Security Operations Job Trends in Coventry

Security Operations (SecOps)
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring Security Operations skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - 34
Rank change year-on-year - - +44
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 6 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Coventry 2.26% - 3.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% - 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 - £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £62,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.73%
75th Percentile £67,500 - £75,000
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £52,000 £51,251 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.46% -6.82% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Coventry

Security Operations 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 Coventry.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 225 191 252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Coventry 84.91% 96.95% 98.82%
Number of salaries quoted 104 97 233
10th Percentile £25,275 £36,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,399 £55,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +12.24% -6.08%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £62,600
90th Percentile £78,410 £74,300 £75,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Security Operations relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Coventry.

Security Operations job vacancy trend in Coventry

Security Operations
Salary Trend in Coventry

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Security Operations.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Security Operations

Security Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) Internet
1 2 (33.33%) SSL
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 4 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (66.67%) Operational Technology
1 4 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (33.33%) PKI
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Business Strategy
1 4 (66.67%) Change Advisory Board
1 4 (66.67%) Coaching
1 4 (66.67%) Cyber Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
1 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 4 (66.67%) Risk Management
1 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 4 (66.67%) SABSA
1 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (66.67%) Technology Roadmap
1 4 (66.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 4 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (33.33%) Cryptography
2 2 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 4 (66.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) CASB
1 2 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Netskope