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 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 606 706 712
Rank change year-on-year +100 +6 +216
Permanent jobs citing Security Monitoring 81 158 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.17% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.20% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 69 125 140
10th Percentile £34,500 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £76,250 £65,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £77,500 £95,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.64% -12.00% -3.85%

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 46,402 77,862 76,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 91.95% 82.63% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 23,896 55,258 47,421
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £45,300
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +0.83%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 +51 36 £75,000 +25.00% 56
Midlands +95 21 £55,000 +94.69% 8
West Midlands +80 19 £55,000 +94.69% 4
South East +61 11 £37,000 -29.52% 16
North of England +44 5 £57,500 +4.55% 15
South West +108 4 £51,729 -5.95% 9
North West +11 3 £42,384 -22.94% 8
Yorkshire +56 2 £61,250 +4.26% 7
East Midlands +49 2 £48,500 - 4
East of England +33 2 £33,750 - 3
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 7 (8.64%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (8.64%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.47%) Confluence
3 1 (1.23%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (2.47%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 37 (45.68%) Azure
2 23 (28.40%) AWS
3 18 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
5 6 (7.41%) GCP
6 5 (6.17%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (6.17%) Entra ID
7 4 (4.94%) PaaS
7 4 (4.94%) Serverless
8 3 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.47%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.47%) Google Workspace
9 2 (2.47%) IaaS
9 2 (2.47%) SaaS
10 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.23%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 16 (19.75%) Firewall
1 16 (19.75%) WAN
2 14 (17.28%) Network Security
3 13 (16.05%) DNS
4 12 (14.81%) Intrusion Detection
5 10 (12.35%) SD-WAN
6 7 (8.64%) TCP/IP
7 6 (7.41%) LAN
8 4 (4.94%) Wireshark
9 2 (2.47%) NAS
9 2 (2.47%) SAN
9 2 (2.47%) VPN
10 1 (1.23%) DHCP
10 1 (1.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Burp Suite
General
1 20 (24.69%) Social Skills
2 19 (23.46%) Finance
3 8 (9.88%) Banking
4 7 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.70%) Law
5 3 (3.70%) Legal
5 3 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.47%) Advertising
6 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.47%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.47%) Retail
6 2 (2.47%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.23%) Automotive
7 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Games
7 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (25.93%) Analyst
2 15 (18.52%) Lead
3 12 (14.81%) Security Analyst
3 12 (14.81%) Senior
4 11 (13.58%) SOC Analyst
5 8 (9.88%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 8 (9.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) Security Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) WAN Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (6.17%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 5 (6.17%) Threat Hunter
7 5 (6.17%) Vulnerability Manager
8 4 (4.94%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Information Analyst
8 4 (4.94%) Information Security Analyst
8 4 (4.94%) Security Specialist
8 4 (4.94%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.94%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (3.70%) Kafka
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.23%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.23%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 22 (27.16%) Management Information System
2 16 (19.75%) Security Posture
3 11 (13.58%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (12.35%) Cloud Native
5 9 (11.11%) Private Cloud
6 8 (9.88%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (6.17%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (6.17%) Cyber Security Posture
9 3 (3.70%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (3.70%) PKI
9 3 (3.70%) Replication
10 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
10 1 (1.23%) Clustering
10 1 (1.23%) Cyberattack
10 1 (1.23%) Hedge funds
10 1 (1.23%) Life Science
10 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
10 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (38.27%) Windows
2 18 (22.22%) Linux
3 3 (3.70%) Mac OS
3 3 (3.70%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.47%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.23%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (60.49%) Cybersecurity
2 43 (53.09%) SIEM
3 40 (49.38%) Incident Response
4 30 (37.04%) Security Operations
5 25 (30.86%) Vulnerability Management
6 21 (25.93%) Information Security
7 19 (23.46%) Cloud Security
7 19 (23.46%) Threat Intelligence
8 18 (22.22%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 18 (22.22%) Data Loss Prevention
9 17 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (20.99%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 14 (17.28%) CI/CD
11 13 (16.05%) Mentoring
12 12 (14.81%) Threat Detection
13 11 (13.58%) ITIL
13 11 (13.58%) Kalman Filter
14 10 (12.35%) Change Control
14 10 (12.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 9 (11.11%) Commercial Awareness
Programming Languages
1 18 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 15 (18.52%) Python
3 10 (12.35%) Bash
4 9 (11.11%) C#
5 3 (3.70%) Java
6 1 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.23%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 15 (18.52%) CISSP
1 15 (18.52%) SC Cleared
1 15 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.11%) Degree
3 7 (8.64%) GCIA
3 7 (8.64%) GCIH
4 6 (7.41%) GCFA
5 4 (4.94%) CEH
5 4 (4.94%) CISM
6 3 (3.70%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.70%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.70%) OSCP
6 3 (3.70%) SANS
7 2 (2.47%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (2.47%) GSEC
7 2 (2.47%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.47%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (13.58%) NIST
3 9 (11.11%) COBIT
4 8 (9.88%) GDPR
5 7 (8.64%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (4.94%) SOC 2
7 3 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (3.70%) HIPAA
8 2 (2.47%) ISO 9000
9 1 (1.23%) GRC
9 1 (1.23%) NCSC
9 1 (1.23%) NIST 800
9 1 (1.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (8.64%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.41%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (3.70%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.47%) Docker
5 1 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (12.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (6.17%) CASB
3 4 (4.94%) Terraform
4 3 (3.70%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.70%) QRadar
5 2 (2.47%) Grafana
5 2 (2.47%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.47%) SCCM
6 1 (1.23%) Ansible
6 1 (1.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (1.23%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.23%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.23%) Puppet
6 1 (1.23%) SCOM
6 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (38.27%) Microsoft
2 17 (20.99%) Cisco
3 11 (13.58%) Splunk
4 7 (8.64%) VMware
5 6 (7.41%) Acronis
6 3 (3.70%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (3.70%) Google
7 2 (2.47%) Dell
7 2 (2.47%) EMC
7 2 (2.47%) Fujitsu
7 2 (2.47%) LogRhythm
7 2 (2.47%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.47%) SonicWALL
8 1 (1.23%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.23%) Okta
8 1 (1.23%) Pega
8 1 (1.23%) Proofpoint
8 1 (1.23%) Qualys
8 1 (1.23%) Sun
8 1 (1.23%) Varonis