Security Operations Job Trends in London

Security Operations (SecOps)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Security Operations skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 269 248
Rank change year-on-year +97 -21 +20
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 335 129 239
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.35% 1.08% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 1.15% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 225 94 139
10th Percentile £45,900 £47,750 £46,713
25th Percentile £65,000 £60,688 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £76,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +1.31% +13.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £96,250 £96,375
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £121,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +1.56% +2.40%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 20,107 11,233 17,147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.80% 94.14% 89.41%
Number of salaries quoted 13,640 7,113 10,472
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Security Operations job vacancy trend in London

Security Operations
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Security Operations.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Security Operations

Security Operations
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in London over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Operations in London

Security Operations
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 Operations within the London region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Central London +7 35 £70,000 -12.50% 68
West London +2 19 £80,000 +64.10% 23
East London -1 7 £57,500 -8.73% 1
Security Operations
England

Security Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (1.49%) Confluence
1 5 (1.49%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.90%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 87 (25.97%) Azure
2 64 (19.10%) AWS
3 57 (17.01%) Entra ID
4 45 (13.43%) Microsoft 365
5 35 (10.45%) GCP
6 28 (8.36%) Azure Sentinel
7 18 (5.37%) Microsoft Purview
8 15 (4.48%) Azure Logic Apps
9 11 (3.28%) Mimecast
10 9 (2.69%) SaaS
11 8 (2.39%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 6 (1.79%) Google Workspace
12 6 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (1.49%) Anthropic Claude
13 5 (1.49%) AWS KMS
13 5 (1.49%) Nutanix
14 4 (1.19%) GitHub
14 4 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (0.90%) Amazon Kinesis
15 3 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 41 (12.24%) Firewall
2 36 (10.75%) Network Security
3 21 (6.27%) VPN
4 13 (3.88%) Cisco ISE
5 7 (2.09%) Intrusion Detection
6 6 (1.79%) DNS
7 5 (1.49%) Kerberos
8 4 (1.19%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (1.19%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (1.19%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.19%) WAN
9 3 (0.90%) LAN
9 3 (0.90%) OSPF
9 3 (0.90%) TACACS
10 2 (0.60%) DMARC
10 2 (0.60%) HTTP
10 2 (0.60%) NGFW
10 2 (0.60%) SMTP
11 1 (0.30%) Cisco Nexus
11 1 (0.30%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.49%) MongoDB
1 5 (1.49%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.90%) Hadoop
2 3 (0.90%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.30%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 6 (1.79%) JIRA
2 3 (0.90%) Jenkins
General
1 85 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 57 (17.01%) Finance
3 42 (12.54%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (8.06%) Legal
5 24 (7.16%) Law
6 19 (5.67%) Banking
7 13 (3.88%) Retail
8 12 (3.58%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.79%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.79%) Military
11 5 (1.49%) Advertising
12 4 (1.19%) Digital Health
12 4 (1.19%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.90%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.90%) Legal Technology
13 3 (0.90%) Local Government
14 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (18.81%) Security Engineer
2 59 (17.61%) Analyst
3 58 (17.31%) Lead
4 51 (15.22%) Security Analyst
5 48 (14.33%) Senior
6 27 (8.06%) Security Manager
7 24 (7.16%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 21 (6.27%) Architect
9 18 (5.37%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 18 (5.37%) Senior Analyst
10 17 (5.07%) Consultant
11 16 (4.78%) Operations Engineer
11 16 (4.78%) Senior Security Analyst
12 14 (4.18%) Security Architect
12 14 (4.18%) Security Specialist
13 11 (3.28%) Information Manager
13 11 (3.28%) Information Security Manager
13 11 (3.28%) Operations Analyst
13 11 (3.28%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
14 10 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.37%) Terraform
2 7 (2.09%) REST
3 5 (1.49%) LDAP
4 4 (1.19%) OpenID
4 4 (1.19%) SAML
5 3 (0.90%) Kafka
5 3 (0.90%) Smart Contracts
6 2 (0.60%) JSON
6 2 (0.60%) RESTful
6 2 (0.60%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.60%) SOAP
7 1 (0.30%) CSS
7 1 (0.30%) HTML
7 1 (0.30%) TAPI
7 1 (0.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 75 (22.39%) Security Posture
2 43 (12.84%) Security Operations Centre
3 34 (10.15%) Management Information System
4 32 (9.55%) Cyber Defence
5 31 (9.25%) Data Centre
6 22 (6.57%) Cloud Native
6 22 (6.57%) Cyber Threat
7 15 (4.48%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 9 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.39%) AI Agents
9 8 (2.39%) Cyber Security Posture
10 7 (2.09%) Cloud Security Posture
10 7 (2.09%) PKI
11 6 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.79%) Insider Threat
11 6 (1.79%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.49%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.49%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.19%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 44 (13.13%) Windows
2 26 (7.76%) Linux
3 7 (2.09%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.90%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.90%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.90%) Unix
6 1 (0.30%) CentOS
6 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (54.03%) Cybersecurity
2 133 (39.70%) Incident Response
3 115 (34.33%) SIEM
4 107 (31.94%) Vulnerability Management
5 84 (25.07%) Information Security
6 80 (23.88%) Cloud Security
7 63 (18.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 62 (18.51%) Risk Management
9 58 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
9 58 (17.31%) Threat Detection
10 54 (16.12%) AI
11 53 (15.82%) Threat Intelligence
12 43 (12.84%) Mentoring
12 43 (12.84%) SOAR
13 40 (11.94%) Security Monitoring
13 40 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
14 39 (11.64%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 39 (11.64%) Penetration Testing
15 38 (11.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 33 (9.85%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 49 (14.63%) PowerShell
2 35 (10.45%) Python
3 16 (4.78%) Kusto Query Language
4 8 (2.39%) SQL
5 7 (2.09%) Bash
6 6 (1.79%) Java
7 5 (1.49%) Go
7 5 (1.49%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.60%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 68 (20.30%) CISSP
2 40 (11.94%) CISM
3 30 (8.96%) Degree
4 29 (8.66%) Security Cleared
5 26 (7.76%) GIAC
6 22 (6.57%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (5.67%) CompTIA Security+
8 17 (5.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 16 (4.78%) CCSP
10 15 (4.48%) SC Cleared
11 13 (3.88%) CEH
12 11 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (3.28%) GCIH
13 10 (2.99%) AWS Certification
14 9 (2.69%) DV Cleared
15 8 (2.39%) CISA
16 7 (2.09%) GCIA
17 6 (1.79%) Azure Certification
17 6 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
18 5 (1.49%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (28.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 84 (25.07%) NIST
3 38 (11.34%) GDPR
4 28 (8.36%) GRC
5 24 (7.16%) PCI DSS
6 15 (4.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 15 (4.48%) SOC 2
7 9 (2.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (1.49%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.90%) NCSC
9 3 (0.90%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.60%) SLA
11 1 (0.30%) COBIT
11 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.30%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (6.27%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.90%) Docker
5 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (8.66%) Single Sign-On
2 23 (6.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (5.67%) Kubernetes
4 10 (2.99%) QRadar
5 8 (2.39%) SCCM
6 5 (1.49%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (0.90%) Ansible
7 3 (0.90%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 3 (0.90%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 3 (0.90%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 2 (0.60%) Argo
8 2 (0.60%) Grafana
8 2 (0.60%) Istio
8 2 (0.60%) linkerd
8 2 (0.60%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.60%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.60%) Puppet
9 1 (0.30%) CASB
9 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.30%) Nessus
Vendors
1 111 (33.13%) Microsoft
2 36 (10.75%) Splunk
3 30 (8.96%) CrowdStrike
4 25 (7.46%) ServiceNow
5 23 (6.87%) Qualys
6 22 (6.57%) Palo Alto
7 21 (6.27%) Google
8 20 (5.97%) Tenable
9 19 (5.67%) Cisco
10 14 (4.18%) Rapid7
11 9 (2.69%) CyberArk
12 8 (2.39%) iManage
12 8 (2.39%) Sophos
12 8 (2.39%) VMware
13 6 (1.79%) OpenAI
13 6 (1.79%) Red Hat
13 6 (1.79%) Zscaler
14 5 (1.49%) Meraki
14 5 (1.49%) Oracle
14 5 (1.49%) Veracode