SOC Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Operations Centre Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Operations Centre Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 743 743 807
Rank change year-on-year 0 +64 -151
Permanent jobs requiring a SOC Engineer 18 8 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.013% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.015% 0.065%
Number of salaries quoted 16 7 42
10th Percentile £38,500 £36,400 -
25th Percentile £41,500 £44,375 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year - +19.79% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 -
90th Percentile £65,625 £73,500 -
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year - +19.79% -2.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,781 53,729 68,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,253 30,499 42,724
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,251 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

SOC Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured SOC Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SOC Engineer in the UK excluding London

SOC Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for SOC Engineer in the UK excluding London

SOC Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOC Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SOC Engineer in the UK excluding London

SOC Engineer
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 SOC Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 May 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 +26 8 £42,000 -40.00%
North of England - 6 £65,000 - 2
North West - 5 £65,000 - 1
South West - 3 £62,500 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 1
SOC Engineer
UK

SOC Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, SOC Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring SOC Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (88.89%) SIEM
2 10 (55.56%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 10 (55.56%) Threat Intelligence
2 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
3 9 (50.00%) Azure
3 9 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (50.00%) Incident Response
4 8 (44.44%) Splunk
5 7 (38.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 7 (38.89%) Security Operations
6 6 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (33.33%) Power BI
6 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (33.33%) Rapid7
6 6 (33.33%) Problem Management
6 6 (33.33%) McAfee
6 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (33.33%) Firewall
6 6 (33.33%) Cloud Security
6 6 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 6 (33.33%) SOAR
6 6 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (33.33%) Power Platform
6 6 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (22.22%) Threat Detection
8 3 (16.67%) Runbook
8 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
8 3 (16.67%) IaaS

SOC Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (11.11%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 6 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 3 (16.67%) IaaS
3 3 (16.67%) PaaS
3 3 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Firewall
2 3 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (5.56%) Internet
3 1 (5.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) Power BI
2 2 (11.11%) Big Data
General
1 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 6 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (16.67%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 3 (16.67%) Security Posture
4 2 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (5.56%) Cyberattack
5 1 (5.56%) Cybercrime
5 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) SIEM
2 10 (55.56%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 10 (55.56%) Threat Intelligence
3 9 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (50.00%) Incident Response
4 7 (38.89%) Security Operations
5 6 (33.33%) Cloud Security
5 6 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 6 (33.33%) Problem Management
5 6 (33.33%) SOAR
6 4 (22.22%) Threat Detection
7 3 (16.67%) Analytics
7 3 (16.67%) Change Management
7 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
7 3 (16.67%) Runbook
7 3 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
8 2 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (11.11%) Data Security
8 2 (11.11%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) CEH
3 1 (5.56%) CISM
3 1 (5.56%) CISSP
3 1 (5.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (16.67%) NIST
1 3 (16.67%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 8 (44.44%) Splunk
3 6 (33.33%) McAfee
3 6 (33.33%) Rapid7
4 1 (5.56%) Forcepoint
4 1 (5.56%) LogRhythm
4 1 (5.56%) Qualys
4 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.56%) Varonis