SOAR Jobs with Work from Home Options

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for SOAR skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SOAR over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 548 605 751
Rank change year-on-year +57 +146 -205
Permanent jobs citing SOAR 38 58 101
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.14% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.15% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 35 41 86
10th Percentile - £42,874 £34,500
25th Percentile - £47,500 £60,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% -10.34% +3.57%
75th Percentile £48,750 £75,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £87,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £70,000 £71,750
% change year-on-year -25.00% -2.44% +14.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

SOAR is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,775 39,955 66,612
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.47% 96.10% 96.96%
Number of salaries quoted 23,345 27,739 41,261
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SOAR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SOAR trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SOAR.

SOAR salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SOAR over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

SOAR salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (2.63%) Apache
1 1 (2.63%) nginx
1 1 (2.63%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 32 (84.21%) Azure
2 28 (73.68%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.89%) IaaS
3 3 (7.89%) PaaS
3 3 (7.89%) SaaS
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 24 (63.16%) DKIM
1 24 (63.16%) DMARC
1 24 (63.16%) DNS
1 24 (63.16%) Internet
2 4 (10.53%) Firewall
3 3 (7.89%) Broadband
3 3 (7.89%) Network Security
4 1 (2.63%) HTTP
4 1 (2.63%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.63%) InfluxDB
1 1 (2.63%) MySQL
1 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (18.42%) Finance
Job Titles
1 28 (73.68%) Analyst
1 28 (73.68%) Security Analyst
2 24 (63.16%) Information Analyst
2 24 (63.16%) Information Security Analyst
3 7 (18.42%) Security Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Operations Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Security Operations Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) SOC Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) IT Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) IT Security Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Lead
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Head of Information
7 1 (2.63%) Head of Security
7 1 (2.63%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Operations Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) LAMP
1 1 (2.63%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 27 (71.05%) Cyberattack
2 4 (10.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (7.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 3 (7.89%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (7.89%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.63%) Clustering
5 1 (2.63%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.63%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.79%) Linux
2 5 (13.16%) Windows
3 2 (5.26%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.63%) CentOS
4 1 (2.63%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (97.37%) SIEM
2 30 (78.95%) Information Security
3 27 (71.05%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 24 (63.16%) Cloud Security
4 24 (63.16%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 12 (31.58%) Security Operations
6 11 (28.95%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (26.32%) Analytics
8 8 (21.05%) Incident Response
9 5 (13.16%) DevOps
9 5 (13.16%) DevSecOps
10 4 (10.53%) Application Security
10 4 (10.53%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 4 (10.53%) Identity Access Management
10 4 (10.53%) Incident Management
10 4 (10.53%) Malware Detection/Protection
10 4 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (10.53%) Threat Intelligence
10 4 (10.53%) Use Case
10 4 (10.53%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.63%) Bash
1 1 (2.63%) Go
1 1 (2.63%) Java
1 1 (2.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (7.89%) Degree
2 1 (2.63%) CREST Certified
2 1 (2.63%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (13.16%) NIST
3 4 (10.53%) SOC 2
4 3 (7.89%) PCI DSS
5 2 (5.26%) NCSC
6 1 (2.63%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (63.16%) CASB
2 1 (2.63%) Ansible
2 1 (2.63%) Cacti
2 1 (2.63%) Grafana
2 1 (2.63%) HAProxy
2 1 (2.63%) Icinga
2 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.63%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.63%) Puppet
2 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (23.68%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.63%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (2.63%) IBM
2 1 (2.63%) Qualys
2 1 (2.63%) Splunk