SOAR Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring SOAR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SOAR 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.060% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.091% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median annual salary £73,750 £74,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -0.34% -10.30% +24.53%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,099 277 410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 66.49% 89.35% 79.30%
Number of salaries quoted 306 132 209
10th Percentile £29,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,938 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,249 £91,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.30% -2.17%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

SOAR job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

SOAR
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing SOAR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing SOAR

SOAR
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOAR within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 3 October 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
County Antrim - 1 - - 6
SOAR
UK

SOAR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft