Security Monitoring Job Trends in Somerset

Security Monitoring
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Security Monitoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - 60
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Security Monitoring 1 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset 0.12% - 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% - 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 - -
75th Percentile £34,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -22.73% -21.43%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

Security Monitoring 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 Somerset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 597 236 537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 73.79% 92.91% 73.66%
Number of salaries quoted 270 140 434
10th Percentile £27,450 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,141 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.88% +20.31% -10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £56,938
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £65,000
South West median annual salary £54,000 £52,600 £50,500
% change year-on-year +2.66% +4.16% -3.81%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Security Monitoring job vacancy trend in Somerset

Security Monitoring
Salary Trend in Somerset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Security Monitoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Security Monitoring

Security Monitoring
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Monitoring within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 2 May 2026. 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
Taunton - 1 £33,500 -
Security Monitoring
South West

Security Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DKIM
1 1 (100.00%) DMARC
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Advertising
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Service Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Service Desk Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Service Desk Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Services Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Support
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Support Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft