Situational Awareness Jobs

Situational Awareness
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Situational Awareness skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Situational Awareness over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 658 857 879
Rank change year-on-year +199 +22 +197
Permanent jobs citing Situational Awareness 63 64 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.059% 0.072%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.071% 0.075%
Number of salaries quoted 51 42 32
10th Percentile - £26,250 £42,639
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £45,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £58,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% +6.82% -18.52%
75th Percentile £59,375 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £78,750 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,793 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.38% -4.35% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Situational Awareness 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 52,267 89,997 88,845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 92.93% 82.99% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 26,121 62,089 53,799
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,500 £33,850
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -9.54% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,236 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,584 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.17% -9.09% +4.76%

Situational Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Situational Awareness as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Situational Awareness in the UK

Situational Awareness
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Situational Awareness.

Salary trend for Situational Awareness in the UK

Situational Awareness
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Situational Awareness over the 6 months to 10 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Situational Awareness in the UK

Situational Awareness
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Situational Awareness within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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 +172 56 £54,793 -6.74% 38
UK excluding London +191 47 £54,793 -0.38% 25
North of England - 31 £54,793 - 5
North West - 31 £54,793 - 2
Work from Home +109 22 £54,793 -15.70% 14
London +135 15 £72,500 -3.33% 17
South East +62 8 £88,250 +60.45% 12
Scotland +108 7 £48,507 - 5
Midlands +78 1 - - 2
West Midlands +67 1 - -

Situational Awareness
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 5 (7.94%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 27 (42.86%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (31.75%) Simulink
3 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (7.94%) InDesign
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.52%) Azure
2 5 (7.94%) Azure Sentinel
2 5 (7.94%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.59%) Azure AI
3 1 (1.59%) PaaS
3 1 (1.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) Firewall
1 1 (1.59%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.94%) Power BI
1 5 (7.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (9.52%) NDoc
General
1 33 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 20 (31.75%) Aerospace
3 13 (20.63%) Finance
4 10 (15.87%) Telecoms
5 7 (11.11%) Legal
5 7 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (9.52%) Military
7 3 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.59%) Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (47.62%) Senior
1 30 (47.62%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 30 (47.62%) Systems Engineer
2 20 (31.75%) Lead
2 20 (31.75%) Lead Systems Engineer
2 20 (31.75%) Team Leader
3 10 (15.87%) Analyst
3 10 (15.87%) Electronics Engineer
3 10 (15.87%) Senior Electronics Engineer
4 6 (9.52%) Scrum Master
5 5 (7.94%) Developer
5 5 (7.94%) Incident Manager
5 5 (7.94%) Junior
5 5 (7.94%) Junior Developer
5 5 (7.94%) Junior Python Developer
5 5 (7.94%) Python Developer
6 3 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Security Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.94%) NumPy
1 5 (7.94%) Pandas
2 3 (4.76%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.59%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.05%) Management Information System
2 7 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (7.94%) Fixed Income
3 5 (7.94%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.94%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.59%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.52%) Linux
1 6 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.86%) Agile
2 25 (39.68%) Coaching
2 25 (39.68%) Project Management
3 20 (31.75%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 20 (31.75%) Safety Engineering
3 20 (31.75%) Software Delivery
3 20 (31.75%) SysML
3 20 (31.75%) System Testing
3 20 (31.75%) Systems Engineering
3 20 (31.75%) Technical Leadership
4 13 (20.63%) Business Continuity
4 13 (20.63%) Line Management
5 11 (17.46%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (17.46%) Incident Response
6 10 (15.87%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (15.87%) Threat Detection
7 9 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (11.11%) Conflict Resolution
8 7 (11.11%) Decision-Making
8 7 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.11%) Python
2 5 (7.94%) Kusto Query Language
2 5 (7.94%) SQL
3 3 (4.76%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.59%) Perl
4 1 (1.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (31.75%) BPSS Clearance
2 18 (28.57%) Degree
3 10 (15.87%) Security Cleared
4 9 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 6 (9.52%) CISSP
6 5 (7.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (7.94%) GCIA
6 5 (7.94%) GCIH
6 5 (7.94%) OSCE
6 5 (7.94%) OSCP
6 5 (7.94%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 5 (7.94%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 4 (6.35%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.59%) CBAP
8 1 (1.59%) CEH
8 1 (1.59%) CISM
8 1 (1.59%) GIAC
8 1 (1.59%) ISEB
8 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 5 (7.94%) CSIRT
1 5 (7.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 20 (31.75%) MathWorks
3 5 (7.94%) Adobe
3 5 (7.94%) ArcSight
4 1 (1.59%) IBM
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