Security Engineer Jobs in Birmingham

Security Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Security Engineer salary in Birmingham is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 129 170
Rank change year-on-year -4 +41 -36
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 14 13 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.51% 0.65% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.70% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 11 6 16
10th Percentile £35,920 £54,000 £43,118
25th Percentile £39,335 £55,000 £45,467
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,625 £67,500
90th Percentile - £77,500 £70,625
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £46,000 £57,483
% change year-on-year +25.00% -19.98% +4.51%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 2,570 1,859 2,996
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.28% 93.51% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,097 1,426 2,314
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,988 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £69,914 £71,250 £70,563
90th Percentile £84,964 £82,500 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings that featured Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Birmingham

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Security Engineer in Birmingham

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in Birmingham

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Security Engineer 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 Birmingham region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (35.71%) Python
1 5 (35.71%) Security Architecture
1 5 (35.71%) NIST
1 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (35.71%) Incident Response
2 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
2 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
3 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (21.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudTrail
3 3 (21.43%) AWS Certification
3 3 (21.43%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (21.43%) Serverless
3 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (21.43%) SIEM
3 3 (21.43%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (21.43%) NCSC
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 3 (21.43%) PropTech
4 2 (14.29%) Log Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) Application Security
4 2 (14.29%) SOAR

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 3 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (21.43%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
1 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudTrail
1 3 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (21.43%) Serverless
1 3 (21.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 2 (14.29%) Wireshark
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
1 2 (14.29%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) PropTech
2 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (14.29%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Incident Response
1 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (35.71%) Security Architecture
2 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
2 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps
3 3 (21.43%) SIEM
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (21.43%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (14.29%) Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Digital Forensics
4 2 (14.29%) Information Security
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) ITIL
4 2 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Risk Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Security Operations
4 2 (14.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) AWS Certification
2 2 (14.29%) CEH
2 2 (14.29%) CISSP
2 2 (14.29%) GCFA
2 2 (14.29%) GCFE
2 2 (14.29%) GCIH
2 2 (14.29%) GREM
2 2 (14.29%) OSCP
2 2 (14.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) NIST
2 3 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (21.43%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) CSIRT
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) CASB