Security Operations Job Trends in Sheffield

Security Operations (SecOps)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Security Operations skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 - 80
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 0.35% - 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% - 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £46,625 - -
25th Percentile £47,188 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.22%
75th Percentile £49,688 - £57,500
90th Percentile £49,875 - -
South Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 - £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +22.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 410 265 807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 71.93% 94.31% 85.40%
Number of salaries quoted 308 156 663
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,094 £37,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +15.00% +4.70%
75th Percentile £60,000 £75,000 £65,302
90th Percentile £76,602 £85,000 £81,087
South Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £59,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -32.77% +25.26% +5.56%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Security Operations job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Security Operations
Salary Trend in Sheffield

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Security Operations.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Security Operations

Security Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) SOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Client Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Event Correlation
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Malware Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Protective Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Tenable