SOAR Job Trends in the North East

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring SOAR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SOAR 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.054% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.074% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 - -
75th Percentile £48,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +20.83% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,351 515 1,584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 72.67% 91.47% 86.84%
Number of salaries quoted 926 330 1,293
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,993 £27,873
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -1.81%
75th Percentile £67,188 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,772
England median annual salary £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.67% +9.09% -12.00%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

SOAR job vacancy trend in the North East

SOAR
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 SOAR within the North East region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Tyne and Wear - 1 £46,500 - 1
SOAR
England

SOAR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Email Filtering
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 1 (100.00%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CISA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Proofpoint
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler