Cloud Security Jobs with Work from Home Options

Cloud Security
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 325 163 296
Rank change year-on-year -162 +133 -41
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 313 845 935
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.90% 2.19% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 2.29% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 271 601 504
10th Percentile £40,250 £42,874 £43,750
25th Percentile £47,000 £56,219 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £109,865 £107,500
UK median annual salary £67,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.67% +7.14% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,295 36,978 72,765
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.07% 96.01% 97.14%
Number of salaries quoted 23,528 26,243 42,080
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Cloud Security
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Security trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Security
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Security.

Cloud Security salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Security
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cloud Security over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Cloud Security salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Security
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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (4.47%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.28%) Confluence
4 2 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.64%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.32%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 203 (64.86%) Azure
2 88 (28.12%) Microsoft 365
3 87 (27.80%) AWS
4 38 (12.14%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (10.54%) Entra ID
6 32 (10.22%) GCP
7 30 (9.58%) PaaS
8 22 (7.03%) Microsoft Purview
9 21 (6.71%) Cloud Computing
9 21 (6.71%) SaaS
10 18 (5.75%) IaaS
11 15 (4.79%) Azure Sentinel
11 15 (4.79%) GitHub
11 15 (4.79%) Serverless
12 12 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (2.56%) Azure Functions
13 8 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (2.24%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (2.24%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 81 (25.88%) Firewall
2 53 (16.93%) Network Security
3 33 (10.54%) WAN
4 31 (9.90%) Internet
4 31 (9.90%) LAN
5 26 (8.31%) Wireless
6 25 (7.99%) DNS
7 21 (6.71%) DKIM
7 21 (6.71%) DMARC
8 15 (4.79%) SD-WAN
8 15 (4.79%) WLAN
9 12 (3.83%) Software-Defined Networking
10 11 (3.51%) TCP/IP
10 11 (3.51%) Wireshark
11 10 (3.19%) VPN
12 9 (2.88%) BGP
13 8 (2.56%) Broadband
13 8 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
13 8 (2.56%) NGFW
14 4 (1.28%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (0.96%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.64%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.32%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 27 (8.63%) Jenkins
2 10 (3.19%) Git
3 4 (1.28%) Burp Suite
3 4 (1.28%) JIRA
3 4 (1.28%) Metasploit
4 3 (0.96%) Maven
4 3 (0.96%) Selenium
4 3 (0.96%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.64%) GitLab
6 1 (0.32%) Gatling
6 1 (0.32%) JUnit
6 1 (0.32%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.32%) sqlmap
6 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 90 (28.75%) Social Skills
2 71 (22.68%) Finance
3 22 (7.03%) Banking
4 21 (6.71%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (6.71%) Retail
5 16 (5.11%) Law
6 12 (3.83%) Marketing
7 11 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.51%) Public Sector
8 10 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.56%) Tech for Good
11 6 (1.92%) Legal
11 6 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.96%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.64%) French Language
13 2 (0.64%) German Language
13 2 (0.64%) Italian Language
13 2 (0.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 66 (21.09%) Security Engineer
2 61 (19.49%) Analyst
3 60 (19.17%) Security Analyst
4 59 (18.85%) Senior
5 39 (12.46%) Lead
6 38 (12.14%) Architect
7 36 (11.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 36 (11.50%) Information Analyst
7 36 (11.50%) Information Security Analyst
8 32 (10.22%) Senior Security Engineer
9 28 (8.95%) Security Architect
10 25 (7.99%) Consultant
11 23 (7.35%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 22 (7.03%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 21 (6.71%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 19 (6.07%) Network Engineer
15 16 (5.11%) Security Consultant
16 13 (4.15%) DevOps Engineer
16 13 (4.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 13 (4.15%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.92%) AngularJS
