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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 412 337 339
Rank change year-on-year -75 +2 +41
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 323 853 965
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.83% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.99% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 227 612 661
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £37,463
25th Percentile £50,197 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.85% -6.09% -4.17%

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 51,417 86,448 93,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.74% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,323 60,550 54,986
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -70 302 £62,500 +2.93% 325
UK excluding London -67 173 £55,000 +1.85% 207
London -25 124 £77,500 +6.90% 146
Work from Home -76 108 £55,298 -7.84% 199
Midlands +18 40 £55,000 +4.76% 22
South East +5 40 £62,500 +19.05% 56
West Midlands +37 38 £55,000 +20.95% 16
North of England -44 32 £60,000 +20.00% 54
South West +47 23 £51,729 -17.23% 24
East of England +29 23 £54,750 -5.05% 30
North West -40 17 £60,000 +20.00% 29
Scotland +76 14 £60,000 +14.29% 21
Yorkshire +28 13 £60,000 +14.29% 21
Wales +42 2 £52,697 +2.82% 2
North East +33 2 £70,000 +55.56% 4
East Midlands +12 2 £57,000 -0.87% 6

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 7 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) C-CURE
1 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 101 (31.27%) Azure
2 48 (14.86%) AWS
3 46 (14.24%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (10.22%) Azure Sentinel
5 23 (7.12%) GCP
6 22 (6.81%) Entra ID
7 15 (4.64%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (3.41%) SaaS
9 9 (2.79%) PaaS
10 8 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.86%) IaaS
13 5 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (1.55%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (1.55%) Power Platform
14 4 (1.24%) Route 53
15 3 (0.93%) Copilot Studio
16 2 (0.62%) Amazon ECS
16 2 (0.62%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 2 (0.62%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 113 (34.98%) Firewall
2 49 (15.17%) Network Security
3 33 (10.22%) VPN
4 32 (9.91%) Intrusion Detection
5 31 (9.60%) TCP/IP
6 23 (7.12%) DNS
7 21 (6.50%) HTTP
7 21 (6.50%) SMTP
8 17 (5.26%) WAN
9 14 (4.33%) Internet
10 13 (4.02%) LAN
11 12 (3.72%) FTP
12 7 (2.17%) DHCP
13 5 (1.55%) NGFW
14 4 (1.24%) HTTPS
14 4 (1.24%) SD-WAN
14 4 (1.24%) VLAN
15 2 (0.62%) DKIM
15 2 (0.62%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.48%) Relational Database
2 4 (1.24%) Power BI
3 1 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (0.62%) GitLab
2 1 (0.31%) Jaeger
2 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
General
1 92 (28.48%) Social Skills
2 58 (17.96%) Finance
3 54 (16.72%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (11.46%) Law
5 30 (9.29%) Retail
6 24 (7.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (5.26%) Legal
8 15 (4.64%) Telecoms
9 11 (3.41%) Pharmaceutical
10 8 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.17%) Banking
12 6 (1.86%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.55%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.55%) Police
14 4 (1.24%) Military
15 3 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.93%) Public Sector
16 2 (0.62%) Games
16 2 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 116 (35.91%) Analyst
2 78 (24.15%) Security Analyst
3 42 (13.00%) Security Engineer
4 34 (10.53%) Lead
4 34 (10.53%) Senior
5 32 (9.91%) SOC Analyst
6 26 (8.05%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 23 (7.12%) Security Manager
8 17 (5.26%) IT Analyst
9 16 (4.95%) Consultant
10 15 (4.64%) Cloud Engineer
11 14 (4.33%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (4.02%) Head of Security
12 13 (4.02%) Operations Manager
13 12 (3.72%) IT Security Analyst
13 12 (3.72%) Operations Analyst
13 12 (3.72%) Security Operations Analyst
14 11 (3.41%) Automation Engineer
14 11 (3.41%) Operational Security Manager
14 11 (3.41%) Security Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.41%) LDAP
2 2 (0.62%) HTML
2 2 (0.62%) Leaflet
3 1 (0.31%) .NET
3 1 (0.31%) CSS
3 1 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.31%) Middleware
3 1 (0.31%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (0.31%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.31%) Spring
3 1 (0.31%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 91 (28.17%) Security Operations Centre
2 65 (20.12%) Security Posture
3 58 (17.96%) Management Information System
4 50 (15.48%) Cyber Threat
5 22 (6.81%) Cyber Defence
6 13 (4.02%) Client/Server
7 12 (3.72%) PKI
8 11 (3.41%) Hedge funds
9 10 (3.10%) Cyberattack
9 10 (3.10%) Private Cloud
9 10 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (2.48%) Cloud Security Posture
10 8 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (2.48%) Operational Technology
11 6 (1.86%) Cyber Security Posture
12 5 (1.55%) CSOC
12 5 (1.55%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.55%) Onboarding
13 4 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (1.24%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (15.48%) Windows
2 17 (5.26%) Linux
3 7 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.62%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.62%) Unix
5 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.31%) VMS
5 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (58.20%) Cybersecurity
2 156 (48.30%) Incident Response
3 151 (46.75%) SIEM
4 133 (41.18%) Information Security
5 87 (26.93%) Vulnerability Management
6 69 (21.36%) Risk Management
7 63 (19.50%) Problem-Solving
8 57 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 53 (16.41%) Incident Management
9 53 (16.41%) Threat Intelligence
10 51 (15.79%) Cloud Security
11 49 (15.17%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 45 (13.93%) Data Loss Prevention
13 44 (13.62%) Data Protection
14 43 (13.31%) Threat Detection
15 40 (12.38%) Vulnerability Assessment
16 34 (10.53%) MITRE ATT&CK
16 34 (10.53%) Security Monitoring
17 33 (10.22%) Identity Access Management
18 25 (7.74%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 59 (18.27%) PowerShell
2 58 (17.96%) Python
3 25 (7.74%) Bash
4 11 (3.41%) Kusto Query Language
5 10 (3.10%) C#
6 8 (2.48%) Perl
7 6 (1.86%) C++
8 4 (1.24%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.93%) Search Processing Language
9 3 (0.93%) SQL
10 1 (0.31%) Java
10 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 68 (21.05%) CISSP
2 66 (20.43%) Degree
3 54 (16.72%) Security Cleared
4 45 (13.93%) CompTIA Security+
5 44 (13.62%) CISM
6 36 (11.15%) SC Cleared
7 30 (9.29%) CEH
8 29 (8.98%) GCIH
9 20 (6.19%) DV Cleared
9 20 (6.19%) GCIA
10 19 (5.88%) CRISC
10 19 (5.88%) GIAC
11 18 (5.57%) OSCP
12 14 (4.33%) AWS Certification
13 13 (4.02%) SANS
14 12 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (2.79%) Azure Certification
15 9 (2.79%) CISA
16 8 (2.48%) PMI Certification
17 7 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (21.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 67 (20.74%) NIST
3 34 (10.53%) GDPR
4 24 (7.43%) COBIT
5 20 (6.19%) Cyber Essentials
5 20 (6.19%) PCI DSS
6 16 (4.95%) GRC
7 12 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 5 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (1.24%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.93%) NCSC
10 3 (0.93%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.62%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.62%) SLA
12 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.31%) QA
12 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.31%) SOC 1
System Software
1 27 (8.36%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.55%) Docker
4 1 (0.31%) Firmware
4 1 (0.31%) Snort
4 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (7.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (6.19%) QRadar
3 13 (4.02%) Kubernetes
4 8 (2.48%) Terraform
5 3 (0.93%) Nessus
6 2 (0.62%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.31%) CASB
7 1 (0.31%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.31%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.31%) Demisto
7 1 (0.31%) Graylog
7 1 (0.31%) Kiali
7 1 (0.31%) Kibana
7 1 (0.31%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.31%) Puppet
7 1 (0.31%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.31%) SCCM
Vendors
1 123 (38.08%) Microsoft
2 41 (12.69%) Splunk
3 15 (4.64%) Google
3 15 (4.64%) Tenable
4 13 (4.02%) ServiceNow
5 11 (3.41%) VMware
6 8 (2.48%) CrowdStrike
7 5 (1.55%) Cisco
8 3 (0.93%) LogRhythm
8 3 (0.93%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.62%) AlienVault
9 2 (0.62%) Checkmarx
9 2 (0.62%) Darktrace
9 2 (0.62%) IBM
9 2 (0.62%) Juniper
9 2 (0.62%) McAfee
10 1 (0.31%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.31%) Proofpoint
10 1 (0.31%) Qualys
10 1 (0.31%) SAP