Security Operations Jobs in the North East

Security Operations (SecOps)
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 113 113
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 -24
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 7 3 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 0.38% 0.24% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.24% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £42,050 £64,875 £45,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £66,563 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £71,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% +42.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £47,500 £74,063 £82,500
90th Percentile £49,500 £74,625 £99,000
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
North East

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 the North East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,584 1,234 1,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 86.84% 96.78% 87.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,293 598 909
10th Percentile £27,873 £29,700 £25,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,063 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,375 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +13.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,772 £75,000 £75,000
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 the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in the North East

Security Operations
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Operations in the North East.

Salary trend for Security Operations in the North East

Security Operations
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Operations within the North East region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Durham +7 4 £45,000 -
Tyne and Wear -2 3 £45,500 -36.14%
Security Operations
England

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) PaaS
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) IaaS
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (42.86%) SaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) VPN
2 3 (42.86%) DHCP
2 3 (42.86%) LAN
2 3 (42.86%) WAN
2 3 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
General
1 2 (28.57%) Police
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Mobile App
2 2 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 1 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
1 3 (42.86%) E-Commerce
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (42.86%) Observability
2 2 (28.57%) Coaching
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
2 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 2 (28.57%) Runbook
2 2 (28.57%) SIEM
2 2 (28.57%) Use Case
2 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) LogRhythm
2 1 (14.29%) Qualys
2 1 (14.29%) Rapid7
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk