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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 597 700 737
Rank change year-on-year +103 +37 +166
Permanent jobs citing Security Monitoring 88 143 160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.16% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.19% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 76 119 137
10th Percentile £35,250 £37,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,295 £48,000 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £66,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £81,500 £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 46,039 75,199 82,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.03% 84.05% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 22,875 54,702 49,146
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
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 £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

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 30 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 30 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 +73 42 £75,000 +36.36% 40
Midlands +100 19 £55,000 +107.55% 16
West Midlands +70 17 £55,000 +107.55% 8
South East +61 10 £37,000 -29.52% 45
North of England +50 9 £65,000 +62.50% 22
North West +6 6 £76,250 +103.33% 11
South West +102 3 £51,729 -5.95% 13
Yorkshire +61 3 £52,500 -10.64% 9
East Midlands - 2 £48,500 - 7
East of England - 2 £33,750 - 19
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 (5.68%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (5.68%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.27%) Confluence
3 1 (1.14%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 38 (43.18%) Azure
2 21 (23.86%) AWS
3 14 (15.91%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (7.95%) Azure Sentinel
4 7 (7.95%) Microsoft Purview
5 6 (6.82%) Entra ID
6 5 (5.68%) GCP
7 4 (4.55%) PaaS
7 4 (4.55%) Serverless
8 3 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.27%) AWS KMS
9 2 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.27%) IaaS
10 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.14%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.14%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 21 (23.86%) Firewall
2 14 (15.91%) WAN
3 13 (14.77%) Intrusion Detection
3 13 (14.77%) Network Security
4 11 (12.50%) DNS
5 10 (11.36%) SD-WAN
6 8 (9.09%) Wireshark
7 5 (5.68%) TCP/IP
8 4 (4.55%) LAN
9 2 (2.27%) NAS
9 2 (2.27%) SAN
9 2 (2.27%) VPN
10 1 (1.14%) DHCP
10 1 (1.14%) Internet
10 1 (1.14%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (7.95%) Burp Suite
General
1 20 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.59%) Finance
3 12 (13.64%) Banking
4 7 (7.95%) Law
5 5 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.55%) Legal
7 3 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.41%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.27%) Advertising
8 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.27%) Retail
8 2 (2.27%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.14%) Automotive
9 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Games
9 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (26.14%) Analyst
2 20 (22.73%) Lead
3 14 (15.91%) Security Analyst
4 13 (14.77%) SOC Analyst
5 9 (10.23%) Senior
6 8 (9.09%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 8 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 8 (9.09%) Security Engineer
7 7 (7.95%) Information Analyst
7 7 (7.95%) Information Security Analyst
7 7 (7.95%) Threat Hunter
7 7 (7.95%) WAN Engineer
8 6 (6.82%) Architect
8 6 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) 2nd Line Support
9 5 (5.68%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) Lead Architect
9 5 (5.68%) Security Specialist
9 5 (5.68%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) Vulnerability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.41%) Kafka
2 2 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.27%) PyTorch
2 2 (2.27%) scikit-learn
2 2 (2.27%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 28 (31.82%) Management Information System
2 19 (21.59%) Security Posture
3 10 (11.36%) Private Cloud
4 9 (10.23%) Cloud Native
5 8 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (7.95%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (5.68%) Cyber Security Posture
8 4 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (3.41%) CSOC
9 3 (3.41%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (3.41%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (3.41%) Onboarding
9 3 (3.41%) PKI
9 3 (3.41%) Replication
9 3 (3.41%) Virtual Team
10 2 (2.27%) Algorithms
10 2 (2.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 2 (2.27%) Public Cloud
11 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 34 (38.64%) Windows
2 20 (22.73%) Linux
3 3 (3.41%) Mac OS
3 3 (3.41%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (63.64%) Cybersecurity
2 48 (54.55%) Incident Response
3 44 (50.00%) SIEM
4 32 (36.36%) Security Operations
4 32 (36.36%) Vulnerability Management
5 24 (27.27%) Information Security
6 20 (22.73%) Cloud Security
6 20 (22.73%) Data Loss Prevention
6 20 (22.73%) Threat Intelligence
7 19 (21.59%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 16 (18.18%) Mentoring
8 16 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (18.18%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 13 (14.77%) CI/CD
9 13 (14.77%) ITIL
10 12 (13.64%) Kalman Filter
10 12 (13.64%) Threat Modelling
11 11 (12.50%) Change Control
11 11 (12.50%) Threat Detection
12 10 (11.36%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (19.32%) PowerShell
2 15 (17.05%) Python
3 10 (11.36%) Bash
3 10 (11.36%) C#
4 3 (3.41%) Java
5 1 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.14%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 15 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 14 (15.91%) CISSP
2 14 (15.91%) SC Cleared
3 12 (13.64%) GCIA
3 12 (13.64%) GCIH
4 11 (12.50%) Degree
4 11 (12.50%) GCFA
5 5 (5.68%) AWS Certification
5 5 (5.68%) CISM
5 5 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.41%) CEH
6 3 (3.41%) SANS
7 2 (2.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (2.27%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (2.27%) ISSAP
7 2 (2.27%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.27%) OSCP
7 2 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.14%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (11.36%) COBIT
2 10 (11.36%) NIST
3 7 (7.95%) GDPR
4 4 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (3.41%) HIPAA
5 3 (3.41%) SOC 2
6 2 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (2.27%) ISO 9000
7 1 (1.14%) NCSC
7 1 (1.14%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.14%) QA
System Software
1 7 (7.95%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (3.41%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.27%) Docker
4 2 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (5.68%) CASB
3 4 (4.55%) QRadar
3 4 (4.55%) Terraform
4 3 (3.41%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.27%) Grafana
5 2 (2.27%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.27%) SCCM
6 1 (1.14%) Ansible
6 1 (1.14%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (1.14%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.14%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.14%) Puppet
6 1 (1.14%) SCOM
6 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (38.64%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.91%) Cisco
3 10 (11.36%) VMware
4 6 (6.82%) Splunk
5 4 (4.55%) Acronis
6 3 (3.41%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (2.27%) Dell
7 2 (2.27%) EMC
7 2 (2.27%) Fujitsu
7 2 (2.27%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.27%) SonicWALL
8 1 (1.14%) Google
8 1 (1.14%) Okta
8 1 (1.14%) Proofpoint
8 1 (1.14%) Qualys
8 1 (1.14%) Tenable
8 1 (1.14%) Varonis