Security Engineer Jobs in the North West

Security Engineer
England > North West

The median Security Engineer salary in the North West is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 240 228 269
Rank change year-on-year -12 +41 -92
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 53 69 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.54% 0.88% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.98% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 50 50 45
10th Percentile £35,000 £51,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,875 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - +20.37%
75th Percentile £62,833 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £67,968 £100,000 £85,000
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
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 9,331 7,025 8,989
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.60% 89.29% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 7,169 4,098 5,355
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £81,250
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the North West

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in the North West

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in the North West

Security Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Manchester +2 32 £55,000 -15.38% 12
Lancashire - 10 £54,891 - 4
Cheshire -15 6 £55,000 -38.89% 4
Merseyside +6 4 £43,750 -17.45% 1
Cumbria - 1 £60,000 - 1
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 North West region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (47.17%) Cybersecurity
2 24 (45.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 18 (33.96%) Azure
4 15 (28.30%) DevOps
4 15 (28.30%) Security Operations
5 14 (26.42%) Microsoft
6 13 (24.53%) Mentoring
7 11 (20.75%) Coaching
7 11 (20.75%) SIEM
7 11 (20.75%) NIST
8 10 (18.87%) Incident Response
8 10 (18.87%) AWS
8 10 (18.87%) Public Cloud
9 9 (16.98%) Risk Management
9 9 (16.98%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (15.09%) Social Skills
10 8 (15.09%) Cloud Security
10 8 (15.09%) Private Cloud
11 7 (13.21%) Terraform
11 7 (13.21%) Privileged Identity Management
11 7 (13.21%) Entra ID
11 7 (13.21%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (13.21%) CyberArk
11 7 (13.21%) ServiceNow
11 7 (13.21%) PKI
11 7 (13.21%) Finance
11 7 (13.21%) Identity Management
11 7 (13.21%) Active Directory
11 7 (13.21%) DNS
11 7 (13.21%) CA

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

Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (33.96%) Azure
2 10 (18.87%) AWS
3 7 (13.21%) AWS KMS
3 7 (13.21%) Azure Key Vault
3 7 (13.21%) Entra ID
4 6 (11.32%) PaaS
5 4 (7.55%) GitHub
5 4 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.66%) GCP
6 3 (5.66%) IaaS
6 3 (5.66%) SaaS
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.21%) DNS
2 6 (11.32%) Network Security
3 5 (9.43%) LAN
3 5 (9.43%) NGFW
3 5 (9.43%) Software-Defined Networking
3 5 (9.43%) Wireless
3 5 (9.43%) WLAN
4 4 (7.55%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) GitLab
2 3 (5.66%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.89%) Burp Suite
General
1 8 (15.09%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.21%) Finance
2 7 (13.21%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.66%) Banking
4 1 (1.89%) Law
4 1 (1.89%) Military
4 1 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.87%) Public Cloud
2 9 (16.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (15.09%) Private Cloud
4 7 (13.21%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (13.21%) PKI
5 5 (9.43%) Data Centre
6 3 (5.66%) CCTV
6 3 (5.66%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 3 (5.66%) Product Ownership
6 3 (5.66%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (3.77%) Algorithms
7 2 (3.77%) Client/Server
7 2 (3.77%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.89%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.89%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.89%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.89%) SCADA
8 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (47.17%) Cybersecurity
2 24 (45.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 15 (28.30%) DevOps
3 15 (28.30%) Security Operations
4 13 (24.53%) Mentoring
5 11 (20.75%) Coaching
5 11 (20.75%) SIEM
6 10 (18.87%) Incident Response
7 9 (16.98%) Risk Management
8 8 (15.09%) Cloud Security
9 7 (13.21%) Identity Management
9 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (13.21%) Key Management
9 7 (13.21%) Privileged Identity Management
9 7 (13.21%) Secrets Management
10 6 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (9.43%) Data Centre Operations
11 5 (9.43%) Information Security
11 5 (9.43%) Network Architecture
12 4 (7.55%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.66%) Python
2 2 (3.77%) Java
3 1 (1.89%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.89%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (11.32%) Degree
2 1 (1.89%) CISSP
2 1 (1.89%) GCFA
2 1 (1.89%) GCIA
2 1 (1.89%) GCIH
2 1 (1.89%) GIAC
2 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (20.75%) NIST
2 6 (11.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (11.32%) PCI DSS
3 4 (7.55%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (5.66%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (13.21%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (13.21%) CA Single Sign-On
1 7 (13.21%) Single Sign-On
1 7 (13.21%) Terraform
2 3 (5.66%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.89%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 14 (26.42%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.21%) CA
2 7 (13.21%) CyberArk
2 7 (13.21%) ServiceNow
3 5 (9.43%) Cisco
3 5 (9.43%) Palo Alto
4 3 (5.66%) Google
5 2 (3.77%) Darktrace
5 2 (3.77%) Symantec
6 1 (1.89%) AlienVault
6 1 (1.89%) CrowdStrike