Security Monitoring Job Trends in England

Security Monitoring
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Security Monitoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 525 502
Rank change year-on-year -16 -23 +302
Permanent jobs citing Security Monitoring 68 151 166
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.30% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.34% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 55 123 128
10th Percentile £36,250 - £40,839
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £71,250 £89,063
90th Percentile £110,000 £87,250 £104,375
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% - -1.52%

All Process & 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 42,885 44,702 41,515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.30% 90.14% 91.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,602 22,418 32,186
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Security Monitoring job vacancy trend in England

Security Monitoring
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Security Monitoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Security Monitoring

Security Monitoring
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Monitoring in England over the 6 months to 30 December 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 December 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 +25 39 £85,000 +21.43% 37
South East +34 11 £45,000 -14.29% 69
Midlands +25 7 £65,000 +8.33% 61
West Midlands +21 5 £65,000 +8.33% 29
North of England -24 5 £65,000 +44.44% 52
Yorkshire -32 3 £90,000 +100.00% 26
North West +19 2 £40,000 -11.11% 22
South West +15 2 £46,500 -17.33% 31
East of England +12 2 £82,500 +43.48% 47
East Midlands - 2 £36,000 - 27
Security Monitoring
UK

Security Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.41%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (39.71%) Azure
2 17 (25.00%) AWS
2 17 (25.00%) GCP
3 12 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 8 (11.76%) GitHub
4 8 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (11.76%) SaaS
5 5 (7.35%) Azure AI
5 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (7.35%) Power Automate
5 5 (7.35%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (4.41%) Cloud Run
7 3 (4.41%) Google Compute Engine
7 3 (4.41%) Mimecast
7 3 (4.41%) Tessian
7 3 (4.41%) Vercel
7 3 (4.41%) Vertex AI
8 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 17 (25.00%) Firewall
2 12 (17.65%) Network Security
3 10 (14.71%) Wireshark
4 8 (11.76%) Intrusion Detection
5 6 (8.82%) TCP/IP
5 6 (8.82%) VPN
6 5 (7.35%) DNS
7 3 (4.41%) DMARC
7 3 (4.41%) SSL
7 3 (4.41%) WAN
8 2 (2.94%) DKIM
8 2 (2.94%) LAN
8 2 (2.94%) SAN
9 1 (1.47%) Modbus
9 1 (1.47%) VLAN
9 1 (1.47%) VSAN
9 1 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (1.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.35%) Power BI
2 4 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (4.41%) BigQuery
3 3 (4.41%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 4 (5.88%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.47%) GitLab
General
1 18 (26.47%) Finance
1 18 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (11.76%) Banking
4 6 (8.82%) Financial Institution
5 5 (7.35%) Retail
6 4 (5.88%) Back Office
6 4 (5.88%) Law
6 4 (5.88%) Legal
7 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (27.94%) Analyst
2 17 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 14 (20.59%) Security Analyst
4 6 (8.82%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 6 (8.82%) IT Engineer
4 6 (8.82%) IT Security Engineer
4 6 (8.82%) Lead
4 6 (8.82%) SOC Analyst
4 6 (8.82%) Support Engineer
5 5 (7.35%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 5 (7.35%) Incident Manager
5 5 (7.35%) Information Analyst
5 5 (7.35%) Information Security Analyst
5 5 (7.35%) IT Support
5 5 (7.35%) IT Support Engineer
5 5 (7.35%) Security Support Engineer
5 5 (7.35%) Senior
6 4 (5.88%) Cloud Automation Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Security Manager
6 4 (5.88%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.41%) LangChain
1 3 (4.41%) Next.js
2 2 (2.94%) OAuth
2 2 (2.94%) OpenID
2 2 (2.94%) SAML
3 1 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.59%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 13 (19.12%) Security Posture
3 11 (16.18%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (14.71%) Cloud Native
5 9 (13.24%) Onboarding
6 8 (11.76%) Management Information System
7 5 (7.35%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (7.35%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (5.88%) Blog
9 3 (4.41%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (4.41%) Operational Technology
9 3 (4.41%) SCADA
10 2 (2.94%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (2.94%) Cyberattack
10 2 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (2.94%) Insider Threat
10 2 (2.94%) PKI
10 2 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (42.65%) Linux
1 29 (42.65%) Windows
2 6 (8.82%) Unix
3 3 (4.41%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.94%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.47%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (64.71%) Incident Response
2 38 (55.88%) Cybersecurity
3 35 (51.47%) SIEM
4 29 (42.65%) Cloud Security
5 28 (41.18%) Threat Intelligence
6 26 (38.24%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 26 (38.24%) Threat Detection
7 25 (36.76%) Vulnerability Management
8 24 (35.29%) Security Operations
9 23 (33.82%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 22 (32.35%) Information Security
11 15 (22.06%) Data Loss Prevention
12 13 (19.12%) SDLC
13 12 (17.65%) Use Case
14 11 (16.18%) DevOps
14 11 (16.18%) Penetration Testing
14 11 (16.18%) SOAR
15 10 (14.71%) AI
15 10 (14.71%) CI/CD
15 10 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 20 (29.41%) Python
2 12 (17.65%) Bash
2 12 (17.65%) PowerShell
3 4 (5.88%) Go
4 2 (2.94%) Perl
5 1 (1.47%) C
5 1 (1.47%) Elixir
5 1 (1.47%) Erlang
5 1 (1.47%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (20.59%) GCIA
1 14 (20.59%) GCIH
2 12 (17.65%) CISSP
2 12 (17.65%) GCFA
3 11 (16.18%) SC Cleared
3 11 (16.18%) Security Cleared
4 10 (14.71%) GIAC
5 6 (8.82%) CISM
5 6 (8.82%) Degree
6 5 (7.35%) AWS Certification
7 4 (5.88%) CISA
7 4 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (5.88%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.94%) CEH
8 2 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.47%) CCIE Security
9 1 (1.47%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (41.18%) NIST
2 22 (32.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (14.71%) Cyber Essentials
3 10 (14.71%) PCI DSS
4 8 (11.76%) GDPR
5 7 (10.29%) Accessibility
6 4 (5.88%) GRC
6 4 (5.88%) SOC 2
7 3 (4.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (2.94%) COBIT
8 2 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (1.47%) NIST 800
9 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (10.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (8.82%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.94%) Docker
4 1 (1.47%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (14.71%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.76%) Terraform
3 7 (10.29%) QRadar
4 4 (5.88%) Cilium
5 3 (4.41%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.94%) Ansible
6 2 (2.94%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.94%) Nessus
6 2 (2.94%) Suricata
7 1 (1.47%) Argo
7 1 (1.47%) CASB
7 1 (1.47%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (1.47%) CSIRT
7 1 (1.47%) Grafana
7 1 (1.47%) Kibana
7 1 (1.47%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.47%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.47%) Puppet
7 1 (1.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.76%) Splunk
3 7 (10.29%) VMware
4 5 (7.35%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (7.35%) Google
5 4 (5.88%) Cisco
6 3 (4.41%) Qualys
7 2 (2.94%) ArcSight
7 2 (2.94%) Carbon Black
7 2 (2.94%) Meraki
7 2 (2.94%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.47%) Broadcom
8 1 (1.47%) Commvault
8 1 (1.47%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.47%) Dell
8 1 (1.47%) EMC
8 1 (1.47%) Exabeam
8 1 (1.47%) LogRhythm
8 1 (1.47%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.47%) Thales