SOAR Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring SOAR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 161 155
Rank change year-on-year +33 -6 +83
Permanent jobs citing SOAR 8 1 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.36% 0.038% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.039% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 14
10th Percentile £63,750 - £67,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year - -26.32% +11.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £80,000 - -
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year - -26.32% +11.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,943 2,536 2,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 86.28% 95.55% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,422 1,623 2,410
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £40,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,125 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SOAR relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

SOAR job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SOAR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SOAR

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOAR in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SOAR in the City of London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Network Security
2 3 (37.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) Security Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Incident Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Response Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) SIEM Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) SOC Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (37.50%) Security Posture
4 1 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 8 (100.00%) SIEM
2 6 (75.00%) Security Operations
3 5 (62.50%) Cloud Security
3 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 4 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (50.00%) Use Case
5 3 (37.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 3 (37.50%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (37.50%) DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) Information Security
5 3 (37.50%) Security Monitoring
5 3 (37.50%) Threat Intelligence
6 2 (25.00%) Threat Analysis
7 1 (12.50%) AI
7 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
7 1 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
7 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) GIAC
2 1 (12.50%) CISM
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Imperva
3 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto