Security Engineer Jobs in England

Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Security Engineer salary in England is £59,526 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 371 395
Rank change year-on-year -1 +24 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 584 848 1,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.69% 0.90% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.99% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 481 606 702
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,500 £48,011
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,526 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% -3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £59,526 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.42% - +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 80,061 86,064 125,517
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.56% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,068 54,328 75,797
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,084 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,433 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +36 255 £77,500 +3.33% 117
South East -2 121 £45,000 -18.18% 43
North of England +26 98 £52,500 -19.23% 49
Midlands -16 53 £55,000 +15.79% 32
North West -22 53 £53,750 -10.42% 38
Yorkshire +85 36 £41,750 -36.26% 6
West Midlands +5 34 £53,000 +11.58% 19
East of England +28 27 £62,500 +17.37% 26
South West -50 22 £41,206 -31.32% 32
East Midlands -9 19 £55,000 +15.79% 13
North East - 9 £62,783 - 6
Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 England region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 278 (47.60%) Cybersecurity
2 201 (34.42%) Azure
3 157 (26.88%) Microsoft
4 128 (21.92%) Firewall
5 111 (19.01%) AWS
6 110 (18.84%) Python
6 110 (18.84%) Cloud Security
7 108 (18.49%) Finance
8 107 (18.32%) SIEM
9 103 (17.64%) Network Security
10 100 (17.12%) Information Security
11 98 (16.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 96 (16.44%) Degree
13 94 (16.10%) Security Operations
14 93 (15.92%) CISSP
15 89 (15.24%) PowerShell
16 87 (14.90%) Microsoft 365
16 87 (14.90%) Windows
17 85 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
18 77 (13.18%) DevOps
19 76 (13.01%) Incident Response
20 72 (12.33%) Social Skills
21 70 (11.99%) Vulnerability Management
22 68 (11.64%) NIST
23 65 (11.13%) Mentoring
23 65 (11.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
24 62 (10.62%) Coaching
25 60 (10.27%) Cisco
26 55 (9.42%) Active Directory
27 54 (9.25%) PKI

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 12 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.51%) Apache
2 3 (0.51%) nginx
2 3 (0.51%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.17%) Confluence
3 1 (0.17%) Gunicorn
3 1 (0.17%) uWSGI
Applications
1 14 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.51%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.51%) Revit
4 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.86%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 201 (34.42%) Azure
2 111 (19.01%) AWS
3 87 (14.90%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (8.22%) GCP
5 30 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (5.14%) PaaS
6 29 (4.97%) Azure Sentinel
7 28 (4.79%) Cloud Computing
7 28 (4.79%) SaaS
8 25 (4.28%) Entra ID
9 19 (3.25%) Microsoft Purview
10 16 (2.74%) GitHub
11 13 (2.23%) Azure Key Vault
11 13 (2.23%) IaaS
12 12 (2.05%) AWS KMS
13 10 (1.71%) Azure AKS
13 10 (1.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 9 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (1.54%) Amazon S3
14 9 (1.54%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 128 (21.92%) Firewall
2 103 (17.64%) Network Security
3 50 (8.56%) LAN
4 49 (8.39%) WAN
5 33 (5.65%) VPN
6 31 (5.31%) TCP/IP
7 24 (4.11%) DNS
8 23 (3.94%) SD-WAN
9 22 (3.77%) Wireless
10 16 (2.74%) Wireshark
11 15 (2.57%) Cisco Firepower
12 14 (2.40%) Cisco ISE
13 13 (2.23%) Internet
14 12 (2.05%) BGP
15 11 (1.88%) Cisco Nexus
15 11 (1.88%) VLAN
15 11 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
16 10 (1.71%) WLAN
17 9 (1.54%) Cisco Wireless
17 9 (1.54%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.37%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.20%) Power BI
3 5 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (0.86%) BigQuery
3 5 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (0.86%) Hadoop
3 5 (0.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (5.65%) Jenkins
2 12 (2.05%) GitLab
3 5 (0.86%) Burp Suite
4 3 (0.51%) Git
4 3 (0.51%) JIRA
5 2 (0.34%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.34%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.34%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.34%) sqlmap
6 1 (0.17%) Ant
6 1 (0.17%) MSI
General
1 108 (18.49%) Finance
2 72 (12.33%) Social Skills
3 41 (7.02%) Banking
4 39 (6.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (3.94%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (3.42%) Law
7 15 (2.57%) Public Sector
8 13 (2.23%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (2.05%) Electronics
9 12 (2.05%) Retail
10 10 (1.71%) Health Technology
10 10 (1.71%) Legal
10 10 (1.71%) Tech for Good
11 9 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.37%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.20%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.68%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.54%) 802.1X
1 9 (1.54%) HTML
2 7 (1.20%) web3js
3 5 (0.86%) XMPP
4 4 (0.68%) Fluent Bit
4 4 (0.68%) Kafka
4 4 (0.68%) OAuth
5 3 (0.51%) CSS
6 2 (0.34%) JSON
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%) Django
7 1 (0.17%) Flask
7 1 (0.17%) JWT
7 1 (0.17%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (9.25%) PKI
2 36 (6.16%) Management Information System
3 34 (5.82%) Data Centre
4 33 (5.65%) Public Cloud
5 31 (5.31%) Security Operations Centre
6 26 (4.45%) CCTV
7 24 (4.11%) Private Cloud
8 23 (3.94%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (3.08%) Cyber Threat
10 17 (2.91%) Security Posture
11 16 (2.74%) Operational Technology
12 14 (2.40%) Product Ownership
13 12 (2.05%) Cyberattack
13 12 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.54%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 9 (1.54%) SCADA
16 8 (1.37%) Blockchain
16 8 (1.37%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 87 (14.90%) Windows
2 28 (4.79%) Windows Server
3 27 (4.62%) Linux
4 14 (2.40%) Android
4 14 (2.40%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.88%) Unix
6 7 (1.20%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.68%) CentOS
8 4 (0.68%) Solaris
8 4 (0.68%) zOS
9 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.34%) Debian
10 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (47.60%) Cybersecurity
2 110 (18.84%) Cloud Security
3 107 (18.32%) SIEM
4 100 (17.12%) Information Security
5 98 (16.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 94 (16.10%) Security Operations
7 85 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
8 77 (13.18%) DevOps
9 76 (13.01%) Incident Response
10 70 (11.99%) Vulnerability Management
11 65 (11.13%) Mentoring
12 62 (10.62%) Coaching
13 49 (8.39%) Data Loss Prevention
14 47 (8.05%) Agile
15 46 (7.88%) ITIL
16 43 (7.36%) Infrastructure as Code
17 42 (7.19%) Analytics
18 41 (7.02%) Cryptography
19 40 (6.85%) Data Modelling
19 40 (6.85%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 110 (18.84%) Python
2 89 (15.24%) PowerShell
3 25 (4.28%) Bash
4 22 (3.77%) Kusto Query Language
5 19 (3.25%) SQL
6 11 (1.88%) Java
7 10 (1.71%) C#
8 9 (1.54%) C
9 8 (1.37%) C++
9 8 (1.37%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.51%) Go
11 2 (0.34%) Ruby
11 2 (0.34%) Rust
11 2 (0.34%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.17%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.17%) Lua
12 1 (0.17%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 96 (16.44%) Degree
2 93 (15.92%) CISSP
3 52 (8.90%) Cisco Certification
4 47 (8.05%) CEH
5 45 (7.71%) Security Cleared
6 37 (6.34%) SC Cleared
7 36 (6.16%) CISM
8 25 (4.28%) CCSP
9 24 (4.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 20 (3.42%) CCNA
11 19 (3.25%) CCNP
12 18 (3.08%) SANS
13 16 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
14 14 (2.40%) GIAC
14 14 (2.40%) SSCP
15 12 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (1.54%) CISA
17 8 (1.37%) Azure Certification
17 8 (1.37%) DV Cleared
17 8 (1.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (11.64%) NIST
2 65 (11.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (5.48%) Data Quality
4 30 (5.14%) PCI DSS
5 15 (2.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 13 (2.23%) NCSC
8 12 (2.05%) GDPR
9 11 (1.88%) COBIT
10 7 (1.20%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.86%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.68%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.34%) GRC
13 2 (0.34%) QA
System Software
1 55 (9.42%) Active Directory
2 22 (3.77%) Docker
2 22 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (1.20%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (1.20%) Firmware
5 6 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.68%) vSphere
7 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 50 (8.56%) Terraform
2 30 (5.14%) Kubernetes
3 25 (4.28%) Ansible
4 24 (4.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (3.42%) CASB
5 20 (3.42%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (2.40%) Nmap
7 13 (2.23%) Nessus
8 12 (2.05%) CA Single Sign-On
9 9 (1.54%) logstash
10 7 (1.20%) Cisco CUCM
10 7 (1.20%) QRadar
10 7 (1.20%) Stealthwatch
11 5 (0.86%) DatAdvantage
12 4 (0.68%) Fluentd
12 4 (0.68%) SCCM
12 4 (0.68%) vRealize
12 4 (0.68%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.34%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 157 (26.88%) Microsoft
2 60 (10.27%) Cisco
3 40 (6.85%) Splunk
4 34 (5.82%) Palo Alto
5 31 (5.31%) VMware
6 30 (5.14%) CyberArk
7 29 (4.97%) Qualys
8 27 (4.62%) Google
9 26 (4.45%) Rapid7
10 20 (3.42%) CheckPoint
10 20 (3.42%) ServiceNow
11 15 (2.57%) CA
12 14 (2.40%) Thycotic
13 10 (1.71%) ArcSight
13 10 (1.71%) Carbon Black
13 10 (1.71%) Fortinet
14 9 (1.54%) EMC
14 9 (1.54%) Juniper
15 8 (1.37%) Atlassian
15 8 (1.37%) McAfee