Security Operations Centre Jobs 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 133 129
Rank change year-on-year +23 -4 +48
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations Centre 1 20 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.076% 0.71% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.23% 2.18% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1 18 6
10th Percentile - - £45,625
25th Percentile £37,000 £30,000 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £33,225 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.38% -39.59% -5.17%
75th Percentile £41,000 £51,803 £57,500
90th Percentile - £67,797 -
West Midlands median annual salary £39,000 £37,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -31.82% -5.98%

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 436 917 660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 33.06% 32.73% 35.16%
Number of salaries quoted 211 708 463
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,061 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £84,900
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.21% -2.73% +15.79%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Security Operations Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations Centre in Birmingham

Security Operations Centre
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Operations Centre in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Security Operations Centre in Birmingham

Security Operations Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) IT Security Officer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Officer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management