Security Monitoring Jobs

Security Monitoring
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Security Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Monitoring over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 696 690 919
Rank change year-on-year -6 +229 -91
Permanent jobs citing Security Monitoring 146 198 359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.25% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.26% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 109 158 206
10th Percentile £40,500 £35,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,813 £45,719
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £67,000 £87,500 £75,938
90th Percentile £77,500 £97,875 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year -12.50% +2.13% +26.34%

All Process and 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 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Security Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Security Monitoring in the UK

Security Monitoring
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Monitoring.

Salary trend for Security Monitoring in the UK

Security Monitoring
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Monitoring over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Monitoring in the UK

Security Monitoring
Top 16 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 26 July 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
England -13 133 £55,000 -13.73% 21
UK excluding London -49 73 £52,500 -12.50% 21
London +53 69 £62,500 -16.10% 7
Work from Home +26 58 £52,500 -16.00% 12
South East +7 34 £52,500 -30.00% 3
Midlands -39 11 £30,000 -45.45% 4
North of England +11 10 £55,000 -31.25% 5
West Midlands -18 10 £30,000 -45.45% 4
North West -5 8 £55,000 -31.25%
South West -10 7 £55,000 +10.00% 2
Scotland -42 5 £47,500 +5.56% 1
Channel Islands - 3 - -
Yorkshire +57 2 £45,445 - 5
Isle of Man - 2 - -
East of England -6 1 - - 1
East Midlands -31 1 - -

