Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 775 841 1042
Rank change year-on-year +66 +201 -200
Permanent jobs citing SOAR 115 136 202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.14% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 83 86 156
10th Percentile - £31,250 £39,625
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,500 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £69,412 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.97% -2.24% +23.48%
75th Percentile £76,875 £87,500 £100,938
90th Percentile £95,500 £101,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -28.57% +29.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 2024.

Salary histogram for SOAR in the UK

SOAR
Top 13 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 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
England +66 103 £57,500 -17.86% 22
UK excluding London +1 88 £50,000 - 14
Work from Home +58 38 £47,000 -27.69% 9
North of England +69 29 £50,000 +17.65% 5
South East -1 29 £47,000 -14.55% 7
London +62 25 £75,000 -11.76% 11
North West +24 20 £48,500 -7.62% 1
South West -15 14 £50,000 +12.88%
Scotland -54 12 £47,000 +6.74% 2
Yorkshire +81 9 £50,000 +53.85% 4
West Midlands +12 3 £83,750 +15.52%
Midlands -11 3 £83,750 +19.64%
East of England +4 1 £67,500 +50.00%

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.74%) MS Project Server
2 1 (0.87%) Apache
2 1 (0.87%) Confluence
2 1 (0.87%) nginx
2 1 (0.87%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 62 (53.91%) Azure
2 38 (33.04%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (16.52%) AWS
4 9 (7.83%) SaaS
5 8 (6.96%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (6.09%) PaaS
7 6 (5.22%) IaaS
8 5 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.87%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.87%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 34 (29.57%) Internet
2 31 (26.96%) Firewall
3 26 (22.61%) DKIM
3 26 (22.61%) DMARC
3 26 (22.61%) DNS
4 10 (8.70%) TCP/IP
5 8 (6.96%) Network Security
6 6 (5.22%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (4.35%) VPN
8 3 (2.61%) Broadband
9 2 (1.74%) HTTPS
9 2 (1.74%) SSL
9 2 (1.74%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.87%) HTTP
10 1 (0.87%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.87%) InfluxDB
1 1 (0.87%) MySQL
1 1 (0.87%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.87%) JIRA
1 1 (0.87%) Snyk
General
1 31 (26.96%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.65%) Finance
3 12 (10.43%) Games
4 8 (6.96%) Marketing
5 4 (3.48%) Legal
5 4 (3.48%) Military
6 3 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.74%) Retail
8 1 (0.87%) Banking
8 1 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (46.09%) Analyst
2 31 (26.96%) Security Analyst
3 26 (22.61%) Information Analyst
3 26 (22.61%) Information Security Analyst
4 16 (13.91%) Security Engineer
4 16 (13.91%) Senior
5 11 (9.57%) Architect
5 11 (9.57%) Security Architect
5 11 (9.57%) SOC Analyst
6 10 (8.70%) Lead
7 8 (6.96%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (6.09%) Operations Analyst
8 7 (6.09%) Senior Security Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) Cloud Architect
9 6 (5.22%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 6 (5.22%) Security Manager
9 6 (5.22%) Security Solutions Architect
9 6 (5.22%) SOC Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.35%) Security Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.35%) Web Services
2 1 (0.87%) LAMP
2 1 (0.87%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 38 (33.04%) Cyberattack
2 26 (22.61%) Security Operations Centre
3 20 (17.39%) Cyber Threat
4 15 (13.04%) Management Information System
5 11 (9.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 9 (7.83%) Operational Technology
6 9 (7.83%) SCADA
6 9 (7.83%) Security Posture
6 9 (7.83%) Social Media
7 7 (6.09%) Cyber Defence
8 6 (5.22%) Public Cloud
9 5 (4.35%) Data Centre
9 5 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (3.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (1.74%) Cloud Native
12 1 (0.87%) Blog
12 1 (0.87%) Cybercrime
12 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.87%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.87%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 26 (22.61%) Windows
2 22 (19.13%) Linux
3 5 (4.35%) Kali Linux
4 4 (3.48%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.61%) Mac OS X
6 2 (1.74%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.87%) CentOS
7 1 (0.87%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (90.43%) SIEM
2 64 (55.65%) Cybersecurity
2 64 (55.65%) Incident Response
3 54 (46.96%) Security Operations
4 49 (42.61%) Information Security
5 44 (38.26%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 31 (26.96%) Cloud Security
7 28 (24.35%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 27 (23.48%) Threat Intelligence
9 25 (21.74%) Vulnerability Management
10 23 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 18 (15.65%) Identity Access Management
12 17 (14.78%) Analytics
13 16 (13.91%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 15 (13.04%) Data Loss Prevention
14 15 (13.04%) Security Architecture
15 12 (10.43%) Computer Science
15 12 (10.43%) Incident Management
15 12 (10.43%) Penetration Testing
15 12 (10.43%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 24 (20.87%) Python
2 11 (9.57%) PowerShell
3 7 (6.09%) Bash
4 2 (1.74%) Go
5 1 (0.87%) Java
5 1 (0.87%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 17 (14.78%) CISSP
2 16 (13.91%) Degree
3 11 (9.57%) Security Cleared
4 10 (8.70%) SC Cleared
5 8 (6.96%) Azure Certification
5 8 (6.96%) CEH
6 7 (6.09%) CISM
7 6 (5.22%) DV Cleared
8 5 (4.35%) AWS Certification
8 5 (4.35%) GIAC
9 3 (2.61%) CCSP
9 3 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (2.61%) GCIH
9 3 (2.61%) GSEC
10 2 (1.74%) CASP
10 2 (1.74%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.74%) GCFA
10 2 (1.74%) GCFE
10 2 (1.74%) GREM
10 2 (1.74%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 17 (14.78%) NIST
2 9 (7.83%) PCI DSS
3 7 (6.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (3.48%) NCSC
4 4 (3.48%) SOC 2
5 3 (2.61%) GRC
6 2 (1.74%) GDPR
7 1 (0.87%) IASME
7 1 (0.87%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (22.61%) CASB
2 9 (7.83%) QRadar
3 5 (4.35%) Suricata
4 2 (1.74%) CSIRT
4 2 (1.74%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.87%) Anchore
5 1 (0.87%) Ansible
5 1 (0.87%) Cacti
5 1 (0.87%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.87%) Grafana
5 1 (0.87%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.87%) Icinga
5 1 (0.87%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.87%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.87%) Puppet
5 1 (0.87%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (33.91%) Microsoft
2 15 (13.04%) Splunk
3 9 (7.83%) Darktrace
4 6 (5.22%) PagerDuty
4 6 (5.22%) Palo Alto
5 5 (4.35%) Cisco
5 5 (4.35%) Juniper
6 2 (1.74%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.87%) IBM
7 1 (0.87%) Intel
7 1 (0.87%) Netskope
7 1 (0.87%) Qualys
7 1 (0.87%) Zscaler