Cloud Security Engineer Jobs

Cloud Security Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Security Engineer salary in the UK is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 851 862 1022
Rank change year-on-year +11 +160 -115
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Security Engineer 54 84 243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.089% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% 0.097% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 44 59 47
10th Percentile - £50,000 £50,750
25th Percentile £56,219 £66,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +13.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile - £108,125 £94,375
90th Percentile £96,000 £150,000 £103,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -25.01%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 99,838 86,540 162,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 91.29% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,991 55,953 84,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,676
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%

Cloud Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cloud Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security Engineer in the UK

Cloud Security Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Security Engineer in the UK

Cloud Security Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security Engineer over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Security Engineer in the UK

Cloud Security Engineer
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +30 42 £75,000 -11.76% 22
UK excluding London -37 35 £75,000 +20.00% 8
Work from Home +42 24 £62,263 -26.75% 13
London +73 11 £62,500 -33.33% 15
North of England +41 10 £59,526 -14.96%
South East -31 9 £90,000 +44.00% 3
Yorkshire +66 6 £59,526 -
West Midlands -6 5 £75,000 +138.10% 1
Midlands -7 5 £75,000 +138.10% 1
North West -9 4 £74,763 +6.80%
Northern Ireland - 4 £90,000 -
Scotland - 3 £59,526 -
South West - 3 £59,526 - 4
Wales +3 1 £90,000 +100.00%

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Cloud Security Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Cloud Security Engineer in the job title.

1 54 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 26 (48.15%) Cybersecurity
3 23 (42.59%) Azure
3 23 (42.59%) Finance
4 22 (40.74%) Python
4 22 (40.74%) Terraform
5 21 (38.89%) AWS
5 21 (38.89%) DevOps
6 19 (35.19%) SaaS
7 17 (31.48%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (29.63%) CI/CD
8 16 (29.63%) Jenkins
9 14 (25.93%) Kubernetes
9 14 (25.93%) GCP
9 14 (25.93%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (25.93%) Agile
10 13 (24.07%) PaaS
10 13 (24.07%) Docker
10 13 (24.07%) Roadmaps
11 12 (22.22%) Product Ownership
11 12 (22.22%) Public Cloud
11 12 (22.22%) GitHub
11 12 (22.22%) Use Case
11 12 (22.22%) Google
11 12 (22.22%) Banking
12 11 (20.37%) SIEM
13 7 (12.96%) Cloud Native
14 6 (11.11%) Firewall
15 5 (9.26%) Unix
15 5 (9.26%) Problem-Solving

Cloud Security Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (1.85%) Apache
1 1 (1.85%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 23 (42.59%) Azure
2 21 (38.89%) AWS
3 19 (35.19%) SaaS
4 14 (25.93%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (25.93%) GCP
5 13 (24.07%) PaaS
6 12 (22.22%) GitHub
7 3 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (3.70%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.70%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.70%) Serverless
8 2 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.85%) Cloudflare
9 1 (1.85%) IaaS
9 1 (1.85%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (1.85%) HTTP
2 1 (1.85%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.85%) Internet
2 1 (1.85%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 16 (29.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.85%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.85%) Metasploit
2 1 (1.85%) sqlmap
General
1 23 (42.59%) Finance
2 12 (22.22%) Banking
3 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.85%) Legal
3 1 (1.85%) Retail
3 1 (1.85%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.85%) OAuth
1 1 (1.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.22%) Product Ownership
1 12 (22.22%) Public Cloud
2 7 (12.96%) Cloud Native
3 5 (9.26%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (7.41%) Cyber Security Posture
5 3 (5.56%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.85%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.26%) Unix
2 1 (1.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 26 (48.15%) Cybersecurity
3 21 (38.89%) DevOps
4 17 (31.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (29.63%) CI/CD
6 14 (25.93%) Agile
7 13 (24.07%) Roadmaps
8 12 (22.22%) Use Case
9 11 (20.37%) SIEM
10 5 (9.26%) DevSecOps
10 5 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (7.41%) Data Loss Prevention
11 4 (7.41%) Information Security
11 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 4 (7.41%) Patch Management
11 4 (7.41%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 3 (5.56%) Benchmarking
12 3 (5.56%) Open Source
12 3 (5.56%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (40.74%) Python
2 3 (5.56%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.70%) Bash
4 1 (1.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (5.56%) CISSP
1 3 (5.56%) Degree
1 3 (5.56%) Master's Degree
2 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.85%) CCSK
3 1 (1.85%) CCSP
3 1 (1.85%) CISA
3 1 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.85%) CISM
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.85%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (5.56%) NIST
2 1 (1.85%) NCSC
2 1 (1.85%) NIST 800
System Software
1 13 (24.07%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (40.74%) Terraform
2 14 (25.93%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.56%) Ansible
4 2 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.85%) CASB
Vendors
1 12 (22.22%) Google
2 3 (5.56%) Computacenter
3 2 (3.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.85%) CA
4 1 (1.85%) Imperva
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle
4 1 (1.85%) Red Hat