Security Operations Jobs in London

Security Operations (SecOps)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Security Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Security Operations over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 247 277 406
Rank change year-on-year +30 +129 -64
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 286 426 634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.21% 1.21% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.27% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 237 298 439
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,700 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £61,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -10.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,938 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £97,353 £100,000
England median annual salary £61,439 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.48% -3.70% +3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Security Operations is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,582 33,665 64,692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.32% 95.35% 96.86%
Number of salaries quoted 16,066 24,126 34,397
10th Percentile £38,000 £43,465 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in London

Security Operations
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Security Operations in London

Security Operations
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

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 3 May 2024. 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 +49 49 £67,500 -3.57% 7
West London -18 6 £55,000 +57.14% 5
North London - 2 £60,500 - 1
South London -5 1 £50,950 -32.07%
Security Operations
England

Security Operations
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 6 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.70%) SAS
3 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.35%) Confluence
3 1 (0.35%) Site Server
Applications
1 8 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.35%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 101 (35.31%) Azure
2 51 (17.83%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (12.59%) AWS
4 16 (5.59%) GCP
5 14 (4.90%) Azure Sentinel
6 11 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
6 11 (3.85%) SaaS
7 10 (3.50%) Entra ID
8 8 (2.80%) Azure AKS
8 8 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (2.80%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (2.10%) PaaS
10 4 (1.40%) IaaS
11 3 (1.05%) Datadog
12 2 (0.70%) Mimecast
12 2 (0.70%) Stackdriver
13 1 (0.35%) Amazon ECS
13 1 (0.35%) GitHub
13 1 (0.35%) Pendo
13 1 (0.35%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 65 (22.73%) Firewall
2 54 (18.88%) Network Security
3 22 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
4 20 (6.99%) TCP/IP
5 14 (4.90%) Wireshark
6 12 (4.20%) LAN
7 11 (3.85%) WAN
8 9 (3.15%) DNS
9 6 (2.10%) VPN
10 4 (1.40%) DHCP
11 3 (1.05%) Broadband
11 3 (1.05%) Internet
12 2 (0.70%) HTTP
12 2 (0.70%) OSPF
12 2 (0.70%) SMTP
12 2 (0.70%) Wireless
12 2 (0.70%) WLAN
13 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.75%) BigQuery
1 5 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (1.75%) Hadoop
1 5 (1.75%) Relational Database
2 2 (0.70%) Big Data
3 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.40%) Git
2 3 (1.05%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.35%) JIRA
General
1 90 (31.47%) Finance
2 50 (17.48%) Social Skills
3 40 (13.99%) Law
4 27 (9.44%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.69%) Banking
6 21 (7.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (7.34%) Legal
7 15 (5.24%) Military
8 11 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.80%) Games
10 7 (2.45%) Retail
11 6 (2.10%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.40%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.70%) Back Office
13 2 (0.70%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.70%) Marketing
14 1 (0.35%) Advertising
14 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 106 (37.06%) Analyst
2 80 (27.97%) Security Analyst
3 63 (22.03%) Senior
4 40 (13.99%) Security Engineer
5 39 (13.64%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 37 (12.94%) Security Manager
7 29 (10.14%) IT Analyst
7 29 (10.14%) IT Security Analyst
8 27 (9.44%) Lead
8 27 (9.44%) Senior Analyst
9 24 (8.39%) Senior Security Engineer
10 23 (8.04%) SOC Analyst
11 22 (7.69%) Consultant
12 19 (6.64%) Security Consultant
13 18 (6.29%) Information Security Manager
14 17 (5.94%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 15 (5.24%) Architect
16 14 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
16 14 (4.90%) Information Manager
