Security Monitoring Jobs in England

Security Monitoring
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Security Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Monitoring 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 594 702 762
Rank change year-on-year +108 +60 +151
Permanent jobs citing Security Monitoring 89 140 159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.16% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.19% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 77 119 136
10th Percentile £35,300 £37,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,894 £48,000 £37,969
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +2.46%
75th Percentile £76,250 £67,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £88,500 £87,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Security Monitoring 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,477 74,482 83,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.01% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 22,533 54,432 49,691
10th Percentile £29,625 £29,000 £34,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,695 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Security Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Monitoring in England

Security Monitoring
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Monitoring in England.

Salary trend for Security Monitoring in England

Security Monitoring
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Monitoring in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Monitoring in England

Security Monitoring
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Monitoring within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
London +80 43 £75,000 +33.33% 67
Midlands +74 19 £55,000 +107.55% 35
West Midlands +76 17 £55,000 +107.55% 19
South East +64 10 £37,000 -29.52% 68
North of England +41 9 £65,000 +62.50% 42
North West 0 6 £76,250 +103.33% 19
South West +115 3 £51,729 -5.95% 27
Yorkshire +63 3 £52,500 -10.64% 19
East Midlands - 2 £48,500 - 14
East of England - 2 £33,750 - 30
Security Monitoring
UK

Security Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (5.62%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.25%) Confluence
3 1 (1.12%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (2.25%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 39 (43.82%) Azure
2 21 (23.60%) AWS
3 15 (16.85%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (8.99%) Azure Sentinel
5 7 (7.87%) Microsoft Purview
6 6 (6.74%) Entra ID
7 5 (5.62%) GCP
8 4 (4.49%) PaaS
8 4 (4.49%) Serverless
9 3 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.25%) AWS KMS
10 2 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (2.25%) IaaS
11 1 (1.12%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.12%) SaaS
11 1 (1.12%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 22 (24.72%) Firewall
2 14 (15.73%) WAN
3 13 (14.61%) Intrusion Detection
3 13 (14.61%) Network Security
4 12 (13.48%) DNS
5 10 (11.24%) SD-WAN
6 8 (8.99%) Wireshark
7 5 (5.62%) TCP/IP
8 4 (4.49%) LAN
9 2 (2.25%) NAS
9 2 (2.25%) SAN
9 2 (2.25%) VPN
10 1 (1.12%) DHCP
10 1 (1.12%) Internet
10 1 (1.12%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (7.87%) Burp Suite
General
1 20 (22.47%) Finance
1 20 (22.47%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.61%) Banking
3 7 (7.87%) Law
4 5 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.49%) Legal
6 3 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.37%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.25%) Advertising
7 2 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.25%) Retail
7 2 (2.25%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.12%) Automotive
8 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Games
8 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (26.97%) Analyst
2 20 (22.47%) Lead
3 14 (15.73%) Security Analyst
4 13 (14.61%) SOC Analyst
5 10 (11.24%) Senior
6 9 (10.11%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 8 (8.99%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 8 (8.99%) Security Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) Information Analyst
8 7 (7.87%) Information Security Analyst
8 7 (7.87%) Threat Hunter
8 7 (7.87%) WAN Engineer
9 6 (6.74%) Architect
9 6 (6.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.62%) 2nd Line Support
10 5 (5.62%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 5 (5.62%) Lead Architect
10 5 (5.62%) Security Specialist
10 5 (5.62%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.62%) Vulnerability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.37%) Kafka
2 2 (2.25%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.25%) PyTorch
2 2 (2.25%) scikit-learn
2 2 (2.25%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 28 (31.46%) Management Information System
2 20 (22.47%) Security Posture
3 10 (11.24%) Private Cloud
4 9 (10.11%) Cloud Native
5 8 (8.99%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (8.99%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (7.87%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (5.62%) Cyber Security Posture
8 4 (4.49%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (3.37%) CSOC
9 3 (3.37%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (3.37%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (3.37%) Onboarding
9 3 (3.37%) PKI
9 3 (3.37%) Replication
9 3 (3.37%) Virtual Team
10 2 (2.25%) Algorithms
10 2 (2.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
11 1 (1.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 35 (39.33%) Windows
2 20 (22.47%) Linux
3 4 (4.49%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.37%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.25%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.12%) Android
6 1 (1.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (64.04%) Cybersecurity
2 49 (55.06%) Incident Response
3 45 (50.56%) SIEM
4 33 (37.08%) Vulnerability Management
5 32 (35.96%) Security Operations
6 25 (28.09%) Information Security
7 20 (22.47%) Cloud Security
7 20 (22.47%) Data Loss Prevention
7 20 (22.47%) Threat Intelligence
8 19 (21.35%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 16 (17.98%) Mentoring
9 16 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (17.98%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 13 (14.61%) CI/CD
10 13 (14.61%) ITIL
11 12 (13.48%) Kalman Filter
11 12 (13.48%) Threat Modelling
12 11 (12.36%) Change Control
12 11 (12.36%) Penetration Testing
12 11 (12.36%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 17 (19.10%) PowerShell
2 15 (16.85%) Python
3 10 (11.24%) Bash
3 10 (11.24%) C#
4 3 (3.37%) Java
5 2 (2.25%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.12%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 15 (16.85%) CISSP
1 15 (16.85%) Security Cleared
2 14 (15.73%) SC Cleared
3 12 (13.48%) Degree
3 12 (13.48%) GCIA
3 12 (13.48%) GCIH
4 11 (12.36%) GCFA
5 6 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (5.62%) AWS Certification
6 5 (5.62%) CISM
7 3 (3.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.37%) CEH
7 3 (3.37%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (3.37%) SANS
8 2 (2.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (2.25%) ISSAP
8 2 (2.25%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.25%) OSCP
8 2 (2.25%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (1.12%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (24.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (11.24%) COBIT
2 10 (11.24%) NIST
3 7 (7.87%) GDPR
4 4 (4.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (3.37%) HIPAA
5 3 (3.37%) SOC 2
6 2 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (2.25%) ISO 9000
7 1 (1.12%) NCSC
7 1 (1.12%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.12%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.12%) QA
System Software
1 8 (8.99%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.49%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (3.37%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.25%) Docker
4 2 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (8.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (5.62%) CASB
3 4 (4.49%) QRadar
3 4 (4.49%) Terraform
4 3 (3.37%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.25%) Grafana
5 2 (2.25%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.25%) SCCM
6 1 (1.12%) Ansible
6 1 (1.12%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (1.12%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.12%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.12%) Puppet
6 1 (1.12%) SCOM
6 1 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (39.33%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.73%) Cisco
3 11 (12.36%) VMware
4 6 (6.74%) Splunk
5 4 (4.49%) Acronis
6 3 (3.37%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (2.25%) Dell
7 2 (2.25%) EMC
7 2 (2.25%) Fujitsu
7 2 (2.25%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.25%) Qualys
7 2 (2.25%) SonicWALL
7 2 (2.25%) Tenable
8 1 (1.12%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.12%) Google
8 1 (1.12%) LogRhythm
8 1 (1.12%) Okta
8 1 (1.12%) Proofpoint
8 1 (1.12%) Varonis