Protective Monitoring Jobs

Protective Monitoring
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Protective Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Protective Monitoring over the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 718 861 799
Rank change year-on-year +143 -62 +416
Permanent jobs citing Protective Monitoring 5 45 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.040% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.010% 0.049% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 5 14 15
10th Percentile £52,750 £31,325 £35,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,750 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.64% +12.98% +10.64%
75th Percentile £68,750 £64,729 £65,625
90th Percentile £75,500 £76,125 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +17.39% +43.75% -27.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Protective Monitoring falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,917 91,690 87,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 92.38% 82.10% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 26,105 63,362 53,134
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £39,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year - -9.54% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £80,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,991 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Protective Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Protective Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Protective Monitoring in the UK

Protective Monitoring
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Protective Monitoring.

Salary trend for Protective Monitoring in the UK

Protective Monitoring
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Protective Monitoring over the 6 months to 20 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Protective Monitoring in the UK

Protective Monitoring
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Protective Monitoring within the UK over the 6 months to 20 June 2025. 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 +141 5 £65,000 +13.04% 27
London +107 3 £65,000 +5.97% 7
Work from Home +88 3 £65,000 +5.97% 17
UK excluding London +144 1 £67,500 +17.39% 21
South West +93 1 £67,500 +107.69% 5

Protective Monitoring
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 2 (40.00%) Law
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) SOC Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) CSOC
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (20.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (20.00%) Insider Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (60.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (60.00%) SIEM
3 3 (60.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Open Source
4 2 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Management
4 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (40.00%) Trend Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Use Case
5 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
5 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
5 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (20.00%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) CISA
3 1 (20.00%) CISSP
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) GCIA
3 1 (20.00%) GCIH
3 1 (20.00%) GIAC
3 1 (20.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (20.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GPG13
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) RMADS
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Snort
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) LogRhythm
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk
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