SOAR Job Trends in Merseyside

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring SOAR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 - 76
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SOAR 1 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 0.087% - 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% - 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £45,425
25th Percentile £71,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - £47,000
75th Percentile £73,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £65,000 £80,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year -18.75% +70.21% -10.48%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

SOAR 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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 814 441 967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 70.54% 94.84% 74.85%
Number of salaries quoted 520 174 807
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £46,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.54% +2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,875 £63,484
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,125 £80,199
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SOAR relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

SOAR job vacancy trend in Merseyside

SOAR
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing SOAR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing SOAR

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Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOAR within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 10 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
Liverpool - 1 £72,500 -
SOAR
North West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Security Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Security Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST