Security Operations Jobs in England

Security Operations (SecOps)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Security Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 319 328
Rank change year-on-year -72 +9 +40
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 300 742 880
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.62% 0.86% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.01% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 213 546 618
10th Percentile £43,358 £37,500 £37,463
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £61,439 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% -1.70% -10.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £78,438
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £97,290
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -7.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Security Operations 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 45,518 73,613 83,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.19% 84.97% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 22,437 53,908 49,787
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £41,750 £40,000 £46,067
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 £73,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £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 Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in England

Security Operations
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Security Operations in England

Security Operations
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Operations in England

Security Operations
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 Operations within the England region over the 6 months to 23 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 -14 127 £77,500 +6.90% 279
Midlands +31 38 £55,000 +2.33% 269
West Midlands +50 37 £55,000 +20.95% 152
South East +1 36 £65,000 +20.93% 433
North of England -39 34 £60,000 +20.00% 317
South West +34 22 £51,729 -17.23% 168
East of England +24 20 £62,000 +7.52% 232
North West -44 18 £60,000 +26.32% 143
Yorkshire +36 14 £60,000 +11.63% 134
North East +35 2 £70,000 +55.56% 40
East Midlands +14 1 £72,500 +26.09% 101
Security Operations
UK

Security Operations
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 6 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) C-CURE
1 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 102 (34.00%) Azure
2 52 (17.33%) AWS
3 47 (15.67%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (11.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 24 (8.00%) GCP
6 23 (7.67%) Entra ID
7 15 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (3.67%) SaaS
9 9 (3.00%) PaaS
10 7 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.00%) IaaS
12 5 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (1.33%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.33%) Route 53
14 3 (1.00%) Copilot Studio
15 2 (0.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 2 (0.67%) Azure AKS
15 2 (0.67%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 108 (36.00%) Firewall
2 47 (15.67%) Network Security
3 32 (10.67%) Intrusion Detection
4 29 (9.67%) VPN
5 25 (8.33%) TCP/IP
6 22 (7.33%) DNS
7 19 (6.33%) HTTP
7 19 (6.33%) SMTP
8 16 (5.33%) WAN
9 14 (4.67%) Internet
10 12 (4.00%) LAN
11 10 (3.33%) FTP
12 6 (2.00%) DHCP
13 4 (1.33%) HTTPS
13 4 (1.33%) NGFW
13 4 (1.33%) SD-WAN
13 4 (1.33%) VLAN
14 2 (0.67%) DKIM
14 2 (0.67%) DMARC
15 1 (0.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.33%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.00%) Power BI
3 1 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (0.67%) GitLab
2 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.33%) JIRA
General
1 89 (29.67%) Social Skills
2 54 (18.00%) Finance
3 46 (15.33%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (13.00%) Law
5 30 (10.00%) Retail
6 22 (7.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (6.33%) Legal
8 12 (4.00%) Telecoms
9 11 (3.67%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.67%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.67%) Banking
11 5 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.67%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.67%) Police
12 3 (1.00%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.00%) Military
12 3 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.00%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 95 (31.67%) Analyst
2 73 (24.33%) Security Analyst
3 43 (14.33%) Security Engineer
4 33 (11.00%) Lead
4 33 (11.00%) Senior
5 25 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 25 (8.33%) Security Manager
6 24 (8.00%) SOC Analyst
7 17 (5.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (5.33%) Consultant
8 16 (5.33%) IT Analyst
9 13 (4.33%) Head of Security
9 13 (4.33%) IT Security Analyst
10 12 (4.00%) Operations Manager
11 11 (3.67%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (3.67%) Operational Security Manager
