SOC Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Operations Centre Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Operations Centre Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £76,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 754 729 840
Rank change year-on-year -25 +111 -147
Permanent jobs requiring a SOC Manager 14 7 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.018% 0.012% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.019% 0.014% 0.008%
Number of salaries quoted 10 6 5
10th Percentile £65,774 £68,750 £71,600
25th Percentile £67,750 £70,313 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £77,500 £77,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.61% +0.65% +6.21%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £83,000
90th Percentile £97,500 - £84,200
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +3.23% +1.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

SOC Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC Manager in the UK excluding London

SOC Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for SOC Manager in the UK excluding London

SOC Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOC Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SOC Manager in the UK excluding London

SOC 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 SOC Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Midlands -11 4 £92,500 +23.33%
West Midlands -12 4 £92,500 +23.33%
South West - 4 - -
North of England +32 3 £75,000 -6.25%
Yorkshire - 3 £75,000 -
South East - 2 £68,250 -
East of England -1 1 £70,000 -3.45%
SOC Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, SOC 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 SOC Manager in the job title.

1 12 (85.71%) Security Operations
2 7 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 6 (42.86%) Information Security
3 6 (42.86%) Incident Management
4 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
4 5 (35.71%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (35.71%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 4 (28.57%) Service Catalogue
5 4 (28.57%) Protective Monitoring
5 4 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (28.57%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 4 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (28.57%) Cyber Intelligence
5 4 (28.57%) Threat Intelligence
5 4 (28.57%) Capacity Management
5 4 (28.57%) Problem Management
5 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
5 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
5 4 (28.57%) Games
5 4 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (28.57%) ISO 9001
5 4 (28.57%) Change Management
6 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
6 3 (21.43%) Cyberattack
6 3 (21.43%) Incident Response
7 2 (14.29%) Supplier Management
7 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
7 2 (14.29%) SIEM
8 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (7.14%) Splunk

SOC 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:

General
1 4 (28.57%) Games
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (21.43%) Cyberattack
4 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Security Operations
2 6 (42.86%) Incident Management
2 6 (42.86%) Information Security
3 5 (35.71%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (35.71%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 4 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (28.57%) Capacity Management
4 4 (28.57%) Change Management
4 4 (28.57%) Cyber Intelligence
4 4 (28.57%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 4 (28.57%) Problem Management
4 4 (28.57%) Protective Monitoring
4 4 (28.57%) Service Catalogue
4 4 (28.57%) Threat Intelligence
5 3 (21.43%) Incident Response
6 2 (14.29%) SIEM
6 2 (14.29%) Supplier Management
6 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
7 1 (7.14%) ITSM
7 1 (7.14%) Knowledge Management
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) ISO 9001
1 4 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Splunk