Security Monitoring Job Trends

Security Monitoring
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Security Monitoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 548 558
Rank change year-on-year -18 +10 +264
Permanent jobs citing Security Monitoring 83 163 156
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.30% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.34% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 64 127 123
10th Percentile £36,250 - £38,869
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £50,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £72,500 £75,448
90th Percentile £103,500 £87,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -18.18% +10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Security Monitoring 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,808 48,616 49,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.95% 90.71% 89.93%
Number of salaries quoted 28,796 23,669 37,967
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,971
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.83% -5.51%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Security Monitoring relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Security Monitoring job vacancy trend in the UK

Security Monitoring
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Security Monitoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Security Monitoring

Security Monitoring
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Monitoring over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Monitoring in the UK

Security Monitoring
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Monitoring within the UK over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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
England -19 73 £75,000 +15.38% 85
London +35 41 £78,750 +12.50% 9
UK excluding London -18 36 £52,500 +16.67% 84
Work from Home +14 32 £80,000 +45.45% 38
South East +32 11 £45,000 - 22
Midlands +19 8 £65,000 +18.18% 15
West Midlands +16 6 £65,000 +18.18% 6
North of England -31 6 £50,000 +11.11% 15
Yorkshire -46 4 £70,000 +55.56% 7
Wales - 4 - - 5
South West 0 3 £50,000 -11.11% 11
East of England +17 2 £82,500 +43.48% 15
North West +16 2 £40,000 -11.11% 6
Scotland -1 2 £66,300 +20.55% 3
East Midlands - 2 £36,000 - 8

