SOAR Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SOAR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SOAR over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 676 697
Rank change year-on-year +127 +21 +70
Permanent jobs citing SOAR 30 86 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.076% 0.11% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.082% 0.14% 0.093%
Number of salaries quoted 15 62 34
10th Percentile £34,500 - £22,750
25th Percentile £58,125 £47,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.00% - -28.57%
75th Percentile £75,125 £62,188 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,875 £72,500
UK median annual salary £72,000 £52,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +37.14% -25.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

SOAR 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 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAR in the UK excluding London

SOAR
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for SOAR in the UK excluding London

SOAR
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOAR in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SOAR in the UK excluding London

SOAR
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 SOAR within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
North of England +24 13 £80,000 +60.00% 11
South East +58 9 £72,000 +53.19% 19
Yorkshire +57 9 - - 3
North West -13 4 £80,000 +60.00% 7
Midlands +65 3 - - 2
West Midlands +56 3 - - 2
Scotland +111 2 £62,500 +32.98% 4
East of England +51 2 £72,500 +7.41% 3
Wales - 1 £55,000 -
SOAR
UK

SOAR
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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (50.00%) AWS
1 15 (50.00%) Azure
2 11 (36.67%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (56.67%) Firewall
2 2 (6.67%) Internet
2 2 (6.67%) Network Security
General
1 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Automotive
3 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 9 (30.00%) Security Specialist
2 8 (26.67%) SOC Manager
3 6 (20.00%) Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Security Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Consultant
5 3 (10.00%) Presales Consultant
5 3 (10.00%) Security Manager
5 3 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) IT Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) IT Security Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Operational Security Manager
6 2 (6.67%) Operations Manager
6 2 (6.67%) Security Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Security Operations Manager
7 1 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 1 (3.33%) Network Security Consultant
7 1 (3.33%) Operations Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Security Operations Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Solutions Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 12 (40.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 7 (23.33%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (20.00%) Security Posture
4 5 (16.67%) Cyber Defence
4 5 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (10.00%) PKI
6 2 (6.67%) Blog
6 2 (6.67%) Cyber Security Posture
6 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
7 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (3.33%) Cyberattack
7 1 (3.33%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 11 (36.67%) Windows
2 2 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (96.67%) SIEM
2 25 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
3 22 (73.33%) Incident Response
4 17 (56.67%) Vulnerability Management
5 15 (50.00%) Incident Management
6 13 (43.33%) Security Operations
7 11 (36.67%) Threat Intelligence
7 11 (36.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 9 (30.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 9 (30.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 9 (30.00%) Fuzz Testing
8 9 (30.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
8 9 (30.00%) Penetration Testing
8 9 (30.00%) Proactive Monitoring
8 9 (30.00%) Security Architecture
8 9 (30.00%) Security Testing
8 9 (30.00%) Static Application Security Testing
9 8 (26.67%) Identity Access Management
9 8 (26.67%) Threat Detection
10 7 (23.33%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) CISM
1 4 (13.33%) CISSP
1 4 (13.33%) GCIH
1 4 (13.33%) GIAC
1 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (6.67%) Degree
3 2 (6.67%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.33%) CREST Certified
4 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (20.00%) NIST
3 3 (10.00%) NCSC
4 2 (6.67%) SOC 2
5 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (3.33%) GDPR
5 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) QRadar
2 1 (3.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 17 (56.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) Splunk
3 4 (13.33%) Google
4 2 (6.67%) Palo Alto
4 2 (6.67%) Tenable
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco
5 1 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.33%) Juniper
5 1 (3.33%) LogRhythm
5 1 (3.33%) Netskope
5 1 (3.33%) Zscaler