Security Operations Centre Jobs in Central London

Security Operations Centre
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in permanent job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 183 232
Rank change year-on-year +29 +49 +63
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations Centre 6 12 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.25% 0.32% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.62% 0.91% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 6
10th Percentile - £66,000 £40,625
25th Percentile £88,750 £71,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £72,500 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +27.59% -7.94% +12.50%
75th Percentile £96,250 £73,750 £93,750
90th Percentile - £76,750 -
London median annual salary £63,500 £68,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.64% +14.58% -20.00%

All Generic Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 970 1,316 2,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 41.10% 34.80% 40.83%
Number of salaries quoted 640 963 1,708
10th Percentile £42,375 £39,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £102,500 £97,500 £103,750
90th Percentile £140,250 £115,000 £120,000
London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +3.33%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations Centre in Central London

Security Operations Centre
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Security Operations Centre in Central London

Security Operations Centre
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Operations Centre within the Central London region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +36 6 £92,500 +27.59% 3
Security Operations Centre
London

Security Operations Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Senior
2 4 (66.67%) Incident Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) SOC Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Programme Manager
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Manager
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Programme Manager
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Transition Manager
3 2 (33.33%) Transition Manager
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Response Lead
4 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
4 1 (16.67%) IT Programme Manager
4 1 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (16.67%) Senior IT Manager
4 1 (16.67%) Senior IT Programme Manager
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Security Posture
1 4 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Information Security
1 6 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 4 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 4 (66.67%) SIEM
2 4 (66.67%) SOAR
3 2 (33.33%) Budget Management
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) ITSM
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) GIAC
2 2 (33.33%) PMI Certification
2 2 (33.33%) PMP
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes