Security Operations Jobs in England

Security Operations (SecOps)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 314 341 358
Rank change year-on-year +27 +17 +28
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 806 803 1,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.84% 0.98% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.03% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 583 581 859
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,290 £97,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 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%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in England

Security Operations
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Security Operations in England

Security Operations
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Security Operations in England

Security Operations
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Operations within the England 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
London +45 285 £72,500 +8.21% 60
South East -32 150 £55,000 - 26
North of England +35 138 £50,000 -20.00% 25
South West -6 107 £62,500 - 14
Midlands -28 82 £52,500 -4.55% 15
North West -31 74 £50,000 -23.08% 13
West Midlands -5 57 £45,475 -17.32% 10
Yorkshire +82 47 £50,000 - 11
East of England +5 34 £57,662 +4.84% 12
East Midlands -26 24 £57,500 +43.75% 5
North East -2 17 £45,000 -36.84% 1
Security Operations
UK

Security Operations
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 14 (1.74%) SAS
2 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.74%) Confluence
4 4 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.25%) Apache
5 2 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 14 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.12%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 195 (24.19%) Azure
2 111 (13.77%) Microsoft 365
3 74 (9.18%) AWS
4 68 (8.44%) Entra ID
5 46 (5.71%) Azure Sentinel
6 26 (3.23%) SaaS
7 23 (2.85%) GCP
8 21 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
9 17 (2.11%) PaaS
10 16 (1.99%) Azure AKS
11 15 (1.86%) IaaS
12 13 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (1.49%) Power Platform
14 10 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
15 5 (0.62%) GitHub
16 4 (0.50%) Datadog
17 3 (0.37%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 3 (0.37%) AWS Control Tower
17 3 (0.37%) Mimecast
17 3 (0.37%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 148 (18.36%) Firewall
2 116 (14.39%) Network Security
3 62 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
4 29 (3.60%) TCP/IP
5 27 (3.35%) VPN
6 22 (2.73%) Internet
7 17 (2.11%) DNS
7 17 (2.11%) LAN
7 17 (2.11%) WAN
7 17 (2.11%) Wireshark
8 11 (1.36%) VoIP
9 10 (1.24%) DHCP
10 4 (0.50%) HTTP
10 4 (0.50%) NGFW
10 4 (0.50%) SMTP
11 3 (0.37%) Broadband
11 3 (0.37%) tcpdump
11 3 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.25%) SNMP
12 2 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.36%) Power BI
2 5 (0.62%) BigQuery
2 5 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (0.62%) Hadoop
2 5 (0.62%) Relational Database
3 4 (0.50%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.37%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.25%) Big Data
6 1 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (0.74%) Git
1 6 (0.74%) JIRA
2 3 (0.37%) Bitbucket
2 3 (0.37%) GitLab
2 3 (0.37%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.12%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 200 (24.81%) Finance
2 189 (23.45%) Social Skills
3 103 (12.78%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (10.42%) Legal
5 72 (8.93%) Banking
6 49 (6.08%) Law
7 42 (5.21%) Retail
8 36 (4.47%) Military
9 33 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.74%) Games
11 13 (1.61%) Aerospace
11 13 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.24%) Health Technology
12 10 (1.24%) Public Sector
13 8 (0.99%) Marketing
13 8 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (0.99%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.74%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.62%) Police
16 4 (0.50%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 275 (34.12%) Analyst
2 145 (17.99%) Senior
3 144 (17.87%) Security Analyst
4 106 (13.15%) Senior Analyst
5 102 (12.66%) Lead
6 89 (11.04%) Security Engineer
7 88 (10.92%) Consultant
8 79 (9.80%) Security Consultant
9 76 (9.43%) SOC Analyst
10 65 (8.06%) Security Manager
11 56 (6.95%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 48 (5.96%) Governance Analyst
13 47 (5.83%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 47 (5.83%) IT Analyst
14 46 (5.71%) IT Security Analyst
15 37 (4.59%) Operations Analyst
15 37 (4.59%) Security Operations Analyst
16 32 (3.97%) Senior Security Analyst
17 29 (3.60%) Developer
17 29 (3.60%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.61%) Web Services
2 20 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (2.11%) AngularJS
4 16 (1.99%) CSS
5 14 (1.74%) HTML
5 14 (1.74%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 9 (1.12%) SAML
7 8 (0.99%) Fluent Bit
8 7 (0.87%) OAuth
9 4 (0.50%) EDI
10 3 (0.37%) ADO
10 3 (0.37%) Kafka
10 3 (0.37%) OpenID
10 3 (0.37%) REST
10 3 (0.37%) SOAP
11 2 (0.25%) JDBC
11 2 (0.25%) LDAP
11 2 (0.25%) Middleware
12 1 (0.12%) .NET
12 1 (0.12%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 245 (30.40%) Security Operations Centre
2 164 (20.35%) Management Information System
3 89 (11.04%) Cyber Threat
4 64 (7.94%) Cyber Defence
5 61 (7.57%) Security Posture
6 57 (7.07%) Cyberattack
7 40 (4.96%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 21 (2.61%) Onboarding
9 20 (2.48%) CMDB
9 20 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
10 19 (2.36%) Client/Server
10 19 (2.36%) Product Ownership
11 16 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (1.86%) SCADA
13 12 (1.49%) Data Centre
13 12 (1.49%) Operational Technology
14 10 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.12%) Algorithms
15 9 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 120 (14.89%) Windows
2 56 (6.95%) Linux
3 38 (4.71%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.24%) Android
4 10 (1.24%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.62%) Kali Linux
6 4 (0.50%) Rocky
6 4 (0.50%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.37%) CentOS
7 3 (0.37%) Unix
8 2 (0.25%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 505 (62.66%) Cybersecurity
2 297 (36.85%) Information Security
3 295 (36.60%) SIEM
4 287 (35.61%) Incident Response
5 174 (21.59%) Vulnerability Management
6 146 (18.11%) Agile
7 131 (16.25%) Incident Management
8 109 (13.52%) Identity Access Management
8 109 (13.52%) Roadmaps
9 98 (12.16%) Threat Intelligence
10 97 (12.03%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 95 (11.79%) Coaching
11 95 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
12 94 (11.66%) Risk Management
13 90 (11.17%) Mentoring
14 89 (11.04%) Cloud Security
15 85 (10.55%) Security Architecture
16 68 (8.44%) Privileged Access Management
17 64 (7.94%) Data Loss Prevention
18 63 (7.82%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 107 (13.28%) PowerShell
2 55 (6.82%) SQL
3 49 (6.08%) Python
4 19 (2.36%) Bash
5 14 (1.74%) Kusto Query Language
6 8 (0.99%) Java
7 7 (0.87%) JavaScript
8 5 (0.62%) Go
9 2 (0.25%) Scala
10 1 (0.12%) C
10 1 (0.12%) C#
10 1 (0.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 159 (19.73%) CISSP
2 137 (17.00%) Security Cleared
3 119 (14.76%) Degree
4 65 (8.06%) CISM
5 58 (7.20%) SC Cleared
6 56 (6.95%) DV Cleared
7 42 (5.21%) CompTIA Security+
8 38 (4.71%) Cisco Certification
9 35 (4.34%) GIAC
10 33 (4.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 32 (3.97%) CCSP
12 31 (3.85%) CISA
13 30 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
14 28 (3.47%) CompTIA CySA+
15 23 (2.85%) Master's Degree
16 21 (2.61%) CEH
17 15 (1.86%) SSCP
18 13 (1.61%) AWS Certification
19 11 (1.36%) Azure Certification
19 11 (1.36%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (20.47%) NIST
2 141 (17.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 65 (8.06%) GDPR
4 63 (7.82%) PCI DSS
5 52 (6.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 40 (4.96%) GRC
7 30 (3.72%) NCSC
8 26 (3.23%) NIST 800
9 23 (2.85%) JSP 440
10 17 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 16 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 11 (1.36%) COBIT
12 11 (1.36%) SOC 2
13 9 (1.12%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.99%) QA
15 7 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.74%) HIPAA
17 5 (0.62%) Data Quality
18 4 (0.50%) SLA
19 3 (0.37%) RMADS
System Software
1 116 (14.39%) Active Directory
2 45 (5.58%) RACF
3 17 (2.11%) vSphere
4 13 (1.61%) Docker
5 12 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.50%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.12%) Firmware
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.12%) Snort
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 30 (3.72%) Kubernetes
2 26 (3.23%) QRadar
3 22 (2.73%) Terraform
4 18 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (1.86%) CASB
6 13 (1.61%) Ansible
6 13 (1.61%) logstash
7 9 (1.12%) Nessus
7 9 (1.12%) Nmap
8 8 (0.99%) Fluentd
9 7 (0.87%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 6 (0.74%) CSIRT
11 5 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.62%) Suricata
12 4 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.37%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.37%) Graphite
13 3 (0.37%) Nagios
13 3 (0.37%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 277 (34.37%) Microsoft
2 66 (8.19%) Splunk
3 46 (5.71%) CyberArk
4 42 (5.21%) ServiceNow
5 40 (4.96%) Qualys
6 19 (2.36%) IBM
6 19 (2.36%) SolarWinds
7 18 (2.23%) Tripwire
8 17 (2.11%) Cisco
8 17 (2.11%) CrowdStrike
8 17 (2.11%) Tanium
8 17 (2.11%) VMware
9 14 (1.74%) Darktrace
10 11 (1.36%) Rapid7
11 10 (1.24%) BT
12 9 (1.12%) Thycotic
13 8 (0.99%) Google
13 8 (0.99%) Palo Alto
14 7 (0.87%) Juniper
15 6 (0.74%) LogRhythm