SOC Engineer Jobs in England

Security Operations Centre Engineer
UK > England

The median Security Operations Centre Engineer salary in England is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 817 935 1112
Rank change year-on-year +118 +177 -276
Permanent jobs requiring a SOC Engineer 23 18 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.027% 0.019% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.021% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 21 17 18
10th Percentile £38,500 £55,250 £46,725
25th Percentile £42,500 £56,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year - +19.79% -12.73%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 -
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,000 £52,375
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year - +19.79% -12.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 80,117 85,349 125,598
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.55% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 59,992 53,990 75,607
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

SOC Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured SOC Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SOC Engineer in England

SOC Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for SOC Engineer in England

SOC Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOC Engineer in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SOC Engineer in England

SOC Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOC Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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
South East +35 8 £42,000 -40.00%
North of England - 6 £65,000 - 1
London +123 5 £70,000 +21.74% 4
North West - 5 £65,000 - 1
South West - 3 £62,500 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 1
SOC Engineer
UK

SOC Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, SOC Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring SOC Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (69.57%) SIEM
2 13 (56.52%) Splunk
3 10 (43.48%) Microsoft
3 10 (43.48%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 10 (43.48%) Threat Intelligence
4 9 (39.13%) Incident Response
4 9 (39.13%) Azure
4 9 (39.13%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (30.43%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 7 (30.43%) Security Operations
6 6 (26.09%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (26.09%) Power BI
6 6 (26.09%) Cloud Security
6 6 (26.09%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 6 (26.09%) SOAR
6 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (26.09%) Power Platform
6 6 (26.09%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (26.09%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (26.09%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (26.09%) CISSP
6 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (26.09%) McAfee
6 6 (26.09%) Firewall
6 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (26.09%) Rapid7
6 6 (26.09%) Problem Management
6 6 (26.09%) Network Security
7 5 (21.74%) Product Management
7 5 (21.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service

SOC Engineer Skill Set
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 (8.70%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) Azure Sentinel
2 6 (26.09%) Power Platform
3 3 (13.04%) IaaS
3 3 (13.04%) PaaS
3 3 (13.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) Firewall
1 6 (26.09%) Network Security
2 5 (21.74%) TCP/IP
3 3 (13.04%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (4.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Power BI
2 2 (8.70%) Big Data
General
1 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Marketing
2 5 (21.74%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 6 (26.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (26.09%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (21.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (21.74%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (13.04%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (13.04%) Management Information System
4 3 (13.04%) Security Posture
5 2 (8.70%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (4.35%) Cyberattack
6 1 (4.35%) Cybercrime
6 1 (4.35%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) SIEM
2 10 (43.48%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 10 (43.48%) Threat Intelligence
3 9 (39.13%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (39.13%) Incident Response
4 7 (30.43%) Security Operations
5 6 (26.09%) Cloud Security
5 6 (26.09%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 6 (26.09%) Problem Management
5 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (26.09%) SOAR
6 5 (21.74%) Computer Science
6 5 (21.74%) Product Management
6 5 (21.74%) Virtual Environments
6 5 (21.74%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 4 (17.39%) Threat Detection
8 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (13.04%) Impact Assessments
8 3 (13.04%) Runbook
8 3 (13.04%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) CISSP
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (21.74%) CISA
2 5 (21.74%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (21.74%) Degree
2 5 (21.74%) GIAC
2 5 (21.74%) JNCIA
3 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) CEH
4 1 (4.35%) CISM
4 1 (4.35%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (13.04%) NIST
1 3 (13.04%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) Splunk
2 10 (43.48%) Microsoft
3 6 (26.09%) McAfee
3 6 (26.09%) Rapid7
4 5 (21.74%) Juniper
5 1 (4.35%) Forcepoint
5 1 (4.35%) LogRhythm
5 1 (4.35%) Qualys
5 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.35%) Varonis