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

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 684 768 826
Rank change year-on-year +84 +58 +209
Permanent jobs citing SOAR 45 115 135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.080% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.086% 0.14% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 28 83 85
10th Percentile £59,375 - £31,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £47,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -28.57% -1.41%
75th Percentile £76,875 £76,875 £87,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,500 £101,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +44.00% - -28.57%

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 52,544 85,078 94,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.81% 85.26% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 26,695 59,840 55,939
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,071 £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 £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -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 18 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 18 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 +68 41 £73,250 +27.39% 71
UK excluding London +110 22 £72,000 +44.00% 43
London +110 21 £75,000 - 30
Work from Home +106 15 £70,000 +48.94% 40
South East +71 10 £72,000 +53.19% 20
North of England +20 4 £80,000 +60.00% 13
North West -17 4 £80,000 +64.95% 5
Midlands +64 3 - - 3
West Midlands +48 3 - - 2
Scotland +102 2 £62,500 +32.98% 1
East of England +40 2 £72,500 +7.41% 7
Wales - 1 £55,000 - 1

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 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (33.33%) Azure
2 11 (24.44%) AWS
3 9 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (11.11%) GCP
5 4 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (8.89%) Entra ID
5 4 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (4.44%) IaaS
6 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (4.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (22.22%) Firewall
2 4 (8.89%) DNS
3 3 (6.67%) Network Security
4 2 (4.44%) Internet
4 2 (4.44%) NAS
4 2 (4.44%) SAN
4 2 (4.44%) SD-WAN
4 2 (4.44%) VPN
4 2 (4.44%) WAN
General
1 18 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.78%) Legal
3 5 (11.11%) Finance
3 5 (11.11%) Law
4 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.22%) Automotive
6 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (22.22%) Analyst
2 8 (17.78%) Security Analyst
2 8 (17.78%) Senior
2 8 (17.78%) SOC Manager
3 7 (15.56%) Lead
3 7 (15.56%) Security Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Consultant
4 4 (8.89%) Incident Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Security Manager
4 4 (8.89%) SOC Analyst
4 4 (8.89%) SOC Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) IT Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) IT Security Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Presales Consultant
5 3 (6.67%) Security Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Security Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Security Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (37.78%) Security Operations Centre
2 11 (24.44%) Security Posture
3 10 (22.22%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (13.33%) Cyber Defence
5 5 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 5 (11.11%) PKI
6 4 (8.89%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (4.44%) Blog
8 2 (4.44%) Cyber Security Posture
8 2 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
8 2 (4.44%) Replication
9 1 (2.22%) Cyberattack
9 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
9 1 (2.22%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Windows
2 3 (6.67%) Linux
3 2 (4.44%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.44%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (88.89%) SIEM
2 28 (62.22%) Security Operations
3 25 (55.56%) Cybersecurity
4 24 (53.33%) Incident Response
5 18 (40.00%) Information Security
6 15 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
7 13 (28.89%) Cloud Security
7 13 (28.89%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 11 (24.44%) Data Loss Prevention
9 10 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
9 10 (22.22%) Threat Detection
9 10 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
10 8 (17.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (17.78%) Performance Metrics
10 8 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (15.56%) DevOps
11 7 (15.56%) Incident Management
11 7 (15.56%) Regulatory Compliance
11 7 (15.56%) Risk Management
12 6 (13.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.33%) PowerShell
1 6 (13.33%) Python
2 4 (8.89%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (4.44%) Bash
3 2 (4.44%) SQL
4 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Degree
1 8 (17.78%) GIAC
2 6 (13.33%) CISSP
2 6 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.89%) CISM
4 4 (8.89%) GCIH
5 2 (4.44%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (4.44%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (2.22%) CASP
6 1 (2.22%) CEH
6 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (28.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (26.67%) NIST
3 7 (15.56%) GDPR
4 6 (13.33%) NCSC
5 5 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (8.89%) SOC 2
7 2 (4.44%) HIPAA
7 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (2.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.44%) Hyper-V
1 2 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (15.56%) Terraform
2 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.89%) QRadar
3 2 (4.44%) Ansible
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.44%) Nessus
4 1 (2.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (2.22%) Demisto
Vendors
1 15 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.00%) Splunk
3 7 (15.56%) Palo Alto
4 4 (8.89%) Google
5 3 (6.67%) Cisco
6 2 (4.44%) Dell
6 2 (4.44%) EMC
6 2 (4.44%) FireEye
6 2 (4.44%) SonicWALL
6 2 (4.44%) Tenable
6 2 (4.44%) VMware
7 1 (2.22%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.22%) Darktrace
7 1 (2.22%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.22%) Juniper
7 1 (2.22%) LogRhythm
7 1 (2.22%) McAfee
7 1 (2.22%) Netskope
7 1 (2.22%) Zscaler