Security Operations Centre Job Trends in West London

Security Operations Centre
London > West London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in permanent job vacancies in West London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 73 56
Rank change year-on-year +30 -17 -
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations Centre 1 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs in West London 0.32% 0.31% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.89% 0.83% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85,000 £125,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £130,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +116.67% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £135,000 £62,500
90th Percentile - - -
London median annual salary £56,125 £57,654 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% -3.91% -18.64%

All Generic Skills
West London

Security Operations Centre falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in West London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 112 240 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West London 36.25% 36.64% 44.39%
Number of salaries quoted 68 86 159
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,750 £34,580
25th Percentile £32,750 £45,000 £39,043
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £68,750 £60,313 £66,281
90th Percentile £87,500 £79,375 £87,500
London median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £76,383
% change year-on-year -3.13% +4.74% +1.84%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Security Operations Centre relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West London.

Security Operations Centre job vacancy trend in West London

Security Operations Centre
Salary Trend in West London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Security Operations Centre.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Security Operations Centre

Security Operations Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Modbus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Security Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Security Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Manager
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) GCFA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) NIST