SOAR Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SOAR skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SOAR over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 675 697 746
Rank change year-on-year +22 +49 -102
Permanent jobs citing SOAR 89 58 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.096% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.10% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 63 33 75
10th Percentile - £22,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £42,019 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -26.06% +29.09%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £72,617 £105,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £70,000 £71,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% -1.41% +18.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

SOAR 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,475 57,466 67,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.95% 95.60% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 41,116 29,651 41,279
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SOAR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SOAR in the UK excluding London

SOAR
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for SOAR in the UK excluding London

SOAR
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOAR in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SOAR in the UK excluding London

SOAR
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 SOAR within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 May 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 +11 30 £47,000 -14.55% 4
North of England +65 28 £50,000 -4.76% 3
North West +22 20 £48,500 -22.40% 1
South West -6 14 £50,000 +12.88% 1
Scotland -46 12 £47,000 +6.74% 1
Yorkshire +80 8 £55,000 +69.23% 2
West Midlands +18 4 £65,000 -10.34%
Midlands -2 4 £65,000 -7.14%
East of England +17 1 £67,500 +50.00%
SOAR
UK

SOAR
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.25%) MS Project Server
2 1 (1.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 56 (62.92%) Azure
2 38 (42.70%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (21.35%) AWS
4 8 (8.99%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (5.62%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (4.49%) IaaS
6 4 (4.49%) PaaS
6 4 (4.49%) SaaS
7 1 (1.12%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.12%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 34 (38.20%) Internet
2 26 (29.21%) DKIM
2 26 (29.21%) DMARC
2 26 (29.21%) DNS
3 24 (26.97%) Firewall
4 9 (10.11%) TCP/IP
5 7 (7.87%) Network Security
6 5 (5.62%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (5.62%) VPN
7 2 (2.25%) Wireshark
8 1 (1.12%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (1.12%) JIRA
1 1 (1.12%) Snyk
General
1 23 (25.84%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.11%) Finance
3 8 (8.99%) Marketing
4 4 (4.49%) Games
4 4 (4.49%) Legal
4 4 (4.49%) Military
5 2 (2.25%) Retail
6 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (49.44%) Analyst
2 26 (29.21%) Information Analyst
2 26 (29.21%) Information Security Analyst
2 26 (29.21%) Security Analyst
3 11 (12.36%) Architect
3 11 (12.36%) Security Architect
3 11 (12.36%) Security Engineer
3 11 (12.36%) SOC Analyst
4 8 (8.99%) Lead
4 8 (8.99%) Senior
5 6 (6.74%) Cloud Architect
5 6 (6.74%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 6 (6.74%) Security Solutions Architect
5 6 (6.74%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (6.74%) SOC Engineer
5 6 (6.74%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.49%) IT Sales Executive
6 4 (4.49%) Operations Analyst
6 4 (4.49%) Senior Technical Analyst
6 4 (4.49%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.62%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (39.33%) Cyberattack
2 24 (26.97%) Security Operations Centre
3 14 (15.73%) Management Information System
4 9 (10.11%) Security Posture
5 8 (8.99%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 8 (8.99%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (8.99%) Social Media
6 6 (6.74%) Cyber Defence
6 6 (6.74%) Public Cloud
7 5 (5.62%) Data Centre
7 5 (5.62%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (4.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (1.12%) Blog
9 1 (1.12%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.12%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (1.12%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.12%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.12%) SCADA
9 1 (1.12%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 17 (19.10%) Windows
2 15 (16.85%) Linux
3 5 (5.62%) Kali Linux
4 4 (4.49%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.37%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (92.13%) SIEM
2 46 (51.69%) Incident Response
3 45 (50.56%) Cybersecurity
4 42 (47.19%) Information Security
4 42 (47.19%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 37 (41.57%) Security Operations
6 28 (31.46%) Cloud Security
7 26 (29.21%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 25 (28.09%) Threat Intelligence
9 21 (23.60%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 21 (23.60%) Vulnerability Management
10 14 (15.73%) Analytics
11 13 (14.61%) Security Architecture
12 12 (13.48%) Incident Management
12 12 (13.48%) Penetration Testing
13 11 (12.36%) Application Security
13 11 (12.36%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 10 (11.24%) Customer Service
14 10 (11.24%) Identity Access Management
14 10 (11.24%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 23 (25.84%) Python
2 11 (12.36%) PowerShell
3 6 (6.74%) Bash
4 1 (1.12%) Go
4 1 (1.12%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 11 (12.36%) Degree
1 11 (12.36%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.24%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.11%) CISSP
4 6 (6.74%) DV Cleared
5 5 (5.62%) AWS Certification
5 5 (5.62%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.37%) CEH
6 3 (3.37%) GCIH
7 2 (2.25%) CASP
7 2 (2.25%) GCFA
7 2 (2.25%) GCFE
7 2 (2.25%) GIAC
7 2 (2.25%) GREM
7 2 (2.25%) OSCP
7 2 (2.25%) SANS
8 1 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.12%) GCIA
8 1 (1.12%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (19.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (15.73%) NIST
3 10 (11.24%) PCI DSS
4 7 (7.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (4.49%) NCSC
5 4 (4.49%) SOC 2
6 3 (3.37%) GDPR
6 3 (3.37%) GRC
7 1 (1.12%) IASME
7 1 (1.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (5.62%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (29.21%) CASB
2 5 (5.62%) Suricata
3 2 (2.25%) CSIRT
4 1 (1.12%) Anchore
4 1 (1.12%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.12%) QRadar
Vendors
1 29 (32.58%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.61%) Splunk
3 6 (6.74%) PagerDuty
3 6 (6.74%) Palo Alto
4 5 (5.62%) Cisco
4 5 (5.62%) Juniper
5 1 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.12%) Darktrace
5 1 (1.12%) Netskope
5 1 (1.12%) Zscaler