Security Monitoring Jobs in London

Security Monitoring
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring Security Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Monitoring over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 434 536
Rank change year-on-year +86 +102 +222
Permanent jobs citing Security Monitoring 51 83 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.39% 0.35% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.39% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 47 74 72
10th Percentile £62,500 £45,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £63,125 £51,250 £47,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -18.52% -3.57%
75th Percentile £80,000 £69,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,375 £99,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,511 21,542 32,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.22% 90.96% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7,249 15,908 23,258
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £43,224
25th Percentile £55,322 £51,488 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Security Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Monitoring in London

Security Monitoring
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Monitoring in London.

Salary trend for Security Monitoring in London

Security Monitoring
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Monitoring in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Monitoring in London

Security Monitoring
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Monitoring within the London region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Central London +27 9 £65,000 -2.99% 4
South London -2 2 £73,750 +67.61%
Security Monitoring
England

Security Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (9.80%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (41.18%) Azure
2 16 (31.37%) AWS
3 15 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (13.73%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (7.84%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (7.84%) GCP
6 3 (5.88%) Entra ID
6 3 (5.88%) PaaS
6 3 (5.88%) Serverless
7 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (3.92%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.92%) IaaS
7 2 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.96%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.96%) ShareGate
8 1 (1.96%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (23.53%) Network Security
2 11 (21.57%) Firewall
3 7 (13.73%) Wireshark
4 6 (11.76%) DNS
4 6 (11.76%) WAN
5 5 (9.80%) TCP/IP
6 4 (7.84%) LAN
7 2 (3.92%) NAS
7 2 (3.92%) SAN
7 2 (3.92%) SD-WAN
7 2 (3.92%) VPN
8 1 (1.96%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 7 (13.73%) Burp Suite
General
1 13 (25.49%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.53%) Banking
3 11 (21.57%) Law
4 5 (9.80%) Finance
5 3 (5.88%) Legal
5 3 (5.88%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Electronics
7 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.96%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (47.06%) Analyst
2 13 (25.49%) Security Analyst
2 13 (25.49%) SOC Analyst
3 11 (21.57%) Senior
4 10 (19.61%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 7 (13.73%) Information Analyst
5 7 (13.73%) Information Security Analyst
5 7 (13.73%) Threat Hunter
6 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Security Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (9.80%) SOC Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Architect
7 4 (7.84%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Incident Analyst
7 4 (7.84%) Lead
7 4 (7.84%) Lead Architect
7 4 (7.84%) Security Incident Analyst
7 4 (7.84%) Security Specialist
7 4 (7.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (3.92%) Kafka
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 15 (29.41%) Management Information System
2 9 (17.65%) Security Posture
3 8 (15.69%) CSOC
3 8 (15.69%) Onboarding
3 8 (15.69%) Virtual Team
4 5 (9.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (3.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (3.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (3.92%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (3.92%) PKI
6 2 (3.92%) Replication
7 1 (1.96%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.96%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.96%) Life Science
7 1 (1.96%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.96%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (25.49%) Windows
2 10 (19.61%) Linux
3 4 (7.84%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.92%) Windows 10
4 2 (3.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (76.47%) Incident Response
2 37 (72.55%) Cybersecurity
3 30 (58.82%) SIEM
4 22 (43.14%) Vulnerability Management
5 16 (31.37%) Threat Intelligence
6 15 (29.41%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 15 (29.41%) Information Security
6 15 (29.41%) Penetration Testing
7 14 (27.45%) Security Operations
8 13 (25.49%) Mentoring
9 12 (23.53%) Use Case
10 11 (21.57%) Cloud Security
10 11 (21.57%) Computer Science
10 11 (21.57%) Data Loss Prevention
11 10 (19.61%) Architectural Design
11 10 (19.61%) DevOps
11 10 (19.61%) Threat Modelling
12 9 (17.65%) Open Source
13 8 (15.69%) Performance Management
13 8 (15.69%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.80%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.92%) Java
2 2 (3.92%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (3.92%) Python
3 1 (1.96%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 12 (23.53%) GCIH
2 11 (21.57%) GCFA
3 10 (19.61%) Degree
3 10 (19.61%) GCIA
4 9 (17.65%) CISSP
4 9 (17.65%) SC Cleared
4 9 (17.65%) Security Cleared
5 8 (15.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (5.88%) CEH
6 3 (5.88%) CISM
6 3 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (5.88%) SANS
7 2 (3.92%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.92%) GSEC
7 2 (3.92%) ISSAP
7 2 (3.92%) Master's Degree
7 2 (3.92%) OSCP
7 2 (3.92%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.96%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (21.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (21.57%) NIST
2 6 (11.76%) GDPR
3 3 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (3.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (3.92%) HIPAA
4 2 (3.92%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.96%) NCSC
5 1 (1.96%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.84%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.92%) Docker
4 2 (3.92%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (15.69%) QRadar
2 7 (13.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (7.84%) Terraform
4 2 (3.92%) Grafana
4 2 (3.92%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.92%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.92%) SCCM
5 1 (1.96%) Ansible
5 1 (1.96%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (1.96%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.96%) Puppet
5 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (37.25%) Microsoft
2 12 (23.53%) VMware
3 6 (11.76%) Cisco
3 6 (11.76%) Splunk
4 4 (7.84%) Acronis
4 4 (7.84%) Qualys
5 3 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (5.88%) LogRhythm
5 3 (5.88%) Tenable
6 2 (3.92%) CheckPoint
6 2 (3.92%) Dell
6 2 (3.92%) EMC
6 2 (3.92%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.92%) SonicWALL
7 1 (1.96%) ArcSight
7 1 (1.96%) Intel
7 1 (1.96%) Okta
7 1 (1.96%) Proofpoint
7 1 (1.96%) SAP
7 1 (1.96%) Varonis