Cloud Security
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 169 301
Rank change year-on-year -156 +132 -38
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 884 2,247 2,155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.89% 2.17% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 2.27% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 682 1,096 1,074
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,874 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £53,970 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £71,200
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +5.34% +1.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £93,906 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,753 £65,956 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.95% +14.71% -5.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,862 98,882 150,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 59,922 58,137 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,251 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,251
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in the UK

Cloud Security
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Security in the UK

Cloud Security
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Cloud Security in the UK

Cloud Security
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 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
England -137 784 £65,000 -10.34% 205
UK excluding London -175 527 £56,753 -13.95% 112
Work from Home -124 349 £65,000 -10.34% 114
London -84 297 £81,250 +2.03% 108
North of England -115 181 £52,500 -19.23% 38
South East -82 107 £50,000 -23.08% 13
South West -60 100 £60,000 -20.00% 15
North West -97 86 £50,000 -16.00% 15
Midlands -57 69 £65,000 -13.33% 24
Yorkshire -64 63 £60,000 -12.43% 15
West Midlands -46 42 £75,000 - 17
Scotland -110 42 £59,526 -14.29% 11
North East +8 32 £42,500 -12.60% 10
East Midlands -18 26 £60,000 -12.73% 7
East of England -30 17 £72,500 +52.70% 6
Northern Ireland +20 7 £90,000 +89.47% 4
Isle of Man - 4 £46,500 - 1
Wales +8 2 £72,500 +45.00% 4

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (3.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.45%) CloudStack
3 4 (0.45%) Confluence
4 2 (0.23%) Apache
4 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.23%) IIS
4 2 (0.23%) nginx
4 2 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.11%) Drupal
5 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Magento
1 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 503 (56.90%) Azure
2 282 (31.90%) AWS
3 202 (22.85%) Microsoft 365
4 133 (15.05%) GCP
5 92 (10.41%) PaaS
6 86 (9.73%) Entra ID
6 86 (9.73%) SaaS
7 80 (9.05%) Azure DevOps
8 76 (8.60%) IaaS
9 61 (6.90%) Cloud Computing
10 51 (5.77%) AWS CloudFormation
11 46 (5.20%) Azure Sentinel
12 38 (4.30%) Microsoft Purview
13 35 (3.96%) GitHub
13 35 (3.96%) Serverless
14 29 (3.28%) Azure AKS
15 18 (2.04%) Power Platform
16 16 (1.81%) Azure API Management
17 15 (1.70%) Azure Logic Apps
18 14 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 193 (21.83%) Firewall
2 128 (14.48%) Network Security
3 84 (9.50%) DNS
4 55 (6.22%) TCP/IP
5 53 (6.00%) WAN
6 48 (5.43%) VPN
7 47 (5.32%) LAN
8 44 (4.98%) Internet
9 32 (3.62%) DHCP
9 32 (3.62%) HTTP
10 27 (3.05%) Wireless
11 26 (2.94%) DKIM
11 26 (2.94%) DMARC
12 24 (2.71%) SD-WAN
13 18 (2.04%) Software-Defined Networking
14 17 (1.92%) WLAN
15 16 (1.81%) Wireshark
16 14 (1.58%) Intrusion Detection
17 12 (1.36%) BGP
17 12 (1.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (1.81%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (0.79%) Power BI
4 6 (0.68%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.45%) RDBMS
5 4 (0.45%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.34%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (0.23%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.23%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.11%) Big Data
8 1 (0.11%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 43 (4.86%) Jenkins
2 24 (2.71%) Git
3 16 (1.81%) GitLab
4 9 (1.02%) SonarQube
5 7 (0.79%) JIRA
6 6 (0.68%) Katalon Studio
7 5 (0.57%) Burp Suite
7 5 (0.57%) Maven
7 5 (0.57%) Selenium
8 3 (0.34%) JMeter
8 3 (0.34%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.11%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.11%) Gatling
10 1 (0.11%) JUnit
10 1 (0.11%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.11%) MLflow
10 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.11%) Vagrant
General
1 279 (31.56%) Social Skills
2 214 (24.21%) Finance
3 82 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (8.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 66 (7.47%) Banking
6 49 (5.54%) Retail
7 37 (4.19%) Law
8 35 (3.96%) Presentation Skills
9 33 (3.73%) Legal
10 31 (3.51%) Marketing
11 24 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
12 22 (2.49%) Public Sector
13 12 (1.36%) Tech for Good
14 11 (1.24%) Back Office
14 11 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.90%) Games
16 7 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.45%) Manufacturing
18 3 (0.34%) Police
18 3 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 180 (20.36%) Architect
2 166 (18.78%) Senior
3 136 (15.38%) Analyst
4 125 (14.14%) Security Engineer
5 112 (12.67%) Security Analyst
6 111 (12.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 94 (10.63%) Lead
8 80 (9.05%) Security Architect
9 77 (8.71%) Cloud Architect
10 54 (6.11%) Information Analyst
10 54 (6.11%) Information Security Analyst
11 48 (5.43%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 48 (5.43%) Senior Security Engineer
12 45 (5.09%) Consultant
13 40 (4.52%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 38 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
15 36 (4.07%) Azure Engineer
15 36 (4.07%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 35 (3.96%) Cloud Security Architect
16 35 (3.96%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (4.30%) SAML
2 32 (3.62%) HTML
3 29 (3.28%) OpenID
4 17 (1.92%) YAML
5 12 (1.36%) SailPoint
6 11 (1.24%) OAuth
7 10 (1.13%) ARM Templates
8 9 (1.02%) .NET
8 9 (1.02%) React
9 8 (0.90%) JSON
9 8 (0.90%) Laravel
10 7 (0.79%) Middleware
10 7 (0.79%) REST
10 7 (0.79%) web3js
11 6 (0.68%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.68%) Kafka
12 5 (0.57%) CSS
12 5 (0.57%) Node.js
12 5 (0.57%) RESTful
12 5 (0.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 99 (11.20%) Cloud Native
2 74 (8.37%) Management Information System
3 73 (8.26%) Cyberattack
4 70 (7.92%) Security Posture
5 61 (6.90%) Data Centre
6 57 (6.45%) Public Cloud
7 39 (4.41%) Cyber Threat
8 32 (3.62%) Security Operations Centre
9 25 (2.83%) Cloud Security Posture
9 25 (2.83%) Product Ownership
10 23 (2.60%) PKI
10 23 (2.60%) Private Cloud
11 14 (1.58%) Driving Licence
12 13 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (1.47%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
15 9 (1.02%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.90%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 161 (18.21%) Windows
2 90 (10.18%) Linux
3 82 (9.28%) Windows Server
4 25 (2.83%) Unix
5 20 (2.26%) Windows 10
6 19 (2.15%) Android
6 19 (2.15%) Apple iOS
7 12 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (1.24%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.79%) Solaris
9 7 (0.79%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.34%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.34%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (36.54%) Cybersecurity
2 260 (29.41%) Information Security
3 217 (24.55%) DevOps
4 197 (22.29%) Agile
5 165 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
6 148 (16.74%) Infrastructure as Code
7 140 (15.84%) CI/CD
8 126 (14.25%) SIEM
9 119 (13.46%) Identity Access Management
9 119 (13.46%) Roadmaps
10 112 (12.67%) DevSecOps
11 97 (10.97%) Incident Response
12 94 (10.63%) Vulnerability Management
13 93 (10.52%) Security Architecture
14 92 (10.41%) Security Operations
15 84 (9.50%) Application Security
16 75 (8.48%) SDLC
17 69 (7.81%) Containerisation
18 65 (7.35%) Risk Management
19 62 (7.01%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 135 (15.27%) Python
2 101 (11.43%) PowerShell
3 43 (4.86%) SQL
4 39 (4.41%) Bash
5 31 (3.51%) Java
6 23 (2.60%) Bicep
7 21 (2.38%) JavaScript
8 15 (1.70%) C#
8 15 (1.70%) Go
9 10 (1.13%) PHP
9 10 (1.13%) Rust
10 8 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (0.90%) Scala
11 5 (0.57%) C
11 5 (0.57%) R
11 5 (0.57%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.45%) AWK
12 4 (0.45%) sed
13 3 (0.34%) C++
13 3 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 173 (19.57%) CISSP
2 114 (12.90%) Degree
3 80 (9.05%) AWS Certification
4 79 (8.94%) Cisco Certification
5 75 (8.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 75 (8.48%) Azure Certification
6 72 (8.14%) CISM
7 67 (7.58%) Security Cleared
8 63 (7.13%) CCSP
9 54 (6.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 53 (6.00%) CEH
11 44 (4.98%) Microsoft Certification
12 40 (4.52%) DV Cleared
13 36 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
14 26 (2.94%) SC Cleared
15 21 (2.38%) Master's Degree
15 21 (2.38%) OSCP
16 20 (2.26%) SANS
17 17 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
18 16 (1.81%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (16.97%) NIST
2 144 (16.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 73 (8.26%) PCI DSS
4 35 (3.96%) GDPR
5 33 (3.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 25 (2.83%) GRC
7 21 (2.38%) SLA
8 15 (1.70%) NCSC
9 14 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 13 (1.47%) NIST 800
11 11 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (0.90%) ISO 9001
12 8 (0.90%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.79%) COBIT
13 7 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.57%) HIPAA
16 4 (0.45%) ISO 31000
16 4 (0.45%) QA
17 3 (0.34%) Accessibility
System Software
1 116 (13.12%) Active Directory
2 74 (8.37%) Docker
3 31 (3.51%) Hyper-V
4 25 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (1.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.57%) vSphere
9 3 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.11%) LXC
10 1 (0.11%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 126 (14.25%) Terraform
2 108 (12.22%) Kubernetes
3 48 (5.43%) CASB
4 46 (5.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (4.19%) Ansible
6 21 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (1.92%) Nmap
8 11 (1.24%) FortiGate
9 9 (1.02%) Istio
9 9 (1.02%) Puppet
10 8 (0.90%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.90%) SCCM
11 7 (0.79%) Argo
12 6 (0.68%) Nagios
13 5 (0.57%) OfficeScan
13 5 (0.57%) QRadar
13 5 (0.57%) WSUS
14 4 (0.45%) cPanel
14 4 (0.45%) Plesk
15 3 (0.34%) Nessus
Vendors
1 277 (31.33%) Microsoft
2 69 (7.81%) Google
3 53 (6.00%) Cisco
4 36 (4.07%) Splunk
5 29 (3.28%) VMware
6 24 (2.71%) Rapid7
7 23 (2.60%) CyberArk
8 21 (2.38%) Palo Alto
8 21 (2.38%) Qualys
8 21 (2.38%) ServiceNow
9 17 (1.92%) CheckPoint
10 16 (1.81%) Juniper
10 16 (1.81%) Zscaler
11 15 (1.70%) BeyondTrust
11 15 (1.70%) Fortinet
12 14 (1.58%) Thycotic
13 13 (1.47%) Barracuda Networks
13 13 (1.47%) Oracle
14 11 (1.24%) Apple
14 11 (1.24%) Sophos