SOAR Jobs in England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SOAR skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SOAR over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 714 801 984
Rank change year-on-year +87 +183 -194
Permanent jobs citing SOAR 101 126 158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.14% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 74 75 108
10th Percentile - £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £55,000 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -1.41% +13.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,500 £111,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% -3.45% +16.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

SOAR is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,867 88,602 125,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.85% 95.64% 95.66%
Number of salaries quoted 53,758 52,331 73,895
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,338
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAR in England

SOAR
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for SOAR in England

SOAR
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOAR in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 2024. 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
North of England +50 28 £50,000 +17.65% 2
London +80 27 £75,000 -11.76% 10
South East +23 25 £47,000 -14.55% 5
North West +34 20 £48,500 -22.40% 1
South West -7 13 £50,000 +12.88% 1
Yorkshire +89 8 £55,000 +69.23% 1
West Midlands +27 4 £65,000 -10.34%
Midlands -2 4 £65,000 -7.14%
East of England +12 1 £67,500 +50.00%
SOAR
UK

SOAR
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 2 (1.98%) MS Project Server
2 1 (0.99%) Apache
2 1 (0.99%) Confluence
2 1 (0.99%) nginx
2 1 (0.99%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 50 (49.50%) Azure
2 27 (26.73%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (17.82%) AWS
4 10 (9.90%) Azure Sentinel
5 9 (8.91%) SaaS
6 7 (6.93%) PaaS
7 6 (5.94%) IaaS
8 3 (2.97%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.99%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.99%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.99%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 30 (29.70%) Firewall
2 24 (23.76%) Internet
3 18 (17.82%) DKIM
3 18 (17.82%) DMARC
3 18 (17.82%) DNS
4 11 (10.89%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.96%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (3.96%) Network Security
6 3 (2.97%) Broadband
6 3 (2.97%) VPN
7 2 (1.98%) HTTPS
7 2 (1.98%) SSL
7 2 (1.98%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.99%) HTTP
8 1 (0.99%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.99%) InfluxDB
1 1 (0.99%) MySQL
1 1 (0.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.99%) JIRA
1 1 (0.99%) Snyk
General
1 28 (27.72%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.85%) Finance
3 12 (11.88%) Games
4 5 (4.95%) Legal
5 4 (3.96%) Marketing
5 4 (3.96%) Military
6 2 (1.98%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.98%) Retail
7 1 (0.99%) Banking
7 1 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.99%) Law
7 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (43.56%) Analyst
2 23 (22.77%) Security Analyst
3 19 (18.81%) Information Analyst
3 19 (18.81%) Information Security Analyst
4 17 (16.83%) Senior
5 13 (12.87%) Lead
5 13 (12.87%) Security Engineer
6 12 (11.88%) SOC Analyst
7 9 (8.91%) Architect
7 9 (8.91%) Security Architect
8 8 (7.92%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (7.92%) Senior Security Engineer
9 7 (6.93%) Operations Analyst
9 7 (6.93%) Security Manager
9 7 (6.93%) SOC Manager
10 6 (5.94%) Cloud Architect
10 6 (5.94%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 6 (5.94%) Security Solutions Architect
10 6 (5.94%) SOC Engineer
10 6 (5.94%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.97%) Web Services
2 1 (0.99%) LAMP
2 1 (0.99%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 30 (29.70%) Cyberattack
2 25 (24.75%) Security Operations Centre
3 20 (19.80%) Cyber Threat
4 12 (11.88%) Management Information System
5 10 (9.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 9 (8.91%) Operational Technology
6 9 (8.91%) SCADA
7 8 (7.92%) Security Posture
8 6 (5.94%) Cyber Defence
8 6 (5.94%) Public Cloud
9 5 (4.95%) Social Media
10 3 (2.97%) Data Centre
10 3 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.98%) Cloud Native
12 1 (0.99%) Blog
12 1 (0.99%) Cloud Security Posture
12 1 (0.99%) Clustering
12 1 (0.99%) Cyber Security Posture
12 1 (0.99%) Cybercrime
12 1 (0.99%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (24.75%) Windows
2 22 (21.78%) Linux
3 4 (3.96%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.97%) Kali Linux
4 3 (2.97%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.98%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.99%) CentOS
6 1 (0.99%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (89.11%) SIEM
2 61 (60.40%) Incident Response
3 57 (56.44%) Cybersecurity
4 47 (46.53%) Security Operations
5 40 (39.60%) Information Security
6 37 (36.63%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 29 (28.71%) Threat Intelligence
8 25 (24.75%) Cloud Security
9 23 (22.77%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 23 (22.77%) Vulnerability Management
10 20 (19.80%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 15 (14.85%) Data Loss Prevention
12 14 (13.86%) Security Architecture
12 14 (13.86%) Vulnerability Scanning
13 13 (12.87%) Analytics
14 12 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (11.88%) Identity Access Management
15 11 (10.89%) Red Team
16 10 (9.90%) Computer Science
16 10 (9.90%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 23 (22.77%) Python
2 9 (8.91%) PowerShell
3 8 (7.92%) Bash
4 2 (1.98%) Go
5 1 (0.99%) Java
5 1 (0.99%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 15 (14.85%) CISSP
2 12 (11.88%) Degree
3 11 (10.89%) Security Cleared
4 10 (9.90%) SC Cleared
5 8 (7.92%) CEH
6 6 (5.94%) Azure Certification
6 6 (5.94%) CISM
7 5 (4.95%) DV Cleared
7 5 (4.95%) GIAC
8 4 (3.96%) GCIH
9 3 (2.97%) AWS Certification
9 3 (2.97%) CCSP
9 3 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (2.97%) GSEC
9 3 (2.97%) ISSAP
9 3 (2.97%) ISSEP
10 2 (1.98%) CASP
10 2 (1.98%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.98%) GREM
10 2 (1.98%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.86%) NIST
2 13 (12.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (7.92%) PCI DSS
4 5 (4.95%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (3.96%) GDPR
6 3 (2.97%) GRC
7 2 (1.98%) NCSC
8 1 (0.99%) IASME
System Software
1 5 (4.95%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (17.82%) CASB
2 9 (8.91%) QRadar
3 3 (2.97%) Suricata
4 2 (1.98%) CSIRT
4 2 (1.98%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.99%) Anchore
5 1 (0.99%) Ansible
5 1 (0.99%) Cacti
5 1 (0.99%) Grafana
5 1 (0.99%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.99%) Icinga
5 1 (0.99%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.99%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.99%) Puppet
5 1 (0.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (32.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.87%) Splunk
3 9 (8.91%) Darktrace
4 6 (5.94%) PagerDuty
5 4 (3.96%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.97%) Cisco
6 3 (2.97%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (2.97%) Juniper
7 1 (0.99%) IBM
7 1 (0.99%) Infoblox
7 1 (0.99%) Intel
7 1 (0.99%) Netskope
7 1 (0.99%) Qualys
7 1 (0.99%) Zscaler