Security Engineer Jobs in Leeds

Security Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Security Engineer salary in Leeds is £38,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 165 179
Rank change year-on-year +43 +14 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 11 18 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 0.49% 0.59% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.62% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 10 15 12
10th Percentile £35,000 £54,360 £34,000
25th Percentile £35,688 £60,713 £41,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £68,515 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -43.81% +30.50% -23.64%
75th Percentile £52,500 £77,628 £56,375
90th Percentile £68,171 £77,715 £63,246
West Yorkshire median annual salary £56,500 £68,515 £47,500
% change year-on-year -17.54% +44.24% -13.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 2,168 2,887 3,673
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.01% 95.22% 97.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,567 1,730 2,547
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,131 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £69,957 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,056 £86,375 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Leeds

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in Leeds

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in Leeds over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 Leeds region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
1 6 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (45.45%) Firewall
3 4 (36.36%) AWS
3 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow
4 3 (27.27%) SaaS
4 3 (27.27%) GCP
4 3 (27.27%) Private Cloud
4 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
4 3 (27.27%) Cloud Security
4 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (27.27%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (27.27%) Security Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (27.27%) NHS
4 3 (27.27%) SQL
5 2 (18.18%) LAN
5 2 (18.18%) WAN
5 2 (18.18%) VPN
5 2 (18.18%) CCNP
5 2 (18.18%) CCNA
5 2 (18.18%) CCDP
5 2 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
5 2 (18.18%) SonicWALL
5 2 (18.18%) Cisco
5 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
5 2 (18.18%) Network Security

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) AWS
3 3 (27.27%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (27.27%) GCP
3 3 (27.27%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) AWS KMS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) LAN
2 2 (18.18%) Network Security
2 2 (18.18%) VPN
2 2 (18.18%) WAN
3 1 (9.09%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Burp Suite
General
1 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) NHS
1 3 (27.27%) Private Cloud
2 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (9.09%) PKI
3 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Cloud Security
3 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
3 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (27.27%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Security Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Dependency Management
4 2 (18.18%) Dynamic Code Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
4 2 (18.18%) SDLC
4 2 (18.18%) Static Code Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (9.09%) Coaching
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Key Management
5 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
5 1 (9.09%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) CCDP
1 2 (18.18%) CCNA
1 2 (18.18%) CCNP
1 2 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (9.09%) CA Single Sign-On
2 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow
3 2 (18.18%) Cisco
3 2 (18.18%) SonicWALL
3 2 (18.18%) Splunk
4 1 (9.09%) CA
4 1 (9.09%) CyberArk