Security Operations Centre Job Trends in Bedford

Security Operations Centre
Bedfordshire > Bedford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in permanent job vacancies in Bedford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months leading up to 26 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations Centre 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Bedford 0.93% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.27% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - -
75th Percentile £83,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median annual salary £82,500 - -

All Generic Skills
Bedford

Security Operations Centre falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Bedford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 44 20 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedford 41.12% 34.48% 64.08%
Number of salaries quoted 29 11 59
10th Percentile £24,000 £31,250 £24,975
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,875 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.75% -27.27%
75th Percentile £60,000 £52,375 £56,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,000 £61,250
Bedfordshire median annual salary £42,500 £50,500 £49,500
% change year-on-year -15.84% +2.02% -10.00%

Security Operations Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ForgeRock