Security Operations Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Operations (SecOps)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Security Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 299 307 298
Rank change year-on-year +8 -9 +44
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 507 494 914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.78% 1.03% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.07% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 323 351 458
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,400 £41,175
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,538 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,772 £58,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% -7.20% +13.64%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% -8.15% +8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Security Operations 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 51,975 45,995 74,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.63% 95.53% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 33,355 26,900 43,045
10th Percentile £28,371 £30,500 £30,076
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,050 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in the UK excluding London

Security Operations
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Security Operations in the UK excluding London

Security Operations
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Operations in the UK excluding London

Security Operations
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 Operations within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
South East -4 129 £55,000 - 17
North of England +14 119 £50,309 -19.51% 20
South West +24 101 £61,250 -2.00% 11
Midlands -35 69 £52,500 -4.55% 5
North West -28 66 £55,000 -10.20% 8
Scotland -12 50 £52,500 +5.00% 6
West Midlands -18 49 £50,000 -9.09% 5
Yorkshire +67 37 £50,000 -14.89% 6
East of England +8 27 £63,750 +2.00% 9
East Midlands -28 19 £52,500 +36.08%
North East +3 16 £45,000 -36.84% 6
Wales -1 9 £50,154 -4.47% 5
Northern Ireland +20 7 £50,000 +33.33% 9
Security Operations
UK

Security Operations
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 20 (3.94%) SAS
2 6 (1.18%) Confluence
3 3 (0.59%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.39%) Apache
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 17 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 106 (20.91%) Azure
2 58 (11.44%) Microsoft 365
3 56 (11.05%) Entra ID
4 52 (10.26%) AWS
5 43 (8.48%) Azure Sentinel
6 23 (4.54%) SaaS
7 15 (2.96%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 15 (2.96%) AWS CloudTrail
8 13 (2.56%) dbt
8 13 (2.56%) PaaS
9 12 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (2.17%) IaaS
11 9 (1.78%) Azure AKS
11 9 (1.78%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (1.58%) GCP
13 6 (1.18%) Mimecast
14 5 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (0.79%) GitHub
16 3 (0.59%) AWS CloudFormation
16 3 (0.59%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 97 (19.13%) Firewall
2 46 (9.07%) Network Security
3 29 (5.72%) Intrusion Detection
4 17 (3.35%) Internet
4 17 (3.35%) VPN
5 12 (2.37%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.97%) DNS
7 7 (1.38%) DHCP
8 6 (1.18%) NGFW
9 3 (0.59%) LAN
10 2 (0.39%) OSPF
10 2 (0.39%) SNMP
10 2 (0.39%) VoIP
10 2 (0.39%) WAN
10 2 (0.39%) Wireless
10 2 (0.39%) WLAN
11 1 (0.20%) Cisco ISE
11 1 (0.20%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.20%) tcpdump
11 1 (0.20%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (0.59%) Big Data
1 3 (0.59%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.39%) Power BI
3 1 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (1.18%) JIRA
2 3 (0.59%) Bitbucket
2 3 (0.59%) GitLab
3 1 (0.20%) Git
3 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 113 (22.29%) Social Skills
2 89 (17.55%) Finance
3 58 (11.44%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (10.45%) Legal
5 47 (9.27%) Banking
6 26 (5.13%) Retail
7 20 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (3.16%) Military
9 10 (1.97%) Law
10 9 (1.78%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.78%) Health Technology
11 8 (1.58%) Marketing
11 8 (1.58%) Public Sector
11 8 (1.58%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.99%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.59%) Police
13 3 (0.59%) Turkish Language
14 2 (0.39%) Electronics
14 2 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.20%) Games
Job Titles
1 158 (31.16%) Analyst
2 90 (17.75%) Senior
3 76 (14.99%) Senior Analyst
4 74 (14.60%) Lead
5 62 (12.23%) Security Analyst
6 61 (12.03%) Consultant
7 60 (11.83%) Security Consultant
8 48 (9.47%) Security Engineer
9 44 (8.68%) Governance Analyst
10 41 (8.09%) Security Manager
11 38 (7.50%) SOC Analyst
12 33 (6.51%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 31 (6.11%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 31 (6.11%) Incident Response Lead
14 26 (5.13%) Developer
15 24 (4.73%) ServiceNow Developer
16 22 (4.34%) Cybersecurity Engineer
17 21 (4.14%) Cybersecurity Manager
18 17 (3.35%) Operations Analyst
18 17 (3.35%) Security Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.93%) Web Services
2 21 (4.14%) AngularJS
3 20 (3.94%) CSS
3 20 (3.94%) HTML
3 20 (3.94%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 12 (2.37%) Django
5 6 (1.18%) SAML
6 4 (0.79%) EDI
6 4 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (0.79%) OAuth
7 3 (0.59%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.59%) Fluent Bit
7 3 (0.59%) OpenID
8 2 (0.39%) .NET
8 2 (0.39%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.39%) ADO
8 2 (0.39%) Middleware
8 2 (0.39%) React
8 2 (0.39%) Vue
9 1 (0.20%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 145 (28.60%) Security Operations Centre
2 102 (20.12%) Management Information System
3 41 (8.09%) Cyber Threat
4 35 (6.90%) Security Posture
5 25 (4.93%) Cyberattack
6 23 (4.54%) CMDB
7 22 (4.34%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (3.94%) Cyber Defence
9 17 (3.35%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (2.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 12 (2.37%) Data Centre
11 12 (2.37%) Operational Technology
12 11 (2.17%) Client/Server
13 8 (1.58%) CSOC
13 8 (1.58%) Social Media
14 7 (1.38%) Onboarding
15 6 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
15 6 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
15 6 (1.18%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 82 (16.17%) Windows
2 46 (9.07%) Linux
3 30 (5.92%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.18%) Unix
5 5 (0.99%) Kali Linux
5 5 (0.99%) Mac OS X
6 4 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.39%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.20%) CentOS
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (61.93%) Cybersecurity
2 178 (35.11%) Incident Response
3 162 (31.95%) Information Security
4 153 (30.18%) SIEM
5 99 (19.53%) Vulnerability Management
6 95 (18.74%) Incident Management
7 88 (17.36%) Agile
8 79 (15.58%) Roadmaps
9 70 (13.81%) Risk Management
10 63 (12.43%) Coaching
10 63 (12.43%) Identity Access Management
11 55 (10.85%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 55 (10.85%) Threat Intelligence
12 52 (10.26%) RBAC
13 50 (9.86%) Mentoring
14 49 (9.66%) Problem-Solving
15 46 (9.07%) Continuous Improvement
15 46 (9.07%) Privileged Access Management
16 44 (8.68%) Technical Leadership
17 41 (8.09%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 74 (14.60%) PowerShell
2 60 (11.83%) SQL
3 38 (7.50%) Python
4 18 (3.55%) Kusto Query Language
5 11 (2.17%) Bash
6 7 (1.38%) Go
7 3 (0.59%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.59%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.39%) C
8 2 (0.39%) C#
9 1 (0.20%) Java
9 1 (0.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 84 (16.57%) CISSP
2 80 (15.78%) Security Cleared
3 75 (14.79%) Degree
4 48 (9.47%) SC Cleared
5 45 (8.88%) CISM
6 29 (5.72%) CompTIA Security+
7 23 (4.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (3.75%) DV Cleared
9 18 (3.55%) GIAC
10 14 (2.76%) Azure Certification
10 14 (2.76%) Master's Degree
11 12 (2.37%) CompTIA CySA+
12 11 (2.17%) SSCP
13 9 (1.78%) GCIA
14 8 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (1.38%) AWS Certification
15 7 (1.38%) CEH
15 7 (1.38%) CISA
15 7 (1.38%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (16.96%) NIST
2 72 (14.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 48 (9.47%) GDPR
4 46 (9.07%) PCI DSS
5 31 (6.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 20 (3.94%) JSP 440
7 18 (3.55%) GRC
8 16 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 15 (2.96%) NIST 800
10 10 (1.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (1.58%) SOC 2
12 6 (1.18%) HIPAA
12 6 (1.18%) ISO 22301
13 4 (0.79%) COBIT
14 3 (0.59%) Accessibility
14 3 (0.59%) NCSC
14 3 (0.59%) SLA
15 2 (0.39%) FedRAMP
15 2 (0.39%) QA
16 1 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 88 (17.36%) Active Directory
2 44 (8.68%) RACF
3 6 (1.18%) Docker
4 5 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.59%) vSphere
7 1 (0.20%) Firmware
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.20%) Snort
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.20%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 15 (2.96%) Kubernetes
1 15 (2.96%) Terraform
2 13 (2.56%) CASB
3 10 (1.97%) Ansible
3 10 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.38%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 7 (1.38%) Nessus
5 6 (1.18%) CSIRT
6 5 (0.99%) Suricata
7 4 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.79%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.79%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.79%) Puppet
7 4 (0.79%) QRadar
8 3 (0.59%) Fluentd
8 3 (0.59%) logstash
8 3 (0.59%) SCCM
8 3 (0.59%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.39%) SolarWinds Orion
9 2 (0.39%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 174 (34.32%) Microsoft
2 46 (9.07%) CyberArk
3 43 (8.48%) Splunk
4 27 (5.33%) ServiceNow
5 20 (3.94%) Qualys
6 18 (3.55%) Palo Alto
7 14 (2.76%) IBM
8 10 (1.97%) Cisco
9 7 (1.38%) LogRhythm
9 7 (1.38%) Zscaler
10 6 (1.18%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.18%) VMware
11 5 (0.99%) BT
11 5 (0.99%) Dell
11 5 (0.99%) Juniper
11 5 (0.99%) SolarWinds
12 4 (0.79%) ArcSight
12 4 (0.79%) Darktrace
12 4 (0.79%) Tripwire
13 3 (0.59%) Symantec