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 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 270 250
Rank change year-on-year +90 -20 +53
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 260 120 283
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.21% 0.98% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 1.03% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 176 71 228
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,625 £62,450
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,250 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% +6.90% +8.21%
75th Percentile £87,813 £110,625 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £104,290
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 17,426 11,683 21,848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.38% 95.82% 88.99%
Number of salaries quoted 11,937 6,993 16,047
10th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £123,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

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 June 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 June 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 +35 57 £70,000 -5.72% 16
East London -4 7 £57,500 -8.73% 4
West London -11 5 £87,500 - 11
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 2 (0.77%) Confluence
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 77 (29.62%) Azure
2 52 (20.00%) AWS
3 30 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (10.77%) Azure Sentinel
5 24 (9.23%) GCP
6 23 (8.85%) Entra ID
7 14 (5.38%) SaaS
8 8 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (3.08%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (3.08%) Mimecast
9 6 (2.31%) Google Workspace
10 5 (1.92%) Anthropic Claude
10 5 (1.92%) GitHub
10 5 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.54%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 4 (1.54%) AWS KMS
11 4 (1.54%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.15%) Zapier
13 2 (0.77%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 40 (15.38%) Firewall
2 33 (12.69%) Network Security
3 14 (5.38%) VPN
4 10 (3.85%) Cisco ISE
5 8 (3.08%) TCP/IP
6 7 (2.69%) DNS
7 5 (1.92%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (1.54%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (1.54%) HTTPS
9 3 (1.15%) SCCP
10 2 (0.77%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.38%) Cisco ASA
11 1 (0.38%) Cisco Firepower
11 1 (0.38%) HTTP
11 1 (0.38%) IPsec
11 1 (0.38%) NGFW
11 1 (0.38%) SMTP
11 1 (0.38%) SSL
11 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.15%) Power BI
2 2 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.77%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.77%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.38%) Big Data
3 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (1.54%) Bitbucket
1 4 (1.54%) Metasploit
2 3 (1.15%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.15%) JIRA
General
1 66 (25.38%) Social Skills
2 49 (18.85%) Finance
3 35 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.08%) Legal
5 19 (7.31%) Law
6 12 (4.62%) Banking
7 9 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.46%) Retail
8 7 (2.69%) Advertising
8 7 (2.69%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.92%) Back Office
10 4 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.15%) Aviation
11 3 (1.15%) Legal Technology
12 2 (0.77%) Digital Health
12 2 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.77%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (25.00%) Analyst
2 56 (21.54%) Security Analyst
3 39 (15.00%) Security Engineer
4 36 (13.85%) Lead
5 34 (13.08%) Senior
6 32 (12.31%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 27 (10.38%) Security Manager
8 17 (6.54%) Security Specialist
9 16 (6.15%) Operational Security Manager
9 16 (6.15%) Operations Engineer
9 16 (6.15%) Security Operations Manager
9 16 (6.15%) Senior Analyst
10 15 (5.77%) Operations Analyst
10 15 (5.77%) Senior Security Analyst
11 14 (5.38%) Operations Manager
11 14 (5.38%) Security Operations Analyst
12 13 (5.00%) Architect
13 11 (4.23%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 11 (4.23%) Information Analyst
13 11 (4.23%) Information Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.54%) REST
2 3 (1.15%) LDAP
3 2 (0.77%) JSON
3 2 (0.77%) OpenID
3 2 (0.77%) RESTful
3 2 (0.77%) SAML
4 1 (0.38%) EDI
4 1 (0.38%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.38%) TAPI
Miscellaneous
1 50 (19.23%) Cyber Defence
2 48 (18.46%) Security Operations Centre
3 46 (17.69%) Security Posture
4 27 (10.38%) Management Information System
5 23 (8.85%) Cyber Threat
6 18 (6.92%) Cloud Native
7 12 (4.62%) Data Centre
7 12 (4.62%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.69%) Virtual Team
9 6 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 5 (1.92%) Insider Threat
11 4 (1.54%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.54%) Cyber Security Posture
11 4 (1.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (1.15%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 47 (18.08%) Windows
2 37 (14.23%) Linux
3 10 (3.85%) Unix
4 4 (1.54%) Kali Linux
4 4 (1.54%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.38%) CentOS
6 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (52.31%) Cybersecurity
2 117 (45.00%) Incident Response
3 102 (39.23%) SIEM
4 66 (25.38%) Cloud Security
5 64 (24.62%) Vulnerability Management
6 58 (22.31%) Threat Intelligence
7 53 (20.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 53 (20.38%) Information Security
8 51 (19.62%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 50 (19.23%) SOAR
10 46 (17.69%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 43 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (14.62%) Risk Management
13 37 (14.23%) Threat Detection
14 36 (13.85%) Security Monitoring
15 30 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
16 28 (10.77%) Penetration Testing
17 27 (10.38%) AI
17 27 (10.38%) Use Case
18 25 (9.62%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (20.77%) PowerShell
2 44 (16.92%) Python
3 11 (4.23%) Kusto Query Language
4 10 (3.85%) Bash
5 3 (1.15%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.15%) SQL
6 2 (0.77%) Java
6 2 (0.77%) Perl
6 2 (0.77%) Search Processing Language
6 2 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 53 (20.38%) CISSP
2 35 (13.46%) GIAC
3 27 (10.38%) Security Cleared
4 26 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 25 (9.62%) Degree
6 22 (8.46%) CISM
7 21 (8.08%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (6.92%) SC Cleared
9 16 (6.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 16 (6.15%) CEH
10 14 (5.38%) CCSP
11 12 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (4.62%) GCIH
12 9 (3.46%) CISA
13 8 (3.08%) Azure Certification
14 6 (2.31%) CompTIA CySA+
14 6 (2.31%) GCIA
14 6 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (1.92%) AWS Certification
15 5 (1.92%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (28.08%) NIST
2 68 (26.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (11.54%) GDPR
4 18 (6.92%) GRC
4 18 (6.92%) PCI DSS
5 11 (4.23%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (3.85%) SOC 2
7 6 (2.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (1.92%) Accessibility
9 4 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (1.15%) NCSC
10 3 (1.15%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.77%) COBIT
11 2 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.77%) PMO
12 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (4.62%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.15%) Docker
3 3 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (6.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (4.23%) Terraform
3 10 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (3.46%) Kubernetes
5 8 (3.08%) Ansible
5 8 (3.08%) QRadar
6 5 (1.92%) SCCM
7 3 (1.15%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 3 (1.15%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 2 (0.77%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.77%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.38%) CASB
9 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.38%) Nessus
9 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 84 (32.31%) Microsoft
2 32 (12.31%) Splunk
3 22 (8.46%) CrowdStrike
4 19 (7.31%) ServiceNow
5 16 (6.15%) Cisco
6 15 (5.77%) Qualys
7 13 (5.00%) Google
8 10 (3.85%) Tenable
9 9 (3.46%) Sophos
10 7 (2.69%) Palo Alto
10 7 (2.69%) Rapid7
11 6 (2.31%) Fortinet
11 6 (2.31%) iManage
11 6 (2.31%) OpenAI
11 6 (2.31%) Zscaler
12 5 (1.92%) CheckPoint
13 4 (1.54%) CyberArk
13 4 (1.54%) Okta
14 3 (1.15%) Carbon Black
14 3 (1.15%) LogRhythm