SOAR Job Trends in Kent

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kent requiring SOAR skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 - 67
Rank change year-on-year - - +66
Permanent jobs citing SOAR 1 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.13% - 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% - 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £92,500 - £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 - £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.93%
75th Percentile £97,500 - £91,250
90th Percentile - - £93,500
South East median annual salary £72,000 £87,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.95% +59.55% -26.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

SOAR 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 560 835 568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 73.78% 77.10% 91.91%
Number of salaries quoted 354 438 372
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £49,737 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.59% -0.53% +7.53%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £60,200
90th Percentile £75,000 £79,125 £68,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAR in Kent

SOAR
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing SOAR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing SOAR

SOAR
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOAR within the Kent region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Chatham - 1 £95,000 -
SOAR
South East

SOAR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid7