IT Security Engineer Jobs in Bristol

IT Security Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median IT Security Engineer salary in Bristol is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 - 172
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Security Engineer 3 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.24% - 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% - 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £45,250 - £54,926
25th Percentile £45,625 - £73,565
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - £75,554
75th Percentile £48,750 - £77,542
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £47,500 £41,206 £75,000
% change year-on-year +15.27% -45.06% +36.36%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 1,192 3,009 2,447
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 97.00% 92.76%
Number of salaries quoted 813 2,251 1,526
10th Percentile £34,500 £33,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £57,500 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -0.54% +8.85%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £73,853
90th Percentile £87,250 £85,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +5.00%

IT Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Security Engineer in Bristol

IT Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for IT Security Engineer in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, 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 Bristol region featuring IT Security Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
1 3 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (66.67%) Host Intrusion Detection System
2 2 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (66.67%) Network Design
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) IaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) OWASP
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS

IT Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (66.67%) IaaS
1 2 (66.67%) PaaS
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (66.67%) Email Filtering
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) IT Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (66.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (66.67%) Network Design
2 2 (66.67%) OWASP
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Web Filtering
3 1 (33.33%) Application Security
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft