SOAR Jobs in England

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring SOAR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SOAR over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 768 785 1025
Rank change year-on-year +17 +240 -192
Permanent jobs citing SOAR 95 109 161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.099% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 64 71 124
10th Percentile £47,000 £22,750 £46,625
25th Percentile £47,375 £47,500 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £89,063
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £68,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -15.44% -2.86% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

SOAR falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78,968 78,333 138,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.62% 95.44% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 56,258 48,146 73,664
10th Percentile £29,383 £34,308 £33,349
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,775 £44,178
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAR in England

SOAR
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for SOAR in England

SOAR
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOAR in England over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SOAR in England

SOAR
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOAR within the England region over the 6 months to 13 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
South East -30 27 £47,000 -14.55% 4
North of England +28 26 £50,000 +17.65% 7
London +55 24 £75,000 -11.76% 8
North West -6 18 £50,000 -4.76% 5
South West -31 12 £50,000 +12.88% 1
Yorkshire +66 8 £50,000 +53.85% 2
West Midlands -9 3 £83,750 +39.58%
Midlands -38 3 £83,750 +24.07%
East of England -11 1 £67,500 +50.00%
SOAR
UK

SOAR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.05%) Apache
1 1 (1.05%) Confluence
1 1 (1.05%) nginx
1 1 (1.05%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 40 (42.11%) Azure
2 22 (23.16%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (15.79%) AWS
4 9 (9.47%) SaaS
5 7 (7.37%) PaaS
6 6 (6.32%) IaaS
7 5 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.05%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.05%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.05%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.05%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 32 (33.68%) Firewall
2 21 (22.11%) Internet
3 13 (13.68%) DKIM
3 13 (13.68%) DMARC
3 13 (13.68%) DNS
4 10 (10.53%) TCP/IP
5 7 (7.37%) Network Security
6 6 (6.32%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (5.26%) VPN
8 3 (3.16%) Broadband
9 2 (2.11%) HTTPS
9 2 (2.11%) SSL
9 2 (2.11%) Wireshark
10 1 (1.05%) HTTP
10 1 (1.05%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (1.05%) InfluxDB
1 1 (1.05%) MySQL
1 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.05%) JIRA
1 1 (1.05%) Snyk
General
1 35 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.68%) Finance
3 10 (10.53%) Games
4 8 (8.42%) Marketing
5 6 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.21%) Legal
6 4 (4.21%) Military
7 2 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Retail
8 1 (1.05%) Banking
8 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (42.11%) Analyst
2 19 (20.00%) Security Analyst
3 16 (16.84%) Senior
4 13 (13.68%) Information Analyst
4 13 (13.68%) Information Security Analyst
5 11 (11.58%) Architect
5 11 (11.58%) Security Architect
5 11 (11.58%) Security Engineer
6 9 (9.47%) Senior Analyst
6 9 (9.47%) SOC Analyst
7 8 (8.42%) Lead
8 7 (7.37%) Operations Analyst
9 6 (6.32%) Cloud Architect
9 6 (6.32%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 6 (6.32%) Security Manager
9 6 (6.32%) Security Solutions Architect
9 6 (6.32%) Senior Security Engineer
9 6 (6.32%) SOC Engineer
9 6 (6.32%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (5.26%) Security Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.26%) Web Services
2 1 (1.05%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.05%) LAMP
2 1 (1.05%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 25 (26.32%) Cyberattack
1 25 (26.32%) Security Operations Centre
2 19 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
3 15 (15.79%) Management Information System
4 13 (13.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 9 (9.47%) Cyber Defence
5 9 (9.47%) Operational Technology
5 9 (9.47%) SCADA
5 9 (9.47%) Security Posture
6 8 (8.42%) Social Media
7 6 (6.32%) Public Cloud
8 5 (5.26%) Data Centre
8 5 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (2.11%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
10 1 (1.05%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (1.05%) CSOC
10 1 (1.05%) Cyber Security Posture
10 1 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (1.05%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 28 (29.47%) Windows
2 24 (25.26%) Linux
3 5 (5.26%) Kali Linux
4 4 (4.21%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.16%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.05%) CentOS
6 1 (1.05%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.05%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (87.37%) SIEM
2 70 (73.68%) Incident Response
3 61 (64.21%) Cybersecurity
4 50 (52.63%) Security Operations
5 35 (36.84%) Information Security
6 32 (33.68%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 25 (26.32%) Threat Intelligence
8 24 (25.26%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 18 (18.95%) Vulnerability Management
10 17 (17.89%) Cloud Security
11 15 (15.79%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 14 (14.74%) Data Loss Prevention
12 14 (14.74%) Identity Access Management
13 13 (13.68%) Penetration Testing
13 13 (13.68%) Security Architecture
13 13 (13.68%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 11 (11.58%) Analytics
14 11 (11.58%) Computer Science
14 11 (11.58%) Customer Service
14 11 (11.58%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 22 (23.16%) Python
2 11 (11.58%) PowerShell
3 7 (7.37%) Bash
4 3 (3.16%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (2.11%) Go
6 1 (1.05%) Java
6 1 (1.05%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 19 (20.00%) CISSP
2 13 (13.68%) Degree
3 10 (10.53%) Security Cleared
4 9 (9.47%) CISM
5 8 (8.42%) Azure Certification
5 8 (8.42%) CEH
6 7 (7.37%) SC Cleared
7 6 (6.32%) GIAC
8 5 (5.26%) AWS Certification
8 5 (5.26%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (4.21%) DV Cleared
10 3 (3.16%) CCSP
10 3 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (3.16%) GCIH
10 3 (3.16%) GSEC
11 2 (2.11%) CASP
11 2 (2.11%) GCFA
11 2 (2.11%) GCFE
11 2 (2.11%) GREM
11 2 (2.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (20.00%) NIST
2 13 (13.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (9.47%) PCI DSS
4 7 (7.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (3.16%) GRC
5 3 (3.16%) NIST 800
6 2 (2.11%) GDPR
6 2 (2.11%) NCSC
7 1 (1.05%) IASME
System Software
1 5 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (13.68%) CASB
2 10 (10.53%) QRadar
3 5 (5.26%) Suricata
4 3 (3.16%) FortiGate
5 2 (2.11%) CSIRT
5 2 (2.11%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.05%) Anchore
6 1 (1.05%) Ansible
6 1 (1.05%) Cacti
6 1 (1.05%) Grafana
6 1 (1.05%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.05%) Icinga
6 1 (1.05%) Kibana
6 1 (1.05%) logstash
6 1 (1.05%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.05%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.05%) Puppet
6 1 (1.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (37.89%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.53%) Splunk
3 9 (9.47%) Darktrace
4 6 (6.32%) PagerDuty
4 6 (6.32%) Palo Alto
5 5 (5.26%) Cisco
5 5 (5.26%) Juniper
6 2 (2.11%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (2.11%) IBM
7 1 (1.05%) Carbon Black
7 1 (1.05%) Intel
7 1 (1.05%) LogRhythm
7 1 (1.05%) Netskope
7 1 (1.05%) Qualys
7 1 (1.05%) Tanium
7 1 (1.05%) Zscaler