Cloud Security Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cloud Security Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Security Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £48,507 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 563 629
Rank change year-on-year +201 +66 +153
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 35 29 44
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.086% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.089% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 34 28 43
10th Percentile - £52,500 £37,885
25th Percentile £42,500 £56,219 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,507 £59,526 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.51% -8.42% -22.39%
75th Percentile £76,840 £64,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £85,875 £90,000 £150,000
UK median annual salary £73,685 £59,526 £70,000
% change year-on-year +23.79% -14.96% -9.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Cloud Security Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Cloud Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Security Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cloud Security Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cloud Security Engineer.

Cloud Security Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Security Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cloud Security Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Cloud Security Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cloud Security Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Cloud Security Engineer in the job title.

1 35 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 29 (82.86%) Security Posture
3 27 (77.14%) DevOps
4 26 (74.29%) AWS
5 21 (60.00%) Roadmaps
6 20 (57.14%) Security Operations
7 19 (54.29%) Vulnerability Management
7 19 (54.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 17 (48.57%) Azure
8 17 (48.57%) Finance
9 16 (45.71%) Firewall
9 16 (45.71%) AWS Certification
9 16 (45.71%) Cloud Security Posture
10 15 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (40.00%) Data Engineering
11 14 (40.00%) Law
11 14 (40.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 14 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
11 14 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
12 13 (37.14%) Terraform
13 11 (31.43%) Cloud Native
14 10 (28.57%) Banking
14 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
14 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
15 9 (25.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 8 (22.86%) Identity Access Management
16 8 (22.86%) Virtual Machines
16 8 (22.86%) Public Cloud
17 7 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
17 7 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 26 (74.29%) AWS
2 17 (48.57%) Azure
3 3 (8.57%) GitHub
3 3 (8.57%) SaaS
4 2 (5.71%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.71%) GCP
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.86%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.86%) Serverless
5 1 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (45.71%) Firewall
2 2 (5.71%) DHCP
2 2 (5.71%) DNS
2 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.71%) VLAN
3 1 (2.86%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (48.57%) Finance
2 14 (40.00%) Law
3 10 (28.57%) Banking
3 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 29 (82.86%) Security Posture
2 16 (45.71%) Cloud Security Posture
3 11 (31.43%) Cloud Native
4 8 (22.86%) Public Cloud
5 7 (20.00%) Product Ownership
6 4 (11.43%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.00%) Linux
1 7 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 27 (77.14%) DevOps
3 21 (60.00%) Roadmaps
4 20 (57.14%) Security Operations
5 19 (54.29%) Vulnerability Management
5 19 (54.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 15 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (40.00%) Data Engineering
7 14 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
7 14 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
8 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (25.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 8 (22.86%) Identity Access Management
11 7 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
12 5 (14.29%) CI/CD
12 5 (14.29%) SIEM
13 4 (11.43%) Data Loss Prevention
13 4 (11.43%) DevSecOps
13 4 (11.43%) Root Cause Analysis
13 4 (11.43%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.57%) Python
2 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.86%) Bash
3 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (45.71%) AWS Certification
2 14 (40.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (5.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.86%) CCSP
4 1 (2.86%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) PCI DSS
1 3 (8.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (5.71%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.86%) GDPR
3 1 (2.86%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (22.86%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (37.14%) Terraform
2 4 (11.43%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.86%) CASB
3 1 (2.86%) Istio
3 1 (2.86%) linkerd
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Splunk
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.86%) Google