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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 644 726 710
Rank change year-on-year +82 -16 +229
Permanent jobs citing Security Monitoring 91 173 187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.17% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.20% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 67 134 154
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £33,625
25th Percentile £42,000 £47,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £75,625 £66,813 £87,500
90th Percentile £84,500 £77,500 £98,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,729 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.47% -12.50% +9.09%

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 54,035 85,534 82,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 89.93% 82.61% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 28,425 58,385 52,665
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,862 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,700 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

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 12 July 2025.

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 12 July 2025. 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 +70 78 £57,250 +4.09% 83
UK excluding London +119 51 £51,729 -1.47% 56
London +45 35 £75,000 +25.00% 41
Midlands +88 21 £55,000 +94.69% 7
West Midlands +81 19 £55,000 +94.69% 6
South East +44 11 £37,000 -29.52% 17
Work from Home +25 10 £57,500 +9.52% 64
Northern Ireland +46 7 - - 2
South West +99 4 £51,729 -5.95% 5
North of England +28 4 £49,942 -9.20% 14
Scotland +93 2 £34,000 -28.42% 3
East Midlands +41 2 £48,500 - 1
Yorkshire +40 2 £61,250 +4.26% 8
East of England +37 2 £33,750 - 6
North West -2 2 £42,384 -22.94% 6

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 7 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.20%) Confluence
3 1 (1.10%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 34 (37.36%) Azure
2 23 (25.27%) AWS
3 18 (19.78%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (9.89%) Microsoft Purview
5 7 (7.69%) GCP
6 5 (5.49%) Entra ID
7 4 (4.40%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (4.40%) PaaS
7 4 (4.40%) Serverless
8 3 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.20%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.20%) Google Workspace
9 2 (2.20%) IaaS
9 2 (2.20%) SaaS
10 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.10%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.58%) WAN
2 14 (15.38%) Firewall
3 13 (14.29%) DNS
3 13 (14.29%) Network Security
4 10 (10.99%) Intrusion Detection
4 10 (10.99%) SD-WAN
5 7 (7.69%) TCP/IP
6 6 (6.59%) LAN
7 3 (3.30%) Wireshark
8 2 (2.20%) NAS
8 2 (2.20%) SAN
8 2 (2.20%) VPN
9 1 (1.10%) DHCP
9 1 (1.10%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Burp Suite
General
1 31 (34.07%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.78%) Finance
3 8 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.59%) Banking
5 3 (3.30%) Law
5 3 (3.30%) Legal
5 3 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.20%) Advertising
6 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.20%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.20%) Retail
6 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.10%) Automotive
7 1 (1.10%) Games
7 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (26.37%) Lead
2 21 (23.08%) Analyst
3 12 (13.19%) Senior
4 11 (12.09%) Security Analyst
4 11 (12.09%) SOC Analyst
5 8 (8.79%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 8 (8.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (7.69%) Security Engineer
6 7 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (7.69%) WAN Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (5.49%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 5 (5.49%) Vulnerability Manager
8 4 (4.40%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Security Specialist
8 4 (4.40%) Support Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Threat Hunter
9 3 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Information Analyst
9 3 (3.30%) Information Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.49%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (3.30%) Kafka
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.98%) Management Information System
2 17 (18.68%) Security Posture
3 13 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
4 12 (13.19%) Operational Technology
5 11 (12.09%) Cloud Native
6 8 (8.79%) Private Cloud
6 8 (8.79%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (6.59%) Cloud Security Posture
7 6 (6.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (5.49%) Cyber Security Posture
9 3 (3.30%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (3.30%) PKI
9 3 (3.30%) Replication
10 2 (2.20%) Cyber Defence
11 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (1.10%) Clustering
11 1 (1.10%) CSOC
11 1 (1.10%) Life Science
11 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
11 1 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (34.07%) Windows
2 19 (20.88%) Linux
3 3 (3.30%) Mac OS
3 3 (3.30%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.20%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.10%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (65.93%) Cybersecurity
2 43 (47.25%) SIEM
3 38 (41.76%) Incident Response
4 31 (34.07%) Information Security
4 31 (34.07%) Security Operations
5 24 (26.37%) Vulnerability Management
6 20 (21.98%) Cloud Security
6 20 (21.98%) Threat Intelligence
7 19 (20.88%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 17 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (17.58%) Data Loss Prevention
10 15 (16.48%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 13 (14.29%) CI/CD
11 13 (14.29%) Mentoring
11 13 (14.29%) Risk Analysis
11 13 (14.29%) Threat Detection
12 11 (12.09%) Innovative Thinking
12 11 (12.09%) Kalman Filter
13 10 (10.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 10 (10.99%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 17 (18.68%) PowerShell
2 14 (15.38%) Python
3 10 (10.99%) Bash
4 8 (8.79%) C#
5 3 (3.30%) Java
5 3 (3.30%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.10%) Perl
6 1 (1.10%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 18 (19.78%) SC Cleared
1 18 (19.78%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.48%) CISSP
3 8 (8.79%) Degree
4 6 (6.59%) GCIA
4 6 (6.59%) GCIH
5 5 (5.49%) GCFA
6 4 (4.40%) CEH
6 4 (4.40%) CISM
7 3 (3.30%) AWS Certification
7 3 (3.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.30%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (3.30%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.30%) OSCP
7 3 (3.30%) SANS
8 2 (2.20%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.20%) GSEC
8 2 (2.20%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (29.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (13.19%) NIST
3 9 (9.89%) GDPR
4 8 (8.79%) COBIT
4 8 (8.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (4.40%) SOC 2
6 3 (3.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (3.30%) HIPAA
7 2 (2.20%) ISO 9000
8 1 (1.10%) GRC
8 1 (1.10%) NCSC
8 1 (1.10%) NIST 800
8 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.59%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (3.30%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (10.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (5.49%) CASB
3 4 (4.40%) Terraform
4 3 (3.30%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.30%) QRadar
5 2 (2.20%) Grafana
5 2 (2.20%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.20%) SCCM
6 1 (1.10%) Ansible
6 1 (1.10%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (1.10%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.10%) Kibana
6 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.10%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.10%) Puppet
6 1 (1.10%) SCOM
6 1 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (32.97%) Microsoft
2 17 (18.68%) Cisco
3 12 (13.19%) Splunk
4 6 (6.59%) Acronis
4 6 (6.59%) VMware
5 3 (3.30%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (3.30%) Google
5 3 (3.30%) LogRhythm
6 2 (2.20%) Dell
6 2 (2.20%) EMC
6 2 (2.20%) Fujitsu
6 2 (2.20%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.20%) SonicWALL
7 1 (1.10%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.10%) Okta
7 1 (1.10%) Pega
7 1 (1.10%) Proofpoint
7 1 (1.10%) Qualys
7 1 (1.10%) Sun
7 1 (1.10%) Varonis