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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 168 329
Rank change year-on-year -152 +161 -51
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 753 1,872 1,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.82% 2.23% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 2.33% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 589 905 911
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 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.67% +7.14% -

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 76,213 80,273 136,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.42% 95.47% 95.98%
Number of salaries quoted 55,117 48,949 73,905
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -82 294 £82,500 +3.13% 121
North of England -127 178 £52,500 -19.66% 40
South East -72 107 £50,000 -27.27% 36
North West -121 87 £50,000 -20.00% 18
Midlands -74 80 £66,853 -10.86% 14
South West -83 64 £57,263 -18.20% 22
Yorkshire -72 60 £60,000 -12.43% 16
West Midlands -57 54 £75,000 - 10
North East -1 31 £42,500 -12.37% 6
East Midlands -18 25 £60,500 -12.00% 4
East of England -48 18 £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 31 (4.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.53%) CloudStack
3 4 (0.53%) Confluence
4 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.27%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.13%) Apache
5 1 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.13%) IIS
5 1 (0.13%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 433 (57.50%) Azure
2 221 (29.35%) AWS
3 172 (22.84%) Microsoft 365
4 103 (13.68%) GCP
5 76 (10.09%) SaaS
6 75 (9.96%) Entra ID
7 71 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
7 71 (9.43%) PaaS
8 62 (8.23%) IaaS
9 55 (7.30%) Cloud Computing
10 41 (5.44%) Azure Sentinel
11 35 (4.65%) Serverless
12 31 (4.12%) Microsoft Purview
13 28 (3.72%) Azure AKS
14 24 (3.19%) GitHub
15 23 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
16 17 (2.26%) Power Platform
17 16 (2.12%) Azure Logic Apps
18 14 (1.86%) Azure API Management
18 14 (1.86%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 170 (22.58%) Firewall
2 106 (14.08%) Network Security
3 51 (6.77%) WAN
4 45 (5.98%) LAN
5 44 (5.84%) DNS
6 41 (5.44%) VPN
7 27 (3.59%) Wireless
8 24 (3.19%) Internet
9 22 (2.92%) SD-WAN
10 19 (2.52%) TCP/IP
11 18 (2.39%) Software-Defined Networking
12 17 (2.26%) WLAN
13 15 (1.99%) DKIM
13 15 (1.99%) DMARC
14 14 (1.86%) Wireshark
15 12 (1.59%) BGP
16 11 (1.46%) Intrusion Detection
16 11 (1.46%) VoIP
16 11 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
17 10 (1.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.12%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (0.93%) NoSQL
3 7 (0.93%) Power BI
4 4 (0.53%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.40%) Oracle Exadata
5 3 (0.40%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.27%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.13%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 26 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 23 (3.05%) Git
3 16 (2.12%) GitLab
4 9 (1.20%) SonarQube
5 7 (0.93%) Katalon Studio
6 6 (0.80%) Burp Suite
6 6 (0.80%) JIRA
7 4 (0.53%) Metasploit
7 4 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.40%) Maven
8 3 (0.40%) Selenium
9 2 (0.27%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.27%) JMeter
10 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
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%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 224 (29.75%) Social Skills
2 157 (20.85%) Finance
3 78 (10.36%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (6.51%) Banking
5 46 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 43 (5.71%) Retail
7 31 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
8 29 (3.85%) Legal
9 27 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (3.32%) Public Sector
11 23 (3.05%) Law
11 23 (3.05%) Marketing
12 12 (1.59%) Tech for Good
13 11 (1.46%) Back Office
14 9 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.06%) Games
16 7 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.80%) Retail Banking
18 4 (0.53%) Investment Banking
18 4 (0.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 147 (19.52%) Architect
2 132 (17.53%) Senior
3 118 (15.67%) Security Engineer
4 115 (15.27%) Analyst
5 95 (12.62%) Security Analyst
6 92 (12.22%) Cloud Engineer
7 88 (11.69%) Lead
8 70 (9.30%) Security Architect
9 57 (7.57%) Cloud Architect
10 46 (6.11%) Information Analyst
10 46 (6.11%) Information Security Analyst
11 42 (5.58%) Senior Security Engineer
12 41 (5.44%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 34 (4.52%) Azure Engineer
13 34 (4.52%) Security Manager
14 33 (4.38%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 32 (4.25%) Consultant
16 29 (3.85%) Network Engineer
16 29 (3.85%) Senior Cloud Engineer
17 27 (3.59%) Cloud Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.66%) YAML
2 12 (1.59%) ARM Templates
2 12 (1.59%) SailPoint
3 10 (1.33%) .NET
4 9 (1.20%) JSON
4 9 (1.20%) Middleware
4 9 (1.20%) React
5 8 (1.06%) Laravel
5 8 (1.06%) OAuth
5 8 (1.06%) SAML
6 7 (0.93%) Azure Blueprints
6 7 (0.93%) REST
7 6 (0.80%) AngularJS
7 6 (0.80%) 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%) web3js
9 4 (0.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (8.37%) Management Information System
2 61 (8.10%) Security Posture
3 60 (7.97%) Cloud Native
4 45 (5.98%) Data Centre
5 43 (5.71%) Public Cloud
6 37 (4.91%) Cyber Threat
7 30 (3.98%) Cyberattack
8 29 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
9 23 (3.05%) Cloud Security Posture
10 19 (2.52%) Onboarding
11 15 (1.99%) PKI
11 15 (1.99%) Product Ownership
12 14 (1.86%) Driving Licence
13 13 (1.73%) Private Cloud
14 12 (1.59%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 12 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
16 9 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 9 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 137 (18.19%) Windows
2 79 (10.49%) Linux
3 75 (9.96%) Windows Server
4 19 (2.52%) Unix
4 19 (2.52%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.59%) Android
5 12 (1.59%) Apple iOS
6 11 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (1.20%) Solaris
7 9 (1.20%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.53%) Windows XP
9 3 (0.40%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (35.46%) Cybersecurity
2 230 (30.54%) Information Security
3 196 (26.03%) DevOps
4 153 (20.32%) Problem-Solving
5 148 (19.65%) Agile
6 131 (17.40%) CI/CD
7 115 (15.27%) SIEM
8 104 (13.81%) Infrastructure as Code
9 102 (13.55%) Identity Access Management
10 95 (12.62%) DevSecOps
11 88 (11.69%) Incident Response
12 84 (11.16%) Security Architecture
13 83 (11.02%) Security Operations
13 83 (11.02%) Vulnerability Management
14 70 (9.30%) Application Security
15 62 (8.23%) Data Loss Prevention
16 61 (8.10%) Containerisation
17 60 (7.97%) Risk Management
17 60 (7.97%) Roadmaps
18 50 (6.64%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 126 (16.73%) Python
2 96 (12.75%) PowerShell
3 48 (6.37%) SQL
4 35 (4.65%) Bash
5 24 (3.19%) Bicep
6 23 (3.05%) Java
7 19 (2.52%) JavaScript
8 14 (1.86%) C#
9 8 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (1.06%) PHP
9 8 (1.06%) Rust
9 8 (1.06%) Scala
10 6 (0.80%) Go
11 5 (0.66%) C
11 5 (0.66%) R
12 4 (0.53%) AWK
12 4 (0.53%) sed
12 4 (0.53%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.40%) C++
14 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 152 (20.19%) CISSP
2 113 (15.01%) Degree
3 70 (9.30%) Cisco Certification
4 66 (8.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 65 (8.63%) Azure Certification
6 60 (7.97%) CISM
7 55 (7.30%) AWS Certification
7 55 (7.30%) CCSP
8 42 (5.58%) CEH
9 37 (4.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 36 (4.78%) Security Cleared
11 34 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
12 23 (3.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 23 (3.05%) SC Cleared
13 22 (2.92%) Master's Degree
14 17 (2.26%) OSCP
14 17 (2.26%) SANS
15 15 (1.99%) CCSK
15 15 (1.99%) CompTIA CySA+
16 14 (1.86%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (19.52%) NIST
2 131 (17.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 69 (9.16%) PCI DSS
4 31 (4.12%) GDPR
5 29 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 28 (3.72%) GRC
7 23 (3.05%) SLA
8 14 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 13 (1.73%) NIST 800
10 12 (1.59%) NCSC
11 11 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.93%) COBIT
12 7 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 7 (0.93%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.80%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.40%) Accessibility
14 3 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.40%) ISO 31000
14 3 (0.40%) QA
System Software
1 102 (13.55%) Active Directory
2 58 (7.70%) Docker
3 31 (4.12%) Hyper-V
4 20 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.66%) vSphere
9 1 (0.13%) LXC
9 1 (0.13%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 90 (11.95%) Terraform
2 89 (11.82%) Kubernetes
3 38 (5.05%) CASB
3 38 (5.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 36 (4.78%) Ansible
5 19 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (1.99%) Nmap
7 11 (1.46%) FortiGate
7 11 (1.46%) Istio
8 7 (0.93%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.93%) Puppet
8 7 (0.93%) QRadar
8 7 (0.93%) SCCM
9 6 (0.80%) Nagios
10 5 (0.66%) Argo
10 5 (0.66%) OfficeScan
10 5 (0.66%) WSUS
11 4 (0.53%) cPanel
11 4 (0.53%) Plesk
12 3 (0.40%) Nessus
Vendors
1 245 (32.54%) Microsoft
2 49 (6.51%) Cisco
3 44 (5.84%) Google
4 33 (4.38%) Splunk
5 27 (3.59%) ServiceNow
6 23 (3.05%) VMware
7 22 (2.92%) Rapid7
8 20 (2.66%) Qualys
9 19 (2.52%) CyberArk
10 16 (2.12%) Juniper
10 16 (2.12%) Palo Alto
11 14 (1.86%) Barracuda Networks
12 13 (1.73%) Oracle
13 12 (1.59%) Thycotic
14 11 (1.46%) Apple
14 11 (1.46%) BeyondTrust
14 11 (1.46%) CheckPoint
14 11 (1.46%) ConnectWise
14 11 (1.46%) Sophos
15 10 (1.33%) Draytek