Security Operations Jobs in Cambridge

Security Operations (SecOps)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridge requiring Security Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 - 93
Rank change year-on-year - - +32
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 3 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 1.21% - 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% - 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £30,125 - -
25th Percentile £30,313 - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,250 - £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile £32,813 - £47,500
90th Percentile £33,375 - -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £32,500 - £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 233 828 868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 93.95% 81.42% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 139 633 371
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £40,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £84,000 £87,500 £90,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +7.32%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in Cambridge

Security Operations
Salary Trend in Cambridge

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

Salary trend for Security Operations in Cambridge

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) PMI
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) SOAR
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk