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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 - 176
Rank change year-on-year - - +106
Permanent jobs citing SOAR 8 0 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.47% - 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% - 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 11
10th Percentile - - £67,500
25th Percentile - - £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - £95,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.15%
75th Percentile - - £97,500
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary £107,500 - £95,000
% change year-on-year - - +15.15%

All Process and 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 1,641 2,693 3,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 95.96% 93.18% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,308 1,833 2,946
10th Percentile £39,835 £42,821 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £116,250
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £73,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -0.68% +0.69%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAR in the City of London

SOAR
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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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 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) GCP
3 5 (62.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Incident Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Senior
2 4 (50.00%) SOC Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Response Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 6 (75.00%) Security Posture
2 5 (62.50%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Kali Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 8 (100.00%) SIEM
2 7 (87.50%) Data Loss Prevention
2 7 (87.50%) DevOps
3 6 (75.00%) Cloud Security
3 6 (75.00%) Information Security
4 5 (62.50%) Security Operations
5 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
5 1 (12.50%) Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture
5 1 (12.50%) Security Monitoring
5 1 (12.50%) Threat Detection
5 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) GIAC
2 1 (12.50%) CISM
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) HIPAA
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco
1 1 (12.50%) Imperva
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto