Security Operations Jobs

Security Operations (SecOps)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Security Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations over the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 283 318
Rank change year-on-year -26 +35 +108
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 556 785 1,230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.93% 1.02% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.15% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 351 584 753
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,251 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £79,375 £76,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £100,800
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Security Operations 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 55,992 68,309 104,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.42% 88.68% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 25,152 50,933 63,892
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,485 £34,324
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.90% +7.61%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in the UK

Security Operations
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Security Operations in the UK

Security Operations
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Operations over the 6 months to 19 February 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Operations in the UK

Security Operations
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 Operations within the UK over the 6 months to 19 February 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 -15 508 £65,000 +4.00% 225
UK excluding London -22 301 £55,000 -2.65% 131
London +9 228 £75,000 +7.14% 115
Work from Home -11 213 £62,500 +1.63% 171
North of England +25 94 £50,000 -7.41% 28
South East -14 72 £62,500 +6.38% 55
Yorkshire +48 49 £51,250 -9.29% 5
North West -14 40 £50,000 -3.85% 20
West Midlands +1 38 £55,000 +46.67% 13
Midlands -6 38 £55,000 +18.28% 15
Scotland +37 37 £62,500 +6.38% 2
East of England -5 32 £60,000 - 20
South West +17 22 £52,750 -24.64% 13
North East +26 5 £45,000 - 4
Wales +22 5 £87,500 +9.38% 5
Northern Ireland +17 1 - -

Security Operations
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 8 (1.44%) IBM Domino
2 6 (1.08%) Confluence
3 3 (0.54%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 217 (39.03%) Azure
2 118 (21.22%) AWS
3 75 (13.49%) Microsoft 365
4 70 (12.59%) Azure Sentinel
5 47 (8.45%) Entra ID
6 30 (5.40%) GCP
7 26 (4.68%) SaaS
8 19 (3.42%) IaaS
8 19 (3.42%) Microsoft Purview
9 18 (3.24%) PaaS
10 14 (2.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 14 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (2.16%) Azure Logic Apps
12 10 (1.80%) Cloudflare
13 6 (1.08%) AWS KMS
14 4 (0.72%) Power Platform
15 3 (0.54%) Cloud Computing
16 2 (0.36%) Amazon EC2
16 2 (0.36%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 160 (28.78%) Firewall
2 83 (14.93%) Network Security
3 46 (8.27%) Intrusion Detection
4 40 (7.19%) TCP/IP
5 39 (7.01%) Internet
6 35 (6.29%) DNS
6 35 (6.29%) VPN
7 24 (4.32%) WAN
8 23 (4.14%) LAN
9 20 (3.60%) HTTP
9 20 (3.60%) SMTP
10 12 (2.16%) 4G
10 12 (2.16%) DHCP
11 11 (1.98%) FTP
12 10 (1.80%) SSL
13 9 (1.62%) Wireless
14 3 (0.54%) NGFW
14 3 (0.54%) VLAN
15 2 (0.36%) DKIM
15 2 (0.36%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.42%) Relational Database
2 4 (0.72%) Power BI
3 3 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.36%) MySQL
5 1 (0.18%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 10 (1.80%) JIRA
2 8 (1.44%) GitLab
3 7 (1.26%) Snyk
4 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
General
1 172 (30.94%) Social Skills
2 88 (15.83%) Finance
3 84 (15.11%) Law
4 70 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (8.09%) Retail
6 41 (7.37%) Legal
7 17 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (2.52%) Telecoms
9 11 (1.98%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
9 11 (1.98%) Police
10 10 (1.80%) Public Sector
11 9 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.08%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.90%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.90%) Military
14 4 (0.72%) Banking
14 4 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 178 (32.01%) Analyst
2 120 (21.58%) Security Analyst
3 108 (19.42%) Security Engineer
4 88 (15.83%) Senior
5 65 (11.69%) Lead
6 61 (10.97%) Cloud Engineer
7 60 (10.79%) SOC Analyst
8 49 (8.81%) Security Manager
9 41 (7.37%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 41 (7.37%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 34 (6.12%) Senior Analyst
11 30 (5.40%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 30 (5.40%) Operations Analyst
11 30 (5.40%) Security Operations Analyst
12 27 (4.86%) Consultant
13 26 (4.68%) Senior Security Engineer
14 22 (3.96%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 21 (3.78%) AWS Engineer
16 20 (3.60%) Senior Security Analyst
17 18 (3.24%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.88%) LDAP
2 9 (1.62%) Azure Blueprints
3 8 (1.44%) HTML
4 6 (1.08%) CSS
4 6 (1.08%) Web Services
5 5 (0.90%) Ajax
5 5 (0.90%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.54%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.36%) .NET
7 2 (0.36%) JSON
7 2 (0.36%) Leaflet
8 1 (0.18%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 118 (21.22%) Security Posture
2 108 (19.42%) Security Operations Centre
3 100 (17.99%) Management Information System
4 75 (13.49%) Cyber Threat
5 33 (5.94%) Cloud Security Posture
6 28 (5.04%) Onboarding
7 24 (4.32%) CSOC
7 24 (4.32%) Virtual Team
8 22 (3.96%) Cloud Native
9 21 (3.78%) Client/Server
9 21 (3.78%) Cyber Defence
10 19 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (3.06%) PKI
12 12 (2.16%) Cyberattack
13 11 (1.98%) Operational Technology
14 10 (1.80%) Hedge funds
15 9 (1.62%) CMDB
16 8 (1.44%) Cyber Security Posture
16 8 (1.44%) Private Cloud
17 7 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 67 (12.05%) Windows
2 32 (5.76%) Linux
3 10 (1.80%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.62%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.90%) VMS
6 4 (0.72%) Mac OS X
6 4 (0.72%) Unix
7 1 (0.18%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (56.29%) Cybersecurity
2 249 (44.78%) Incident Response
3 230 (41.37%) SIEM
4 196 (35.25%) Information Security
5 167 (30.04%) Vulnerability Management
6 119 (21.40%) Risk Management
7 115 (20.68%) Cloud Security
8 97 (17.45%) Security Monitoring
9 94 (16.91%) Continuous Improvement
10 88 (15.83%) Threat Intelligence
11 85 (15.29%) DevOps
12 73 (13.13%) Incident Management
13 72 (12.95%) Penetration Testing
14 70 (12.59%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 69 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
16 62 (11.15%) ITIL
16 62 (11.15%) Vulnerability Remediation
17 61 (10.97%) Data Loss Prevention
17 61 (10.97%) Threat Detection
18 56 (10.07%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (12.77%) PowerShell
2 69 (12.41%) Python
3 20 (3.60%) Bash
3 20 (3.60%) Kusto Query Language
4 17 (3.06%) C#
5 15 (2.70%) JavaScript
6 12 (2.16%) Go
7 8 (1.44%) SQL
8 3 (0.54%) Perl
8 3 (0.54%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.36%) Java
9 2 (0.36%) PHP
9 2 (0.36%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.18%) Bicep
10 1 (0.18%) C++
10 1 (0.18%) CodeQL
10 1 (0.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 127 (22.84%) CISSP
2 100 (17.99%) Degree
2 100 (17.99%) Security Cleared
3 84 (15.11%) SC Cleared
4 67 (12.05%) CISM
5 61 (10.97%) CompTIA Security+
6 51 (9.17%) CEH
7 40 (7.19%) AWS Certification
8 36 (6.47%) Azure Certification
9 33 (5.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 28 (5.04%) Cisco Certification
11 27 (4.86%) GCIA
12 25 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
13 24 (4.32%) DV Cleared
13 24 (4.32%) GIAC
14 23 (4.14%) GCIH
15 21 (3.78%) CCNA
16 20 (3.60%) CISA
16 20 (3.60%) CompTIA CySA+
17 19 (3.42%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (21.76%) NIST
2 102 (18.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (8.09%) GDPR
4 43 (7.73%) PCI DSS
5 35 (6.29%) GRC
6 33 (5.94%) Cyber Essentials
7 23 (4.14%) COBIT
8 16 (2.88%) NCSC
9 15 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (2.52%) Accessibility
11 13 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 12 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.90%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.90%) SLA
14 4 (0.72%) IASME
15 3 (0.54%) SOC 2
16 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
17 1 (0.18%) FISMA
17 1 (0.18%) GPG13
17 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 50 (8.99%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.62%) Docker
3 3 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.18%) Snort
Systems Management
1 43 (7.73%) QRadar
2 29 (5.22%) Kubernetes
3 27 (4.86%) Terraform
4 18 (3.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (2.70%) CASB
6 11 (1.98%) Nessus
7 10 (1.80%) Graylog
8 8 (1.44%) CSIRT
9 7 (1.26%) FortiGate
10 6 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.72%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 4 (0.72%) McAfee ePO
12 1 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 1 (0.18%) Demisto
Vendors
1 214 (38.49%) Microsoft
2 51 (9.17%) Splunk
3 26 (4.68%) ServiceNow
4 25 (4.50%) Google
5 13 (2.34%) CrowdStrike
6 11 (1.98%) IBM
7 9 (1.62%) Apple
8 8 (1.44%) VMware
9 6 (1.08%) Darktrace
9 6 (1.08%) Intel
9 6 (1.08%) McAfee
10 5 (0.90%) Cisco
10 5 (0.90%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.90%) Rapid7
10 5 (0.90%) Zscaler
11 4 (0.72%) CheckPoint
11 4 (0.72%) LogRhythm
11 4 (0.72%) Tanium
12 3 (0.54%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.54%) Fortinet