SOAR Jobs in the West Midlands

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 242 269 269
Rank change year-on-year +27 0 -58
Permanent jobs citing SOAR 4 3 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.055% 0.046% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.066% 0.047% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 10
10th Percentile £52,000 £67,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,875 £68,125 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +18.37% -14.93%
75th Percentile £93,750 £78,125 £76,250
90th Percentile £111,000 £79,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,045 6,349 6,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.12% 96.80% 95.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,551 3,275 4,766
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,725 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing SOAR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SOAR in the West Midlands

SOAR
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for SOAR in the West Midlands

SOAR
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOAR in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SOAR in the West Midlands

SOAR
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOAR within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 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
Birmingham - 2 £115,000 -
Coventry - 2 £58,750 -
SOAR
England

SOAR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (50.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Information Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Information Security
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Application Security
3 2 (50.00%) Digital Forensics
3 2 (50.00%) Log Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Change Control
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Service Management
4 1 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CEH
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) GCFA
1 2 (50.00%) GCFE
1 2 (50.00%) GCIH
1 2 (50.00%) GREM
1 2 (50.00%) OSCP
1 2 (50.00%) SANS
2 1 (25.00%) CISA
2 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (25.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft