Security Operations Jobs in the South West

Security Operations (SecOps)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Security Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 192 186 247
Rank change year-on-year -6 +61 +10
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 107 69 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.01% 1.07% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 1.13% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 63 55 50
10th Percentile £41,500 £29,750 £38,625
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £107,500 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile - £87,840 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Security Operations 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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,437 6,100 8,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 79.87% 94.60% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5,959 3,496 4,999
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,241
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £53,519 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +7.04% +8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,675 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Security Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in the South West

Security Operations
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Operations in the South West.

Salary trend for Security Operations in the South West

Security Operations
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in the South West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Operations in the South West

Security Operations
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Operations within the South West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Bristol +34 63 £97,500 +114.29% 6
Dorset -18 17 £45,000 +5.88% 5
Wiltshire -6 16 £100,000 +100.00% 2
Gloucestershire -13 8 £36,500 -41.60% 2
Somerset -21 2 £63,750 -1.92%
Devon -22 1 £37,500 -12.28%
Security Operations
England

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (1.87%) Apache
1 2 (1.87%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 14 (13.08%) Azure
2 8 (7.48%) AWS
3 5 (4.67%) Azure AKS
3 5 (4.67%) Entra ID
3 5 (4.67%) SaaS
4 2 (1.87%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (1.87%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (1.87%) AWS Control Tower
4 2 (1.87%) IaaS
4 2 (1.87%) PaaS
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.93%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.93%) GCP
5 1 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 25 (23.36%) Network Security
2 12 (11.21%) Firewall
3 6 (5.61%) Internet
4 4 (3.74%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (3.74%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.93%) DHCP
5 1 (0.93%) DNS
5 1 (0.93%) SNMP
5 1 (0.93%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.87%) Big Data
1 2 (1.87%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 46 (42.99%) Social Skills
2 27 (25.23%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (19.63%) Military
4 11 (10.28%) Retail
5 9 (8.41%) Finance
6 6 (5.61%) Legal
7 5 (4.67%) Banking
7 5 (4.67%) Games
7 5 (4.67%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.80%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.80%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 48 (44.86%) Consultant
2 46 (42.99%) Security Consultant
3 28 (26.17%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 25 (23.36%) Analyst
5 19 (17.76%) Senior
5 19 (17.76%) Senior Analyst
6 15 (14.02%) Security Analyst
7 13 (12.15%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 11 (10.28%) IT Analyst
8 11 (10.28%) IT Security Analyst
9 10 (9.35%) Senior Security Analyst
10 9 (8.41%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
11 8 (7.48%) Senior IT Security Analyst
12 7 (6.54%) Lead
13 5 (4.67%) Azure Engineer
13 5 (4.67%) Governance Analyst
14 4 (3.74%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 4 (3.74%) SOC Manager
15 3 (2.80%) SOC Engineer
15 3 (2.80%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.87%) AngularJS
1 2 (1.87%) CSS
1 2 (1.87%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (1.87%) HTML
1 2 (1.87%) OAuth
1 2 (1.87%) OpenID
1 2 (1.87%) SAML
1 2 (1.87%) Twitter Bootstrap
1 2 (1.87%) Web Services
2 1 (0.93%) .NET
2 1 (0.93%) .NET Core
2 1 (0.93%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 47 (43.93%) Security Operations Centre
2 20 (18.69%) Cyber Defence
3 9 (8.41%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (7.48%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (7.48%) Management Information System
5 5 (4.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 5 (4.67%) Cyberattack
6 3 (2.80%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.87%) CMDB
7 2 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.87%) PKI
7 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.93%) CESG
8 1 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.93%) Life Science
8 1 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.54%) Windows
1 7 (6.54%) Windows Server
2 4 (3.74%) Linux
3 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (78.50%) Cybersecurity
2 42 (39.25%) Mentoring
2 42 (39.25%) SIEM
3 40 (37.38%) Information Security
4 34 (31.78%) Agile
5 33 (30.84%) Incident Response
6 28 (26.17%) Incident Management
7 24 (22.43%) Coaching
7 24 (22.43%) Protective Monitoring
7 24 (22.43%) Vulnerability Management
8 23 (21.50%) Risk Management
8 23 (21.50%) Security Architecture
9 20 (18.69%) Business Development
10 18 (16.82%) Programme Management
10 18 (16.82%) Resource Management
10 18 (16.82%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 14 (13.08%) Cloud Security
12 13 (12.15%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 13 (12.15%) Threat Intelligence
13 12 (11.21%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.61%) PowerShell
1 6 (5.61%) SQL
2 1 (0.93%) C#
2 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 40 (37.38%) Security Cleared
2 34 (31.78%) DV Cleared
3 13 (12.15%) CISSP
4 12 (11.21%) Degree
5 11 (10.28%) SC Cleared
6 10 (9.35%) CompTIA CySA+
6 10 (9.35%) Master's Degree
7 6 (5.61%) GIAC
8 3 (2.80%) CEH
8 3 (2.80%) CISA
8 3 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.80%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.87%) CCSP
9 2 (1.87%) CISM
10 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.93%) CCNA
10 1 (0.93%) CISMP
10 1 (0.93%) ISACA
10 1 (0.93%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (36.45%) NIST
2 20 (18.69%) JSP 440
3 18 (16.82%) NIST 800
4 12 (11.21%) PCI DSS
5 11 (10.28%) GDPR
6 10 (9.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (3.74%) ISO 9001
8 3 (2.80%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.87%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.93%) FedRAMP
10 1 (0.93%) GRC
10 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (9.35%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.67%) RACF
3 2 (1.87%) Docker
3 2 (1.87%) vSphere
4 1 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (10.28%) CASB
2 7 (6.54%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.67%) Terraform
4 2 (1.87%) Ansible
5 1 (0.93%) Nessus
5 1 (0.93%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (0.93%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 19 (17.76%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.67%) CyberArk
3 3 (2.80%) SolarWinds
3 3 (2.80%) Splunk
4 2 (1.87%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.87%) Tanium
4 2 (1.87%) Tripwire
5 1 (0.93%) Cisco
5 1 (0.93%) VMware