CISSP
3 3 (8.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (8.11%) CISA
3 3 (8.11%) CISM
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.41%) Degree
4 2 (5.41%) PMI Certification
4 2 (5.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (13.51%) SLA
2 4 (10.81%) NIST
3 3 (8.11%) GDPR
4 2 (5.41%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (24.32%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.11%) Docker
2 3 (8.11%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.70%) Firmware
4 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (27.03%) Terraform
2 5 (13.51%) Ansible
3 3 (8.11%) Nagios
3 3 (8.11%) Nessus
3 3 (8.11%) Proxmox
4 1 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.70%) Grafana
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.70%) QRadar
4 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.70%) VxRail
Vendors
1 9 (24.32%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.22%) ServiceNow
3 5 (13.51%) IBM
3 5 (13.51%) Juniper
3 5 (13.51%) LogicMonitor
3 5 (13.51%) SolarWinds
3 5 (13.51%) Veeam
4 2 (5.41%) Google
4 2 (5.41%) VMware
5 1 (2.70%) Cisco
5 1 (2.70%) Citrix
5 1 (2.70%) ConnectWise
5 1 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.70%) Databricks
5 1 (2.70%) Dell
5 1 (2.70%) EqualLogic
5 1 (2.70%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.70%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.70%) Splunk
5 1 (2.70%) Zscaler