Security Operations Centre Jobs

Security Operations Centre
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months to 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 487 735 872
Rank change year-on-year +248 +137 -264
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations Centre 248 381 233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.30% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.25% 0.69% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 113 273 158
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,600 £27,125
25th Percentile £47,725 £45,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £71,027 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,500 £62,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year -3.20% +21.36% +0.49%

All Generic Skills
UK

Security Operations Centre is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 19,913 55,308 57,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.98% 43.77% 44.16%
Number of salaries quoted 14,617 30,324 33,815
10th Percentile £33,500 £34,895 £33,713
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,868 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +6.45% -
75th Percentile £84,056 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,289 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations Centre in the UK

Security Operations Centre
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Security Operations Centre in the UK

Security Operations Centre
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Operations Centre over the 6 months to 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Security Operations Centre in the UK

Security Operations Centre
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Operations Centre within the UK over the 6 months to 30 November 2023. 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
UK excluding London +182 191 £60,500 -3.20% 39
England +202 185 £60,500 -3.20% 49
Work from Home +272 135 £61,500 -5.38% 17
London +262 51 £54,150 -25.31% 13
Wales +49 39 £85,000 +66.87% 1
South East +121 36 £62,500 +4.17% 11
North of England +115 34 £65,380 +0.59% 5
Midlands +125 30 £60,000 +16.50% 8
South West +91 27 £50,950 +1.90% 6
West Midlands +131 21 £60,000 +29.03% 8
North West +69 20 £62,500 -3.85% 3
Yorkshire +93 13 £68,389 +95.40% 1
Scotland +32 11 £47,500 -26.92% 3
East of England +110 10 £66,500 +10.83% 5
East Midlands +53 9 £75,000 -1.04%
Northern Ireland +39 5 - - 1
North East +38 1 £63,000 -3.08% 1

Security Operations Centre
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 4 (1.61%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.81%) MS Project Server
3 1 (0.40%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 45 (18.15%) Azure
2 36 (14.52%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (6.05%) AWS
4 11 (4.44%) Azure Sentinel
5 10 (4.03%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.42%) GCP
7 2 (0.81%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (0.81%) IaaS
7 2 (0.81%) OneDrive
7 2 (0.81%) PaaS
8 1 (0.40%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.40%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 101 (40.73%) Intrusion Detection
2 95 (38.31%) LAN
3 93 (37.50%) WAN
4 59 (23.79%) Firewall
5 47 (18.95%) Network Security
6 42 (16.94%) TCP/IP
7 37 (14.92%) VPN
8 36 (14.52%) HTTP
9 35 (14.11%) Internet
10 34 (13.71%) FTP
10 34 (13.71%) SMTP
11 33 (13.31%) Sourcefire
12 10 (4.03%) DNS
13 4 (1.61%) DHCP
14 2 (0.81%) IPv4
14 2 (0.81%) Remote Desktop
14 2 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
15 1 (0.40%) DKIM
15 1 (0.40%) DMARC
15 1 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.40%) Power BI
2 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.40%) JIRA
1 1 (0.40%) Postman
General
1 114 (45.97%) Social Skills
2 95 (38.31%) Games
3 48 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.85%) Finance
5 11 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (3.23%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.42%) Legal
7 6 (2.42%) Retail
8 5 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.21%) Law
9 3 (1.21%) Local Government
9 3 (1.21%) Military
10 2 (0.81%) Banking
10 2 (0.81%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.81%) Police
11 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 105 (42.34%) Analyst
2 92 (37.10%) Senior
3 81 (32.66%) Security Manager
4 67 (27.02%) SOC Analyst
5 61 (24.60%) Senior Manager
6 60 (24.19%) Business Manager
6 60 (24.19%) Senior Business Manager
7 31 (12.50%) Security Analyst
8 28 (11.29%) Lead
9 23 (9.27%) Security Engineer
10 21 (8.47%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (5.65%) Junior
11 14 (5.65%) Junior Analyst
12 12 (4.84%) Service Analyst
13 11 (4.44%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 10 (4.03%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 10 (4.03%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 10 (4.03%) Senior Security Analyst
15 9 (3.63%) Operations Engineer
15 9 (3.63%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (14.52%) LDAP
2 2 (0.81%) JSON
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (0.81%) Regular Expression
2 2 (0.81%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 51 (20.56%) Cyber Threat
2 33 (13.31%) Analytical Mindset
2 33 (13.31%) PKI
3 31 (12.50%) Management Information System
4 15 (6.05%) Cyberattack
5 14 (5.65%) Security Posture
6 12 (4.84%) CSOC
7 7 (2.82%) Cyber Defence
7 7 (2.82%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (2.02%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 5 (2.02%) Cybercrime
8 5 (2.02%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.61%) Insider Threat
9 4 (1.61%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.61%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.61%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 89 (35.89%) Windows
2 64 (25.81%) Unix
3 25 (10.08%) Linux
4 17 (6.85%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.61%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.81%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 194 (78.23%) Cybersecurity
3 177 (71.37%) SIEM
4 113 (45.56%) Vulnerability Management
5 78 (31.45%) Security Management
6 77 (31.05%) Information Security
7 75 (30.24%) Incident Management
8 68 (27.42%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 67 (27.02%) Impact Assessments
10 64 (25.81%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 63 (25.40%) Incident Response
12 61 (24.60%) Business Continuity
12 61 (24.60%) Service Management
13 60 (24.19%) Impact Analysis
14 48 (19.35%) Kalman Filter
15 47 (18.95%) Data Loss Prevention
16 43 (17.34%) Threat Intelligence
17 42 (16.94%) Actionable Insight
18 41 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
19 38 (15.32%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.23%) PowerShell
2 7 (2.82%) Python
3 4 (1.61%) SQL
4 1 (0.40%) Bash
4 1 (0.40%) C#
4 1 (0.40%) Java
4 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.40%) Ruby
4 1 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 85 (34.27%) CISSP
2 78 (31.45%) CISM
3 66 (26.61%) Security Cleared
4 62 (25.00%) SSCP
5 29 (11.69%) SC Cleared
6 24 (9.68%) Degree
7 9 (3.63%) CEH
7 9 (3.63%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.82%) DBS Check
9 6 (2.42%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (2.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (2.02%) CISA
10 5 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (2.02%) CRISC
11 4 (1.61%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (1.61%) OSCP
12 3 (1.21%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.21%) CISMP
12 3 (1.21%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (34.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (25.81%) GDPR
3 29 (11.69%) NIST
4 9 (3.63%) COBIT
5 8 (3.23%) SLA
6 7 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (2.42%) PCI DSS
8 5 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.21%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.81%) NCSC
11 1 (0.40%) GRC
11 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (8.87%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.61%) Firmware
2 4 (1.61%) Hyper-V
2 4 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.81%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 33 (13.31%) FortiGate
2 5 (2.02%) SCCM
2 5 (2.02%) WSUS
3 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.81%) Ansible
4 2 (0.81%) CSIRT
4 2 (0.81%) McAfee ePO
4 2 (0.81%) Nessus
5 1 (0.40%) CASB
Vendors
1 43 (17.34%) Microsoft
2 41 (16.53%) Splunk
3 35 (14.11%) Cisco
4 33 (13.31%) ArcSight
4 33 (13.31%) CheckPoint
4 33 (13.31%) F5
4 33 (13.31%) IBM
4 33 (13.31%) Juniper
4 33 (13.31%) TippingPoint
4 33 (13.31%) Trend Micro
5 4 (1.61%) VMware
6 3 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (1.21%) Qualys
7 2 (0.81%) Dell
7 2 (0.81%) EqualLogic
7 2 (0.81%) Intel
7 2 (0.81%) McAfee
7 2 (0.81%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.81%) SolarWinds
7 2 (0.81%) Tripwire