SOC Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Security Operations Centre Engineer
England > North of England

The median Security Operations Centre Engineer salary in the North of England is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 390 - 444
Rank change year-on-year - - -90
Permanent jobs requiring a SOC Engineer 6 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.035% - 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% - 0.012%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £41,000
25th Percentile £53,750 - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.00%
75th Percentile - - £47,500
90th Percentile - - £49,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year - +19.79% -12.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 16,403 15,591 17,334
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.02% 89.42% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12,681 8,240 11,134
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £65,720
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%

SOC Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured SOC Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for SOC Engineer in the North of England

SOC Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SOC Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for SOC Engineer in the North of England

SOC Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOC Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 28 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
North West - 5 £65,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
SOC Engineer
England

SOC Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, SOC Engineer 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 North of England region featuring SOC Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
1 5 (83.33%) Problem Management
1 5 (83.33%) SIEM
1 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (83.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Threat Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 5 (83.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 5 (83.33%) SOAR
1 5 (83.33%) Incident Response
2 3 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
2 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (33.33%) Runbook
3 2 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
3 2 (33.33%) NIST
3 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 2 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Detection
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) IaaS
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) SaaS
3 2 (33.33%) PaaS
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (16.67%) B2B

SOC Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) IaaS
1 2 (33.33%) PaaS
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 3 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
2 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (83.33%) Incident Response
1 5 (83.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 5 (83.33%) Problem Management
1 5 (83.33%) SIEM
1 5 (83.33%) SOAR
1 5 (83.33%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (33.33%) Runbook
2 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 2 (33.33%) Threat Detection
3 1 (16.67%) B2B
3 1 (16.67%) B2B Sales
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Proactive Management
3 1 (16.67%) Technology Transformation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
1 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft