SOC Engineer Jobs in Central London

Security Operations Centre Engineer
London > Central London

The median Security Operations Centre Engineer salary in Central London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a SOC Engineer 7 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.29% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - -
75th Percentile £78,125 - -
90th Percentile £84,500 - -
London median annual salary £65,000 £76,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year -14.75% +32.61% +2.22%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Central London with a recognized job title 2,201 3,619 4,765
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.29% 95.39% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,556 2,739 3,937
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £74,744
Median % change year-on-year - -3.00% +3.10%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £111,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

SOC Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured SOC Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for SOC Engineer in Central London

SOC Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SOC Engineer in Central London.

Salary trend for SOC Engineer in Central London

SOC Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOC Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 9 June 2025.

Salary histogram for SOC Engineer in Central London

SOC Engineer
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 SOC Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 9 June 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 - 7 £65,000 -
SOC Engineer
London

SOC Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 9 June 2025, SOC Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Central London region featuring SOC Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Security Operations
2 6 (85.71%) SIEM
2 6 (85.71%) Incident Response
3 5 (71.43%) Information Security
3 5 (71.43%) Azure
4 4 (57.14%) AWS
4 4 (57.14%) DNS
4 4 (57.14%) GCP
4 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
4 4 (57.14%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
4 4 (57.14%) Security Posture
4 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security Posture
4 4 (57.14%) Data Loss Prevention
4 4 (57.14%) SOAR
5 3 (42.86%) GIAC
6 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (28.57%) Protective Monitoring
6 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
6 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
6 2 (28.57%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 2 (28.57%) QRadar
6 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
6 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
6 2 (28.57%) Law
6 2 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (28.57%) Open Source
6 2 (28.57%) Trend Analysis

SOC Engineer Skill Set
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 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
General
1 2 (28.57%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security Posture
1 4 (57.14%) Security Operations Centre
1 4 (57.14%) Security Posture
2 2 (28.57%) CSOC
2 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Incident Response
2 6 (85.71%) Security Operations
2 6 (85.71%) SIEM
3 5 (71.43%) Information Security
4 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
4 4 (57.14%) Data Loss Prevention
4 4 (57.14%) SOAR
5 2 (28.57%) Architectural Design
5 2 (28.57%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 2 (28.57%) Open Source
5 2 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Management
5 2 (28.57%) Protective Monitoring
5 2 (28.57%) Security Monitoring
5 2 (28.57%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (28.57%) Trend Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) GIAC
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft