Cloud Security Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 348 169 360
Rank change year-on-year -179 +191 -34
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 498 1,184 691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.65% 2.10% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 2.20% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 404 510 355
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,999 £32,955
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,568 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,351 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +13.65% -4.96%
75th Percentile £73,750 £87,500 £74,375
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,114 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.67% +7.14% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62,403 53,845 70,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.68% 95.47% 94.29%
Number of salaries quoted 42,667 28,673 41,516
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cloud Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cloud Security in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Security in the UK excluding London

Cloud Security
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security within the UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland -115 37 £59,763 -4.28% 12
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
Northern Ireland +15 9 £90,000 +80.00% 2
Isle of Man - 4 £46,500 -
Wales +3 3 £85,000 +88.89%
Cloud Security
UK

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 20 (4.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.80%) CloudStack
4 1 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.20%) Confluence
4 1 (0.20%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 267 (53.61%) Azure
2 141 (28.31%) AWS
3 111 (22.29%) Microsoft 365
4 60 (12.05%) GCP
5 54 (10.84%) SaaS
6 46 (9.24%) PaaS
7 41 (8.23%) Entra ID
8 39 (7.83%) Cloud Computing
9 35 (7.03%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (6.83%) IaaS
11 20 (4.02%) Azure Sentinel
12 17 (3.41%) Serverless
13 14 (2.81%) GitHub
14 12 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (2.41%) Amazon S3
14 12 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (2.41%) Mimecast
15 11 (2.21%) Amazon ECS
16 10 (2.01%) Azure Logic Apps
16 10 (2.01%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 105 (21.08%) Firewall
2 74 (14.86%) Network Security
3 33 (6.63%) DNS
4 31 (6.22%) VPN
4 31 (6.22%) WAN
5 30 (6.02%) LAN
6 26 (5.22%) Internet
7 22 (4.42%) DKIM
7 22 (4.42%) DMARC
8 18 (3.61%) Software-Defined Networking
9 17 (3.41%) Wireless
9 17 (3.41%) WLAN
10 14 (2.81%) SD-WAN
11 12 (2.41%) BGP
12 11 (2.21%) VoIP
13 10 (2.01%) Broadband
13 10 (2.01%) Intrusion Detection
13 10 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (1.81%) TCP/IP
15 8 (1.61%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (1.41%) Power BI
3 5 (1.00%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.40%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.20%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (3.82%) Jenkins
2 12 (2.41%) Git
3 6 (1.20%) Burp Suite
4 5 (1.00%) GitLab
5 4 (0.80%) Metasploit
5 4 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (0.60%) Maven
6 3 (0.60%) Selenium
6 3 (0.60%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.40%) JIRA
8 1 (0.20%) sqlmap
8 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 141 (28.31%) Social Skills
2 77 (15.46%) Finance
3 60 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (7.63%) Retail
5 21 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (4.02%) Banking
7 14 (2.81%) Legal
8 13 (2.61%) Law
9 11 (2.21%) Back Office
9 11 (2.21%) Public Sector
10 10 (2.01%) Tech for Good
11 8 (1.61%) Games
11 8 (1.61%) Marketing
12 5 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.40%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.40%) Police
13 2 (0.40%) Publishing
13 2 (0.40%) Welsh Language
14 1 (0.20%) Advertising
14 1 (0.20%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 109 (21.89%) Analyst
2 91 (18.27%) Security Analyst
3 89 (17.87%) Senior
4 83 (16.67%) Architect
5 76 (15.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 61 (12.25%) Security Engineer
7 51 (10.24%) Lead
8 48 (9.64%) Information Analyst
8 48 (9.64%) Information Security Analyst
9 34 (6.83%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 34 (6.83%) Security Architect
10 31 (6.22%) Cloud Architect
11 28 (5.62%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 28 (5.62%) Network Engineer
12 27 (5.42%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 22 (4.42%) Security Manager
13 22 (4.42%) Senior Security Engineer
14 21 (4.22%) Senior Analyst
14 21 (4.22%) Team Leader
15 19 (3.82%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.81%) .NET
2 8 (1.61%) Laravel
2 8 (1.61%) Middleware
3 7 (1.41%) JSON
3 7 (1.41%) YAML
4 6 (1.20%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.80%) LAMP
5 4 (0.80%) LDAP
6 3 (0.60%) Django
6 3 (0.60%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.40%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.40%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (0.40%) Node.js
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.40%) RESTful
7 2 (0.40%) XML
8 1 (0.20%) ADO
8 1 (0.20%) REST
8 1 (0.20%) SAML
8 1 (0.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.04%) Data Centre
2 41 (8.23%) Cloud Native
2 41 (8.23%) Management Information System
3 36 (7.23%) Cyberattack
4 31 (6.22%) Public Cloud
5 30 (6.02%) Cyber Threat
6 21 (4.22%) Security Posture
7 20 (4.02%) Security Operations Centre
8 14 (2.81%) Driving Licence
8 14 (2.81%) Onboarding
9 13 (2.61%) Private Cloud
10 11 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.81%) Product Ownership
12 8 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 8 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.20%) CCTV
13 6 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (1.20%) NHS
13 6 (1.20%) PropTech
13 6 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 110 (22.09%) Windows
2 62 (12.45%) Linux
3 53 (10.64%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.82%) Windows 10
5 18 (3.61%) Unix
6 11 (2.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (2.21%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (1.61%) Solaris
7 8 (1.61%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.00%) Android
8 5 (1.00%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.60%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.60%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (32.93%) Cybersecurity
2 145 (29.12%) Information Security
3 116 (23.29%) DevOps
4 103 (20.68%) Problem-Solving
5 81 (16.27%) SIEM
6 74 (14.86%) Agile
7 71 (14.26%) Infrastructure as Code
8 60 (12.05%) CI/CD
9 49 (9.84%) Incident Response
10 48 (9.64%) Vulnerability Management
11 45 (9.04%) Security Operations
12 43 (8.63%) Identity Access Management
13 41 (8.23%) Risk Management
14 39 (7.83%) DevSecOps
14 39 (7.83%) Roadmaps
15 37 (7.43%) Containerisation
16 35 (7.03%) Continuous Improvement
17 34 (6.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 33 (6.63%) Data Protection
18 33 (6.63%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 73 (14.66%) Python
2 43 (8.63%) PowerShell
3 31 (6.22%) SQL
4 26 (5.22%) Bash
5 16 (3.21%) Bicep
6 15 (3.01%) Java
6 15 (3.01%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.81%) C#
8 8 (1.61%) PHP
8 8 (1.61%) Rust
9 7 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (1.00%) C
10 5 (1.00%) R
10 5 (1.00%) Scala
11 4 (0.80%) AWK
11 4 (0.80%) Go
11 4 (0.80%) sed
11 4 (0.80%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.20%) C++
12 1 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 68 (13.65%) CISSP
2 51 (10.24%) Degree
3 36 (7.23%) Azure Certification
4 31 (6.22%) AWS Certification
4 31 (6.22%) CISM
5 28 (5.62%) Cisco Certification
6 24 (4.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 21 (4.22%) CCSP
8 19 (3.82%) CEH
9 18 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (3.61%) Security Cleared
10 17 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 16 (3.21%) Master's Degree
12 14 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (2.21%) CompTIA CySA+
14 10 (2.01%) CompTIA Security+
14 10 (2.01%) CRISC
14 10 (2.01%) OSCP
14 10 (2.01%) SANS
15 9 (1.81%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (18.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 88 (17.67%) NIST
3 40 (8.03%) PCI DSS
4 22 (4.42%) GDPR
5 21 (4.22%) Cyber Essentials
6 17 (3.41%) GRC
6 17 (3.41%) SLA
7 7 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 6 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (1.20%) NIST 800
9 5 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (0.80%) COBIT
10 4 (0.80%) NCSC
11 3 (0.60%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.40%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.40%) ITGC
12 2 (0.40%) QA
13 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 66 (13.25%) Active Directory
2 42 (8.43%) Docker
3 31 (6.22%) Hyper-V
4 16 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (10.44%) Terraform
2 51 (10.24%) Kubernetes
3 32 (6.43%) CASB
4 22 (4.42%) Ansible
5 15 (3.01%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (2.21%) FortiGate
7 8 (1.61%) Nmap
7 8 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (1.41%) SCCM
9 5 (1.00%) Nagios
9 5 (1.00%) OfficeScan
9 5 (1.00%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.00%) Puppet
9 5 (1.00%) WSUS
10 4 (0.80%) cPanel
10 4 (0.80%) Plesk
11 3 (0.60%) Argo
11 3 (0.60%) Nessus
12 2 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.40%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 133 (26.71%) Microsoft
2 43 (8.63%) Cisco
3 35 (7.03%) Google
4 20 (4.02%) VMware
5 16 (3.21%) Juniper
6 14 (2.81%) Palo Alto
7 13 (2.61%) Splunk
8 12 (2.41%) Barracuda Networks
9 11 (2.21%) Apple
9 11 (2.21%) ConnectWise
9 11 (2.21%) Rapid7
9 11 (2.21%) Sophos
10 10 (2.01%) Draytek
11 9 (1.81%) Oracle
12 8 (1.61%) Qualys
13 7 (1.41%) CheckPoint
14 6 (1.20%) CyberArk
14 6 (1.20%) McAfee
14 6 (1.20%) ServiceNow
14 6 (1.20%) Zscaler