Security Operations Centre Jobs in the Midlands

Security Operations Centre
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in permanent job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 284 289
Rank change year-on-year +29 +5 +35
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations Centre 7 38 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.10% 0.30% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.31% 0.95% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4 36 13
10th Percentile £35,950 £30,000 £38,800
25th Percentile £36,625 £34,725 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,344 £42,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.41% -22.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £58,704 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,731 £68,427 £67,500
England median annual salary £54,344 £56,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.82% -5.83% -7.69%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

Security Operations Centre falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,228 4,005 3,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.77% 31.77% 43.88%
Number of salaries quoted 978 2,658 1,468
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% +13.68%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Security Operations Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations Centre in the Midlands

Security Operations Centre
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Operations Centre in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Security Operations Centre in the Midlands

Security Operations Centre
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Operations Centre in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Operations Centre in the Midlands

Security Operations Centre
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Operations Centre within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. 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
West Midlands +42 6 £39,000 +4.00% 21
East Midlands +30 1 £72,500 +21.91% 16
Security Operations Centre
England

Security Operations Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) Internet
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security
General
1 3 (42.86%) Presentation Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Automotive
2 1 (14.29%) Police
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) SOC Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Security Officer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Officer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) PKI
2 3 (42.86%) Security Posture
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 6 (85.71%) SIEM
3 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (42.86%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (42.86%) Incident Management
4 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
4 3 (42.86%) Risk Management
4 3 (42.86%) SOAR
4 3 (42.86%) Threat Detection
5 2 (28.57%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (28.57%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (28.57%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (28.57%) Use Case
5 2 (28.57%) Web Filtering
6 1 (14.29%) Blue Team
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (14.29%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) QRadar
2 1 (14.29%) Nessus
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Splunk
2 3 (42.86%) Google
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (14.29%) IBM