Security Monitoring Jobs in the South East

Security Monitoring
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Security Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Monitoring over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 357 363
Rank change year-on-year +69 +6 +82
Permanent jobs citing Security Monitoring 11 38 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.12% 0.23% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.27% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 5 31 35
10th Percentile £30,200 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,875 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £52,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.52% +40.00% -2.60%
75th Percentile £47,500 £57,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £77,500 £92,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +7.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,656 14,162 13,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.84% 84.47% 94.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,247 9,859 7,922
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Monitoring in the South East

Security Monitoring
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Monitoring in the South East.

Salary trend for Security Monitoring in the South East

Security Monitoring
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Monitoring in the South East over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Monitoring in the South East

Security 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 Security Monitoring within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
Middlesex - 5 - -
Thames Valley +58 3 £34,000 +29.52% 8
Surrey +42 2 £51,250 -2.38%
Berkshire +41 2 £34,000 +30.77% 8
Hampshire +58 1 £45,000 -14.29% 3
Buckinghamshire +32 1 - -
Security Monitoring
England

Security 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) SD-WAN
1 2 (18.18%) WAN
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Advertising
3 1 (9.09%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Vulnerability Manager
2 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (18.18%) WAN Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Information Security Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Information Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Information Security Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Security Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) SOC Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Cloud Security Posture
1 6 (54.55%) Security Posture
2 5 (45.45%) Cloud Native
2 5 (45.45%) Cyber Security Posture
2 5 (45.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (54.55%) Cloud Security
2 6 (54.55%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 6 (54.55%) Threat Intelligence
2 6 (54.55%) Vulnerability Management
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) Coaching
3 5 (45.45%) Creative Thinking
3 5 (45.45%) Data Loss Prevention
3 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
3 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (45.45%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 3 (27.27%) Security Operations
5 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
5 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
5 2 (18.18%) SIEM
5 2 (18.18%) Threat Detection
6 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) CISSP
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) CASB
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco