SOC Analyst Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Operations Centre Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Operations Centre Analyst salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 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 701 657 768
Rank change year-on-year -44 +111 -120
Permanent jobs requiring a SOC Analyst 69 76 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.091% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.15% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 60 43 59
10th Percentile - £22,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £29,375 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% - -7.61%
75th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £60,000
UK median annual salary £51,820 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.64% -4.76% +8.81%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 72,397 50,271 70,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.93% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,949 29,577 42,673
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

SOC Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured SOC Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SOC Analyst in the UK excluding London

SOC Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SOC Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SOC Analyst in the UK excluding London

SOC Analyst
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOC Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SOC Analyst in the UK excluding London

SOC Analyst
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 SOC Analyst within the UK excluding London region 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
South East -6 36 £50,000 +53.85% 5
North of England +46 18 £55,000 -12.00% 11
Yorkshire +68 12 £60,000 -4.00% 5
East of England +4 10 £54,000 +20.00% 5
West Midlands -12 3 £30,000 -29.41% 2
Midlands -17 3 £30,000 -29.41% 2
North East - 3 £45,000 -
North West - 3 £61,250 - 6
Wales -10 1 - -
Scotland -72 1 £35,500 -16.47% 1
SOC Analyst
UK

SOC Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, SOC Analyst 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring SOC Analyst in the job title.

1 55 (79.71%) Cybersecurity
2 50 (72.46%) SIEM
3 49 (71.01%) Security Operations
4 36 (52.17%) Security Operations Centre
4 36 (52.17%) Incident Response
5 33 (47.83%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (43.48%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (43.48%) Security Cleared
7 26 (37.68%) Cyber Threat
7 26 (37.68%) Firewall
8 25 (36.23%) Microsoft
8 25 (36.23%) CISSP
8 25 (36.23%) CompTIA Security+
9 24 (34.78%) Windows
10 23 (33.33%) Azure
11 22 (31.88%) Degree
12 20 (28.99%) SC Cleared
12 20 (28.99%) Azure Sentinel
13 19 (27.54%) Splunk
13 19 (27.54%) Intrusion Detection
14 18 (26.09%) Management Information System
14 18 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
14 18 (26.09%) Social Skills
15 16 (23.19%) Computer Science Degree
15 16 (23.19%) Computer Science
16 13 (18.84%) Client/Server
17 12 (17.39%) Linux
17 12 (17.39%) Use Case
17 12 (17.39%) Threat Intelligence
18 10 (14.49%) Cyber Threat Intelligence

SOC Analyst Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (33.33%) Azure
2 20 (28.99%) Azure Sentinel
3 18 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (10.14%) AWS
5 2 (2.90%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 26 (37.68%) Firewall
2 19 (27.54%) Intrusion Detection
3 7 (10.14%) Internet
3 7 (10.14%) TCP/IP
4 4 (5.80%) VPN
5 3 (4.35%) HTTP
5 3 (4.35%) Network Security
5 3 (4.35%) SMTP
6 2 (2.90%) DMZ
6 2 (2.90%) DNS
6 2 (2.90%) LAN
6 2 (2.90%) tcpdump
6 2 (2.90%) WAN
6 2 (2.90%) Wireshark
7 1 (1.45%) FTP
7 1 (1.45%) Sourcefire
General
1 30 (43.48%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.90%) Law
3 2 (2.90%) Police
3 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.90%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.45%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.45%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.45%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 36 (52.17%) Security Operations Centre
2 26 (37.68%) Cyber Threat
3 18 (26.09%) Management Information System
4 13 (18.84%) Client/Server
5 6 (8.70%) Onboarding
5 6 (8.70%) Security Posture
6 4 (5.80%) Cyberattack
7 3 (4.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 3 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.45%) CSOC
8 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 24 (34.78%) Windows
2 12 (17.39%) Linux
3 4 (5.80%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (79.71%) Cybersecurity
2 50 (72.46%) SIEM
3 49 (71.01%) Security Operations
4 36 (52.17%) Incident Response
5 33 (47.83%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (23.19%) Computer Science
7 12 (17.39%) Threat Intelligence
7 12 (17.39%) Use Case
8 10 (14.49%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 9 (13.04%) Information Security
10 8 (11.59%) SOAR
11 7 (10.14%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 6 (8.70%) Client Onboarding
12 6 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (7.25%) Malware Analysis
13 5 (7.25%) Mentoring
13 5 (7.25%) Runbook
13 5 (7.25%) Threat Detection
13 5 (7.25%) Vulnerability Assessment
13 5 (7.25%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.14%) Python
2 1 (1.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 25 (36.23%) CISSP
2 25 (36.23%) CompTIA Security+
3 22 (31.88%) Degree
4 20 (28.99%) SC Cleared
5 16 (23.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (7.25%) Network+ Certification
7 4 (5.80%) GCFE
8 2 (2.90%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (2.90%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.90%) CASP
8 2 (2.90%) CEH
8 2 (2.90%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (2.90%) GCFA
8 2 (2.90%) GIAC
8 2 (2.90%) GISP
8 2 (2.90%) GSEC
8 2 (2.90%) Linux+ Certification
8 2 (2.90%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.35%) NIST
1 3 (4.35%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.90%) Host Intrusion Detection System
2 1 (1.45%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 25 (36.23%) Microsoft
2 19 (27.54%) Splunk
3 3 (4.35%) LogRhythm
3 3 (4.35%) McAfee
4 2 (2.90%) Darktrace
5 1 (1.45%) ArcSight
5 1 (1.45%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.45%) Cisco
5 1 (1.45%) F5
5 1 (1.45%) IBM
5 1 (1.45%) Juniper
5 1 (1.45%) Sun
5 1 (1.45%) TippingPoint
5 1 (1.45%) Trend Micro