11 11 (3.67%) Security Operations Manager
11 11 (3.67%) Senior Analyst
12 10 (3.33%) Security Operations Analyst
12 10 (3.33%) SOC Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.00%) LDAP
2 2 (0.67%) HTML
2 2 (0.67%) Leaflet
3 1 (0.33%) .NET
3 1 (0.33%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.33%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.33%) CSS
3 1 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 81 (27.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 66 (22.00%) Security Posture
3 53 (17.67%) Management Information System
4 46 (15.33%) Cyber Threat
5 19 (6.33%) Cyber Defence
6 12 (4.00%) PKI
7 11 (3.67%) Client/Server
7 11 (3.67%) Hedge funds
8 10 (3.33%) Private Cloud
9 9 (3.00%) Cloud Security Posture
9 9 (3.00%) Cyberattack
9 9 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.33%) Cyber Security Posture
11 5 (1.67%) CSOC
11 5 (1.67%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.67%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.33%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (16.67%) Windows
2 14 (4.67%) Linux
3 8 (2.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.67%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.67%) Unix
4 2 (0.67%) VMS
5 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (55.67%) Cybersecurity
2 148 (49.33%) Incident Response
3 143 (47.67%) SIEM
4 130 (43.33%) Information Security
5 80 (26.67%) Vulnerability Management
6 61 (20.33%) Risk Management
7 60 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (17.00%) Incident Management
9 49 (16.33%) Cloud Security
10 48 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (16.00%) Threat Intelligence
11 45 (15.00%) Data Protection
12 44 (14.67%) Data Loss Prevention
13 43 (14.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 42 (14.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
15 38 (12.67%) Threat Detection
16 34 (11.33%) Identity Access Management
17 33 (11.00%) Security Monitoring
18 30 (10.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
19 25 (8.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 61 (20.33%) PowerShell
2 59 (19.67%) Python
3 26 (8.67%) Bash
4 10 (3.33%) C#
5 9 (3.00%) Kusto Query Language
6 7 (2.33%) Perl
7 6 (2.00%) C++
8 4 (1.33%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.00%) Search Processing Language
9 3 (1.00%) SQL
10 1 (0.33%) Go
10 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 65 (21.67%) CISSP
2 62 (20.67%) Degree
3 48 (16.00%) Security Cleared
4 47 (15.67%) CompTIA Security+
5 43 (14.33%) CISM
6 33 (11.00%) SC Cleared
7 27 (9.00%) GCIH
8 26 (8.67%) CEH
9 20 (6.67%) GCIA
10 17 (5.67%) OSCP
11 16 (5.33%) DV Cleared
11 16 (5.33%) GIAC
12 15 (5.00%) AWS Certification
13 14 (4.67%) CRISC
14 13 (4.33%) SANS
15 10 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
16 8 (2.67%) Azure Certification
16 8 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
17 7 (2.33%) CISA
17 7 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (23.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 61 (20.33%) NIST
3 35 (11.67%) GDPR
4 21 (7.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 21 (7.00%) PCI DSS
5 20 (6.67%) COBIT
6 13 (4.33%) GRC
7 12 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 5 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.00%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.00%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.67%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.67%) NCSC
10 2 (0.67%) SLA
11 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.33%) SOC 1
System Software
1 28 (9.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.33%) Docker
4 2 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.33%) Firmware
5 1 (0.33%) Snort
5 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (9.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (6.33%) QRadar
3 12 (4.00%) Kubernetes
4 9 (3.00%) Terraform
5 3 (1.00%) Nessus
6 2 (0.67%) CASB
6 2 (0.67%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.33%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.33%) Demisto
7 1 (0.33%) Graylog
7 1 (0.33%) Kibana
7 1 (0.33%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.33%) Puppet
7 1 (0.33%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 112 (37.33%) Microsoft
2 35 (11.67%) Splunk
3 17 (5.67%) Tenable
4 16 (5.33%) Google
5 14 (4.67%) VMware
6 12 (4.00%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.67%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (2.00%) Cisco
9 4 (1.33%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.00%) LogRhythm
11 2 (0.67%) AlienVault
11 2 (0.67%) Checkmarx
11 2 (0.67%) Darktrace
11 2 (0.67%) IBM
11 2 (0.67%) Juniper
11 2 (0.67%) McAfee
12 1 (0.33%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.33%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.33%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.33%) Qualys