2 4 (1.28%) AWS CDK
2 4 (1.28%) Kafka
3 3 (0.96%) .NET
3 3 (0.96%) ARM Templates
3 3 (0.96%) CSS
4 2 (0.64%) Lambda Expressions
4 2 (0.64%) REST
4 2 (0.64%) YAML
5 1 (0.32%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.32%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (0.32%) HTML
5 1 (0.32%) Node.js
5 1 (0.32%) React
5 1 (0.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.31%) Management Information System
2 25 (7.99%) Cyberattack
2 25 (7.99%) Public Cloud
3 24 (7.67%) Data Centre
4 23 (7.35%) Cloud Native
5 14 (4.47%) Security Operations Centre
6 12 (3.83%) Product Ownership
7 10 (3.19%) Onboarding
7 10 (3.19%) Private Cloud
7 10 (3.19%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.56%) Driving Licence
9 7 (2.24%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (1.60%) IoT
11 5 (1.60%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (15.02%) Windows
2 23 (7.35%) Linux
3 16 (5.11%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.51%) Android
4 11 (3.51%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.56%) Unix
6 4 (1.28%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.96%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (40.89%) Cybersecurity
2 108 (34.50%) Information Security
3 75 (23.96%) DevOps
4 64 (20.45%) SIEM
5 62 (19.81%) Agile
6 60 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (14.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 40 (12.78%) CI/CD
9 38 (12.14%) Security Architecture
10 33 (10.54%) Roadmaps
11 31 (9.90%) Identity Access Management
12 30 (9.58%) Incident Response
13 29 (9.27%) Mentoring
13 29 (9.27%) Vulnerability Management
14 28 (8.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 28 (8.95%) Presales
15 27 (8.63%) Zero Trust
16 26 (8.31%) Security Operations
17 25 (7.99%) MITRE ATT&CK
18 24 (7.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 61 (19.49%) Python
2 28 (8.95%) PowerShell
3 13 (4.15%) JavaScript
4 10 (3.19%) Bash
4 10 (3.19%) Java
5 6 (1.92%) Go
5 6 (1.92%) SQL
6 5 (1.60%) C#
7 3 (0.96%) AWK
7 3 (0.96%) Bicep
7 3 (0.96%) C++
7 3 (0.96%) Scala
7 3 (0.96%) sed
7 3 (0.96%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.32%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 71 (22.68%) CISSP
2 31 (9.90%) CEH
3 28 (8.95%) Degree
4 25 (7.99%) CISM
5 24 (7.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 24 (7.67%) Cisco Certification
6 21 (6.71%) CCSP
7 18 (5.75%) Azure Certification
8 17 (5.43%) Security Cleared
9 16 (5.11%) SC Cleared
10 15 (4.79%) AWS Certification
10 15 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (4.79%) OSCP
11 12 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (3.51%) SANS
12 11 (3.51%) SSCP
13 9 (2.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (2.88%) CREST Certified
14 6 (1.92%) CCSK
14 6 (1.92%) Cyber Scheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (20.13%) NIST
2 54 (17.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 40 (12.78%) PCI DSS
4 12 (3.83%) Cyber Essentials
4 12 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 11 (3.51%) GRC
6 9 (2.88%) GDPR
7 6 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (1.60%) NCSC
9 4 (1.28%) COBIT
10 3 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.96%) ISO 31000
10 3 (0.96%) QA
11 2 (0.64%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.32%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.32%) SLA
12 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (9.58%) Docker
2 28 (8.95%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.51%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (2.56%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.32%) vCloud
6 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (14.06%) Terraform
2 35 (11.18%) Kubernetes
3 24 (7.67%) CASB
4 19 (6.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (5.11%) Ansible
6 14 (4.47%) Nmap
7 9 (2.88%) FortiGate
8 5 (1.60%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.60%) Puppet
8 5 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.28%) Nagios
10 3 (0.96%) Argo
10 3 (0.96%) Istio
10 3 (0.96%) Nessus
10 3 (0.96%) OfficeScan
10 3 (0.96%) WSUS
11 2 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.64%) Grafana
11 2 (0.64%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.64%) QRadar
Vendors
1 92 (29.39%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.99%) Cisco
3 20 (6.39%) Google
4 19 (6.07%) Splunk
5 18 (5.75%) Palo Alto
6 14 (4.47%) Qualys
7 13 (4.15%) Rapid7
8 11 (3.51%) Thycotic
9 10 (3.19%) Fortinet
10 9 (2.88%) Juniper
10 9 (2.88%) Zscaler
11 8 (2.56%) CheckPoint
11 8 (2.56%) CyberArk
11 8 (2.56%) Draytek
11 8 (2.56%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
13 5 (1.60%) Blue Coat
13 5 (1.60%) Netskope
13 5 (1.60%) Symantec
14 4 (1.28%) Intel