SOC Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Operations Centre Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Operations Centre Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 754 753 857
Rank change year-on-year -1 +104 -185
Permanent jobs requiring a SOC Manager 17 8 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.013% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.015% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 13 6 9
10th Percentile £58,298 £68,750 £62,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £70,313 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -1.64%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,000 - £83,400
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £77,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +3.90% -0.65%

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 66,883 54,717 68,218
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.25% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,333 31,108 43,002
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 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

SOC Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC Manager in the UK excluding London

SOC Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for SOC Manager in the UK excluding London

SOC Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for SOC Manager in the UK excluding London

SOC Manager
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 Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
North of England +55 4 £70,979 -11.28%
West Midlands +27 4 £92,500 +23.33%
Midlands +16 4 £92,500 +23.33%
Yorkshire - 4 £70,979 -
South West - 4 - -
South East - 3 £69,000 -
East of England +18 2 £65,000 -10.34%
SOC Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, SOC Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 14 (82.35%) Security Operations
2 9 (52.94%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (47.06%) Information Security
4 7 (41.18%) Incident Management
4 7 (41.18%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
5 6 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
6 5 (29.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (29.41%) Change Management
6 5 (29.41%) DV Cleared
7 4 (23.53%) Incident Response
7 4 (23.53%) Service Catalogue
7 4 (23.53%) Protective Monitoring
7 4 (23.53%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (23.53%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 4 (23.53%) Threat Intelligence
7 4 (23.53%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (23.53%) Cyber Intelligence
7 4 (23.53%) ISO 9001
7 4 (23.53%) Games
7 4 (23.53%) Problem Management
7 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
7 4 (23.53%) Vulnerability Management
7 4 (23.53%) Capacity Management
8 3 (17.65%) SIEM
8 3 (17.65%) Knowledge Management
8 3 (17.65%) Cyberattack
8 3 (17.65%) NIST
9 2 (11.76%) Log Correlation

SOC Manager 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 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Network Security
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Games
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (23.53%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (17.65%) Cyberattack
4 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
5 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
5 1 (5.88%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Security Operations
2 8 (47.06%) Information Security
3 7 (41.18%) Incident Management
3 7 (41.18%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 6 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (29.41%) Change Management
6 4 (23.53%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (23.53%) Capacity Management
6 4 (23.53%) Cyber Intelligence
6 4 (23.53%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 4 (23.53%) Incident Response
6 4 (23.53%) Problem Management
6 4 (23.53%) Protective Monitoring
6 4 (23.53%) Service Catalogue
6 4 (23.53%) Threat Intelligence
6 4 (23.53%) Vulnerability Management
7 3 (17.65%) Knowledge Management
7 3 (17.65%) SIEM
8 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (11.76%) Supplier Management
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) DV Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (23.53%) ISO 9001
3 3 (17.65%) NIST
4 1 (5.88%) GDPR
4 1 (5.88%) SLA
4 1 (5.88%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.88%) Splunk