SOC Manager Jobs in the East of England

Security Operations Centre Manager
England > East of England

The median Security Operations Centre Manager salary in the East of England is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 May 2025.

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

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 221 239
Rank change year-on-year +45 +18 -
Permanent jobs requiring a SOC Manager 1 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.029% 0.033% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.035% 0.023%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £58,750 -
25th Percentile £68,750 £60,625 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -10.34% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £68,125 £73,750
90th Percentile - £69,250 -
England median annual salary £72,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -6.25% +3.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 the East of England with a recognized job title 3,109 5,748 4,440
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.71% 93.94% 84.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,541 4,388 2,227
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,809 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £36,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,200 £63,338 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £82,050
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

SOC Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings that featured SOC Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for SOC Manager in the East of England

SOC Manager
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SOC Manager in the East of England.

Salary trend for SOC Manager in the East of England

SOC Manager
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOC Manager within the East of England region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
Hertfordshire +27 1 £72,500 +20.83% 1
SOC Manager
England

SOC Manager Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, SOC Manager 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 East of England region featuring SOC Manager in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response

SOC Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk