Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SOAR skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SOAR over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 795 827 1042
Rank change year-on-year +32 +215 -181
Permanent jobs citing SOAR 112 120 220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.13% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 82 78 171
10th Percentile - £28,700 £34,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £68,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% -1.79% +12.00%
75th Percentile £77,188 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £96,500 £100,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -28.57% +32.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

SOAR 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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAR in the UK

SOAR
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SOAR.

Salary trend for SOAR in the UK

SOAR
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOAR over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SOAR in the UK

SOAR
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOAR within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +24 99 £60,000 -14.29% 26
UK excluding London +3 86 £50,000 - 15
Work from Home +35 38 £47,000 -27.69% 10
South East -5 29 £47,000 -14.55% 5
North of England +50 27 £50,000 +53.85% 7
London +72 24 £76,250 -10.29% 9
North West +14 19 £50,000 -4.76% 4
South West -16 13 £50,000 +12.88% 1
Scotland -56 13 £47,000 +6.74% 2
Yorkshire +62 8 £50,000 +53.85% 3
West Midlands -13 3 £83,750 +15.52%
Midlands -14 3 £83,750 +19.64%
East of England -2 1 £67,500 +50.00%

SOAR
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 (0.89%) Apache
1 1 (0.89%) Confluence
1 1 (0.89%) nginx
1 1 (0.89%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 57 (50.89%) Azure
2 37 (33.04%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (15.18%) AWS
4 9 (8.04%) SaaS
5 7 (6.25%) PaaS
6 6 (5.36%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (5.36%) IaaS
7 5 (4.46%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.89%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.89%) Azure Stack
8 1 (0.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 33 (29.46%) Internet
2 31 (27.68%) Firewall
3 25 (22.32%) DKIM
3 25 (22.32%) DMARC
3 25 (22.32%) DNS
4 10 (8.93%) TCP/IP
5 8 (7.14%) Network Security
6 6 (5.36%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (4.46%) VPN
8 3 (2.68%) Broadband
9 2 (1.79%) HTTPS
9 2 (1.79%) SSL
9 2 (1.79%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.89%) HTTP
10 1 (0.89%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.89%) InfluxDB
1 1 (0.89%) MySQL
1 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.89%) JIRA
1 1 (0.89%) Snyk
General
1 33 (29.46%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.96%) Finance
3 10 (8.93%) Games
4 8 (7.14%) Marketing
5 4 (3.57%) Legal
5 4 (3.57%) Military
6 3 (2.68%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.79%) Retail
8 1 (0.89%) Banking
8 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (44.64%) Analyst
2 29 (25.89%) Security Analyst
3 25 (22.32%) Information Analyst
3 25 (22.32%) Information Security Analyst
4 17 (15.18%) Security Engineer
5 16 (14.29%) Senior
6 11 (9.82%) Architect
6 11 (9.82%) Security Architect
7 9 (8.04%) Lead
8 8 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (7.14%) SOC Analyst
9 7 (6.25%) Operations Analyst
9 7 (6.25%) Senior Security Engineer
10 6 (5.36%) Cloud Architect
10 6 (5.36%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 6 (5.36%) Security Manager
10 6 (5.36%) Security Solutions Architect
10 6 (5.36%) SOC Engineer
10 6 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (4.46%) Security Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.46%) Web Services
2 1 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.89%) LAMP
2 1 (0.89%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 37 (33.04%) Cyberattack
2 23 (20.54%) Security Operations Centre
3 21 (18.75%) Cyber Threat
4 17 (15.18%) Management Information System
5 13 (11.61%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 9 (8.04%) Cyber Defence
6 9 (8.04%) Operational Technology
6 9 (8.04%) SCADA
6 9 (8.04%) Security Posture
7 8 (7.14%) Social Media
8 6 (5.36%) Public Cloud
9 5 (4.46%) Data Centre
9 5 (4.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (4.46%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.79%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.89%) Blog
11 1 (0.89%) Clustering
11 1 (0.89%) Cyber Security Posture
11 1 (0.89%) Cybercrime
11 1 (0.89%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (22.32%) Windows
2 21 (18.75%) Linux
3 5 (4.46%) Kali Linux
4 4 (3.57%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.68%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.89%) CentOS
6 1 (0.89%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.89%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (90.18%) SIEM
2 66 (58.93%) Incident Response
3 63 (56.25%) Cybersecurity
4 51 (45.54%) Information Security
4 51 (45.54%) Security Operations
5 45 (40.18%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 30 (26.79%) Cloud Security
7 27 (24.11%) Threat Intelligence
7 27 (24.11%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 25 (22.32%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 24 (21.43%) Vulnerability Management
10 19 (16.96%) Identity Access Management
11 17 (15.18%) Analytics
12 16 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
13 15 (13.39%) Data Loss Prevention
13 15 (13.39%) Use Case
14 14 (12.50%) Incident Management
14 14 (12.50%) Security Architecture
15 12 (10.71%) Application Security
15 12 (10.71%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (20.54%) Python
2 11 (9.82%) PowerShell
3 7 (6.25%) Bash
4 2 (1.79%) Go
5 1 (0.89%) Java
5 1 (0.89%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 17 (15.18%) CISSP
2 15 (13.39%) Degree
3 10 (8.93%) Security Cleared
4 8 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 8 (7.14%) CEH
5 7 (6.25%) CISM
5 7 (6.25%) SC Cleared
6 5 (4.46%) AWS Certification
6 5 (4.46%) DV Cleared
6 5 (4.46%) GIAC
7 3 (2.68%) CCSP
7 3 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.68%) GCIH
7 3 (2.68%) GSEC
8 2 (1.79%) CASP
8 2 (1.79%) GCFA
8 2 (1.79%) GREM
8 2 (1.79%) ISSAP
8 2 (1.79%) ISSEP
8 2 (1.79%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (17.86%) NIST
2 18 (16.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (8.04%) PCI DSS
4 7 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 5 (4.46%) NCSC
5 5 (4.46%) SOC 2
6 3 (2.68%) GRC
6 3 (2.68%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.79%) GDPR
8 1 (0.89%) IASME
System Software
1 5 (4.46%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (22.32%) CASB
2 9 (8.04%) QRadar
3 5 (4.46%) Suricata
4 2 (1.79%) CSIRT
4 2 (1.79%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.89%) Anchore
5 1 (0.89%) Ansible
5 1 (0.89%) Cacti
5 1 (0.89%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.89%) Grafana
5 1 (0.89%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.89%) Icinga
5 1 (0.89%) Kibana
5 1 (0.89%) logstash
5 1 (0.89%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.89%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.89%) Puppet
5 1 (0.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (33.93%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.71%) Splunk
3 9 (8.04%) Darktrace
4 6 (5.36%) PagerDuty
4 6 (5.36%) Palo Alto
5 5 (4.46%) Cisco
5 5 (4.46%) Juniper
6 2 (1.79%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.89%) IBM
7 1 (0.89%) Intel
7 1 (0.89%) Netskope
7 1 (0.89%) Qualys
7 1 (0.89%) Tanium
7 1 (0.89%) Zscaler