SOC Specialist Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Operations Centre Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Operations Centre Specialist salary in the UK excluding London is £51,725 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 759 750 846
Rank change year-on-year -9 +96 -164
Permanent jobs requiring a SOC Specialist 2 1 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.003% 0.002% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.003% 0.002% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £48,078 - £48,000
25th Percentile £48,606 - £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,725 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.89%
75th Percentile £54,069 - £52,500
90th Percentile £54,133 - £54,750
UK median annual salary £51,725 £92,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -44.08% +85.00% -14.89%

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 Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC Specialist in the UK excluding London

SOC Specialist
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for SOC Specialist in the UK excluding London

SOC Specialist
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 Specialist 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 +22 1 £52,500 -
South West - 1 £50,950 -
SOC Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, SOC Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (50.00%) Varonis
2 1 (50.00%) LogRhythm
2 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) Forcepoint
2 1 (50.00%) Mainframe

SOC Specialist 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Forcepoint
1 1 (50.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Qualys
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) Varonis