SOC Analyst Jobs in Renfrewshire

Security Operations Centre Analyst
Scotland > Renfrewshire

The median Security Operations Centre Analyst salary in Renfrewshire is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - 8
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a SOC Analyst 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Renfrewshire 1.18% - 8.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.45% - 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - £32,500
75th Percentile - - £36,250
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £44,500 £35,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +25.35% -16.47% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Renfrewshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Renfrewshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Renfrewshire with a recognized job title 138 38 14
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 81.66% 97.44% 60.87%
Number of salaries quoted 96 14 4
10th Percentile £44,000 £30,600 -
25th Percentile - £32,875 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £42,218 £34,331
Median % change year-on-year +22.33% +22.97% +46.09%
75th Percentile - £53,750 £39,008
90th Percentile £52,000 £58,750 £41,271
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -6.25% +6.67%

SOC Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Renfrewshire

Job postings that featured SOC Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Renfrewshire.

Job vacancy trend for SOC Analyst in Renfrewshire

SOC Analyst
Salary Trend in Renfrewshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SOC Analyst in Renfrewshire.

Salary trend for SOC Analyst in Renfrewshire

SOC Analyst
Job Locations in Renfrewshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOC Analyst within the Renfrewshire 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
Erskine - 2 £45,000 -
SOC Analyst
Scotland

SOC Analyst Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Renfrewshire

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, SOC Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Renfrewshire region featuring SOC Analyst in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) ArcSight
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) OSINT
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Event Correlation
1 2 (100.00%) Situational Awareness
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language

SOC Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Renfrewshire 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Event Correlation
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) OSINT
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Situational Awareness
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) ArcSight