Security Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Security Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Security Engineer salary in the Midlands is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 266 246 294
Rank change year-on-year -20 +48 -72
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 58 72 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.49% 0.78% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.87% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 44 51 42
10th Percentile £35,276 £40,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,438 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £69,447 £67,500
% change year-on-year -13.60% +2.88% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 11,205 8,288 10,335
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 89.64% 95.05%
Number of salaries quoted 8,337 4,647 7,040
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the Midlands

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in the Midlands

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in the Midlands

Security Engineer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 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
West Midlands -7 40 £57,500 +25.00% 21
East Midlands -12 18 £55,000 +15.79% 12
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 Midlands region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (39.66%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (31.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 17 (29.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (24.14%) NIST
5 13 (22.41%) Firewall
6 11 (18.97%) Mentoring
6 11 (18.97%) Coaching
6 11 (18.97%) Python
6 11 (18.97%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (18.97%) Incident Response
7 9 (15.52%) Threat Modelling
7 9 (15.52%) AWS
8 8 (13.79%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (13.79%) Amazon S3
8 8 (13.79%) SCADA
8 8 (13.79%) AWS Certification
8 8 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (13.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (13.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (13.79%) AWS CloudTrail
8 8 (13.79%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (13.79%) Microsoft
8 8 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (13.79%) Serverless
8 8 (13.79%) Cloud Security
8 8 (13.79%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 8 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (12.07%) Security Operations
9 7 (12.07%) Operational Technology
9 7 (12.07%) Analytics

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.52%) AWS
2 8 (13.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 8 (13.79%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (13.79%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 8 (13.79%) Amazon S3
2 8 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
2 8 (13.79%) AWS CloudTrail
2 8 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (13.79%) Serverless
2 8 (13.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 6 (10.34%) Azure
4 3 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.45%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (22.41%) Firewall
2 2 (3.45%) Network Security
2 2 (3.45%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.45%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.72%) 802.11
3 1 (1.72%) Bluetooth
3 1 (1.72%) Internet
3 1 (1.72%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.72%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.79%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Burp Suite
1 3 (5.17%) Metasploit
1 3 (5.17%) sqlmap
2 2 (3.45%) GitLab
3 1 (1.72%) Git
3 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.72%) JIRA
General
1 5 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (8.62%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.90%) Retail
3 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.45%) Finance
4 2 (3.45%) Legal
4 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.72%) Automotive
5 1 (1.72%) Cyber-Physical System
5 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.72%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.79%) SCADA
2 7 (12.07%) Operational Technology
3 5 (8.62%) Data Centre
3 5 (8.62%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (8.62%) PropTech
3 5 (8.62%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.45%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) CAN bus
5 1 (1.72%) CCTV
5 1 (1.72%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.72%) IoT
5 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.62%) Windows
2 2 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (39.66%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (31.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (18.97%) Coaching
3 11 (18.97%) Incident Response
3 11 (18.97%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (18.97%) Mentoring
4 9 (15.52%) Threat Modelling
5 8 (13.79%) Cloud Security
5 8 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (12.07%) Analytics
6 7 (12.07%) Security Operations
7 6 (10.34%) DevOps
7 6 (10.34%) Roadmaps
8 5 (8.62%) DevSecOps
8 5 (8.62%) Network Architecture
8 5 (8.62%) Security Architecture
8 5 (8.62%) SIEM
8 5 (8.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (8.62%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (8.62%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.97%) Python
2 4 (6.90%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (13.79%) AWS Certification
2 5 (8.62%) Degree
2 5 (8.62%) SC Cleared
2 5 (8.62%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.17%) CEH
4 2 (3.45%) CISSP
4 2 (3.45%) GCFA
4 2 (3.45%) GCFE
4 2 (3.45%) GCIH
4 2 (3.45%) GREM
4 2 (3.45%) OSCP
4 2 (3.45%) SANS
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.72%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (1.72%) ECSA
5 1 (1.72%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (29.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (24.14%) NIST
3 5 (8.62%) SOC 2
4 4 (6.90%) Data Quality
4 4 (6.90%) NCSC
4 4 (6.90%) NIST 800
5 2 (3.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.72%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (1.72%) Firmware
1 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (5.17%) SCCM
1 3 (5.17%) Terraform
2 2 (3.45%) CSIRT
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.72%) CASB
3 1 (1.72%) Nessus
3 1 (1.72%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.17%) Qualys
3 1 (1.72%) EMC
3 1 (1.72%) LogRhythm
3 1 (1.72%) Netskope
3 1 (1.72%) VMware