Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring SOAR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SOAR over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 646 783 851
Rank change year-on-year +137 +68 +156
Permanent jobs citing SOAR 46 113 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.088% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.095% 0.13% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 30 86 86
10th Percentile £60,625 - £42,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £47,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £52,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.10% -25.00% -3.45%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +40.00% -9.09% -21.99%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

SOAR 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 48,568 84,685 99,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.32% 85.99% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,511 59,837 58,366
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,009 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAR in the UK

SOAR
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SOAR.

Salary trend for SOAR in the UK

SOAR
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOAR over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SOAR in the UK

SOAR
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOAR within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +115 42 £72,500 +20.83% 56
London +108 25 £72,500 -3.33% 27
UK excluding London +145 19 £70,000 +40.00% 37
Work from Home +173 17 £71,250 +51.60% 40
South East +93 9 £72,000 +53.19% 11
Midlands +81 3 - - 7
West Midlands +49 3 - - 7
Scotland +122 2 £62,500 +32.98% 3
North of England +59 2 £80,000 +60.00% 9
East of England +58 2 £72,500 +7.41% 5
North West +14 2 £80,000 +64.95% 8
Wales - 1 £55,000 -

SOAR
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:

Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (10.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (30.43%) Azure
2 10 (21.74%) AWS
3 9 (19.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (8.70%) Entra ID
4 4 (8.70%) GCP
4 4 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (4.35%) IaaS
6 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (4.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (19.57%) Firewall
2 3 (6.52%) DNS
2 3 (6.52%) Network Security
3 2 (4.35%) Internet
3 2 (4.35%) NAS
3 2 (4.35%) SAN
3 2 (4.35%) SD-WAN
3 2 (4.35%) VPN
3 2 (4.35%) WAN
General
1 19 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 12 (26.09%) Legal
3 7 (15.22%) Law
4 5 (10.87%) Finance
5 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.52%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.17%) Automotive
7 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (23.91%) Analyst
2 10 (21.74%) Lead
3 9 (19.57%) Security Analyst
4 7 (15.22%) Security Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) Senior
4 7 (15.22%) SOC Manager
5 5 (10.87%) Security Manager
6 4 (8.70%) Architect
6 4 (8.70%) IT Analyst
6 4 (8.70%) IT Security Analyst
6 4 (8.70%) SOC Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) Incident Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Information Manager
7 3 (6.52%) Information Security Manager
7 3 (6.52%) Security Architect
7 3 (6.52%) SOC Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Information Security Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) IT Security Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Security Analyst
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (36.96%) Security Operations Centre
2 11 (23.91%) Cyber Threat
3 10 (21.74%) Security Posture
4 5 (10.87%) Cyber Defence
4 5 (10.87%) PKI
5 3 (6.52%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (6.52%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (6.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (4.35%) Cyber Security Posture
6 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
6 2 (4.35%) Replication
7 1 (2.17%) Cyberattack
7 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.17%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Windows
2 3 (6.52%) Linux
3 2 (4.35%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (89.13%) SIEM
2 31 (67.39%) Security Operations
3 24 (52.17%) Cybersecurity
4 22 (47.83%) Incident Response
5 21 (45.65%) Information Security
6 17 (36.96%) Threat Intelligence
7 14 (30.43%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 11 (23.91%) Cloud Security
8 11 (23.91%) Threat Detection
9 10 (21.74%) Data Loss Prevention
10 9 (19.57%) Incident Management
10 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (19.57%) Risk Management
11 8 (17.39%) Identity Access Management
11 8 (17.39%) Performance Metrics
11 8 (17.39%) Vulnerability Management
12 7 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (13.04%) DevOps
13 6 (13.04%) Regulatory Compliance
13 6 (13.04%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.04%) PowerShell
1 6 (13.04%) Python
2 4 (8.70%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (4.35%) Bash
3 2 (4.35%) SQL
4 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (23.91%) Degree
2 8 (17.39%) CISSP
3 6 (13.04%) GIAC
3 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
4 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared
5 3 (6.52%) CISM
5 3 (6.52%) GCIH
6 2 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (4.35%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (2.17%) CASP
7 1 (2.17%) CEH
7 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.17%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (26.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (23.91%) NIST
3 7 (15.22%) GDPR
4 6 (13.04%) NCSC
5 5 (10.87%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (10.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (8.70%) SOC 2
7 2 (4.35%) HIPAA
7 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (2.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.35%) Hyper-V
1 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (15.22%) Terraform
2 4 (8.70%) QRadar
3 3 (6.52%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.35%) Ansible
4 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (4.35%) Nessus
5 1 (2.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (2.17%) Demisto
Vendors
1 14 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 9 (19.57%) Splunk
3 7 (15.22%) Palo Alto
4 4 (8.70%) Google
5 3 (6.52%) Cisco
6 2 (4.35%) Dell
6 2 (4.35%) EMC
6 2 (4.35%) FireEye
6 2 (4.35%) SonicWALL
6 2 (4.35%) Tenable
6 2 (4.35%) VMware
7 1 (2.17%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.17%) Darktrace
7 1 (2.17%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.17%) Juniper
7 1 (2.17%) LogRhythm
7 1 (2.17%) McAfee
7 1 (2.17%) Netskope
7 1 (2.17%) Zscaler