Security Operations Job Trends in Bolton

Security Operations (SecOps)
Manchester > Bolton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bolton requiring Security Operations skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Bolton 1.28% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 - -
75th Percentile £77,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year +23.08% +15.56% -13.46%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bolton

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 Bolton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 63 97 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bolton 80.77% 97.00% 90.32%
Number of salaries quoted 39 67 59
10th Percentile £28,500 £24,836 £29,400
25th Percentile £34,625 £36,875 £31,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £61,875
90th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £73,450
Manchester median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Bolton

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

Security Operations job vacancy trend in Bolton

Security Operations
Salary Trend in Bolton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bolton citing Security Operations.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bolton citing Security Operations

Security Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bolton 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Head of Information
1 1 (100.00%) Head of Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Head of Security
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk