Security Operations Job Trends in Bedford

Security Operations (SecOps)
Bedfordshire > Bedford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bedford requiring Security Operations skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Bedford 0.70% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% - -
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 - £68,750

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bedford

Security Operations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bedford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 105 47 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedford 73.94% 82.46% 77.10%
Number of salaries quoted 80 37 81
10th Percentile - £38,000 £24,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £48,750 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £52,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +50.00% -39.13%
75th Percentile £50,000 £53,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £86,000 £61,250
Bedfordshire median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -1.96% -11.30%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Security Operations relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bedford.

Security Operations job vacancy trend in Bedford

Security Operations
Salary Trend in Bedford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bedford citing Security Operations.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bedford citing Security Operations

Security Operations
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
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
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%) 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