Cloud Security Jobs in England

Cloud Security
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 168 321
Rank change year-on-year -152 +153 -53
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 756 1,987 1,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.87% 2.24% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 2.35% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 601 934 898
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,874 £46,250
25th Percentile £47,000 £53,970 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +4.17% +2.86%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,700
% change year-on-year -13.33% +6.08% +1.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,606 84,635 130,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.09% 95.60% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 53,947 50,378 73,071
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,125 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in England

Cloud Security
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Cloud Security in England

Cloud Security
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Security in England

Cloud Security
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security within the England region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
London -98 299 £80,000 - 119
North of England -123 177 £52,500 -19.23% 45
South East -98 107 £50,000 -25.93% 38
North West -108 85 £50,000 -16.67% 17
Midlands -68 73 £65,000 -13.33% 20
South West -66 70 £59,526 -20.63% 21
Yorkshire -69 63 £60,000 -12.43% 20
West Midlands -47 47 £75,000 - 16
North East +10 29 £42,500 -12.82% 8
East Midlands -17 25 £60,500 -12.00% 4
East of England -41 19 £72,500 +52.70% 4
Cloud Security
UK

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (4.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.53%) CloudStack
4 3 (0.40%) Confluence
5 2 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.26%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.13%) Apache
6 1 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.13%) IIS
6 1 (0.13%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 446 (58.99%) Azure
2 220 (29.10%) AWS
3 181 (23.94%) Microsoft 365
4 116 (15.34%) GCP
5 77 (10.19%) PaaS
6 75 (9.92%) Entra ID
7 72 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
8 71 (9.39%) SaaS
9 63 (8.33%) IaaS
10 59 (7.80%) Cloud Computing
11 42 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
12 37 (4.89%) Serverless
13 32 (4.23%) Microsoft Purview
14 31 (4.10%) GitHub
15 25 (3.31%) Azure AKS
16 19 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
17 18 (2.38%) Power Platform
18 16 (2.12%) Azure Logic Apps
19 14 (1.85%) Azure API Management
20 13 (1.72%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 170 (22.49%) Firewall
2 110 (14.55%) Network Security
3 51 (6.75%) WAN
4 47 (6.22%) LAN
5 45 (5.95%) DNS
6 37 (4.89%) VPN
7 28 (3.70%) Internet
8 27 (3.57%) Wireless
9 23 (3.04%) TCP/IP
10 22 (2.91%) SD-WAN
11 18 (2.38%) DKIM
11 18 (2.38%) DMARC
11 18 (2.38%) Software-Defined Networking
12 17 (2.25%) WLAN
13 16 (2.12%) Wireshark
14 12 (1.59%) BGP
15 11 (1.46%) VoIP
15 11 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
16 10 (1.32%) Broadband
17 8 (1.06%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (1.98%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (0.93%) Power BI
4 6 (0.79%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.40%) Oracle Exadata
5 3 (0.40%) RDBMS
5 3 (0.40%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.26%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.26%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (4.37%) Jenkins
2 22 (2.91%) Git
3 16 (2.12%) GitLab
4 10 (1.32%) SonarQube
5 7 (0.93%) Katalon Studio
6 6 (0.79%) Burp Suite
7 5 (0.66%) JIRA
7 5 (0.66%) Maven
7 5 (0.66%) Selenium
8 4 (0.53%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.26%) JMeter
9 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.13%) Gatling
10 1 (0.13%) JUnit
10 1 (0.13%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.13%) sqlmap
10 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 221 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 168 (22.22%) Finance
3 77 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (7.67%) Banking
5 45 (5.95%) Retail
6 40 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (4.37%) Presentation Skills
8 29 (3.84%) Legal
9 27 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (3.31%) Law
11 24 (3.17%) Marketing
12 23 (3.04%) Public Sector
13 12 (1.59%) Tech for Good
14 11 (1.46%) Back Office
15 9 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (1.06%) Games
17 7 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
18 4 (0.53%) Manufacturing
18 4 (0.53%) Retail Banking
19 3 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 146 (19.31%) Architect
2 131 (17.33%) Senior
3 115 (15.21%) Analyst
4 112 (14.81%) Security Engineer
5 96 (12.70%) Security Analyst
6 92 (12.17%) Cloud Engineer
6 92 (12.17%) Lead
7 69 (9.13%) Security Architect
8 53 (7.01%) Cloud Architect
9 48 (6.35%) Information Analyst
9 48 (6.35%) Information Security Analyst
10 40 (5.29%) Senior Security Engineer
11 37 (4.89%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 36 (4.76%) Security Manager
13 34 (4.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 33 (4.37%) Azure Engineer
15 32 (4.23%) Consultant
16 28 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
16 28 (3.70%) Network Engineer
17 27 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.38%) YAML
2 12 (1.59%) SailPoint
3 11 (1.46%) ARM Templates
4 9 (1.19%) .NET
4 9 (1.19%) OAuth
4 9 (1.19%) React
5 8 (1.06%) Laravel
5 8 (1.06%) Middleware
5 8 (1.06%) SAML
6 7 (0.93%) JSON
6 7 (0.93%) REST
6 7 (0.93%) web3js
7 6 (0.79%) AngularJS
7 6 (0.79%) Azure Blueprints
7 6 (0.79%) Kafka
8 5 (0.66%) AWS CDK
8 5 (0.66%) CSS
8 5 (0.66%) Node.js
9 4 (0.53%) LAMP
9 4 (0.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 67 (8.86%) Management Information System
2 62 (8.20%) Security Posture
3 60 (7.94%) Cloud Native
4 53 (7.01%) Public Cloud
5 46 (6.08%) Data Centre
6 38 (5.03%) Cyber Threat
7 33 (4.37%) Cyberattack
8 30 (3.97%) Security Operations Centre
9 24 (3.17%) Cloud Security Posture
10 21 (2.78%) Private Cloud
10 21 (2.78%) Product Ownership
11 20 (2.65%) PKI
12 15 (1.98%) Onboarding
13 14 (1.85%) Driving Licence
14 13 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
15 11 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
15 11 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
16 10 (1.32%) Cyber Kill Chain
17 9 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
17 9 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 142 (18.78%) Windows
2 80 (10.58%) Linux
3 77 (10.19%) Windows Server
4 19 (2.51%) Windows 10
5 18 (2.38%) Unix
6 14 (1.85%) Android
6 14 (1.85%) Apple iOS
7 11 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (1.06%) Solaris
8 8 (1.06%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.40%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.40%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.26%) Windows XP
12 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (36.24%) Cybersecurity
2 233 (30.82%) Information Security
3 200 (26.46%) DevOps
4 156 (20.63%) Agile
5 147 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
6 129 (17.06%) CI/CD
7 110 (14.55%) Infrastructure as Code
7 110 (14.55%) SIEM
8 106 (14.02%) Identity Access Management
9 87 (11.51%) Incident Response
9 87 (11.51%) Security Operations
10 86 (11.38%) Security Architecture
10 86 (11.38%) Vulnerability Management
11 85 (11.24%) DevSecOps
12 77 (10.19%) Application Security
13 72 (9.52%) Roadmaps
14 63 (8.33%) Containerisation
15 60 (7.94%) Data Loss Prevention
15 60 (7.94%) Risk Management
16 57 (7.54%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 124 (16.40%) Python
2 93 (12.30%) PowerShell
3 45 (5.95%) SQL
4 37 (4.89%) Bash
5 26 (3.44%) Java
6 24 (3.17%) Bicep
7 21 (2.78%) JavaScript
8 15 (1.98%) C#
9 9 (1.19%) Go
9 9 (1.19%) PHP
9 9 (1.19%) Rust
10 8 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (1.06%) Scala
11 5 (0.66%) C
11 5 (0.66%) R
11 5 (0.66%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.53%) AWK
12 4 (0.53%) sed
13 3 (0.40%) C++
14 1 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 153 (20.24%) CISSP
2 111 (14.68%) Degree
3 73 (9.66%) Cisco Certification
4 69 (9.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 65 (8.60%) Azure Certification
6 61 (8.07%) CISM
7 58 (7.67%) CCSP
8 51 (6.75%) AWS Certification
9 50 (6.61%) CEH
10 38 (5.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 36 (4.76%) Security Cleared
12 30 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
13 25 (3.31%) SC Cleared
14 23 (3.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 21 (2.78%) Master's Degree
16 20 (2.65%) SANS
17 16 (2.12%) OSCP
18 15 (1.98%) CISA
18 15 (1.98%) CompTIA CySA+
18 15 (1.98%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (18.52%) NIST
2 129 (17.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 71 (9.39%) PCI DSS
4 29 (3.84%) GDPR
5 28 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
6 27 (3.57%) GRC
7 22 (2.91%) SLA
8 14 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 13 (1.72%) NIST 800
10 11 (1.46%) NCSC
11 10 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (1.06%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.93%) COBIT
13 7 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.66%) HIPAA
16 4 (0.53%) ISO 31000
16 4 (0.53%) QA
17 3 (0.40%) Accessibility
17 3 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 106 (14.02%) Active Directory
2 64 (8.47%) Docker
3 31 (4.10%) Hyper-V
4 25 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.66%) vSphere
9 3 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.13%) LXC
10 1 (0.13%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 93 (12.30%) Kubernetes
2 86 (11.38%) Terraform
3 44 (5.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 40 (5.29%) CASB
5 34 (4.50%) Ansible
6 20 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (2.25%) Nmap
8 11 (1.46%) FortiGate
9 10 (1.32%) Istio
10 8 (1.06%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.06%) Puppet
11 7 (0.93%) Argo
11 7 (0.93%) SCCM
12 6 (0.79%) Nagios
12 6 (0.79%) QRadar
13 5 (0.66%) OfficeScan
13 5 (0.66%) WSUS
14 4 (0.53%) cPanel
14 4 (0.53%) Plesk
15 3 (0.40%) Nessus
Vendors
1 247 (32.67%) Microsoft
2 55 (7.28%) Google
3 47 (6.22%) Cisco
4 32 (4.23%) Splunk
5 27 (3.57%) VMware
6 25 (3.31%) Rapid7
7 22 (2.91%) Qualys
8 21 (2.78%) ServiceNow
9 19 (2.51%) CyberArk
10 16 (2.12%) Juniper
11 15 (1.98%) Palo Alto
12 14 (1.85%) Thycotic
13 13 (1.72%) Barracuda Networks
14 12 (1.59%) Oracle
15 11 (1.46%) Apple
15 11 (1.46%) BeyondTrust
15 11 (1.46%) CheckPoint
15 11 (1.46%) ConnectWise
15 11 (1.46%) Sophos
16 10 (1.32%) Zscaler