Security Operations Centre Jobs in the City of London

Security Operations Centre
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in permanent job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations Centre 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 133 165 225
Rank change year-on-year +32 +60 +56
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations Centre 6 12 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.31% 0.36% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.76% 1.05% 0.32%
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% +32.35%
75th Percentile £96,250 £73,750 £93,750
90th Percentile - £76,750 -
Central London median annual salary £92,500 £72,500 £78,750
% change year-on-year +27.59% -7.94% +12.50%

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 785 1,141 1,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 41.10% 34.13% 40.89%
Number of salaries quoted 585 875 1,555
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £43,162
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,143 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% -
75th Percentile £103,750 £97,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £145,000 £117,500 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% +3.33%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations Centre in the City of London

Security Operations Centre
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Operations Centre in the City of London.

Salary trend for Security Operations Centre in the City of London

Security Operations Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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