Security Operations Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Operations Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Operations Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £88,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 September 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 656 609 797
Rank change year-on-year -47 +188 -45
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Operations Manager 14 19 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.051% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.054% 0.066%
Number of salaries quoted 10 18 42
10th Percentile £42,738 £50,359 £57,750
25th Percentile £64,688 £52,313 £62,031
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,750 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.00% -10.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £92,500 £72,813 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £81,625 -
UK median annual salary £90,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +28.57% -6.67% -6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 56,175 35,323 68,428
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.45% 94.08% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 30,795 24,269 41,326
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Security Operations Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Security Operations Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations Manager in the UK excluding London

Security Operations Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Operations Manager in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Security Operations Manager in the UK excluding London

Security Operations Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Operations Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Operations Manager in the UK excluding London

Security Operations Manager
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Operations Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 September 2024. 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
South West +2 7 £90,000 +68.22%
Scotland -31 3 - - 1
West Midlands -22 2 £45,475 -11.06%
Midlands -29 2 £45,475 -11.12%
North of England - 2 £68,750 -
Yorkshire - 1 £72,500 -
North West - 1 £65,000 -
Security Operations Manager
UK

Security Operations Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 September 2024, Security Operations Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Security Operations Manager in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 11 (78.57%) Incident Response
3 9 (64.29%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (64.29%) Azure
4 8 (57.14%) Vulnerability Management
4 8 (57.14%) Firewall
5 6 (42.86%) SIEM
6 5 (35.71%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (35.71%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 5 (35.71%) Mimecast
6 5 (35.71%) Zscaler
7 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (28.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 4 (28.57%) Web Filtering
7 4 (28.57%) Windows
7 4 (28.57%) Kalman Filter
7 4 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
8 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
8 3 (21.43%) Penetration Testing
8 3 (21.43%) Information Security
8 3 (21.43%) Agile
8 3 (21.43%) Service Management
8 3 (21.43%) Security Monitoring
8 3 (21.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
8 3 (21.43%) Threat Management
8 3 (21.43%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 3 (21.43%) Security Posture

Security Operations Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (35.71%) Mimecast
3 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) Internet
2 2 (14.29%) Network Security
General
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Brand Awareness
2 1 (7.14%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Security Posture
2 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 2 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 11 (78.57%) Incident Response
3 9 (64.29%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (57.14%) Vulnerability Management
5 6 (42.86%) SIEM
6 5 (35.71%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (28.57%) Kalman Filter
7 4 (28.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 4 (28.57%) Web Filtering
8 3 (21.43%) Agile
8 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
8 3 (21.43%) Information Security
8 3 (21.43%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 3 (21.43%) Penetration Testing
8 3 (21.43%) Purple Team
8 3 (21.43%) Red Team
8 3 (21.43%) Security Monitoring
8 3 (21.43%) Threat Management
8 3 (21.43%) Vulnerability Scanning
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (21.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (14.29%) CASB
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Zscaler