16 14 (4.90%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.94%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (1.40%) AngularJS
2 4 (1.40%) CSS
2 4 (1.40%) OAuth
2 4 (1.40%) SAML
2 4 (1.40%) Web Services
3 3 (1.05%) REST
3 3 (1.05%) SOAP
4 2 (0.70%) HTML
4 2 (0.70%) JDBC
4 2 (0.70%) LDAP
4 2 (0.70%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 1 (0.35%) .NET
5 1 (0.35%) Kafka
5 1 (0.35%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (0.35%) Loki
5 1 (0.35%) pytest
5 1 (0.35%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 57 (19.93%) Security Operations Centre
2 49 (17.13%) Cyber Threat
3 38 (13.29%) Cyberattack
4 29 (10.14%) Cyber Defence
4 29 (10.14%) Management Information System
5 26 (9.09%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 22 (7.69%) Security Posture
7 11 (3.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 10 (3.50%) Operational Technology
8 10 (3.50%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (2.80%) SCADA
10 7 (2.45%) Onboarding
11 6 (2.10%) Client/Server
11 6 (2.10%) Cybercrime
11 6 (2.10%) PKI
12 5 (1.75%) Blog
12 5 (1.75%) CMDB
12 5 (1.75%) Public Cloud
13 3 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (16.08%) Windows
2 17 (5.94%) Linux
3 8 (2.80%) Android
3 8 (2.80%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.10%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.75%) Unix
6 2 (0.70%) CentOS
6 2 (0.70%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (64.69%) Cybersecurity
2 121 (42.31%) SIEM
3 106 (37.06%) Information Security
4 99 (34.62%) Incident Response
5 61 (21.33%) Vulnerability Management
6 46 (16.08%) Cloud Security
7 43 (15.03%) Agile
8 41 (14.34%) Identity Access Management
9 40 (13.99%) Security Monitoring
10 37 (12.94%) Threat Intelligence
11 36 (12.59%) Incident Management
12 35 (12.24%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 34 (11.89%) Roadmaps
13 34 (11.89%) Security Architecture
14 32 (11.19%) MITRE ATT&CK
15 31 (10.84%) Security Management
16 29 (10.14%) Application Security
17 28 (9.79%) Analytics
18 27 (9.44%) Data Loss Prevention
18 27 (9.44%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 28 (9.79%) PowerShell
2 21 (7.34%) Python
3 7 (2.45%) Java
3 7 (2.45%) Kusto Query Language
4 6 (2.10%) SQL
5 5 (1.75%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.05%) Bash
7 1 (0.35%) C#
7 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 77 (26.92%) CISSP
2 40 (13.99%) Cisco Certification
3 38 (13.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 37 (12.94%) CCSP
5 31 (10.84%) Security Cleared
6 27 (9.44%) Degree
7 26 (9.09%) CISM
8 19 (6.64%) CompTIA Security+
9 18 (6.29%) CEH
9 18 (6.29%) DV Cleared
10 16 (5.59%) CompTIA CySA+
11 14 (4.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 14 (4.90%) CISA
12 12 (4.20%) GIAC
12 12 (4.20%) Network+ Certification
13 9 (3.15%) SANS
14 8 (2.80%) SC Cleared
14 8 (2.80%) SSCP
15 5 (1.75%) CRISC
15 5 (1.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (24.13%) NIST
2 62 (21.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (7.34%) GRC
4 18 (6.29%) GDPR
4 18 (6.29%) NCSC
4 18 (6.29%) PCI DSS
5 15 (5.24%) Cyber Essentials
6 12 (4.20%) SOC 2
7 7 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.75%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.05%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (1.05%) JSP 440
9 3 (1.05%) RMADS
10 2 (0.70%) COBIT
10 2 (0.70%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.70%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.35%) QA
System Software
1 33 (11.54%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.24%) vSphere
3 8 (2.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (2.10%) Docker
5 4 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (6.99%) QRadar
2 15 (5.24%) Kubernetes
3 11 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (3.50%) Terraform
5 8 (2.80%) Nmap
6 7 (2.45%) Ansible
7 6 (2.10%) CSIRT
8 5 (1.75%) logstash
9 2 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.70%) CASB
9 2 (0.70%) Graphite
9 2 (0.70%) Nagios
9 2 (0.70%) RSA Archer
9 2 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.70%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.35%) Grafana
10 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 98 (34.27%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.44%) Splunk
3 25 (8.74%) Qualys
4 15 (5.24%) CrowdStrike
4 15 (5.24%) SolarWinds
4 15 (5.24%) Tanium
4 15 (5.24%) Tripwire
5 13 (4.55%) IBM
5 13 (4.55%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.15%) Rapid7
7 8 (2.80%) Cisco
7 8 (2.80%) Darktrace
7 8 (2.80%) Google
7 8 (2.80%) Thycotic
7 8 (2.80%) VMware
8 4 (1.40%) Veeam
9 3 (1.05%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.05%) Cadence
10 2 (0.70%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.70%) Juniper