Security Engineer Jobs in Bristol

Security Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Security Engineer salary in Bristol is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 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
18 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 147 152 162
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 14 26 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.45% 0.96% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 1.04% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 11 23 15
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,577 £42,000
25th Percentile £33,125 £37,885 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +8.23% +15.79%
75th Percentile £62,833 £62,833 £66,250
90th Percentile - £76,533 £70,230
South West median annual salary £41,206 £59,526 £50,000
% change year-on-year -30.78% +19.05% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 3,006 2,507 3,223
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.75% 92.92% 97.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,238 1,574 2,249
10th Percentile £33,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% +12.90%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,476 £85,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +11.11%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Bristol

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in Bristol

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 18 April 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 Bristol region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (35.71%) Agile
1 5 (35.71%) Firewall
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) PaaS
2 4 (28.57%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Terraform
3 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
3 3 (21.43%) Docker
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) GCP
3 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 3 (21.43%) Public Cloud
3 3 (21.43%) Palo Alto
3 3 (21.43%) GitHub
3 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
3 3 (21.43%) Cisco
3 3 (21.43%) CCNA
3 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (21.43%) Sophos
3 3 (21.43%) Forcepoint
3 3 (21.43%) Banking
3 3 (21.43%) Google
3 3 (21.43%) Use Case
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) WatchGuard
3 3 (21.43%) Network Security

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) PaaS
3 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) GCP
3 3 (21.43%) GitHub
4 2 (14.29%) SaaS
5 1 (7.14%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) Firewall
2 3 (21.43%) Network Security
3 1 (7.14%) Internet
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (21.43%) Banking
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
1 3 (21.43%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
3 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
3 3 (21.43%) Use Case
4 2 (14.29%) Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) Fintech
4 2 (14.29%) Security Operations
4 2 (14.29%) Security Testing
4 2 (14.29%) SIEM
5 1 (7.14%) Data Science
5 1 (7.14%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 1 (7.14%) Runbook
5 1 (7.14%) Synthetic Environment
5 1 (7.14%) Threat Detection
5 1 (7.14%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) CCNA
1 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
1 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) CASB
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Cisco
1 3 (21.43%) Forcepoint
1 3 (21.43%) Google
1 3 (21.43%) Palo Alto
1 3 (21.43%) Sophos
1 3 (21.43%) WatchGuard
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
32 Security Engineer jobs in the South West