Security Monitoring Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Monitoring
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 534 699 650
Rank change year-on-year +165 -49 +44
Permanent jobs citing Security Monitoring 52 69 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.091% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.11% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 38 52 64
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,750 -
25th Percentile £35,500 £39,837 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,115 £52,500 £53,101
Median % change year-on-year -0.73% -1.13% +6.20%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £76,625 £79,875 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,805 62,205 53,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.51% 81.88% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 17,600 42,597 28,533
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +1.82% -9.54% +1.33%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Security Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Security Monitoring
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Monitoring in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Security Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Security Monitoring
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Monitoring in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Security Monitoring
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Monitoring within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Midlands +83 19 £55,000 +107.55% 65
West Midlands +74 17 £55,000 +107.55% 35
South East +58 10 £37,000 -29.52% 98
North of England +47 9 £65,000 +52.94% 75
Northern Ireland +47 7 - - 7
North West +8 6 £76,250 +79.41% 35
South West +116 3 £51,729 -5.95% 44
Yorkshire +56 3 £52,500 -10.64% 32
Scotland +109 2 £34,000 -28.42% 15
East of England - 2 £33,750 - 54
East Midlands - 2 £48,500 - 26
Security Monitoring
UK

Security Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.92%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 18 (34.62%) Azure
2 6 (11.54%) AWS
3 3 (5.77%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (5.77%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.85%) AWS KMS
4 2 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.92%) GCP
5 1 (1.92%) Google Workspace
5 1 (1.92%) Serverless
5 1 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (25.00%) Firewall
2 10 (19.23%) Intrusion Detection
3 8 (15.38%) SD-WAN
3 8 (15.38%) WAN
4 7 (13.46%) DNS
5 1 (1.92%) DHCP
5 1 (1.92%) Internet
5 1 (1.92%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
General
1 16 (30.77%) Finance
2 15 (28.85%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Advertising
5 2 (3.85%) Banking
5 2 (3.85%) Law
5 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.85%) Retail
6 1 (1.92%) Automotive
6 1 (1.92%) Legal
6 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (44.23%) Lead
2 8 (15.38%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 7 (13.46%) Analyst
3 7 (13.46%) WAN Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (9.62%) SOC Analyst
4 5 (9.62%) Vulnerability Manager
5 4 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Support Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Architect
6 2 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Operations Team Leader
6 2 (3.85%) Security Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Security Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Security Manager
6 2 (3.85%) Team Leader
7 1 (1.92%) Senior
7 1 (1.92%) SOC Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.85%) PyTorch
1 2 (3.85%) scikit-learn
1 2 (3.85%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.92%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 18 (34.62%) Management Information System
2 12 (23.08%) Security Posture
3 10 (19.23%) Private Cloud
4 7 (13.46%) Cloud Security Posture
4 7 (13.46%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (13.46%) Operational Technology
4 7 (13.46%) Security Operations Centre
5 6 (11.54%) Cloud Native
6 5 (9.62%) Cyber Security Posture
7 2 (3.85%) Algorithms
7 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.92%) Clustering
8 1 (1.92%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.92%) PKI
8 1 (1.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (50.00%) Windows
2 13 (25.00%) Linux
3 3 (5.77%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.92%) Android
4 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (65.38%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (44.23%) Security Operations
3 21 (40.38%) SIEM
4 17 (32.69%) Information Security
5 15 (28.85%) Incident Response
5 15 (28.85%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 13 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
6 13 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 11 (21.15%) Change Control
7 11 (21.15%) CI/CD
7 11 (21.15%) Cloud Security
7 11 (21.15%) ITIL
7 11 (21.15%) Risk Analysis
8 10 (19.23%) Commercial Awareness
8 10 (19.23%) IT Governance
8 10 (19.23%) Threat Intelligence
9 9 (17.31%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 8 (15.38%) Data Loss Prevention
10 8 (15.38%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (23.08%) Python
2 11 (21.15%) PowerShell
3 10 (19.23%) Bash
3 10 (19.23%) C#
4 3 (5.77%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.92%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 8 (15.38%) CISSP
4 4 (7.69%) Degree
5 3 (5.77%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (3.85%) CISM
6 2 (3.85%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.85%) GCIA
7 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.92%) CEH
7 1 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (19.23%) COBIT
3 2 (3.85%) GDPR
3 2 (3.85%) ISO 9000
4 1 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.92%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.92%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.92%) QA
4 1 (1.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.92%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (9.62%) CASB
2 1 (1.92%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.92%) QRadar
2 1 (1.92%) SCCM
2 1 (1.92%) SCOM
Vendors
1 20 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.38%) Cisco
3 2 (3.85%) Fujitsu
4 1 (1.92%) Google
4 1 (1.92%) Splunk