Security Operations Job Trends in Guildford

Security Operations (SecOps)
Surrey > Guildford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Guildford requiring Security Operations skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Guildford 0.61% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £53,250 - -
25th Percentile £58,125 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
75th Percentile £75,625 - -
90th Percentile £77,500 - -
Surrey median annual salary £68,750 - £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Guildford

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 Guildford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 352 120 336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 71.40% 85.71% 88.89%
Number of salaries quoted 284 93 278
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £31,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +5.26% -17.39%
75th Percentile £91,250 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,000 £69,125
Surrey median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% - -16.67%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Security Operations relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Guildford.

Security Operations job vacancy trend in Guildford

Security Operations
Salary Trend in Guildford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Security Operations.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Security Operations

Security Operations
Salary Histogram in Guildford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in Guildford over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Operations in Guildford

Security Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) IT Manager
1 3 (100.00%) IT Security Manager
1 3 (100.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Security Posture
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 3 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Detection
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CISM
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
2 2 (66.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (66.67%) CEH
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) CRISC
3 1 (33.33%) CISA
3 1 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (33.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk