SOC Manager Jobs in England

Security Operations Centre Manager
UK > England

The median Security Operations Centre Manager salary in England is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 806 906 1113
Rank change year-on-year +100 +207 -250
Permanent jobs requiring a SOC Manager 29 19 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.034% 0.021% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.023% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 25 11 19
10th Percentile £63,394 £70,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £71,875 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £77,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +3.90% -0.65%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £84,000
90th Percentile £94,500 - £88,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £77,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +3.90% -0.65%

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 80,497 84,397 127,287
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.51% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 60,179 53,484 75,704
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,809 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

SOC Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC Manager in England

SOC Manager
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for SOC Manager in England

SOC Manager
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOC Manager in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SOC Manager in England

SOC Manager
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 Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
London +122 12 £75,000 -11.76% 1
North of England +35 4 £70,979 -11.28%
Midlands +18 4 £92,500 +23.33%
West Midlands +17 4 £92,500 +23.33%
South West - 4 - -
Yorkshire - 4 £70,979 -
South East - 3 £69,000 -
East of England +23 2 £65,000 -10.34%
SOC Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, SOC Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 23 (79.31%) Security Operations
2 15 (51.72%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (31.03%) Line Management
3 9 (31.03%) Security Operations Centre
4 8 (27.59%) Information Security
4 8 (27.59%) Games
4 8 (27.59%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (27.59%) Incident Response
5 7 (24.14%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 7 (24.14%) Incident Management
5 7 (24.14%) SIEM
6 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
6 6 (20.69%) SOAR
6 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
7 5 (17.24%) Operational Technology
7 5 (17.24%) DV Cleared
7 5 (17.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
7 5 (17.24%) Change Management
8 4 (13.79%) ISO 9001
8 4 (13.79%) SCADA
8 4 (13.79%) Problem Management
8 4 (13.79%) Protective Monitoring
8 4 (13.79%) Strategic Management
8 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
8 4 (13.79%) Vulnerability Management
8 4 (13.79%) Capacity Management
8 4 (13.79%) Data Acquisition
8 4 (13.79%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (13.79%) Cyber Threat Intelligence

SOC Manager 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 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.90%) AWS
2 1 (3.45%) Azure
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Network Security
General
1 8 (27.59%) Games
2 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 9 (31.03%) Security Operations Centre
2 8 (27.59%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (17.24%) Operational Technology
4 4 (13.79%) SCADA
5 3 (10.34%) Cyberattack
6 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
7 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
7 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (79.31%) Security Operations
2 15 (51.72%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (31.03%) Line Management
4 8 (27.59%) Incident Response
4 8 (27.59%) Information Security
5 7 (24.14%) Incident Management
5 7 (24.14%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 7 (24.14%) SIEM
6 6 (20.69%) SOAR
7 5 (17.24%) Change Management
8 4 (13.79%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (13.79%) Capacity Management
8 4 (13.79%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 4 (13.79%) Data Acquisition
8 4 (13.79%) Data Loss Prevention
8 4 (13.79%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (13.79%) Problem Management
8 4 (13.79%) Protective Monitoring
8 4 (13.79%) Strategic Management
8 4 (13.79%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.24%) DV Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (13.79%) ISO 9001
2 4 (13.79%) NIST
3 1 (3.45%) GDPR
3 1 (3.45%) SLA
3 1 (3.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) QRadar
2 1 (3.45%) Nessus
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Darktrace
3 1 (3.45%) Splunk
3 1 (3.45%) Sun
3 1 (3.45%) VMware