Security Operations Jobs in London

Security Operations (SecOps)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Security Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Security Operations over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 249 286 394
Rank change year-on-year +37 +108 -61
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 288 431 623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.23% 1.20% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.26% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 239 296 435
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £61,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £86,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £97,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £61,439 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.48% -3.70% +3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Security Operations 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 advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,454 34,168 63,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.39% 95.40% 96.83%
Number of salaries quoted 15,999 24,428 34,404
10th Percentile £38,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £111,250
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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in London

Security Operations
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Security Operations in London

Security Operations
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Operations in London

Security Operations
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Operations within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Central London +39 49 £72,500 +3.57% 8
West London -12 6 £55,000 +57.14% 4
South London -1 2 £50,950 -32.07% 1
North London - 2 £60,500 - 1
Security Operations
England

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.69%) SAS
3 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.35%) Confluence
3 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.35%) Site Server
Applications
1 8 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.35%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 104 (36.11%) Azure
2 52 (18.06%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (13.54%) AWS
4 16 (5.56%) GCP
5 14 (4.86%) Azure Sentinel
6 12 (4.17%) SaaS
7 11 (3.82%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (3.47%) Entra ID
9 8 (2.78%) Azure AKS
9 8 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
10 7 (2.43%) PaaS
11 5 (1.74%) IaaS
12 3 (1.04%) Datadog
12 3 (1.04%) Mimecast
13 2 (0.69%) Stackdriver
14 1 (0.35%) Azure Key Vault
14 1 (0.35%) GitHub
14 1 (0.35%) Pendo
14 1 (0.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 68 (23.61%) Firewall
2 55 (19.10%) Network Security
3 23 (7.99%) Intrusion Detection
4 20 (6.94%) TCP/IP
5 14 (4.86%) Wireshark
6 12 (4.17%) LAN
7 11 (3.82%) WAN
8 9 (3.13%) DNS
9 6 (2.08%) VPN
10 4 (1.39%) DHCP
10 4 (1.39%) Internet
11 3 (1.04%) Broadband
12 2 (0.69%) HTTP
12 2 (0.69%) OSPF
12 2 (0.69%) SMTP
12 2 (0.69%) Wireless
12 2 (0.69%) WLAN
13 1 (0.35%) Cisco ASA
13 1 (0.35%) Cisco ISE
13 1 (0.35%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.74%) BigQuery
1 5 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (1.74%) Hadoop
1 5 (1.74%) Relational Database
2 2 (0.69%) Big Data
3 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (1.39%) Git
2 3 (1.04%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.35%) JIRA
General
1 87 (30.21%) Finance
2 50 (17.36%) Social Skills
3 40 (13.89%) Law
4 27 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.64%) Banking
6 21 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (6.94%) Legal
8 15 (5.21%) Military
9 11 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.78%) Games
11 7 (2.43%) Retail
12 6 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.39%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.69%) Back Office
14 2 (0.69%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.69%) Marketing
15 1 (0.35%) Advertising
15 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 106 (36.81%) Analyst
2 81 (28.13%) Security Analyst
3 59 (20.49%) Senior
4 40 (13.89%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 40 (13.89%) Security Engineer
5 38 (13.19%) Security Manager
6 29 (10.07%) IT Analyst
6 29 (10.07%) IT Security Analyst
6 29 (10.07%) Lead
7 25 (8.68%) Senior Analyst
8 22 (7.64%) Consultant
8 22 (7.64%) SOC Analyst
9 21 (7.29%) Senior Security Engineer
10 19 (6.60%) Information Security Manager
10 19 (6.60%) Security Consultant
11 17 (5.90%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 15 (5.21%) Information Manager
13 14 (4.86%) Architect
13 14 (4.86%) Azure Engineer
