Security Specialist Jobs in the Home Counties

Security Specialist
South East > Home Counties

The median Security Specialist salary in the Home Counties is £48,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Home Counties 16.67% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 20.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 - -
South East median annual salary £50,500 £47,090 £57,600
% change year-on-year +7.24% -18.25% -7.84%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Home Counties

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Home Counties. 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 Home Counties with a recognized job title 5 35 80
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.33% 97.22% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1 24 54
10th Percentile - £28,850 £45,000
25th Percentile - £50,313 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile - £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile - £101,000 £100,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Security Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the Home Counties

Job postings that featured Security Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties.

Job vacancy trend for Security Specialist in the Home Counties

Security Specialist
Salary Trend in the Home Counties

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Specialist in the Home Counties.

Salary trend for Security Specialist in the Home Counties

Security Specialist Skill Set
Top 14 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Home Counties

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Security Specialist 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 Home Counties region featuring Security Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) OCI

Security Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Home Counties 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle