Security Engineer Jobs in the East Midlands

Security Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Security Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 September 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 122 176
Rank change year-on-year -39 +54 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 17 24 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.40% 1.19% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 1.25% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 12 24 8
10th Percentile - £43,750 £49,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% -4.09% -27.39%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,938 £59,063
90th Percentile £61,000 £64,625 £64,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.34% -0.38% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 the East Midlands with a recognized job title 4,022 1,925 3,049
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.24% 95.77% 97.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,979 1,149 1,899
10th Percentile £27,900 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,750 £36,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the East Midlands

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Security Engineer in the East Midlands

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in the East Midlands

Security Engineer
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 September 2024. 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
Leicestershire -5 6 £40,000 -15.79% 4
Lincolnshire -7 5 - - 1
Nottinghamshire -22 5 £57,500 +4.55% 2
Northamptonshire -53 1 £61,000 +12.96% 4
Security Engineer
England

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 20 September 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 East Midlands region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (35.29%) CCTV
2 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (29.41%) ERP
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 3 (17.65%) Firewall
3 3 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
4 2 (11.76%) Azure
4 2 (11.76%) Security Operations
4 2 (11.76%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (11.76%) Network Architecture
4 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
4 2 (11.76%) Coaching
4 2 (11.76%) Change Management
4 2 (11.76%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
4 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security
4 2 (11.76%) SOC 2
5 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Log Analytics
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.88%) NIST
5 1 (5.88%) Data Security
5 1 (5.88%) VMware
5 1 (5.88%) CCSP
5 1 (5.88%) Active Directory

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (11.76%) Azure
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.88%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) CCTV
2 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
3 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (11.76%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) ERP
1 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (11.76%) Change Management
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security
2 2 (11.76%) Coaching
2 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
2 2 (11.76%) Network Architecture
2 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
2 2 (11.76%) Security Operations
2 2 (11.76%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (5.88%) Analytics
3 1 (5.88%) Data Security
3 1 (5.88%) E-Commerce
3 1 (5.88%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (5.88%) Log Analytics
3 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (5.88%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (5.88%) CCSP
2 1 (5.88%) CEH
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.88%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (11.76%) SOC 2
3 1 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) VMware