The first table below looks at the demand for the Security Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Leeds 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 19 June 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 Leeds region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Engineer
Rank 142 135 118
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 6 7 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 0.234% 0.319% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.245% 0.328% 0.056%
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 1
Average salary £38,750 £40,000 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.12% +40.35%
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-8.23% -
All Job Titles
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2445 2133 1772
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 95.25% 97.31% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1965 1774 1500
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £23,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Security Engineer
West Yorkshire

Security Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Security Engineer Salary Trend

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Security Engineer across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Leeds Security Engineer Salary Histogram

Security Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 29 (93.55%) Cisco Certification
1 29 (93.55%) Firewall
2 28 (90.32%) Cisco
2 28 (90.32%) CCNP
2 28 (90.32%) CheckPoint
3 26 (83.87%) Juniper
3 26 (83.87%) Cisco ASA
4 25 (80.65%) Network Security
5 19 (61.29%) Blue Coat
6 17 (54.84%) CCSE
6 17 (54.84%) Cisco PIX
7 16 (51.61%) F5
7 16 (51.61%) Finance
8 15 (48.39%) Telecoms
8 15 (48.39%) Websense
8 15 (48.39%) JNCIS
9 11 (35.48%) CCSP
10 9 (29.03%) Wireless
10 9 (29.03%) DMZ
10 9 (29.03%) Internet
10 9 (29.03%) MPLS
10 9 (29.03%) BGP
10 9 (29.03%) LAN
10 9 (29.03%) VoIP
10 9 (29.03%) WAN
10 9 (29.03%) VPN
10 9 (29.03%) PKI
10 9 (29.03%) VLAN
11 8 (25.81%) Cisco Nexus
11 8 (25.81%) Forefront TMG

Security Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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.

Applications
1 5 (16.13%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 29 (93.55%) Firewall
2 26 (83.87%) Cisco ASA
3 25 (80.65%) Network Security
4 17 (54.84%) Cisco PIX
5 9 (29.03%) Wireless
5 9 (29.03%) DMZ
5 9 (29.03%) Internet
5 9 (29.03%) MPLS
5 9 (29.03%) BGP
5 9 (29.03%) LAN
5 9 (29.03%) VoIP
5 9 (29.03%) WAN
5 9 (29.03%) VPN
5 9 (29.03%) VLAN
6 8 (25.81%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (3.226%) HTTP
7 1 (3.226%) TCP/IP
General
1 16 (51.61%) Finance
2 15 (48.39%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.226%) Legal
3 1 (3.226%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (3.226%) Banking
3 1 (3.226%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 9 (29.03%) PKI
2 1 (3.226%) Mathematics
2 1 (3.226%) Physics
2 1 (3.226%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.226%) UNIX
1 1 (3.226%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.81%) ITIL
2 3 (9.677%) Cyber Security
3 1 (3.226%) Information Security
3 1 (3.226%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (3.226%) SIEM
3 1 (3.226%) Incident Management
Qualifications
1 29 (93.55%) Cisco Certification
2 28 (90.32%) CCNP
3 17 (54.84%) CCSE
4 15 (48.39%) JNCIS
5 11 (35.48%) CCSP
6 8 (25.81%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.677%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (25.81%) Forefront TMG
1 8 (25.81%) UAG
2 2 (6.452%) ProxySG
2 2 (6.452%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 28 (90.32%) Cisco
1 28 (90.32%) CheckPoint
2 26 (83.87%) Juniper
3 19 (61.29%) Blue Coat
4 16 (51.61%) F5
5 15 (48.39%) Websense
6 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
7 4 (12.90%) Riverbed
8 2 (6.452%) VMware
9 1 (3.226%) Imperva
9 1 (3.226%) Proofpoint
9 1 (3.226%) LogLogic
9 1 (3.226%) Q1 Labs