The first table below looks at the demand for the Security Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Security Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Engineer
Rank 262 309 316
Rank change year-on-year
+47 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 51 24 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.434% 0.181% 0.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.468% 0.194% 0.077%
Number of salaries quoted 37 24 7
Average salary £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.32% +2.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £39,750 £49,000
10% offered a salary of more than £68,500 £61,900 £56,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.88% -
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10905 12358 14219
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.89% 93.12% 93.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9400 11235 12819
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,500 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Security Engineer
London

Security Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Security Engineer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Security Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Security Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Security Engineer across the City of London region.

City of London Security Engineer Salary Trend

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Security Engineer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London Security Engineer Salary Histogram

Security Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Security Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Security Engineer in their job title.

1 40 (47.62%) Firewall
2 35 (41.67%) Cisco
3 33 (39.29%) Cisco Certification
3 33 (39.29%) Network Security
4 31 (36.90%) Information Security
5 30 (35.71%) CheckPoint
6 25 (29.76%) Juniper
7 22 (26.19%) CCNP
7 22 (26.19%) CISSP
8 20 (23.81%) Windows
8 20 (23.81%) Finance
9 19 (22.62%) Degree
10 18 (21.43%) Banking
10 18 (21.43%) Intrusion Detection
10 18 (21.43%) CCNA
11 17 (20.24%) Microsoft
12 16 (19.05%) SQL
12 16 (19.05%) Oracle
12 16 (19.05%) VPN
12 16 (19.05%) Cisco ASA
13 15 (17.86%) Database Security
13 15 (17.86%) UNIX
13 15 (17.86%) Internet
13 15 (17.86%) Management Information System
14 14 (16.67%) CCSP
14 14 (16.67%) SQL Server
14 14 (16.67%) Linux
15 13 (15.48%) RDBMS
15 13 (15.48%) Risk Assessment
15 13 (15.48%) Network Design

Security Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Security Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Security Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (1.190%) CSS
1 1 (1.190%) XML
1 1 (1.190%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (4.762%) IIS
2 2 (2.381%) MS Exchange
3 1 (1.190%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (1.190%) Apache
3 1 (1.190%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (8.333%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.381%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.381%) MS Office
3 1 (1.190%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 40 (47.62%) Firewall
2 33 (39.29%) Network Security
3 18 (21.43%) Intrusion Detection
4 16 (19.05%) VPN
4 16 (19.05%) Cisco ASA
5 15 (17.86%) Internet
6 10 (11.90%) WAN
7 9 (10.71%) Broadband
7 9 (10.71%) FWSM
8 8 (9.524%) Wireless
8 8 (9.524%) LAN
8 8 (9.524%) TCP/IP
8 8 (9.524%) BGP
9 7 (8.333%) OSPF
10 6 (7.143%) Wireless Security
11 5 (5.952%) EIGRP
11 5 (5.952%) SSL
11 5 (5.952%) DHCP
12 4 (4.762%) DNS
13 3 (3.571%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 13 (15.48%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.190%) MySQL
3 1 (1.190%) Data Warehouse
General
1 20 (23.81%) Finance
2 18 (21.43%) Banking
3 10 (11.90%) Investment Banking
4 9 (10.71%) Law
5 4 (4.762%) Legal
6 2 (2.381%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.86%) Management Information System
2 11 (13.10%) PKI
3 6 (7.143%) Computer Science
4 2 (2.381%) Clustering
5 1 (1.190%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.190%) CESG
5 1 (1.190%) Economics
5 1 (1.190%) IaaS
5 1 (1.190%) Mobile Computing
5 1 (1.190%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 20 (23.81%) Windows
2 15 (17.86%) UNIX
3 14 (16.67%) Linux
4 3 (3.571%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (2.381%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.381%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.190%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (36.90%) Information Security
2 15 (17.86%) Database Security
3 13 (15.48%) Risk Assessment
3 13 (15.48%) Network Design
4 10 (11.90%) SIEM
5 9 (10.71%) Information Management
5 9 (10.71%) Change Management
5 9 (10.71%) Network Management
6 7 (8.333%) Risk Management
7 6 (7.143%) Vulnerability Management
7 6 (7.143%) Investment Management
8 3 (3.571%) Project Management
8 3 (3.571%) ITIL
8 3 (3.571%) E-Commerce
8 3 (3.571%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (3.571%) Penetration Testing
8 3 (3.571%) Cyber Security
9 2 (2.381%) Incident Management
9 2 (2.381%) Load Balancing
9 2 (2.381%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (19.05%) SQL
2 1 (1.190%) Java
2 1 (1.190%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (39.29%) Cisco Certification
2 22 (26.19%) CCNP
2 22 (26.19%) CISSP
3 19 (22.62%) Degree
4 18 (21.43%) CCNA
5 14 (16.67%) CCSP
6 8 (9.524%) CCIE
7 7 (8.333%) CEH
7 7 (8.333%) CISM
8 6 (7.143%) GIAC
8 6 (7.143%) GSEC
8 6 (7.143%) JNCIA
9 3 (3.571%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (3.571%) MCSE
9 3 (3.571%) MCSA
9 3 (3.571%) MCP
9 3 (3.571%) Security Cleared
9 3 (3.571%) MCITP
10 2 (2.381%) JNCIS
10 2 (2.381%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.952%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.571%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.381%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.381%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (9.524%) Snort
2 4 (4.762%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.190%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 5 (5.952%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (1.190%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 35 (41.67%) Cisco
2 30 (35.71%) CheckPoint
3 25 (29.76%) Juniper
4 17 (20.24%) Microsoft
5 16 (19.05%) Oracle
6 7 (8.333%) Symantec
6 7 (8.333%) Blue Coat
6 7 (8.333%) F5
7 6 (7.143%) McAfee
7 6 (7.143%) Websense
8 5 (5.952%) IronPort
9 4 (4.762%) VMware
10 3 (3.571%) SonicWALL
11 2 (2.381%) Fortinet
11 2 (2.381%) Q1 Labs
11 2 (2.381%) Polycom
11 2 (2.381%) HP
11 2 (2.381%) Dell
12 1 (1.190%) Nokia
12 1 (1.190%) Red Hat
City, London
You will responsible for writing the code to replace SNORT Based protocols over to Cisco and to test the entire network for errors specifically through the penetration testing...
Austin Fraser
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
Network Security Specialist - Checkpoint, Cisco - Barbican, London - £48,000 + bonus... To be suitable for this position you will be a highly motivated self starter with enterprise network experience...
Ashdown IT
Salary: £45000 - £48000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Role: An exciting opportunity for an experienced Network / Security Engineer to join a fast paced and ambitious organisation... - Monitor network to ensure network availability to all system users...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum + benefits/bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013
City of London
Think Sky, a FTSE TOP 30 and the UK's favourite triple play provider- TV, broadband and telephony... 1 choice in entertainment and communications.Sky Network Services (SNS)...
British Sky Broadcasting
Salary: competitive
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
You will have a CCSP and preferably a CCNP qualification or equivalent. You must be Security Check eligible... Firewall capabilities and limitations... BGP, IS-IS. IP, MPLS and...
Sky
Salary: competitive
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
Experience of end-to-end PCI-DSS certification process... *Good working knowledge of Cisco ASA Firewalls... *Site to site VPN tunnels... *Network monitoring protocols such as Syslog and...
JP Specialist Contracts
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
City of London
Applicants for the Information Security Engineer opportunity are required to have knowledge and experience of varying information security processes and tools, including expertise in the following technologies: McAfee...
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
City of London
Review and recommend security patches, for implementation on MSSQL and Oracle; the ability to apply Microsoft policy based management on SQL Server database and develop suitable alternatives for...
Real Staffing
Salary: £60000 - £80000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013