SOAR Job Trends in England

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring SOAR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 549 613 582
Rank change year-on-year +64 -31 +259
Permanent jobs citing SOAR 51 63 84
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.098% 0.13% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.14% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 33 39 58
10th Percentile £56,500 £62,750 £47,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% +15.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £88,750 £107,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £120,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £78,500 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.67% +25.00% -12.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

SOAR 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 42,728 44,744 41,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.15% 90.24% 91.27%
Number of salaries quoted 25,461 22,347 32,089
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 £76,000 £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%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

SOAR job vacancy trend in England

SOAR
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SOAR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SOAR

SOAR
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOAR in England over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SOAR in England

SOAR
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOAR within the England region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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 +26 25 £80,000 +6.67% 13
South East +25 13 £74,250 -21.84% 7
North of England +21 4 £85,000 +80.85% 9
Midlands +20 3 - - 3
West Midlands +17 3 - - 2
Yorkshire -5 3 £90,000 +100.00% 4
East of England - 3 £87,500 - 7
North West +23 1 £80,000 +36.75% 5
South West - 1 £80,000 - 4
SOAR
UK

SOAR
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 29 (56.86%) Azure
2 24 (47.06%) AWS
3 14 (27.45%) Azure Sentinel
4 9 (17.65%) GCP
5 6 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.88%) SaaS
7 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.96%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.96%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.96%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 12 (23.53%) Network Security
2 7 (13.73%) Firewall
3 3 (5.88%) DNS
4 2 (3.92%) InfiniBand
4 2 (3.92%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.96%) Internet
5 1 (1.96%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.96%) Modbus
5 1 (1.96%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (3.92%) GitLab
General
1 19 (37.25%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (17.65%) Finance
3 3 (5.88%) Banking
3 3 (5.88%) Legal
4 2 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Law
5 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (33.33%) Senior
2 16 (31.37%) Analyst
3 10 (19.61%) Security Engineer
4 9 (17.65%) SOC Analyst
5 8 (15.69%) Lead
5 8 (15.69%) Senior Security Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Operational Security Manager
6 5 (9.80%) Operations Manager
6 5 (9.80%) Security Analyst
6 5 (9.80%) Security Manager
6 5 (9.80%) Security Operations Manager
6 5 (9.80%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (7.84%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 4 (7.84%) IT Manager
7 4 (7.84%) IT Operations Manager
7 4 (7.84%) IT Security Manager
8 3 (5.88%) Architect
8 3 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Security Architect
8 3 (5.88%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.84%) ARM Templates
2 2 (3.92%) PyTorch
2 2 (3.92%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.96%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (45.10%) Security Operations Centre
2 12 (23.53%) Security Posture
3 6 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (9.80%) Cloud Security Posture
5 4 (7.84%) ARM Cortex
5 4 (7.84%) Onboarding
6 3 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (5.88%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
7 2 (3.92%) CUDA
7 2 (3.92%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.96%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (1.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.96%) Insider Threat
8 1 (1.96%) PKI
8 1 (1.96%) SCADA
8 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (31.37%) Linux
2 10 (19.61%) Windows
3 3 (5.88%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.96%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (94.12%) SIEM
2 34 (66.67%) Security Operations
3 28 (54.90%) Incident Response
4 23 (45.10%) Cybersecurity
5 19 (37.25%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 18 (35.29%) Cloud Security
7 16 (31.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (27.45%) Threat Intelligence
9 13 (25.49%) Vulnerability Management
10 11 (21.57%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 11 (21.57%) Information Security
10 11 (21.57%) Security Monitoring
11 10 (19.61%) DevOps
12 9 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (17.65%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
13 8 (15.69%) Data Loss Prevention
13 8 (15.69%) Root Cause Analysis
13 8 (15.69%) Threat Detection
13 8 (15.69%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 20 (39.22%) Python
2 14 (27.45%) PowerShell
3 9 (17.65%) Kusto Query Language
4 5 (9.80%) Bash
4 5 (9.80%) SQL
5 4 (7.84%) Bicep
6 2 (3.92%) Go
Qualifications
1 14 (27.45%) CISSP
2 12 (23.53%) Degree
2 12 (23.53%) SC Cleared
2 12 (23.53%) Security Cleared
3 10 (19.61%) GCIH
4 9 (17.65%) CEH
5 7 (13.73%) CompTIA Security+
5 7 (13.73%) GIAC
6 6 (11.76%) GCIA
7 4 (7.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (7.84%) CCSP
7 4 (7.84%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (7.84%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (5.88%) CISM
8 3 (5.88%) Network+ Certification
8 3 (5.88%) OSCP
9 2 (3.92%) CESG Certified Professional
9 2 (3.92%) DV Cleared
9 2 (3.92%) GCFA
10 1 (1.96%) GCFE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (37.25%) NIST
2 8 (15.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.88%) GDPR
4 2 (3.92%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.92%) Def Stans
4 2 (3.92%) JSP 440
4 2 (3.92%) NCSC
4 2 (3.92%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (3.92%) GPFS
1 2 (3.92%) Lustre
1 2 (3.92%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (15.69%) Terraform
2 3 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.88%) QRadar
3 2 (3.92%) Ansible
3 2 (3.92%) Nessus
3 2 (3.92%) SELinux
4 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 12 (23.53%) CrowdStrike
3 10 (19.61%) Splunk
4 4 (7.84%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.88%) Rapid7
6 2 (3.92%) ArcSight
6 2 (3.92%) Carbon Black
6 2 (3.92%) Cisco
6 2 (3.92%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.92%) NVIDIA
6 2 (3.92%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.92%) Qualys
6 2 (3.92%) Tenable
7 1 (1.96%) Dell
7 1 (1.96%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (1.96%) Intel
7 1 (1.96%) Juniper
7 1 (1.96%) Netskope
7 1 (1.96%) VMware
7 1 (1.96%) Zscaler