Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 792 835 1026
Rank change year-on-year +43 +191 -207
Permanent jobs citing SOAR 113 138 196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.14% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 86 86 134
10th Percentile - £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £55,000 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £87,500 £103,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +14.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,360 99,485 147,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.62% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 59,619 58,411 83,272
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAR in the UK

SOAR
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SOAR.

Salary trend for SOAR in the UK

SOAR
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOAR over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SOAR in the UK

SOAR
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOAR within the UK 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
England +87 101 £60,000 -14.29% 19
UK excluding London +26 83 £50,000 -9.09% 12
Work from Home +60 39 £47,000 -27.69% 7
North of England +50 28 £50,000 +17.65% 2
London +80 27 £75,000 -11.76% 10
South East +23 25 £47,000 -14.55% 5
North West +34 20 £48,500 -22.40% 1
South West -7 13 £50,000 +12.88% 1
Scotland -53 12 £47,000 +6.74% 3
Yorkshire +89 8 £55,000 +69.23% 1
West Midlands +27 4 £65,000 -10.34%
Midlands -2 4 £65,000 -7.14%
East of England +12 1 £67,500 +50.00%

SOAR
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 2 (1.77%) MS Project Server
2 1 (0.88%) Apache
2 1 (0.88%) Confluence
2 1 (0.88%) nginx
2 1 (0.88%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 62 (54.87%) Azure
2 39 (34.51%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (15.93%) AWS
4 10 (8.85%) Azure Sentinel
5 9 (7.96%) SaaS
6 7 (6.19%) PaaS
7 6 (5.31%) IaaS
8 3 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.88%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.88%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 32 (28.32%) Internet
2 30 (26.55%) Firewall
3 26 (23.01%) DKIM
3 26 (23.01%) DMARC
3 26 (23.01%) DNS
4 11 (9.73%) TCP/IP
5 6 (5.31%) Network Security
6 4 (3.54%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (2.65%) Broadband
7 3 (2.65%) VPN
8 2 (1.77%) HTTPS
8 2 (1.77%) SSL
8 2 (1.77%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.88%) HTTP
9 1 (0.88%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.88%) InfluxDB
1 1 (0.88%) MySQL
1 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.88%) JIRA
1 1 (0.88%) Snyk
General
1 28 (24.78%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.81%) Finance
3 12 (10.62%) Games
4 5 (4.42%) Legal
5 4 (3.54%) Marketing
5 4 (3.54%) Military
6 2 (1.77%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.77%) Retail
7 1 (0.88%) Banking
7 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Law
7 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (46.02%) Analyst
2 31 (27.43%) Security Analyst
3 27 (23.89%) Information Analyst
3 27 (23.89%) Information Security Analyst
4 17 (15.04%) Security Engineer
4 17 (15.04%) Senior
5 13 (11.50%) Lead
6 12 (10.62%) SOC Analyst
7 9 (7.96%) Architect
7 9 (7.96%) Security Architect
8 8 (7.08%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (7.08%) Senior Security Engineer
9 7 (6.19%) Operations Analyst
9 7 (6.19%) Security Manager
9 7 (6.19%) SOC Manager
10 6 (5.31%) Cloud Architect
10 6 (5.31%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 6 (5.31%) Security Solutions Architect
10 6 (5.31%) SOC Engineer
10 6 (5.31%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.65%) Web Services
2 1 (0.88%) LAMP
2 1 (0.88%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 38 (33.63%) Cyberattack
2 25 (22.12%) Security Operations Centre
3 20 (17.70%) Cyber Threat
4 14 (12.39%) Management Information System
5 10 (8.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 9 (7.96%) Operational Technology
6 9 (7.96%) SCADA
7 8 (7.08%) Security Posture
8 6 (5.31%) Cyber Defence
8 6 (5.31%) Public Cloud
9 5 (4.42%) Social Media
10 4 (3.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (2.65%) Data Centre
11 3 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (1.77%) Cloud Native
13 1 (0.88%) Anti-Spyware
13 1 (0.88%) Blog
13 1 (0.88%) Clustering
13 1 (0.88%) Cybercrime
13 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (22.12%) Windows
2 22 (19.47%) Linux
3 4 (3.54%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.65%) Kali Linux
4 3 (2.65%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.77%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.88%) CentOS
6 1 (0.88%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (90.27%) SIEM
2 61 (53.98%) Incident Response
3 60 (53.10%) Cybersecurity
4 52 (46.02%) Information Security
5 51 (45.13%) Security Operations
6 45 (39.82%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 33 (29.20%) Cloud Security
8 29 (25.66%) Threat Intelligence
9 28 (24.78%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 27 (23.89%) Vulnerability Management
11 23 (20.35%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 17 (15.04%) Analytics
13 16 (14.16%) Identity Access Management
13 16 (14.16%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 15 (13.27%) Data Loss Prevention
15 14 (12.39%) Security Architecture
16 12 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
17 11 (9.73%) Red Team
17 11 (9.73%) Use Case
18 10 (8.85%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 23 (20.35%) Python
2 9 (7.96%) PowerShell
3 8 (7.08%) Bash
4 2 (1.77%) Go
5 1 (0.88%) Java
5 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 15 (13.27%) CISSP
2 14 (12.39%) Degree
3 11 (9.73%) Security Cleared
4 10 (8.85%) SC Cleared
5 8 (7.08%) CEH
6 6 (5.31%) Azure Certification
6 6 (5.31%) CISM
7 5 (4.42%) DV Cleared
7 5 (4.42%) GIAC
8 4 (3.54%) GCIH
9 3 (2.65%) AWS Certification
9 3 (2.65%) CCSP
9 3 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (2.65%) GSEC
9 3 (2.65%) ISSAP
9 3 (2.65%) ISSEP
10 2 (1.77%) CASP
10 2 (1.77%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.77%) GREM
10 2 (1.77%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (15.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (14.16%) NIST
3 8 (7.08%) PCI DSS
4 5 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (3.54%) GDPR
5 4 (3.54%) NCSC
5 4 (3.54%) SOC 2
6 3 (2.65%) GRC
7 1 (0.88%) IASME
System Software
1 5 (4.42%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (23.01%) CASB
2 9 (7.96%) QRadar
3 3 (2.65%) Suricata
4 2 (1.77%) CSIRT
4 2 (1.77%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.88%) Anchore
5 1 (0.88%) Ansible
5 1 (0.88%) Cacti
5 1 (0.88%) Grafana
5 1 (0.88%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.88%) Icinga
5 1 (0.88%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.88%) Puppet
5 1 (0.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (32.74%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.50%) Splunk
3 9 (7.96%) Darktrace
4 6 (5.31%) PagerDuty
5 4 (3.54%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.65%) Cisco
6 3 (2.65%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (2.65%) Juniper
7 1 (0.88%) IBM
7 1 (0.88%) Infoblox
7 1 (0.88%) Intel
7 1 (0.88%) Netskope
7 1 (0.88%) Qualys
7 1 (0.88%) Zscaler