SOC Engineer Job Trends in Stevenage

Security Operations Centre Engineer
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

As of 26 September 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Security Operations Centre Engineer salary in Stevenage.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a SOC Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Stevenage 0.28% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £75,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Stevenage

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Stevenage. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Stevenage with a recognized job title 341 99 271
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 90.83% 93.45%
Number of salaries quoted 241 85 172
10th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,280 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% -14.17% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,250 £75,000
Hertfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £47,375 £52,500
% change year-on-year +16.09% -9.76% -2.78%

SOC Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'SOC Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Stevenage.

SOC Engineer job vacancy trend in Stevenage

SOC Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage

For the 6 months to 26 September 2026, SOC Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Stevenage region featuring SOC Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Network Packet Capture
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Red Team
1 1 (100.00%) Regular Expression
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Windows

SOC Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage 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%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CSOC
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Network Packet Capture
1 1 (100.00%) Red Team
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware