Security Engineer Jobs in England

Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Security Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 390 421
Rank change year-on-year +19 +31 -50
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 588 754 1,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.69% 0.84% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.91% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 482 566 697
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,625 £41,850
25th Percentile £44,063 £52,125 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,447 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +2.88% +12.50%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £92,449 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £68,515 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.43% +5.41% +8.33%

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 80,982 82,462 128,831
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,404 52,476 75,206
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £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 £71,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in England

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in England

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in England

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 Security Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 13 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 +29 262 £80,000 +3.23% 104
South East -13 113 £46,250 -15.91% 49
North of England +52 99 £52,500 -19.23% 32
Midlands -13 58 £57,500 +21.05% 33
North West -12 53 £55,000 -15.38% 24
West Midlands 0 40 £57,500 +25.00% 21
Yorkshire +91 37 £41,750 -39.06% 4
East of England +18 26 £57,500 +5.50% 28
South West -34 22 £41,206 -41.13% 29
East Midlands -1 18 £55,000 +15.79% 12
North East - 9 £62,783 - 4
Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 England region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 281 (47.79%) Cybersecurity
2 195 (33.16%) Azure
3 145 (24.66%) Microsoft
4 118 (20.07%) Firewall
4 118 (20.07%) Finance
5 114 (19.39%) Python
6 111 (18.88%) Cloud Security
7 110 (18.71%) SIEM
8 109 (18.54%) AWS
9 103 (17.52%) Network Security
10 96 (16.33%) Degree
11 95 (16.16%) CISSP
11 95 (16.16%) Security Operations
11 95 (16.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 89 (15.14%) Information Security
13 87 (14.80%) PowerShell
13 87 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
14 84 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
15 81 (13.78%) Windows
16 80 (13.61%) Incident Response
17 77 (13.10%) DevOps
18 74 (12.59%) Social Skills
19 71 (12.07%) NIST
20 70 (11.90%) Vulnerability Management
21 69 (11.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
22 65 (11.05%) Mentoring
23 63 (10.71%) Coaching
24 62 (10.54%) Cisco
25 53 (9.01%) Cisco Certification
26 50 (8.50%) CEH

