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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 223 246
Rank change year-on-year -7 +23 +36
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 175 177 277
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.98% 1.37% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 1.42% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 107 125 241
10th Percentile £49,000 £53,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £67,475 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £101,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £61,439
% change year-on-year +12.00% +1.73% -8.30%

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 15,115 12,458 20,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 84.63% 96.28% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9,864 7,607 15,912
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £38,503
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 29 March 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 29 March 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 +9 55 £70,000 +7.69% 15
West London -22 1 £90,000 +9.09%
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 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.14%) Confluence
2 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 50 (28.57%) Azure
2 35 (20.00%) AWS
3 22 (12.57%) GCP
4 20 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (10.29%) Azure Sentinel
6 14 (8.00%) SaaS
7 10 (5.71%) Entra ID
8 8 (4.57%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (4.57%) Mimecast
9 4 (2.29%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.29%) Tessian
10 3 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (1.14%) GitHub
11 2 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.14%) Serverless
12 1 (0.57%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Copilot
12 1 (0.57%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 42 (24.00%) Firewall
2 38 (21.71%) Network Security
3 15 (8.57%) VPN
4 11 (6.29%) Intrusion Detection
5 10 (5.71%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.86%) Cisco ISE
7 4 (2.29%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (2.29%) DNS
7 4 (2.29%) HTTPS
8 3 (1.71%) SCCP
9 2 (1.14%) DKIM
9 2 (1.14%) DMARC
10 1 (0.57%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.57%) LAN
10 1 (0.57%) Modbus
10 1 (0.57%) SSH
10 1 (0.57%) WAN
10 1 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (1.71%) Power BI
2 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (2.29%) Bitbucket
1 4 (2.29%) Metasploit
2 3 (1.71%) JIRA
General
1 50 (28.57%) Finance
2 45 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 27 (15.43%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (9.71%) Banking
6 16 (9.14%) Law
7 15 (8.57%) Retail
8 11 (6.29%) Financial Institution
9 10 (5.71%) Back Office
10 8 (4.57%) Legal
11 5 (2.86%) Advertising
11 5 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.71%) Aviation
13 3 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (1.14%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.57%) Marketing
15 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (33.71%) Analyst
2 47 (26.86%) Security Analyst
3 26 (14.86%) Security Manager
4 24 (13.71%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 20 (11.43%) Lead
6 19 (10.86%) Operational Security Manager
6 19 (10.86%) Security Operations Manager
7 17 (9.71%) Operations Manager
8 16 (9.14%) Security Engineer
9 15 (8.57%) Senior
10 14 (8.00%) Consultant
10 14 (8.00%) Security Specialist
11 13 (7.43%) SOC Analyst
12 12 (6.86%) Technical Consultant
13 11 (6.29%) Information Analyst
13 11 (6.29%) Information Security Analyst
14 10 (5.71%) Operations Analyst
14 10 (5.71%) Security Operations Analyst
14 10 (5.71%) ServiceNow Consultant
15 9 (5.14%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.14%) LDAP
2 1 (0.57%) EDI
2 1 (0.57%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 40 (22.86%) Security Operations Centre
2 38 (21.71%) Cyber Defence
3 34 (19.43%) Security Posture
4 18 (10.29%) Cyber Threat
5 15 (8.57%) Cloud Native
6 13 (7.43%) Management Information System
7 9 (5.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 8 (4.57%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (3.43%) Cyber Security Posture
10 5 (2.86%) Operational Technology
11 4 (2.29%) Data Centre
11 4 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.71%) Insider Threat
12 3 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
13 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
13 2 (1.14%) PKI
14 1 (0.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 1 (0.57%) IoT
14 1 (0.57%) SCADA
14 1 (0.57%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 40 (22.86%) Windows
2 35 (20.00%) Linux
3 10 (5.71%) Unix
4 5 (2.86%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.29%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (58.86%) Incident Response
2 86 (49.14%) Cybersecurity
3 78 (44.57%) SIEM
4 43 (24.57%) Threat Intelligence
5 40 (22.86%) Information Security
6 37 (21.14%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 37 (21.14%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 36 (20.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (20.00%) Cloud Security
9 34 (19.43%) SOAR
10 32 (18.29%) Vulnerability Management
11 31 (17.71%) Risk Management
12 30 (17.14%) Root Cause Analysis
13 29 (16.57%) Security Monitoring
13 29 (16.57%) Threat Detection
14 21 (12.00%) Penetration Testing
15 20 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
15 20 (11.43%) Use Case
16 17 (9.71%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
17 16 (9.14%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 41 (23.43%) PowerShell
2 36 (20.57%) Python
3 9 (5.14%) Bash
4 3 (1.71%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (1.71%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.14%) Perl
6 1 (0.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 48 (27.43%) CISSP
2 29 (16.57%) Degree
2 29 (16.57%) GIAC
3 23 (13.14%) CompTIA Security+
4 21 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (9.71%) Security Cleared
6 14 (8.00%) CISM
7 13 (7.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 13 (7.43%) GCIH
8 12 (6.86%) SC Cleared
9 10 (5.71%) CISA
10 9 (5.14%) CCSP
10 9 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (4.57%) CCNA
12 7 (4.00%) Azure Certification
12 7 (4.00%) CompTIA CySA+
12 7 (4.00%) CRISC
13 6 (3.43%) CEH
14 5 (2.86%) CCNP
15 4 (2.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (30.86%) NIST
2 50 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (13.14%) GDPR
4 20 (11.43%) PCI DSS
5 14 (8.00%) GRC
6 11 (6.29%) SOC 2
7 7 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.71%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 3 (1.71%) ITGC
9 3 (1.71%) SLA
10 2 (1.14%) COBIT
10 2 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.57%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.57%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.71%) Docker
2 3 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (6.29%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (4.57%) Ansible
3 8 (4.57%) Terraform
4 7 (4.00%) QRadar
5 3 (1.71%) ArcSight ESM
6 2 (1.14%) CSIRT
6 2 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.57%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 61 (34.86%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.57%) Splunk
3 16 (9.14%) ServiceNow
4 13 (7.43%) CrowdStrike
5 10 (5.71%) Cisco
6 7 (4.00%) Qualys
7 6 (3.43%) Palo Alto
7 6 (3.43%) Sophos
8 5 (2.86%) CheckPoint
8 5 (2.86%) Zscaler
9 4 (2.29%) Fortinet
9 4 (2.29%) Google
9 4 (2.29%) Okta
10 3 (1.71%) ArcSight
10 3 (1.71%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.71%) LogLogic
10 3 (1.71%) LogRhythm
10 3 (1.71%) McAfee
10 3 (1.71%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.14%) Thales