14 13 (4.51%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.90%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (1.39%) AngularJS
2 4 (1.39%) CSS
2 4 (1.39%) OAuth
2 4 (1.39%) SAML
2 4 (1.39%) Web Services
3 2 (0.69%) HTML
3 2 (0.69%) JDBC
3 2 (0.69%) LDAP
3 2 (0.69%) REST
3 2 (0.69%) SOAP
3 2 (0.69%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 1 (0.35%) .NET
4 1 (0.35%) Kafka
4 1 (0.35%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (0.35%) Loki
4 1 (0.35%) pytest
4 1 (0.35%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 58 (20.14%) Security Operations Centre
2 51 (17.71%) Cyber Threat
3 37 (12.85%) Cyberattack
4 29 (10.07%) Cyber Defence
4 29 (10.07%) Management Information System
5 26 (9.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 22 (7.64%) Security Posture
7 12 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 10 (3.47%) Operational Technology
9 9 (3.13%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (2.78%) SCADA
11 6 (2.08%) Client/Server
11 6 (2.08%) Cybercrime
11 6 (2.08%) Onboarding
11 6 (2.08%) PKI
12 5 (1.74%) Blog
12 5 (1.74%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.39%) CMDB
14 3 (1.04%) CESG
Operating Systems
1 46 (15.97%) Windows
2 18 (6.25%) Linux
3 8 (2.78%) Android
3 8 (2.78%) Apple iOS
4 7 (2.43%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.74%) Unix
6 2 (0.69%) CentOS
6 2 (0.69%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (65.63%) Cybersecurity
2 123 (42.71%) SIEM
3 108 (37.50%) Information Security
4 100 (34.72%) Incident Response
5 63 (21.88%) Vulnerability Management
6 45 (15.63%) Cloud Security
7 43 (14.93%) Agile
7 43 (14.93%) Security Monitoring
8 42 (14.58%) Identity Access Management
9 38 (13.19%) Threat Intelligence
10 36 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 36 (12.50%) Incident Management
11 33 (11.46%) Roadmaps
11 33 (11.46%) Security Architecture
12 32 (11.11%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 30 (10.42%) Application Security
13 30 (10.42%) Security Management
14 29 (10.07%) Penetration Testing
15 28 (9.72%) Analytics
16 26 (9.03%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 28 (9.72%) PowerShell
2 21 (7.29%) Python
3 7 (2.43%) Java
3 7 (2.43%) Kusto Query Language
4 6 (2.08%) SQL
5 4 (1.39%) Bash
5 4 (1.39%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.35%) C#
6 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 78 (27.08%) CISSP
2 41 (14.24%) Cisco Certification
3 39 (13.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 38 (13.19%) CCSP
5 30 (10.42%) Security Cleared
6 27 (9.38%) CISM
6 27 (9.38%) Degree
7 21 (7.29%) CompTIA Security+
8 19 (6.60%) CEH
9 18 (6.25%) CompTIA CySA+
9 18 (6.25%) DV Cleared
10 16 (5.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 14 (4.86%) CISA
11 14 (4.86%) Network+ Certification
12 12 (4.17%) GIAC
13 9 (3.13%) SANS
14 8 (2.78%) SSCP
15 6 (2.08%) SC Cleared
16 5 (1.74%) GSEC
16 5 (1.74%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (24.31%) NIST
2 60 (20.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (6.94%) GRC
4 18 (6.25%) GDPR
4 18 (6.25%) NCSC
4 18 (6.25%) PCI DSS
5 14 (4.86%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (4.86%) SOC 2
6 7 (2.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.74%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.04%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (1.04%) JSP 440
8 3 (1.04%) RMADS
9 2 (0.69%) COBIT
9 2 (0.69%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.35%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.35%) QA
System Software
1 32 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.21%) vSphere
3 8 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (2.43%) Docker
5 4 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (6.94%) QRadar
2 15 (5.21%) Kubernetes
3 12 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (3.47%) Terraform
5 8 (2.78%) Nmap
6 7 (2.43%) Ansible
7 6 (2.08%) CSIRT
8 5 (1.74%) logstash
9 3 (1.04%) CASB
10 2 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.69%) Graphite
10 2 (0.69%) Nagios
10 2 (0.69%) RSA Archer
10 2 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.69%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.35%) DatAdvantage
11 1 (0.35%) Grafana
11 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 98 (34.03%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.03%) Splunk
3 25 (8.68%) Qualys
4 15 (5.21%) CrowdStrike
4 15 (5.21%) SolarWinds
4 15 (5.21%) Tanium
4 15 (5.21%) Tripwire
5 12 (4.17%) IBM
5 12 (4.17%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.13%) Cisco
6 9 (3.13%) Darktrace
6 9 (3.13%) Rapid7
7 8 (2.78%) Google
7 8 (2.78%) Thycotic
7 8 (2.78%) VMware
8 4 (1.39%) Veeam
9 3 (1.04%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.04%) Cadence
9 3 (1.04%) Oracle
10 2 (0.69%) SAP