Security Monitoring Jobs in the North of England

Security Monitoring
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Security Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Monitoring over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 383 416
Rank change year-on-year +52 +33 +13
Permanent jobs citing Security Monitoring 18 9 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.15% 0.051% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.061% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 18 9 10
10th Percentile £42,011 - £42,425
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £46,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -33.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £64,375 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,500 - £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Security Monitoring 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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,141 14,663 16,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 95.00% 83.15% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 5,753 11,257 7,869
10th Percentile £25,480 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Monitoring in the North of England

Security Monitoring
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Monitoring in the North of England.

Salary trend for Security Monitoring in the North of England

Security Monitoring
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Monitoring in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Monitoring in the North of England

Security Monitoring
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Monitoring within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 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
Yorkshire +71 11 £45,000 -23.40% 8
North West -1 6 £76,250 +103.33% 9
North East - 1 £45,000 -
Security Monitoring
England

Security Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 11 (61.11%) AWS
2 8 (44.44%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.11%) AWS KMS
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (61.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (50.00%) Law
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Local Government
3 1 (5.56%) Legal
3 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 8 (44.44%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (38.89%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (38.89%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Lead
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) IT Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support
6 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Operational Security Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Operations Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Security Operations Manager
6 1 (5.56%) SOC Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Middleware
1 2 (11.11%) PyTorch
1 2 (11.11%) scikit-learn
1 2 (11.11%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (61.11%) Security Posture
2 9 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 2 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Cloud Security
1 11 (61.11%) Continuous Improvement
1 11 (61.11%) Security Operations
2 10 (55.56%) Vulnerability Management
3 9 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 9 (50.00%) DevOps
3 9 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 9 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 9 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 6 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (33.33%) Incident Response
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) ITIL
5 3 (16.67%) Risk Analysis
5 3 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 2 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (11.11%) DevSecOps
6 2 (11.11%) Generative AI
6 2 (11.11%) Key Management
6 2 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 9 (50.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.56%) CEH
2 1 (5.56%) CISM
2 1 (5.56%) CISSP
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) GCIA
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) VMware