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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 283 266
Rank change year-on-year +103 -17 +12
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 297 112 217
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.25% 0.92% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 0.98% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 203 80 150
10th Percentile £53,250 £47,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,063 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £76,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.58% +17.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £99,375
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £121,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% - -

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 19,490 11,442 17,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.87% 94.29% 89.25%
Number of salaries quoted 13,139 7,230 11,761
10th Percentile £40,807 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +11 38 £70,000 -12.50% 27
West London -5 17 £73,750 - 9
East London -4 7 £57,500 -8.73% 7
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 (1.68%) Confluence
2 3 (1.01%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 81 (27.27%) Azure
2 58 (19.53%) AWS
3 34 (11.45%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 25 (8.42%) Azure Sentinel
6 24 (8.08%) GCP
7 13 (4.38%) Azure Logic Apps
8 11 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (2.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 8 (2.69%) SaaS
10 7 (2.36%) Mimecast
11 6 (2.02%) Google Workspace
12 5 (1.68%) Anthropic Claude
12 5 (1.68%) AWS KMS
12 5 (1.68%) GitHub
12 5 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.68%) Nutanix
13 3 (1.01%) Amazon Bedrock
13 3 (1.01%) Amazon Kinesis
13 3 (1.01%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 41 (13.80%) Network Security
2 39 (13.13%) Firewall
3 17 (5.72%) VPN
4 11 (3.70%) Cisco ISE
5 8 (2.69%) Intrusion Detection
6 6 (2.02%) DNS
6 6 (2.02%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.68%) Kerberos
8 4 (1.35%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (1.35%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (1.35%) WAN
9 3 (1.01%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (1.01%) HTTPS
9 3 (1.01%) LAN
9 3 (1.01%) OSPF
9 3 (1.01%) TACACS
10 2 (0.67%) NGFW
11 1 (0.34%) SCCP
11 1 (0.34%) SMTP
11 1 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.68%) MongoDB
1 5 (1.68%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.01%) Hadoop
2 3 (1.01%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.34%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (1.68%) JIRA
2 3 (1.01%) Bitbucket
2 3 (1.01%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.01%) Metasploit
General
1 73 (24.58%) Social Skills
2 56 (18.86%) Finance
3 41 (13.80%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.08%) Legal
5 19 (6.40%) Law
6 10 (3.37%) Banking
7 7 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.02%) Advertising
9 5 (1.68%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.35%) Digital Health
10 4 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.35%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.01%) Digital Healthcare
11 3 (1.01%) Legal Technology
11 3 (1.01%) Military
11 3 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.67%) Local Government
12 2 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (16.84%) Analyst
1 50 (16.84%) Lead
2 48 (16.16%) Security Engineer
3 44 (14.81%) Security Analyst
3 44 (14.81%) Senior
4 33 (11.11%) Security Manager
5 24 (8.08%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 18 (6.06%) Architect
7 15 (5.05%) Security Specialist
7 15 (5.05%) Senior Analyst
8 14 (4.71%) Consultant
8 14 (4.71%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 14 (4.71%) Engineering Manager
8 14 (4.71%) Operations Engineer
8 14 (4.71%) Security Architect
8 14 (4.71%) Senior Security Analyst
9 13 (4.38%) Operational Security Manager
9 13 (4.38%) Security Operations Manager
10 12 (4.04%) Operations Analyst
10 12 (4.04%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.68%) LDAP
1 5 (1.68%) REST
2 4 (1.35%) OpenID
2 4 (1.35%) SAML
3 3 (1.01%) Kafka
3 3 (1.01%) Smart Contracts
4 2 (0.67%) JSON
4 2 (0.67%) RESTful
5 1 (0.34%) CSS
5 1 (0.34%) HTML
5 1 (0.34%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.34%) SOAP
5 1 (0.34%) TAPI
5 1 (0.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (20.54%) Security Posture
2 45 (15.15%) Security Operations Centre
3 44 (14.81%) Cyber Defence
4 31 (10.44%) Management Information System
5 22 (7.41%) Cyber Threat
6 20 (6.73%) Data Centre
7 19 (6.40%) Cloud Native
8 15 (5.05%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.69%) Cyber Security Posture
10 7 (2.36%) AI Agents
10 7 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (2.36%) Virtual Team
11 6 (2.02%) Cloud Security Posture
11 6 (2.02%) Insider Threat
12 5 (1.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 5 (1.68%) PKI
13 4 (1.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 4 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
14 3 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (1.01%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 44 (14.81%) Windows
2 28 (9.43%) Linux
3 6 (2.02%) Unix
4 5 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.68%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.01%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.34%) CentOS
6 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (52.86%) Cybersecurity
2 126 (42.42%) Incident Response
3 109 (36.70%) SIEM
4 90 (30.30%) Vulnerability Management
5 79 (26.60%) Cloud Security
6 73 (24.58%) Information Security
7 62 (20.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 57 (19.19%) Threat Intelligence
9 56 (18.86%) Risk Management
10 54 (18.18%) Threat Detection
11 52 (17.51%) Problem-Solving
12 48 (16.16%) AI
13 47 (15.82%) SOAR
14 45 (15.15%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 39 (13.13%) Security Monitoring
16 37 (12.46%) MITRE ATT&CK
16 37 (12.46%) Penetration Testing
17 35 (11.78%) Mentoring
17 35 (11.78%) Stakeholder Management
18 33 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 52 (17.51%) PowerShell
2 36 (12.12%) Python
3 14 (4.71%) Kusto Query Language
4 7 (2.36%) Bash
4 7 (2.36%) SQL
5 5 (1.68%) Java
5 5 (1.68%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.67%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (0.34%) Go
Qualifications
1 64 (21.55%) CISSP
2 37 (12.46%) CISM
3 31 (10.44%) Security Cleared
4 29 (9.76%) GIAC
5 28 (9.43%) Degree
6 25 (8.42%) Cisco Certification
7 23 (7.74%) CompTIA Security+
8 19 (6.40%) SC Cleared
9 18 (6.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 17 (5.72%) CCSP
10 17 (5.72%) CEH
11 13 (4.38%) GCIH
12 10 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (2.69%) AWS Certification
13 8 (2.69%) CISA
13 8 (2.69%) GCIA
14 7 (2.36%) CCNP
15 6 (2.02%) Azure Certification
15 6 (2.02%) DV Cleared
16 5 (1.68%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (28.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 81 (27.27%) NIST
3 38 (12.79%) GDPR
4 21 (7.07%) GRC
5 13 (4.38%) SOC 2
6 12 (4.04%) Cyber Essentials
6 12 (4.04%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (1.68%) Accessibility
9 4 (1.35%) NIST 800
10 3 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (1.01%) NCSC
11 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.67%) PMO
12 1 (0.34%) COBIT
12 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (4.71%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.34%) Docker
4 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (6.73%) Microsoft Intune
1 20 (6.73%) Single Sign-On
2 13 (4.38%) Terraform
3 12 (4.04%) Kubernetes
4 10 (3.37%) QRadar
5 8 (2.69%) SCCM
6 5 (1.68%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (1.35%) Ansible
8 3 (1.01%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 3 (1.01%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 3 (1.01%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
9 1 (0.34%) Argo
9 1 (0.34%) CASB
9 1 (0.34%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.34%) Grafana
9 1 (0.34%) Istio
9 1 (0.34%) linkerd
9 1 (0.34%) Nessus
9 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 94 (31.65%) Microsoft
2 35 (11.78%) Splunk
3 26 (8.75%) CrowdStrike
4 24 (8.08%) ServiceNow
5 22 (7.41%) Qualys
6 18 (6.06%) Tenable
7 17 (5.72%) Cisco
7 17 (5.72%) Palo Alto
8 14 (4.71%) Google
8 14 (4.71%) Rapid7
9 10 (3.37%) Sophos
10 9 (3.03%) iManage
11 8 (2.69%) CyberArk
12 6 (2.02%) LogRhythm
12 6 (2.02%) OpenAI
12 6 (2.02%) Red Hat
12 6 (2.02%) VMware
13 5 (1.68%) Fortinet
13 5 (1.68%) Ivanti
13 5 (1.68%) Oracle