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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 171 297
Rank change year-on-year -155 +126 -26
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 881 2,221 2,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.89% 2.20% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 2.30% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 677 1,081 1,054
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,874 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £53,970 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £65,956 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.82% +14.71% -4.17%

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 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
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 10 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 10 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 -138 784 £65,000 -13.33% 168
UK excluding London -183 524 £57,500 -12.82% 94
Work from Home -136 342 £62,500 -16.67% 101
London -85 299 £80,000 +0.46% 88
North of England -116 180 £52,500 -19.23% 31
South East -87 107 £50,000 -23.08% 9
South West -47 98 £59,526 -20.63% 15
North West -108 86 £50,000 -16.00% 13
Midlands -86 71 £65,000 -13.33% 18
Yorkshire -66 63 £60,000 -12.43% 10
West Midlands -68 44 £75,000 - 14
Scotland -105 39 £59,526 -14.29% 8
North East +8 31 £42,500 -12.60% 8
East Midlands -20 26 £60,000 -12.73% 4
East of England -27 18 £72,500 +52.70% 7
Northern Ireland +17 7 £90,000 +80.00% 4
Isle of Man - 4 £46,500 - 1
Wales +1 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 (3.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.45%) CloudStack
3 4 (0.45%) Confluence
4 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.23%) IIS
4 2 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.11%) Apache
5 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.11%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 495 (56.19%) Azure
2 280 (31.78%) AWS
3 198 (22.47%) Microsoft 365
4 134 (15.21%) GCP
5 92 (10.44%) PaaS
6 88 (9.99%) Entra ID
7 85 (9.65%) SaaS
8 80 (9.08%) Azure DevOps
9 75 (8.51%) IaaS
10 62 (7.04%) Cloud Computing
11 52 (5.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 44 (4.99%) Azure Sentinel
13 37 (4.20%) Microsoft Purview
14 36 (4.09%) Serverless
15 35 (3.97%) GitHub
16 31 (3.52%) Azure AKS
17 18 (2.04%) Power Platform
18 17 (1.93%) Azure API Management
19 16 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
19 16 (1.82%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 191 (21.68%) Firewall
2 126 (14.30%) Network Security
3 83 (9.42%) DNS
4 55 (6.24%) WAN
5 53 (6.02%) TCP/IP
6 48 (5.45%) LAN
6 48 (5.45%) VPN
7 44 (4.99%) Internet
8 32 (3.63%) HTTP
9 31 (3.52%) DHCP
10 27 (3.06%) Wireless
11 26 (2.95%) DKIM
11 26 (2.95%) DMARC
12 25 (2.84%) SD-WAN
13 18 (2.04%) Software-Defined Networking
14 17 (1.93%) WLAN
15 16 (1.82%) Wireshark
16 12 (1.36%) BGP
16 12 (1.36%) Intrusion Detection
17 11 (1.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (1.93%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (0.79%) NoSQL
3 7 (0.79%) Power BI
4 4 (0.45%) RDBMS
4 4 (0.45%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.34%) Oracle Exadata
6 2 (0.23%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.23%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.11%) Big Data
7 1 (0.11%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 42 (4.77%) Jenkins
2 23 (2.61%) Git
3 17 (1.93%) GitLab
4 10 (1.14%) SonarQube
5 7 (0.79%) JIRA
5 7 (0.79%) Katalon Studio
6 6 (0.68%) Burp Suite
7 5 (0.57%) Maven
7 5 (0.57%) Selenium
8 4 (0.45%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.23%) JMeter
9 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.11%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.11%) Gatling
10 1 (0.11%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.11%) MLflow
10 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.11%) sqlmap
10 1 (0.11%) Vagrant
General
1 279 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 215 (24.40%) Finance
3 82 (9.31%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 67 (7.60%) Banking
6 50 (5.68%) Retail
7 36 (4.09%) Presentation Skills
8 34 (3.86%) Law
9 31 (3.52%) Legal
9 31 (3.52%) Marketing
10 25 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
11 23 (2.61%) Public Sector
12 12 (1.36%) Tech for Good
13 11 (1.25%) Back Office
14 10 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.91%) Games
16 7 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.45%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.45%) Retail Banking
18 3 (0.34%) Police
Job Titles
1 180 (20.43%) Architect
2 164 (18.62%) Senior
3 135 (15.32%) Analyst
4 126 (14.30%) Security Engineer
5 111 (12.60%) Security Analyst
6 108 (12.26%) Cloud Engineer
7 97 (11.01%) Lead
8 79 (8.97%) Security Architect
9 78 (8.85%) Cloud Architect
10 55 (6.24%) Information Analyst
10 55 (6.24%) Information Security Analyst
11 49 (5.56%) Senior Security Engineer
12 48 (5.45%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 45 (5.11%) Consultant
14 40 (4.54%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 38 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
16 37 (4.20%) Senior Cloud Engineer
17 36 (4.09%) Security Manager
18 35 (3.97%) Cloud Security Architect
19 34 (3.86%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (4.31%) SAML
2 32 (3.63%) HTML
3 29 (3.29%) OpenID
4 18 (2.04%) YAML
5 12 (1.36%) SailPoint
6 11 (1.25%) ARM Templates
6 11 (1.25%) OAuth
7 10 (1.14%) .NET
8 9 (1.02%) React
9 8 (0.91%) JSON
9 8 (0.91%) 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%) Azure Blueprints
11 6 (0.68%) Kafka
12 5 (0.57%) CSS
12 5 (0.57%) Node.js
12 5 (0.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 100 (11.35%) Cloud Native
2 73 (8.29%) Cyberattack
3 72 (8.17%) Management Information System
4 70 (7.95%) Security Posture
5 60 (6.81%) Data Centre
6 56 (6.36%) Public Cloud
7 39 (4.43%) Cyber Threat
8 31 (3.52%) Security Operations Centre
9 26 (2.95%) Cloud Security Posture
10 25 (2.84%) Product Ownership
11 23 (2.61%) Private Cloud
12 22 (2.50%) PKI
13 14 (1.59%) Driving Licence
13 14 (1.59%) Onboarding
14 13 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
15 11 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (1.02%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 9 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 158 (17.93%) Windows
2 88 (9.99%) Linux
3 81 (9.19%) Windows Server
4 26 (2.95%) Unix
5 19 (2.16%) Android
5 19 (2.16%) Apple iOS
5 19 (2.16%) Windows 10
6 12 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.79%) Solaris
8 7 (0.79%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.34%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.34%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.11%) VMS
12 1 (0.11%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (36.10%) Cybersecurity
2 259 (29.40%) Information Security
3 218 (24.74%) DevOps
4 199 (22.59%) Agile
5 164 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
6 150 (17.03%) Infrastructure as Code
7 140 (15.89%) CI/CD
8 126 (14.30%) SIEM
9 122 (13.85%) Identity Access Management
10 118 (13.39%) Roadmaps
11 114 (12.94%) DevSecOps
12 97 (11.01%) Incident Response
13 93 (10.56%) Vulnerability Management
14 92 (10.44%) Security Architecture
15 91 (10.33%) Security Operations
16 84 (9.53%) Application Security
17 74 (8.40%) SDLC
18 68 (7.72%) Containerisation
19 65 (7.38%) Risk Management
20 62 (7.04%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 138 (15.66%) Python
2 99 (11.24%) PowerShell
3 46 (5.22%) SQL
4 39 (4.43%) Bash
5 32 (3.63%) Java
6 24 (2.72%) Bicep
7 22 (2.50%) JavaScript
8 16 (1.82%) C#
9 15 (1.70%) Go
10 10 (1.14%) Rust
11 9 (1.02%) PHP
12 8 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (0.91%) Scala
13 5 (0.57%) C
13 5 (0.57%) R
13 5 (0.57%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.45%) AWK
14 4 (0.45%) sed
15 3 (0.34%) C++
15 3 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 172 (19.52%) CISSP
2 115 (13.05%) Degree
3 82 (9.31%) AWS Certification
4 79 (8.97%) Cisco Certification
5 75 (8.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 73 (8.29%) Azure Certification
7 72 (8.17%) CISM
8 66 (7.49%) Security Cleared
9 63 (7.15%) CCSP
10 54 (6.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 52 (5.90%) CEH
12 44 (4.99%) Microsoft Certification
13 40 (4.54%) DV Cleared
14 36 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
15 26 (2.95%) SC Cleared
16 21 (2.38%) Master's Degree
16 21 (2.38%) OSCP
17 20 (2.27%) SANS
18 16 (1.82%) CREST Certified
19 15 (1.70%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (17.71%) NIST
2 146 (16.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 73 (8.29%) PCI DSS
4 34 (3.86%) GDPR
5 32 (3.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 26 (2.95%) GRC
7 22 (2.50%) SLA
8 14 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 13 (1.48%) NIST 800
10 12 (1.36%) NCSC
11 11 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (0.91%) ISO 9001
12 8 (0.91%) 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
1 115 (13.05%) Active Directory
2 74 (8.40%) Docker
3 31 (3.52%) Hyper-V
4 25 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (1.59%) 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 (14.30%) Terraform
2 110 (12.49%) Kubernetes
3 47 (5.33%) CASB
4 46 (5.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (4.20%) Ansible
6 21 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (1.93%) Nmap
8 11 (1.25%) FortiGate
9 10 (1.14%) Istio
10 9 (1.02%) Puppet
11 8 (0.91%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.79%) Argo
12 7 (0.79%) SCCM
13 6 (0.68%) Nagios
14 5 (0.57%) OfficeScan
14 5 (0.57%) QRadar
14 5 (0.57%) WSUS
15 4 (0.45%) cPanel
15 4 (0.45%) Plesk
16 3 (0.34%) Nessus
Vendors
1 276 (31.33%) Microsoft
2 68 (7.72%) Google
3 53 (6.02%) Cisco
4 35 (3.97%) Splunk
5 28 (3.18%) VMware
6 24 (2.72%) Rapid7
7 23 (2.61%) CyberArk
8 22 (2.50%) ServiceNow
9 21 (2.38%) Palo Alto
9 21 (2.38%) Qualys
10 17 (1.93%) CheckPoint
11 16 (1.82%) Juniper
12 15 (1.70%) BeyondTrust
12 15 (1.70%) Fortinet
12 15 (1.70%) Zscaler
13 14 (1.59%) Barracuda Networks
13 14 (1.59%) Thycotic
14 12 (1.36%) Oracle
15 11 (1.25%) Apple
15 11 (1.25%) Sophos