Security Operations Centre Job Trends in Birmingham

Security Operations Centre
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in permanent job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 127 100
Rank change year-on-year +27 -27 +44
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations Centre 8 3 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.46% 0.17% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.86% 0.49% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 8
10th Percentile £40,000 - £25,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,713 £28,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,309 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +39.75% -34.55%
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,904 £50,563
90th Percentile £56,000 - £66,125
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £51,251 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% +6.80%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 429 610 507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 24.66% 33.81% 37.39%
Number of salaries quoted 292 240 435
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £38,856
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,860 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.23% +9.09% -4.95%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £79,879 £85,000 £83,750
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -6.32%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Security Operations Centre job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Security Operations Centre
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Security Operations Centre.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Security Operations Centre

Security Operations Centre
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Operations Centre in Birmingham over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Operations Centre in Birmingham

Security Operations Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) NAS
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Digital Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Service Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (37.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 3 (37.50%) Operational Technology
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 5 (62.50%) Business Strategy
2 5 (62.50%) Coaching
2 5 (62.50%) Mentoring
3 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (37.50%) Change Advisory Board
4 3 (37.50%) Cyber Intelligence
4 3 (37.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 3 (37.50%) ITIL
4 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
4 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
4 3 (37.50%) SABSA
4 3 (37.50%) SIEM
4 3 (37.50%) Technology Roadmap
4 3 (37.50%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (25.00%) Creative Thinking
5 2 (25.00%) Internal Audit
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (25.00%) Python
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CEH
2 2 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) CISM
3 1 (12.50%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 3 (37.50%) NIST
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) Tanium
2 1 (12.50%) Tenable
2 1 (12.50%) Zscaler