SOAR Job Trends in Lancashire

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring SOAR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 78 84
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 -
Permanent jobs citing SOAR 3 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Lancashire 0.18% 0.12% 0.084%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.12% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £42,000 - -
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £38,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -23.00% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £40,250 -
90th Percentile £67,000 - -
North West median annual salary £65,000 £54,250 £47,000
% change year-on-year +19.82% +15.43% -24.80%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,274 813 931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 75.34% 97.83% 78.30%
Number of salaries quoted 483 347 769
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,900 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,620 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,055 £46,457
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% +7.74% -2.20%
75th Percentile £62,498 £55,250 £63,000
90th Percentile £77,424 £64,406 £75,772
North West median annual salary £52,500 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.18% +9.59% -9.09%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SOAR relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

SOAR job vacancy trend in Lancashire

SOAR
Salary Trend in Lancashire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing SOAR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing SOAR

SOAR
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOAR in Lancashire over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for SOAR in Lancashire

SOAR
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOAR within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 21 April 2026. 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
Preston -11 2 £40,000 +3.90%
Lancaster - 1 £65,000 -
SOAR
North West

SOAR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Aerospace
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Security Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) LAN Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Data Collection
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Management
3 1 (33.33%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (33.33%) DBS Check
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet