Security Monitoring Job Trends in Reading

Security Monitoring
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Security Monitoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 - 101
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Permanent jobs citing Security Monitoring 2 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.15% - 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% - 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £49,625 - -
25th Percentile £50,938 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 - -
75th Percentile £60,938 - -
90th Percentile £61,875 - -
Berkshire median annual salary £52,500 £37,000 -
% change year-on-year +41.89% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 967 454 1,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 71.21% 83.30% 82.42%
Number of salaries quoted 691 268 815
10th Percentile £33,750 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £41,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,565 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% +1.95% -9.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,625 £80,000
Berkshire median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Security Monitoring relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Security Monitoring job vacancy trend in Reading

Security Monitoring
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Security Monitoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Security Monitoring

Security Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (50.00%) VoIP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Monitoring Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Event Correlation
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Tradecraft
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (50.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CREST Certified
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) GCED
1 1 (50.00%) GCIA
1 1 (50.00%) GCIH
1 1 (50.00%) GIAC
1 1 (50.00%) SANS
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk