Security Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Security Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Security Engineer salary in Manchester is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 186 206
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 32 55 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.62% 1.11% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 1.21% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 31 32 32
10th Percentile £35,000 £53,200 £46,250
25th Percentile £39,210 £55,000 £53,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £62,667 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £67,968 £77,288 -
North West median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +20.37%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 4,849 4,545 5,477
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.50% 91.60% 97.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,739 2,664 3,681
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,988 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,413 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +4.39% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Manchester

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in Manchester

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in Manchester

Security Engineer
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Engineer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stockport - 3 £60,000 - 1
Security Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 Manchester region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (34.38%) Security Operations
3 10 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (28.13%) NIST
4 9 (28.13%) DevOps
4 9 (28.13%) Azure
5 8 (25.00%) SIEM
5 8 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 7 (21.88%) Incident Response
6 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
6 7 (21.88%) Mentoring
6 7 (21.88%) Risk Management
6 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
7 6 (18.75%) PaaS
7 6 (18.75%) AWS
7 6 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (18.75%) PCI DSS
7 6 (18.75%) Public Cloud
8 5 (15.63%) Terraform
8 5 (15.63%) Data Centre
8 5 (15.63%) Data Centre Operations
8 5 (15.63%) Coaching
8 5 (15.63%) Wireless
8 5 (15.63%) Software-Defined Networking
8 5 (15.63%) Network Architecture
8 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (15.63%) NGFW
8 5 (15.63%) Palo Alto
8 5 (15.63%) Network Security
8 5 (15.63%) LAN

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 9 (28.13%) Azure
2 6 (18.75%) AWS
2 6 (18.75%) PaaS
3 4 (12.50%) GitHub
4 3 (9.38%) AWS KMS
4 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Key Vault
4 3 (9.38%) Entra ID
4 3 (9.38%) GCP
4 3 (9.38%) IaaS
4 3 (9.38%) SaaS
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) LAN
1 5 (15.63%) Network Security
1 5 (15.63%) NGFW
1 5 (15.63%) Software-Defined Networking
1 5 (15.63%) Wireless
1 5 (15.63%) WLAN
2 3 (9.38%) DNS
2 3 (9.38%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (3.13%) Burp Suite
General
1 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Banking
3 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.13%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Public Cloud
2 5 (15.63%) Data Centre
3 4 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (12.50%) Private Cloud
4 3 (9.38%) CCTV
4 3 (9.38%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 3 (9.38%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (9.38%) PKI
4 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
4 3 (9.38%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (3.13%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (34.38%) Security Operations
3 10 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (28.13%) DevOps
5 8 (25.00%) Cloud Security
5 8 (25.00%) SIEM
6 7 (21.88%) Incident Response
6 7 (21.88%) Mentoring
6 7 (21.88%) Risk Management
7 5 (15.63%) Coaching
7 5 (15.63%) Data Centre Operations
7 5 (15.63%) Information Security
7 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (15.63%) Network Architecture
8 3 (9.38%) Agile
8 3 (9.38%) Data Management
8 3 (9.38%) Data Protection
8 3 (9.38%) Incident Management
8 3 (9.38%) Problem Management
8 3 (9.38%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.38%) Python
2 1 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (28.13%) NIST
2 6 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (18.75%) PCI DSS
3 4 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (9.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Active Directory
1 3 (9.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Terraform
2 3 (9.38%) CA Single Sign-On
2 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.63%) Cisco
2 5 (15.63%) Palo Alto
3 3 (9.38%) CA
3 3 (9.38%) CyberArk
3 3 (9.38%) Google
3 3 (9.38%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.13%) AlienVault
4 1 (3.13%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.13%) Darktrace
4 1 (3.13%) Symantec