Security Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (38.55%) Azure
2 19 (22.89%) AWS
3 18 (21.69%) GCP
4 14 (16.87%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (12.05%) Entra ID
6 8 (9.64%) GitHub
6 8 (9.64%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (9.64%) SaaS
7 5 (6.02%) Azure AI
7 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (6.02%) Power Automate
7 5 (6.02%) Power Platform
8 4 (4.82%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (4.82%) Google Workspace
8 4 (4.82%) SurveyMonkey
9 3 (3.61%) Cloud Run
9 3 (3.61%) Google Compute Engine
9 3 (3.61%) Nutanix
9 3 (3.61%) Vercel
9 3 (3.61%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 20 (24.10%) Firewall
2 16 (19.28%) Network Security
3 14 (16.87%) Wireshark
4 12 (14.46%) Intrusion Detection
5 10 (12.05%) TCP/IP
6 7 (8.43%) VPN
7 6 (7.23%) DNS
8 5 (6.02%) Modbus
8 5 (6.02%) VLAN
9 4 (4.82%) Bluetooth
9 4 (4.82%) SAN
9 4 (4.82%) ZigBee
10 3 (3.61%) LAN
10 3 (3.61%) SSL
10 3 (3.61%) VSAN
10 3 (3.61%) WAN
11 2 (2.41%) DKIM
11 2 (2.41%) DMARC
12 1 (1.20%) Asterisk PBX
12 1 (1.20%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.02%) Power BI
2 3 (3.61%) BigQuery
2 3 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (3.61%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Burp Suite
1 4 (4.82%) Metasploit
1 4 (4.82%) TeamCity
2 2 (2.41%) GitLab
General
1 23 (27.71%) Social Skills
2 19 (22.89%) Finance
3 8 (9.64%) Banking
3 8 (9.64%) Law
4 6 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.23%) Financial Institution
5 5 (6.02%) Manufacturing
5 5 (6.02%) Retail
6 4 (4.82%) Aerospace
6 4 (4.82%) Back Office
6 4 (4.82%) Legal
7 2 (2.41%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.20%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 25 (30.12%) Analyst
2 18 (21.69%) Security Analyst
3 16 (19.28%) Security Engineer
4 10 (12.05%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 9 (10.84%) Lead
6 8 (9.64%) IT Support
7 7 (8.43%) Support Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) IT Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) IT Support Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) Incident Manager
9 5 (6.02%) Information Analyst
9 5 (6.02%) Information Security Analyst
9 5 (6.02%) IT Security Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) Security Manager
9 5 (6.02%) Security Support Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) Senior
9 5 (6.02%) SOC Analyst
10 4 (4.82%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.61%) LangChain
1 3 (3.61%) Next.js
2 2 (2.41%) OAuth
2 2 (2.41%) OpenID
2 2 (2.41%) SAML
3 1 (1.20%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.28%) Cyber Threat
2 14 (16.87%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 10 (12.05%) Security Posture
4 9 (10.84%) Cloud Native
4 9 (10.84%) Onboarding
4 9 (10.84%) Security Operations Centre
5 8 (9.64%) Operational Technology
6 7 (8.43%) Management Information System
6 7 (8.43%) SCADA
7 5 (6.02%) Cyber Defence
7 5 (6.02%) PKI
8 4 (4.82%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (4.82%) Blog
8 4 (4.82%) CAN bus
8 4 (4.82%) IoT
9 2 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.41%) EPoS
9 2 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (2.41%) Insider Threat
9 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (42.17%) Linux
2 33 (39.76%) Windows
3 6 (7.23%) Unix
4 5 (6.02%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.82%) Android
5 4 (4.82%) Kali Linux
5 4 (4.82%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.41%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (59.04%) Incident Response
2 47 (56.63%) Cybersecurity
3 38 (45.78%) SIEM
4 34 (40.96%) Cloud Security
5 31 (37.35%) Threat Intelligence
6 29 (34.94%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 28 (33.73%) Security Operations
7 28 (33.73%) Threat Detection
8 26 (31.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 26 (31.33%) Vulnerability Management
9 22 (26.51%) Information Security
10 15 (18.07%) Use Case
11 14 (16.87%) AI
11 14 (16.87%) Data Loss Prevention
12 13 (15.66%) DevOps
12 13 (15.66%) SOAR
13 12 (14.46%) CI/CD
13 12 (14.46%) SDLC
13 12 (14.46%) Security Architecture
14 11 (13.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 27 (32.53%) Python
2 17 (20.48%) PowerShell
3 14 (16.87%) Bash
4 6 (7.23%) Java
5 4 (4.82%) C++
5 4 (4.82%) Go
5 4 (4.82%) R
5 4 (4.82%) Rust
6 3 (3.61%) Elixir
6 3 (3.61%) Erlang
7 2 (2.41%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.20%) C
Qualifications
1 19 (22.89%) Security Cleared
2 18 (21.69%) SC Cleared
3 14 (16.87%) GCIA
3 14 (16.87%) GCIH
4 13 (15.66%) CISSP
5 12 (14.46%) GCFA
5 12 (14.46%) GIAC
6 10 (12.05%) Degree
7 7 (8.43%) CISM
7 7 (8.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (8.43%) DV Cleared
8 5 (6.02%) AWS Certification
9 4 (4.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (4.82%) CISA
10 3 (3.61%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (3.61%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (2.41%) CCNA
11 2 (2.41%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 2 (2.41%) Postgraduate
12 1 (1.20%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (34.94%) NIST
2 23 (27.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (13.25%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (12.05%) GDPR
4 10 (12.05%) PCI DSS
5 7 (8.43%) Accessibility
6 5 (6.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (4.82%) GRC
7 4 (4.82%) SOC 2
8 2 (2.41%) COBIT
8 2 (2.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (1.20%) NIST 800
9 1 (1.20%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (10.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (9.64%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.82%) Docker
3 4 (4.82%) vSphere
4 1 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (14.46%) Kubernetes
2 10 (12.05%) Terraform
3 7 (8.43%) QRadar
4 6 (7.23%) Nessus
5 5 (6.02%) Ansible
6 4 (4.82%) Cilium
6 4 (4.82%) Nmap
6 4 (4.82%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (3.61%) Grafana
7 3 (3.61%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.61%) VxRail
8 2 (2.41%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 2 (2.41%) CSIRT
8 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (2.41%) Suricata
9 1 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.20%) Argo
9 1 (1.20%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (27.71%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.46%) Splunk
3 9 (10.84%) Google
3 9 (10.84%) VMware
4 8 (9.64%) Cisco
5 4 (4.82%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (4.82%) Qualtrics
5 4 (4.82%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.61%) Broadcom
6 3 (3.61%) Commvault
6 3 (3.61%) Dell
6 3 (3.61%) EMC
7 2 (2.41%) ArcSight
7 2 (2.41%) Carbon Black
7 2 (2.41%) Meraki
7 2 (2.41%) Qualys
7 2 (2.41%) Rapid7
7 2 (2.41%) Xero