Security Operations Centre Job Trends in Salford

Security Operations Centre
Manchester > Salford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in permanent job vacancies in Salford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 22 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations Centre 1 3 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Salford 0.77% 3.09% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.45% 7.32% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £64,509 £46,713 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £50,309 -
Median % change year-on-year +37.92% - -
75th Percentile £74,258 £53,904 -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median annual salary £65,000 £50,309 £70,000
% change year-on-year +29.20% -28.13% +7.69%

All Generic Skills
Salford

Security Operations Centre falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Salford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 29 41 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Salford 22.31% 42.27% 43.66%
Number of salaries quoted 11 8 17
10th Percentile - - £38,856
25th Percentile £30,750 £46,713 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,500 £59,430 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -40.27% +3.36% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,524 £74,144 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,790 - £82,500
Manchester median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Salford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Security Operations Centre relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Salford.

Security Operations Centre job vacancy trend in Salford

Security Operations Centre
Salary Trend in Salford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Salford citing Security Operations Centre.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Salford citing Security Operations Centre

Security Operations Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Salford 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft