SOAR Job Trends in Birmingham

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring SOAR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 - 152
Rank change year-on-year - - -21
Permanent jobs citing SOAR 4 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.13% - 0.065%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% - 0.083%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - £107,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £115,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +130.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 - £122,500
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 - £83,750
% change year-on-year - - +39.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

SOAR 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 Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,193 1,112 2,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 72.91% 95.21% 78.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,675 696 1,933
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,968 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% +3.58% -3.51%
75th Percentile £73,024 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,375 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

SOAR job vacancy trend in Birmingham

SOAR
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SOAR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SOAR

SOAR
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 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Business Transformation
2 2 (50.00%) Coaching
2 2 (50.00%) Creative Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) Internal Audit
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CEH
1 2 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft