The first table below looks at the demand for the Security Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester 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 21 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Engineer
Rank 178 174 -
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 11 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.268% 0.055% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.281% 0.057% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 0
Average salary £35,000 £42,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-17.64% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.88% -
All Job Titles
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3915 3514 3743
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 95.56% 96.51% 96.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3397 3134 3425
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £56,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Security Engineer
North West

Security Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Security Engineer Salary Trend

Security Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 25 (96.15%) Network Security
2 24 (92.31%) Cisco
3 20 (76.92%) CheckPoint
3 20 (76.92%) CCNP
3 20 (76.92%) Cisco Certification
3 20 (76.92%) Juniper
3 20 (76.92%) Firewall
3 20 (76.92%) Finance
3 20 (76.92%) Blue Coat
3 20 (76.92%) Cisco ASA
3 20 (76.92%) F5
3 20 (76.92%) Cisco PIX
4 19 (73.08%) CCSE
4 19 (73.08%) JNCIS
4 19 (73.08%) Telecoms
4 19 (73.08%) Websense
5 4 (15.38%) IPsec
5 4 (15.38%) Clustering
5 4 (15.38%) VLAN
5 4 (15.38%) Fortinet
5 4 (15.38%) MPLS
5 4 (15.38%) Change Management
5 4 (15.38%) VPN
5 4 (15.38%) SSL
5 4 (15.38%) High Availability
6 2 (7.692%) FortiGate
7 1 (3.846%) Mobile App
7 1 (3.846%) LogLogic
7 1 (3.846%) SIEM
7 1 (3.846%) Q1 Labs

Security Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 1 (3.846%) HTML
1 1 (3.846%) J2EE
Communications & Networking
1 25 (96.15%) Network Security
2 20 (76.92%) Firewall
2 20 (76.92%) Cisco ASA
2 20 (76.92%) Cisco PIX
3 4 (15.38%) IPsec
3 4 (15.38%) VLAN
3 4 (15.38%) MPLS
3 4 (15.38%) VPN
3 4 (15.38%) SSL
4 1 (3.846%) LAN
4 1 (3.846%) WAN
4 1 (3.846%) NFC
4 1 (3.846%) Wireless
General
1 20 (76.92%) Finance
2 19 (73.08%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Clustering
2 1 (3.846%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.846%) Blackberry
2 1 (3.846%) EMV
2 1 (3.846%) Cryptography
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.846%) Android
1 1 (3.846%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (15.38%) Change Management
1 4 (15.38%) High Availability
2 1 (3.846%) SIEM
2 1 (3.846%) Security Architecture
2 1 (3.846%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.846%) C
1 1 (3.846%) C++
1 1 (3.846%) Java
1 1 (3.846%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 20 (76.92%) CCNP
1 20 (76.92%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (73.08%) CCSE
2 19 (73.08%) JNCIS
3 1 (3.846%) CCIE
3 1 (3.846%) CCSP
Systems Management
1 2 (7.692%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 24 (92.31%) Cisco
2 20 (76.92%) CheckPoint
2 20 (76.92%) Juniper
2 20 (76.92%) Blue Coat
2 20 (76.92%) F5
3 19 (73.08%) Websense
4 4 (15.38%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.846%) LogLogic
5 1 (3.846%) Q1 Labs