Security Monitoring
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Security Monitoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Security Monitoring over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 757 819 893
Rank change year-on-year +62 +74 -166
Permanent jobs citing Security Monitoring 150 176 351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.17% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.18% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 125 142 250
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £38,344 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £57,750
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.23% -3.75%
75th Percentile £67,000 £80,938 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £93,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Security Monitoring 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,403 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,565 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Security Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Security Monitoring in the UK

Security Monitoring
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Security Monitoring in the UK

Security Monitoring
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Monitoring over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Monitoring in the UK

Security Monitoring
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Monitoring within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
England +76 140 £55,000 -12.00% 47
London +122 79 £55,000 -15.38% 26
UK excluding London -32 68 £52,500 +10.53% 26
Work from Home +83 64 £52,500 -16.00% 33
South East +20 37 £52,500 +40.00% 10
North of England +35 9 £40,000 -33.33% 3
South West -27 9 £55,000 -21.43% 5
North West +10 7 £37,500 -37.50% 1
West Midlands +17 6 £26,500 -51.82% 1
Midlands -2 6 £26,500 -50.09% 2
Channel Islands - 3 - -
Yorkshire +76 2 £58,750 - 1
Scotland -66 2 £69,674 +63.94% 4
Northern Ireland +25 1 - - 1
Isle of Man - 1 - -

Security Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (6.67%) IIS
1 10 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 11 (7.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 31 (20.67%) AWS
2 30 (20.00%) Azure
3 22 (14.67%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.67%) Azure App Service
6 1 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 41 (27.33%) Firewall
2 36 (24.00%) Network Security
3 21 (14.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 11 (7.33%) VPN
5 8 (5.33%) LAN
6 6 (4.00%) TCP/IP
7 5 (3.33%) Internet
8 4 (2.67%) WAN
9 2 (1.33%) Skype
9 2 (1.33%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.67%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.67%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (3.33%) Git
2 4 (2.67%) Bitbucket
2 4 (2.67%) Subversion
3 2 (1.33%) JIRA
4 1 (0.67%) NUnit
4 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 52 (34.67%) Analytical Skills
2 50 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 37 (24.67%) Finance
4 13 (8.67%) Legal
5 12 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.33%) Law
7 7 (4.67%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (4.00%) Aerospace
8 6 (4.00%) Retail
9 5 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.33%) Banking
10 2 (1.33%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Aviation
11 1 (0.67%) Games
11 1 (0.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 75 (50.00%) Analyst
2 52 (34.67%) Security Analyst
3 31 (20.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 18 (12.00%) Security Engineer
5 17 (11.33%) Senior
6 13 (8.67%) Consultant
6 13 (8.67%) Information Analyst
6 13 (8.67%) Information Security Analyst
6 13 (8.67%) IT Analyst
6 13 (8.67%) SOC Analyst
7 11 (7.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 9 (6.00%) IT Security Analyst
8 9 (6.00%) Security Consultant
9 8 (5.33%) Architect
9 8 (5.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 8 (5.33%) Security Architect
9 8 (5.33%) Senior Analyst
9 8 (5.33%) SIEM Analyst
10 7 (4.67%) IT Engineer
11 6 (4.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.67%) web3js
2 3 (2.00%) Web Services
3 1 (0.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 37 (24.67%) Management Information System
2 26 (17.33%) Cyber Threat
3 11 (7.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 11 (7.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 10 (6.67%) PKI
4 10 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
4 10 (6.67%) Security Posture
5 7 (4.67%) Blockchain
5 7 (4.67%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.67%) IoT
5 7 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (4.67%) Web3
6 6 (4.00%) Client/Server
6 6 (4.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 5 (3.33%) Cyberattack
8 4 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.67%) PMI
9 3 (2.00%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.33%) Insider Threat
10 2 (1.33%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 28 (18.67%) Windows
2 16 (10.67%) Windows Server
3 7 (4.67%) Linux
4 5 (3.33%) Windows 10
5 4 (2.67%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (2.00%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.67%) Android
7 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (71.33%) Cybersecurity
2 62 (41.33%) SIEM
3 60 (40.00%) Information Security
4 59 (39.33%) Incident Response
5 53 (35.33%) Security Operations
6 35 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (20.67%) Incident Management
8 30 (20.00%) Cloud Security
9 27 (18.00%) Penetration Testing
10 23 (15.33%) Application Security
10 23 (15.33%) Computer Science
10 23 (15.33%) Security Architecture
11 21 (14.00%) Risk Management
11 21 (14.00%) Threat Detection
12 20 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
12 20 (13.33%) Security Management
13 19 (12.67%) Vulnerability Management
14 17 (11.33%) Risk Assessment
15 16 (10.67%) Threat Intelligence
16 15 (10.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 11 (7.33%) Python
2 10 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 6 (4.00%) SQL
4 3 (2.00%) Bash
4 3 (2.00%) C++
5 1 (0.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 62 (41.33%) CISSP
2 28 (18.67%) Degree
3 23 (15.33%) Cisco Certification
3 23 (15.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 19 (12.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 19 (12.67%) CCSP
5 17 (11.33%) CISM
5 17 (11.33%) Security Cleared
6 16 (10.67%) Network+ Certification
7 15 (10.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 15 (10.00%) CompTIA CySA+
8 14 (9.33%) CEH
9 8 (5.33%) GIAC
10 7 (4.67%) CESG Certified Professional
10 7 (4.67%) CISMP
10 7 (4.67%) CREST Certified
11 6 (4.00%) DV Cleared
12 5 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (3.33%) CRISC
13 4 (2.67%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (34.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 41 (27.33%) NIST
3 12 (8.00%) SOC 2
4 10 (6.67%) PCI DSS
5 9 (6.00%) GRC
6 8 (5.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 6 (4.00%) GDPR
8 4 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (2.00%) ISO 9001
9 3 (2.00%) SLA
10 2 (1.33%) NCSC
11 1 (0.67%) ISA99
11 1 (0.67%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 19 (12.67%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.33%) Hyper-V
3 7 (4.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (4.00%) Forefront TMG
4 6 (4.00%) VMware Workstation
5 4 (2.67%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.33%) vSphere
7 1 (0.67%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 13 (8.67%) QRadar
2 6 (4.00%) SCOM
2 6 (4.00%) WSUS
3 4 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.00%) Suricata
5 2 (1.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.67%) Computer Incident Response Team
6 1 (0.67%) Nessus
6 1 (0.67%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 45 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (13.33%) Splunk
3 12 (8.00%) IBM
4 9 (6.00%) VMware
5 7 (4.67%) Cisco
6 5 (3.33%) Palo Alto
6 5 (3.33%) Rapid7
7 4 (2.67%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.00%) Juniper
8 3 (2.00%) Oracle
9 2 (1.33%) Citrix
9 2 (1.33%) Intel
10 1 (0.67%) Apple
10 1 (0.67%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.67%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.67%) Foundry
10 1 (0.67%) Google
10 1 (0.67%) iManage
10 1 (0.67%) LogRhythm
10 1 (0.67%) SonicWALL