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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 163 344
Rank change year-on-year -204 +181 -5
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 499 1,160 755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.63% 2.08% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 2.18% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 401 510 363
10th Percentile £36,500 £38,999 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,091 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,007 £65,351 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.77% +13.65% -5.74%
75th Percentile £73,750 £87,419 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 64,107 53,150 71,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.14% 95.49% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 43,360 28,415 41,497
10th Percentile £27,500 £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 £80,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 9 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 9 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 -130 176 £52,500 -19.23% 31
South East -79 108 £51,250 -26.79% 41
North West -110 88 £50,000 -16.67% 15
Midlands -88 84 £66,853 -10.86% 15
South West -85 63 £54,763 -21.14% 22
West Midlands -62 57 £75,000 - 10
Yorkshire -79 57 £60,000 -9.03% 12
Scotland -100 36 £60,000 +0.80% 9
North East -2 31 £42,500 -7.61% 4
East Midlands -38 26 £60,000 -12.73% 5
East of England -54 18 £72,500 +52.70% 5
Northern Ireland +13 9 £90,000 +80.00% 3
Isle of Man - 4 £46,500 -
Wales +6 3 £85,000 +83.78%
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 21 (4.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (2.20%) 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
1 269 (53.91%) Azure
2 143 (28.66%) AWS
3 116 (23.25%) Microsoft 365
4 56 (11.22%) SaaS
5 51 (10.22%) GCP
6 45 (9.02%) Entra ID
7 43 (8.62%) PaaS
8 39 (7.82%) Cloud Computing
9 37 (7.41%) IaaS
10 31 (6.21%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (4.61%) Azure Sentinel
12 17 (3.41%) Serverless
13 13 (2.61%) Mimecast
14 12 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (2.40%) Amazon S3
14 12 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (2.20%) Amazon ECS
16 10 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
16 10 (2.00%) Power Platform
16 10 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 107 (21.44%) Firewall
2 74 (14.83%) Network Security
3 34 (6.81%) DNS
4 33 (6.61%) VPN
5 32 (6.41%) WAN
6 31 (6.21%) LAN
7 26 (5.21%) Internet
8 22 (4.41%) DKIM
8 22 (4.41%) DMARC
9 18 (3.61%) Software-Defined Networking
10 17 (3.41%) Wireless
10 17 (3.41%) WLAN
11 14 (2.81%) SD-WAN
12 12 (2.40%) BGP
13 11 (2.20%) VoIP
14 10 (2.00%) Broadband
14 10 (2.00%) Intrusion Detection
14 10 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (1.80%) TCP/IP
16 8 (1.60%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (1.40%) Power BI
3 5 (1.00%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.60%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.20%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (2.81%) Git
1 14 (2.81%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.20%) Burp Suite
2 6 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
3 5 (1.00%) GitLab
4 4 (0.80%) Metasploit
5 3 (0.60%) Maven
5 3 (0.60%) Selenium
5 3 (0.60%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.40%) JIRA
7 1 (0.20%) sqlmap
7 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 140 (28.06%) Social Skills
2 69 (13.83%) Finance
3 60 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (7.62%) Retail
5 22 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (2.81%) Law
6 14 (2.81%) Legal
7 12 (2.40%) Banking
8 11 (2.20%) Back Office
8 11 (2.20%) Public Sector
9 10 (2.00%) Tech for Good
10 8 (1.60%) Games
10 8 (1.60%) Marketing
11 5 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.40%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.40%) Police
12 2 (0.40%) Publishing
12 2 (0.40%) Welsh Language
13 1 (0.20%) Advertising
13 1 (0.20%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 108 (21.64%) Analyst
2 90 (18.04%) Security Analyst
3 85 (17.03%) Senior
4 84 (16.83%) Architect
5 72 (14.43%) Cloud Engineer
6 60 (12.02%) Security Engineer
7 51 (10.22%) Lead
8 48 (9.62%) Information Analyst
8 48 (9.62%) Information Security Analyst
9 34 (6.81%) Security Architect
10 31 (6.21%) Cloud Architect
11 30 (6.01%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 28 (5.61%) Network Engineer
13 27 (5.41%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 23 (4.61%) Security Manager
15 22 (4.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 21 (4.21%) Senior Analyst
16 21 (4.21%) Team Leader
17 19 (3.81%) Senior Security Analyst
17 19 (3.81%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.80%) .NET
1 9 (1.80%) YAML
2 8 (1.60%) JSON
2 8 (1.60%) Laravel
2 8 (1.60%) Middleware
3 6 (1.20%) AngularJS
4 4 (0.80%) LAMP
4 4 (0.80%) LDAP
5 3 (0.60%) Django
5 3 (0.60%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.40%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.40%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (0.40%) Node.js
6 2 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.40%) RESTful
6 2 (0.40%) XML
7 1 (0.20%) ADO
7 1 (0.20%) REST
7 1 (0.20%) SAML
7 1 (0.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 46 (9.22%) Data Centre
2 41 (8.22%) Management Information System
3 37 (7.41%) Cloud Native
4 36 (7.21%) Cyberattack
5 30 (6.01%) Cyber Threat
6 27 (5.41%) Public Cloud
7 23 (4.61%) Security Operations Centre
8 21 (4.21%) Security Posture
9 14 (2.81%) Driving Licence
9 14 (2.81%) Onboarding
10 11 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.80%) Private Cloud
12 8 (1.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 8 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.20%) CCTV
13 6 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.20%) NHS
13 6 (1.20%) PropTech
13 6 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 112 (22.44%) Windows
2 63 (12.63%) Linux
3 53 (10.62%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.81%) Windows 10
5 18 (3.61%) Unix
6 11 (2.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (2.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (1.60%) Solaris
7 8 (1.60%) 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
11 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (32.46%) Cybersecurity
2 147 (29.46%) Information Security
3 109 (21.84%) DevOps
4 103 (20.64%) Problem-Solving
5 82 (16.43%) SIEM
6 67 (13.43%) Agile
6 67 (13.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 56 (11.22%) CI/CD
8 52 (10.42%) Incident Response
9 51 (10.22%) Vulnerability Management
10 49 (9.82%) Security Operations
11 43 (8.62%) Identity Access Management
12 41 (8.22%) Risk Management
13 39 (7.82%) Containerisation
13 39 (7.82%) DevSecOps
14 35 (7.01%) Roadmaps
15 34 (6.81%) Security Architecture
16 33 (6.61%) Data Protection
16 33 (6.61%) Vulnerability Scanning
17 32 (6.41%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 69 (13.83%) Python
2 45 (9.02%) PowerShell
3 32 (6.41%) SQL
4 26 (5.21%) Bash
5 16 (3.21%) Bicep
6 15 (3.01%) Java
6 15 (3.01%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.80%) C#
8 8 (1.60%) PHP
8 8 (1.60%) Rust
9 7 (1.40%) 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 69 (13.83%) CISSP
2 54 (10.82%) Degree
3 37 (7.41%) Azure Certification
4 32 (6.41%) AWS Certification
4 32 (6.41%) CISM
5 28 (5.61%) Cisco Certification
6 24 (4.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 21 (4.21%) CCSP
8 19 (3.81%) CEH
9 18 (3.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 18 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (3.61%) Security Cleared
10 16 (3.21%) Master's Degree
10 16 (3.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (2.20%) CompTIA CySA+
12 10 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
12 10 (2.00%) CRISC
12 10 (2.00%) OSCP
12 10 (2.00%) SANS
13 9 (1.80%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (18.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 88 (17.64%) NIST
3 41 (8.22%) PCI DSS
4 22 (4.41%) GDPR
5 20 (4.01%) Cyber Essentials
6 17 (3.41%) GRC
6 17 (3.41%) SLA
7 7 (1.40%) 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 9001
13 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 70 (14.03%) Active Directory
2 38 (7.62%) Docker
3 32 (6.41%) Hyper-V
4 17 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (10.02%) Terraform
2 48 (9.62%) Kubernetes
3 32 (6.41%) CASB
4 23 (4.61%) Ansible
5 16 (3.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (2.20%) FortiGate
7 8 (1.60%) Nmap
7 8 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (1.40%) SCCM
9 6 (1.20%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.20%) Puppet
10 5 (1.00%) Nagios
10 5 (1.00%) OfficeScan
10 5 (1.00%) WSUS
11 4 (0.80%) cPanel
11 4 (0.80%) Plesk
12 3 (0.60%) Argo
12 3 (0.60%) Nessus
13 2 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.40%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 136 (27.25%) Microsoft
2 44 (8.82%) Cisco
3 26 (5.21%) Google
4 22 (4.41%) VMware
5 16 (3.21%) Juniper
6 14 (2.81%) Palo Alto
7 13 (2.61%) Splunk
8 12 (2.40%) Barracuda Networks
9 11 (2.20%) Apple
9 11 (2.20%) ConnectWise
9 11 (2.20%) Oracle
9 11 (2.20%) Rapid7
9 11 (2.20%) Sophos
10 10 (2.00%) Draytek
11 8 (1.60%) Qualys
12 7 (1.40%) CheckPoint
13 6 (1.20%) CyberArk
13 6 (1.20%) McAfee
13 6 (1.20%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.20%) Zscaler