The first table below looks at the demand for the Security Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Security Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Kent region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Engineer
Rank 85 68 86
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 5 9 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 0.428% 1.268% 0.774%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.458% 1.385% 0.813%
Number of salaries quoted 5 9 8
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £23,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% +59.57%
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-8.23% -
All Job Titles
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1092 650 984
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 93.57% 91.55% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 933 578 902
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Security Engineer
South East

Security Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Security Engineer across the Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Kent Security Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Security Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Security Engineer across the Kent region.

Kent Security Engineer Salary Trend

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Security Engineer across the Kent region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Kent Security Engineer Salary Histogram

Security Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region that cited Security Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Security Engineer in their job title.

1 15 (83.33%) Firewall
2 14 (77.78%) Cisco
3 13 (72.22%) CheckPoint
4 11 (61.11%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (61.11%) Cisco ASA
5 10 (55.56%) CCNP
6 9 (50.00%) Network Security
6 9 (50.00%) F5
6 9 (50.00%) Juniper
7 8 (44.44%) CCNA
7 8 (44.44%) CCSP
8 7 (38.89%) Cisco PIX
9 6 (33.33%) CCIE
10 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
10 5 (27.78%) CCSA
11 4 (22.22%) Twitter
11 4 (22.22%) VPN
12 3 (16.67%) WAN
12 3 (16.67%) LAN
12 3 (16.67%) Blue Coat
12 3 (16.67%) CCSE
12 3 (16.67%) Finance
13 2 (11.11%) Load Balancing
13 2 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
13 2 (11.11%) BIG-IP
13 2 (11.11%) JNCIS
13 2 (11.11%) VMware
13 2 (11.11%) Aruba
13 2 (11.11%) Network Management
13 2 (11.11%) Data Protection

Security Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region that cited Security Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Security Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (11.11%) CSS
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 15 (83.33%) Firewall
2 11 (61.11%) Cisco ASA
3 9 (50.00%) Network Security
4 7 (38.89%) Cisco PIX
5 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
6 4 (22.22%) VPN
7 3 (16.67%) LAN
7 3 (16.67%) WAN
8 2 (11.11%) DNS
8 2 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (11.11%) BIG-IP
9 1 (5.556%) VLAN
9 1 (5.556%) OSPF
9 1 (5.556%) BGP
9 1 (5.556%) EIGRP
9 1 (5.556%) NetScreen
9 1 (5.556%) DHCP
9 1 (5.556%) VoIP
9 1 (5.556%) WLAN
General
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
1 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (11.11%) Load Balancing
1 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
1 2 (11.11%) Network Management
2 1 (5.556%) Network Design
2 1 (5.556%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.556%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (55.56%) CCNP
3 8 (44.44%) CCNA
3 8 (44.44%) CCSP
4 6 (33.33%) CCIE
5 5 (27.78%) CCSA
6 3 (16.67%) CCSE
7 2 (11.11%) JNCIS
7 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
7 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
7 2 (11.11%) MCSE
7 2 (11.11%) MCSA
7 2 (11.11%) CISSP
7 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.556%) Snort
2 1 (5.556%) NFS
Vendors
1 14 (77.78%) Cisco
2 13 (72.22%) CheckPoint
3 9 (50.00%) Juniper
3 9 (50.00%) F5
4 4 (22.22%) Twitter
5 3 (16.67%) Blue Coat
6 2 (11.11%) Websense
6 2 (11.11%) VMware
6 2 (11.11%) Aruba
7 1 (5.556%) Sourcefire
7 1 (5.556%) Riverbed
7 1 (5.556%) Oracle
7 1 (5.556%) Microsoft