IT Security Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

IT Security Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Security Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 734 677 761
Rank change year-on-year -57 +84 -135
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Security Engineer 29 71 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.041% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.13% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 22 67 63
10th Percentile £39,250 - £36,400
25th Percentile £39,438 £27,750 £43,118
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -4.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £53,750 £76,271 £75,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £77,542 £81,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £73,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -18.64% +22.92% +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,828 52,627 68,668
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.17% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 47,933 30,028 42,497
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

IT Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Security Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for IT Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Security Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT Security Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Security Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
North of England +41 8 £60,000 -20.59% 1
North West -2 8 £60,000 -20.59% 1
Wales - 6 £40,500 -
Scotland -55 4 £49,250 -34.81% 1
South East -39 3 £58,750 +106.14% 2
Channel Islands - 3 - -
Midlands -10 2 £30,000 -38.46% 2
South West -29 2 £41,206 -45.06% 2
West Midlands +11 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £30,000 - 2
Isle of Man - 1 - - 1
IT Security Engineer
UK

IT Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, IT 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 UK excluding London region featuring IT Security Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (37.93%) SIEM
2 10 (34.48%) Information Security
2 10 (34.48%) Security Operations
3 8 (27.59%) Firewall
4 7 (24.14%) Risk Management
4 7 (24.14%) Incident Response
5 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
5 6 (20.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (20.69%) Degree
5 6 (20.69%) Vulnerability Management
6 5 (17.24%) Incident Management
6 5 (17.24%) Azure
6 5 (17.24%) Network Security
6 5 (17.24%) Windows
6 5 (17.24%) Data Security
6 5 (17.24%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (17.24%) Windows Server
6 5 (17.24%) Data Loss Prevention
6 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (17.24%) NIST
7 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (13.79%) Security Monitoring
7 4 (13.79%) Management Information System
7 4 (13.79%) AWS
7 4 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (13.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (10.34%) Data Privacy
8 3 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (10.34%) Finance
8 3 (10.34%) Active Directory

IT Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (17.24%) Azure
2 4 (13.79%) AWS
3 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (27.59%) Firewall
2 5 (17.24%) Network Security
3 2 (6.90%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (6.90%) LAN
3 2 (6.90%) WAN
4 1 (3.45%) Internet
General
1 3 (10.34%) Finance
1 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Welsh Language
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 4 (13.79%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.90%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (3.45%) Cybercrime
3 1 (3.45%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.24%) Windows
1 5 (17.24%) Windows Server
2 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) SIEM
2 10 (34.48%) Information Security
2 10 (34.48%) Security Operations
3 7 (24.14%) Incident Response
3 7 (24.14%) Risk Management
4 6 (20.69%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (17.24%) Data Loss Prevention
5 5 (17.24%) Data Security
5 5 (17.24%) Incident Management
5 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (17.24%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (13.79%) Security Monitoring
7 3 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (10.34%) Data Management
7 3 (10.34%) Data Privacy
7 3 (10.34%) Data Protection
7 3 (10.34%) Proactive Management
8 2 (6.90%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Degree
2 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (17.24%) NIST
3 3 (10.34%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (10.34%) GDPR
3 3 (10.34%) PCI DSS
4 2 (6.90%) SOC 2
5 1 (3.45%) COBIT
5 1 (3.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) LogRhythm
2 2 (6.90%) Splunk
2 2 (6.90%) VMware
3 1 (3.45%) Citrix
3 1 (3.45%) Forcepoint
3 1 (3.45%) Qualys
3 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.45%) Varonis