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 10 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.51%) Confluence
2 3 (0.51%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.34%) Apache
3 2 (0.34%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.68%) AutoCAD
3 4 (0.68%) Revit
4 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.85%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 195 (33.16%) Azure
2 109 (18.54%) AWS
3 84 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (8.16%) GCP
5 29 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (4.93%) Cloud Computing
5 29 (4.93%) PaaS
6 27 (4.59%) SaaS
7 26 (4.42%) Azure Sentinel
8 25 (4.25%) Entra ID
9 19 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
10 16 (2.72%) GitHub
11 13 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (2.21%) Amazon S3
11 13 (2.21%) Azure Key Vault
12 12 (2.04%) AWS KMS
12 12 (2.04%) IaaS
13 10 (1.70%) Azure AKS
13 10 (1.70%) Serverless
14 9 (1.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 118 (20.07%) Firewall
2 103 (17.52%) Network Security
3 47 (7.99%) LAN
4 43 (7.31%) WAN
5 34 (5.78%) TCP/IP
6 30 (5.10%) VPN
7 23 (3.91%) DNS
8 22 (3.74%) Wireless
9 18 (3.06%) SD-WAN
10 17 (2.89%) Cisco Firepower
11 16 (2.72%) Wireshark
12 13 (2.21%) Cisco ISE
13 11 (1.87%) BGP
13 11 (1.87%) Cisco Nexus
13 11 (1.87%) VLAN
14 10 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (1.53%) Cisco Wireless
15 9 (1.53%) NGFW
15 9 (1.53%) WLAN
16 8 (1.36%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (1.36%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.19%) Power BI
4 5 (0.85%) BigQuery
4 5 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (0.85%) Hadoop
4 5 (0.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (5.44%) Jenkins
2 12 (2.04%) GitLab
3 6 (1.02%) Burp Suite
4 5 (0.85%) JIRA
5 3 (0.51%) Metasploit
5 3 (0.51%) sqlmap
6 2 (0.34%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.34%) Git
6 2 (0.34%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.17%) Ant
7 1 (0.17%) MSI
General
1 118 (20.07%) Finance
2 74 (12.59%) Social Skills
3 49 (8.33%) Banking
4 39 (6.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (3.23%) Law
7 16 (2.72%) Public Sector
8 13 (2.21%) Retail
9 12 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (2.04%) Electronics
9 12 (2.04%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.70%) Health Technology
10 10 (1.70%) Tech for Good
11 9 (1.53%) Legal
11 9 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.19%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.19%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.85%) Marketing
13 5 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.53%) 802.1X
2 7 (1.19%) HTML
2 7 (1.19%) web3js
3 5 (0.85%) Kafka
3 5 (0.85%) XMPP
4 4 (0.68%) Fluent Bit
4 4 (0.68%) OAuth
5 3 (0.51%) JSON
6 2 (0.34%) CSS
6 2 (0.34%) JSON Schema
6 2 (0.34%) KML
6 2 (0.34%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.34%) OpenID
6 2 (0.34%) Regular Expression
6 2 (0.34%) XML
6 2 (0.34%) XML Schema
7 1 (0.17%) .NET
7 1 (0.17%) RESTful
7 1 (0.17%) SAML
7 1 (0.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (7.82%) PKI
2 37 (6.29%) Management Information System
3 32 (5.44%) Data Centre
4 31 (5.27%) Public Cloud
4 31 (5.27%) Security Operations Centre
5 26 (4.42%) CCTV
6 24 (4.08%) Private Cloud
7 23 (3.91%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (3.06%) Cyber Threat
9 17 (2.89%) Operational Technology
9 17 (2.89%) Security Posture
10 15 (2.55%) Cyberattack
11 14 (2.38%) Product Ownership
12 12 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.87%) SCADA
13 11 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (1.53%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 8 (1.36%) Blockchain
16 8 (1.36%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 81 (13.78%) Windows
2 29 (4.93%) Linux
3 26 (4.42%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.55%) Android
4 15 (2.55%) Apple iOS
5 12 (2.04%) Unix
6 6 (1.02%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (0.68%) CentOS
7 4 (0.68%) Solaris
7 4 (0.68%) zOS
8 2 (0.34%) Debian
8 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (47.79%) Cybersecurity
2 111 (18.88%) Cloud Security
3 110 (18.71%) SIEM
4 95 (16.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 95 (16.16%) Security Operations
5 89 (15.14%) Information Security
6 87 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
7 80 (13.61%) Incident Response
8 77 (13.10%) DevOps
9 70 (11.90%) Vulnerability Management
10 65 (11.05%) Mentoring
11 63 (10.71%) Coaching
12 48 (8.16%) Agile
12 48 (8.16%) Data Loss Prevention
13 46 (7.82%) Infrastructure as Code
14 45 (7.65%) ITIL
15 42 (7.14%) Analytics
16 41 (6.97%) Cryptography
16 41 (6.97%) Identity Access Management
16 41 (6.97%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 114 (19.39%) Python
2 87 (14.80%) PowerShell
3 23 (3.91%) Bash
4 22 (3.74%) Kusto Query Language
5 17 (2.89%) SQL
6 11 (1.87%) Java
7 10 (1.70%) C#
8 9 (1.53%) C
9 7 (1.19%) C++
9 7 (1.19%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.51%) Go
11 2 (0.34%) Rust
12 1 (0.17%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.17%) Lua
12 1 (0.17%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.17%) Ruby
12 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 96 (16.33%) Degree
2 95 (16.16%) CISSP
3 53 (9.01%) Cisco Certification
4 50 (8.50%) CEH
5 39 (6.63%) Security Cleared
6 33 (5.61%) CISM
7 31 (5.27%) SC Cleared
8 23 (3.91%) CCSP
9 22 (3.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 21 (3.57%) CCNP
11 20 (3.40%) CCNA
12 19 (3.23%) SANS
13 18 (3.06%) GIAC
14 17 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
15 14 (2.38%) SSCP
16 12 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
17 11 (1.87%) DV Cleared
18 9 (1.53%) AWS Certification
18 9 (1.53%) Azure Certification
18 9 (1.53%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (12.07%) NIST
2 69 (11.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (5.44%) Data Quality
4 28 (4.76%) PCI DSS
5 16 (2.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 11 (1.87%) COBIT
7 11 (1.87%) NCSC
8 10 (1.70%) GDPR
9 7 (1.19%) SOC 2
10 6 (1.02%) NIST 800
11 5 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.68%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.34%) QA
14 1 (0.17%) GRC
System Software
1 48 (8.16%) Active Directory
2 21 (3.57%) Docker
3 14 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
3 14 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.19%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (1.19%) Firmware
4 7 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.68%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.68%) vSphere
6 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (8.50%) Terraform
2 31 (5.27%) Kubernetes
3 28 (4.76%) Ansible
4 24 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (3.40%) CASB
5 20 (3.40%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (2.38%) Nmap
7 12 (2.04%) CA Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.53%) logstash
9 7 (1.19%) QRadar
10 6 (1.02%) Cisco CUCM
10 6 (1.02%) Nessus
10 6 (1.02%) Stealthwatch
11 4 (0.68%) DatAdvantage
11 4 (0.68%) Fluentd
11 4 (0.68%) vRealize
11 4 (0.68%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 3 (0.51%) SCCM
13 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.34%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 145 (24.66%) Microsoft
2 62 (10.54%) Cisco
3 41 (6.97%) Splunk
4 32 (5.44%) CyberArk
5 31 (5.27%) Palo Alto
6 30 (5.10%) Qualys
7 27 (4.59%) Google
7 27 (4.59%) Rapid7
8 23 (3.91%) VMware
9 20 (3.40%) CheckPoint
10 17 (2.89%) ServiceNow
11 15 (2.55%) ArcSight
11 15 (2.55%) CA
11 15 (2.55%) Carbon Black
12 14 (2.38%) Thycotic
13 11 (1.87%) Atlassian
14 10 (1.70%) McAfee
15 9 (1.53%) EMC
15 9 (1.53%) Juniper
16 8 (1.36%) Fortinet