Security Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 431 400 366
Rank change year-on-year -31 -34 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 370 420 656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.69% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.77% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 283 293 393
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,075 £40,000
25th Percentile £38,625 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +10.09% +0.93%
75th Percentile £62,833 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £69,750 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £59,526 £67,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.14% +4.23% +8.33%

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 66,883 54,717 68,218
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.25% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,333 31,108 43,002
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 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

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 Security Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
South East -2 119 £45,000 -18.18% 47
North of England +46 97 £52,500 -19.23% 29
Midlands -2 54 £56,250 +18.42% 34
North West -6 52 £55,000 -15.38% 25
Yorkshire +101 36 £41,750 -39.06% 2
West Midlands +5 36 £57,500 +25.00% 20
Scotland -60 28 £55,000 -11.29% 7
East of England +16 25 £56,250 +2.27% 31
South West -58 22 £41,206 -31.32% 28
East Midlands -7 18 £55,000 +15.79% 14
Wales +24 17 £40,500 -26.36% 9
North East - 9 £62,783 - 2
Northern Ireland +26 4 £90,000 +46.94% 4
Channel Islands - 3 - -
Isle of Man - 1 - - 1
Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 UK excluding London region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 167 (45.14%) Cybersecurity
2 85 (22.97%) Azure
3 83 (22.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 75 (20.27%) Microsoft
5 68 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
6 65 (17.57%) Degree
6 65 (17.57%) Firewall
7 64 (17.30%) Mentoring
8 60 (16.22%) Security Operations
9 59 (15.95%) SIEM
10 57 (15.41%) Python
11 56 (15.14%) Coaching
11 56 (15.14%) DevOps
11 56 (15.14%) Cloud Security
12 46 (12.43%) NIST
13 45 (12.16%) Finance
14 44 (11.89%) Information Security
14 44 (11.89%) Network Security
14 44 (11.89%) Security Cleared
15 43 (11.62%) Windows
16 42 (11.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 42 (11.35%) Social Skills
17 40 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
18 39 (10.54%) Terraform
18 39 (10.54%) AWS
18 39 (10.54%) Analytics
19 37 (10.00%) Incident Response
20 36 (9.73%) SC Cleared
21 35 (9.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
22 34 (9.19%) Active Directory

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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.54%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.35%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 85 (22.97%) Azure
2 39 (10.54%) AWS
3 30 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (6.22%) Entra ID
5 22 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (5.95%) PaaS
6 19 (5.14%) GCP
7 16 (4.32%) GitHub
8 14 (3.78%) SaaS
9 12 (3.24%) AWS KMS
9 12 (3.24%) Azure Key Vault
10 11 (2.97%) Azure Sentinel
11 10 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
12 9 (2.43%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (2.16%) IaaS
14 7 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (1.35%) AWS CloudTrail
15 5 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (1.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 65 (17.57%) Firewall
2 44 (11.89%) Network Security
3 17 (4.59%) LAN
3 17 (4.59%) TCP/IP
4 16 (4.32%) DNS
5 12 (3.24%) WAN
6 11 (2.97%) Intrusion Detection
7 9 (2.43%) Wireless
8 8 (2.16%) Wireshark
9 6 (1.62%) VPN
10 5 (1.35%) NGFW
10 5 (1.35%) Software-Defined Networking
10 5 (1.35%) WLAN
11 4 (1.08%) Internet
11 4 (1.08%) SSL
12 2 (0.54%) Cisco Firepower
12 2 (0.54%) DHCP
12 2 (0.54%) SAN
13 1 (0.27%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (5.14%) Jenkins
2 12 (3.24%) GitLab
3 5 (1.35%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.54%) Git
4 2 (0.54%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.54%) Robot Framework
4 2 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.54%) sqlmap
5 1 (0.27%) JIRA
5 1 (0.27%) MSI
General
1 45 (12.16%) Finance
2 42 (11.35%) Social Skills
3 35 (9.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (3.78%) Banking
5 13 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.24%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.97%) Electronics
8 10 (2.70%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.89%) Aerospace
10 7 (1.89%) Retail
11 5 (1.35%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.81%) Legal
13 2 (0.54%) Law
13 2 (0.54%) Welsh Language
14 1 (0.27%) Automotive
14 1 (0.27%) Cyber-Physical System
14 1 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.27%) Military
14 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.08%) Fluent Bit
2 2 (0.54%) JSON
2 2 (0.54%) JSON Schema
2 2 (0.54%) KML
2 2 (0.54%) Regular Expression
2 2 (0.54%) XML
2 2 (0.54%) XML Schema
3 1 (0.27%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.27%) CSS
3 1 (0.27%) Django
3 1 (0.27%) Flask
3 1 (0.27%) HTML
3 1 (0.27%) Jinja
3 1 (0.27%) Pyramid
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.57%) Public Cloud
2 23 (6.22%) PKI
2 23 (6.22%) Private Cloud
3 20 (5.41%) CCTV
4 19 (5.14%) Security Operations Centre
5 18 (4.86%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (4.59%) Operational Technology
7 14 (3.78%) Management Information System
7 14 (3.78%) Product Ownership
8 12 (3.24%) Data Centre
8 12 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (2.97%) SCADA
10 10 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (1.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 5 (1.35%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
13 4 (1.08%) IoT
14 3 (0.81%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 43 (11.62%) Windows
2 23 (6.22%) Windows Server
3 13 (3.51%) Linux
4 6 (1.62%) Android
4 6 (1.62%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.81%) Unix
6 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (45.14%) Cybersecurity
2 83 (22.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 68 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
4 64 (17.30%) Mentoring
5 60 (16.22%) Security Operations
6 59 (15.95%) SIEM
7 56 (15.14%) Cloud Security
7 56 (15.14%) Coaching
7 56 (15.14%) DevOps
8 44 (11.89%) Information Security
9 40 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
10 39 (10.54%) Analytics
11 37 (10.00%) Incident Response
12 29 (7.84%) Agile
12 29 (7.84%) Vulnerability Management
13 28 (7.57%) Data Science
13 28 (7.57%) Roadmaps
14 27 (7.30%) Data Engineering
14 27 (7.30%) Data Modelling
14 27 (7.30%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 57 (15.41%) Python
2 33 (8.92%) PowerShell
3 10 (2.70%) Bash
4 7 (1.89%) SQL
5 6 (1.62%) C
5 6 (1.62%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (1.08%) C++
7 3 (0.81%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.54%) Java
9 1 (0.27%) Embedded C
9 1 (0.27%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 65 (17.57%) Degree
2 44 (11.89%) Security Cleared
3 36 (9.73%) SC Cleared
4 18 (4.86%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (4.32%) CISSP
6 11 (2.97%) CCNA
6 11 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.70%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.70%) SANS
8 9 (2.43%) CEH
9 8 (2.16%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (1.62%) CCNP
10 6 (1.62%) CCSP
10 6 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.62%) SSCP
11 5 (1.35%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.08%) CISM
13 3 (0.81%) GCIA
13 3 (0.81%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (12.43%) NIST
2 42 (11.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (7.30%) Data Quality
4 16 (4.32%) PCI DSS
5 12 (3.24%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (2.43%) GDPR
6 9 (2.43%) SOC 2
7 7 (1.89%) NCSC
8 5 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (1.08%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.54%) GRC
11 1 (0.27%) COBIT
System Software
1 34 (9.19%) Active Directory
2 14 (3.78%) Docker
3 11 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.89%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (1.89%) Firmware
5 6 (1.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.27%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 39 (10.54%) Terraform
2 14 (3.78%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.24%) CA Single Sign-On
3 12 (3.24%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (2.16%) Ansible
5 8 (2.16%) Nessus
6 6 (1.62%) Nmap
7 4 (1.08%) CSIRT
7 4 (1.08%) Fluentd
7 4 (1.08%) logstash
8 3 (0.81%) SCCM
9 2 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.54%) CASB
10 1 (0.27%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
10 1 (0.27%) WMI
10 1 (0.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 75 (20.27%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.49%) Cisco
3 18 (4.86%) ServiceNow
4 16 (4.32%) Splunk
5 14 (3.78%) Google
6 13 (3.51%) VMware
7 12 (3.24%) CA
7 12 (3.24%) CyberArk
7 12 (3.24%) Qualys
8 11 (2.97%) Palo Alto
9 9 (2.43%) EMC
10 6 (1.62%) Rapid7
10 6 (1.62%) Thycotic
11 5 (1.35%) Forcepoint
12 4 (1.08%) Juniper
13 3 (0.81%) CheckPoint
13 3 (0.81%) Computacenter
13 3 (0.81%) LogRhythm
13 3 (0.81%) Sophos
13 3 (0.81%) WatchGuard