Security Monitoring Job Trends in Kent

Security Monitoring
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kent requiring Security Monitoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 79 56
Rank change year-on-year 0 -23 +57
Permanent jobs citing Security Monitoring 1 1 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 0.12% 0.11% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.14% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £29,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +36.90%
75th Percentile - - £93,125
90th Percentile - - £96,250
South East median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -23.08% -5.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

Security Monitoring 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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 713 730 465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 83.59% 79.69% 88.40%
Number of salaries quoted 409 304 347
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £53,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.88% +6.50% -
75th Percentile £55,250 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,500 £79,500 £71,000
South East median annual salary £49,000 £56,500 £54,763
% change year-on-year -13.27% +3.17% -0.43%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Security Monitoring job vacancy trend in Kent

Security Monitoring
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Security Monitoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Security Monitoring

Security Monitoring
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Monitoring within the Kent region over the 6 months to 26 November 2025. 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
West Malling - 1 £85,000 - 1
Security Monitoring
South East

Security Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE Security
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki