SOAR Job Trends in Reading

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring SOAR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 - 96
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Permanent jobs citing SOAR 6 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.38% - 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% - 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - £120,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +108.70%
75th Percentile £58,125 - -
90th Percentile £75,000 - -
Berkshire median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £120,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -64.58% +108.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,097 442 1,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 69.12% 82.46% 79.94%
Number of salaries quoted 821 275 572
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.70% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £89,500 £82,500
Berkshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +9.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

SOAR job vacancy trend in Reading

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Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing SOAR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing SOAR

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Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOAR in Reading over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Salary histogram for SOAR in Reading

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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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) FTP
1 2 (33.33%) HTTP
1 2 (33.33%) Internet
1 2 (33.33%) LAN
1 2 (33.33%) SMTP
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Security Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) SIEM
2 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 4 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (66.67%) Security Operations
3 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (50.00%) Threat Detection
3 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
4 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
4 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (33.33%) Swim Lanes
5 1 (16.67%) Blue Team
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Purple Team
5 1 (16.67%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CISSP
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) QRadar
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (50.00%) Darktrace
3 2 (33.33%) ArcSight
3 2 (33.33%) Splunk