Security Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (8.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (6.85%) SharePoint
3 7 (4.79%) IIS
4 2 (1.37%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (5.48%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 49 (33.56%) Azure
2 28 (19.18%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (15.07%) AWS
4 7 (4.79%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (2.74%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.37%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.68%) Anthos
7 1 (0.68%) Azure App Service
7 1 (0.68%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.68%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.68%) GCP
7 1 (0.68%) PaaS
7 1 (0.68%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 31 (21.23%) Firewall
2 27 (18.49%) Network Security
3 15 (10.27%) WAN
4 14 (9.59%) Intrusion Detection
5 13 (8.90%) LAN
6 9 (6.16%) VPN
6 9 (6.16%) Wireshark
7 5 (3.42%) DNS
7 5 (3.42%) Internet
7 5 (3.42%) SSL
8 3 (2.05%) DHCP
8 3 (2.05%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.37%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.37%) Skype
9 2 (1.37%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.68%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.68%) HTTP
10 1 (0.68%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.68%) SMTP
10 1 (0.68%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.05%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.74%) Burp Suite
2 2 (1.37%) Git
2 2 (1.37%) JIRA
3 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.68%) GitLab
3 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.68%) NUnit
3 1 (0.68%) Subversion
3 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 48 (32.88%) Social Skills
2 43 (29.45%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (25.34%) Finance
4 10 (6.85%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.48%) Banking
6 6 (4.11%) Aerospace
6 6 (4.11%) Law
7 5 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.42%) Legal
7 5 (3.42%) Retail
8 4 (2.74%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.74%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.05%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.37%) Local Government
10 2 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Aviation
11 1 (0.68%) Games
11 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (42.47%) Analyst
2 41 (28.08%) Security Analyst
3 31 (21.23%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 24 (16.44%) Security Engineer
5 16 (10.96%) SOC Analyst
6 15 (10.27%) Information Analyst
6 15 (10.27%) Information Security Analyst
7 9 (6.16%) Consultant
7 9 (6.16%) IT Analyst
8 8 (5.48%) IT Engineer
8 8 (5.48%) Security Consultant
8 8 (5.48%) Senior
9 7 (4.79%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 7 (4.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (4.79%) Principal Engineer
9 7 (4.79%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (4.79%) Systems Engineer
10 6 (4.11%) Architect
10 6 (4.11%) Principal Systems Engineer
10 6 (4.11%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.74%) Web Services
2 3 (2.05%) web3js
3 1 (0.68%) .NET
3 1 (0.68%) LDAP
3 1 (0.68%) Middleware
3 1 (0.68%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 37 (25.34%) Management Information System
2 13 (8.90%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (8.22%) Security Operations Centre
4 10 (6.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 10 (6.85%) Security Posture
5 9 (6.16%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (5.48%) PKI
7 7 (4.79%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (4.79%) Data Centre
7 7 (4.79%) IoT
8 5 (3.42%) CSOC
8 5 (3.42%) Cyberattack
9 4 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (2.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (2.74%) Insider Threat
9 4 (2.74%) Operational Technology
10 3 (2.05%) Blockchain
10 3 (2.05%) Driving Licence
10 3 (2.05%) SCADA
10 3 (2.05%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 44 (30.14%) Windows
2 21 (14.38%) Linux
3 19 (13.01%) Windows Server
4 10 (6.85%) Unix
5 8 (5.48%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.74%) Kali Linux
6 4 (2.74%) Windows XP
7 3 (2.05%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (1.37%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (68.49%) Cybersecurity
2 68 (46.58%) Incident Response
2 68 (46.58%) SIEM
3 59 (40.41%) Information Security
4 39 (26.71%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (26.03%) Security Operations
6 35 (23.97%) Cloud Security
7 32 (21.92%) Vulnerability Management
8 31 (21.23%) Incident Management
9 26 (17.81%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 26 (17.81%) Threat Intelligence
10 25 (17.12%) Risk Management
10 25 (17.12%) Security Architecture
11 24 (16.44%) Computer Science
12 22 (15.07%) Data Loss Prevention
13 20 (13.70%) Identity Access Management
14 18 (12.33%) Threat Modelling
15 16 (10.96%) Penetration Testing
16 14 (9.59%) Agile
16 14 (9.59%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 26 (17.81%) PowerShell
2 24 (16.44%) Python
3 9 (6.16%) Bash
4 6 (4.11%) SQL
5 3 (2.05%) C++
6 2 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.68%) C#
7 1 (0.68%) Go
7 1 (0.68%) Java
7 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.68%) Perl
Qualifications
1 41 (28.08%) CISSP
2 34 (23.29%) Degree
3 22 (15.07%) Security Cleared
4 18 (12.33%) CISM
5 10 (6.85%) GCIA
5 10 (6.85%) GCIH
6 9 (6.16%) GCFA
6 9 (6.16%) SC Cleared
7 8 (5.48%) CISMP
7 8 (5.48%) CompTIA Security+
7 8 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (4.79%) CEH
8 7 (4.79%) CESG Certified Professional
8 7 (4.79%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (4.79%) CREST Certified
8 7 (4.79%) GIAC
9 6 (4.11%) DV Cleared
10 5 (3.42%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (2.74%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (24.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (22.60%) NIST
3 11 (7.53%) PCI DSS
4 9 (6.16%) GDPR
5 8 (5.48%) GRC
6 7 (4.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 6 (4.11%) HIPAA
7 6 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 5 (3.42%) COBIT
8 5 (3.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (2.05%) ISO 9001
9 3 (2.05%) NCSC
10 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.68%) ISA99
10 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.68%) SLA
10 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (21.23%) Active Directory
2 10 (6.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.48%) Hyper-V
4 6 (4.11%) Forefront TMG
4 6 (4.11%) VMware Workstation
5 5 (3.42%) vSphere
6 3 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.68%) Docker
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.68%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (5.48%) QRadar
2 6 (4.11%) SCOM
2 6 (4.11%) WSUS
3 5 (3.42%) Ansible
3 5 (3.42%) Progress Chef
3 5 (3.42%) Puppet
4 4 (2.74%) Suricata
5 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.05%) NetCrunch
5 3 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.37%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 2 (1.37%) Nessus
6 2 (1.37%) Terraform
7 1 (0.68%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (0.68%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.68%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.68%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.68%) VxRail
Vendors
1 59 (40.41%) Microsoft
2 28 (19.18%) Splunk
3 24 (16.44%) VMware
4 11 (7.53%) Cisco
4 11 (7.53%) IBM
5 10 (6.85%) Palo Alto
6 6 (4.11%) LogRhythm
7 5 (3.42%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.74%) ArcSight
8 4 (2.74%) Intel
8 4 (2.74%) Juniper
8 4 (2.74%) Oracle
8 4 (2.74%) Qualys
9 3 (2.05%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.37%) Citrix
10 2 (1.37%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.37%) Darktrace
10 2 (1.37%) Google
11 1 (0.68%) BeyondTrust
11 1 (0.68%) Thycotic