Protective Monitoring Job Trends in the South East

Protective Monitoring
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Protective Monitoring skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 339 314
Rank change year-on-year +48 -25 +153
Permanent jobs citing Protective Monitoring 1 4 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.011% 0.030% 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% 0.037% 0.033%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31,250 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +9.52% -23.91%
75th Percentile £37,750 £58,750 £53,750
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £46,500 £58,125 £40,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +45.31% -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Protective 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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,918 10,922 8,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 87.54% 80.72% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4,266 6,633 6,125
10th Percentile £26,938 £31,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £66,938 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%

Protective Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Protective Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Protective Monitoring in the South East

Protective Monitoring
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Protective Monitoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Protective Monitoring

Protective Monitoring
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Protective Monitoring within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 September 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
Hampshire +72 1 £34,500 -40.00% 3
Protective Monitoring
England

Protective Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft