SOAR Job Trends in Central London

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring SOAR skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 - 189
Rank change year-on-year - - +110
Permanent jobs citing SOAR 10 0 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.51% - 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% - 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile £89,500 - £67,500
25th Percentile £96,250 - £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 - £95,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.15%
75th Percentile £118,750 - £97,500
90th Percentile £125,500 - -
London median annual salary £65,563 £102,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -36.04% +20.59% +9.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,902 3,075 3,510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 96.06% 93.24% 94.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,512 2,051 3,162
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -0.68% +0.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £115,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing SOAR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for SOAR in Central London

SOAR
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SOAR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SOAR

SOAR
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOAR in Central London over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for SOAR in Central London

SOAR
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 SOAR within the Central London region over the 6 months to 19 September 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 - 8 £85,000 - 7
SOAR
London

SOAR
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 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) GCP
3 5 (50.00%) AWS
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) Network Security
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Incident Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Lead
2 4 (40.00%) SOC Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Security Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Lead Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Lead Security Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Incident Response Lead
5 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Security Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) SIEM Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 6 (60.00%) Security Posture
2 5 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Kali Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) SIEM
2 9 (90.00%) DevOps
3 8 (80.00%) Incident Response
4 7 (70.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 6 (60.00%) Cloud Security
5 6 (60.00%) Information Security
6 5 (50.00%) Security Operations
7 2 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
7 2 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
8 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
8 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
8 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
8 1 (10.00%) Migration
8 1 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
8 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (10.00%) Security Architecture
8 1 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
8 1 (10.00%) Threat Detection
8 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) GIAC
2 2 (20.00%) CISSP
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) CISM
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (30.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Tenable
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Imperva
3 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto