Information Security Engineer Jobs in England

Information Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Information Security Engineer salary in England is £66,175 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 819 870 1108
Rank change year-on-year +51 +238 -261
Permanent jobs requiring an Information Security Engineer 16 55 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.019% 0.060% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.065% 0.022%
Number of salaries quoted 16 53 26
10th Percentile - £27,750 £41,875
25th Percentile £55,750 £50,125 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,175 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,625 £84,500 £76,875
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% +9.52%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,497 84,397 127,287
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.51% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 60,179 53,484 75,704
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,809 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Information Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security Engineer in England

Information Security Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Information Security Engineer in England

Information Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Security Engineer in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Information Security Engineer in England

Information Security Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
London +104 8 £72,500 -3.33% 3
Yorkshire +92 6 £56,500 +4.63%
North of England +29 6 £56,500 -5.83%
South East +4 2 £54,925 +92.72%
Information Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Information 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 England region featuring Information Security Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Information Security
2 14 (87.50%) Agile
2 14 (87.50%) Windows
2 14 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 14 (87.50%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (81.25%) Azure
3 13 (81.25%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (81.25%) CISSP
3 13 (81.25%) Python
3 13 (81.25%) PowerShell
4 12 (75.00%) CEH
4 12 (75.00%) TCP/IP
4 12 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (75.00%) Firewall
4 12 (75.00%) Management Information System
4 12 (75.00%) Finance
4 12 (75.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 12 (75.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 12 (75.00%) Privileged Access Management
4 12 (75.00%) Secrets Management
5 11 (68.75%) Zero Trust
5 11 (68.75%) Thycotic
5 11 (68.75%) Azure Sentinel
5 11 (68.75%) Roadmaps
5 11 (68.75%) Cloud Security
5 11 (68.75%) Key Management
5 11 (68.75%) Microsoft Purview
5 11 (68.75%) Regulatory Compliance
5 11 (68.75%) Project Roadmap
5 11 (68.75%) NIST

Information Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) Azure
1 13 (81.25%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (68.75%) Azure DevOps
2 11 (68.75%) Azure Sentinel
2 11 (68.75%) Cloud Computing
2 11 (68.75%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 12 (75.00%) Firewall
1 12 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 11 (68.75%) LAN
2 11 (68.75%) Network Security
2 11 (68.75%) WAN
2 11 (68.75%) Wireshark
3 1 (6.25%) HTTP
3 1 (6.25%) HTTPS
3 1 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (6.25%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
1 1 (6.25%) MSI
1 1 (6.25%) Robot Framework
1 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) JSON
1 1 (6.25%) RESTful
1 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (75.00%) Management Information System
2 11 (68.75%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (6.25%) PKI
3 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (87.50%) Windows
2 11 (68.75%) Android
2 11 (68.75%) Apple iOS
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.25%) Linux
4 1 (6.25%) Unix
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Information Security
2 14 (87.50%) Agile
2 14 (87.50%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (75.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 12 (75.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 12 (75.00%) Secrets Management
4 11 (68.75%) Cloud Security
4 11 (68.75%) Cryptography
4 11 (68.75%) DevOps
4 11 (68.75%) Ethical Hacking
4 11 (68.75%) Identity Access Management
4 11 (68.75%) Key Management
4 11 (68.75%) People Management
4 11 (68.75%) Process Improvement
4 11 (68.75%) Project Roadmap
4 11 (68.75%) Regulatory Compliance
4 11 (68.75%) Roadmaps
4 11 (68.75%) Security Operations
4 11 (68.75%) SIEM
4 11 (68.75%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) PowerShell
1 13 (81.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (81.25%) CISSP
2 12 (75.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 12 (75.00%) CEH
2 12 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (68.75%) CCSP
3 11 (68.75%) SANS
3 11 (68.75%) SSCP
4 2 (12.50%) Degree
5 1 (6.25%) CISM
5 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (68.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (68.75%) NIST
1 11 (68.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.25%) BitLocker
3 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft Intune
1 11 (68.75%) Nmap
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Nessus
3 1 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) WMI
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 11 (68.75%) Qualys
2 11 (68.75%) Rapid7
2 11 (68.75%) Splunk
2 11 (68.75%) Thycotic
3 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (6.25%) iManage
3 1 (6.25%) VMware