Security Operations Jobs in Salford

Security Operations (SecOps)
Manchester > Salford

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Salford requiring Security Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 27 -
Rank change year-on-year +14 - -
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Security Operations 1 3 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Salford 1.41% 1.96% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 2.52% -
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 £60,500 £50,309 £62,500
% change year-on-year +20.26% -19.51% -3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Salford

Security Operations 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 Salford.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59 119 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Salford 83.10% 77.78% 97.59%
Number of salaries quoted 44 60 56
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,825 £41,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £51,404 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -17.32% +0.30% +7.89%
75th Percentile £55,000 £74,671 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,777 £80,000 £75,000
Manchester median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Salford

Job postings citing Security Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Salford.

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in Salford

Security Operations
Salary Trend in Salford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Salford citing Security Operations.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Salford citing Security Operations

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Salford 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 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
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
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%) 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