Security Engineer Job Trends in Chesterfield

Security Engineer
Derbyshire > Chesterfield

The median Security Engineer salary in Chesterfield is £52,375 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 - 21
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 4 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chesterfield 6.45% - 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.90% - 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £49,488 - -
25th Percentile £50,406 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,375 - £65,000
75th Percentile £53,906 - -
90th Percentile £54,563 - -
Derbyshire median annual salary £52,375 - £65,000

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Chesterfield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Chesterfield. 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 Chesterfield with a recognized job title 58 48 55
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 82.76% 79.71%
Number of salaries quoted 32 36 27
10th Percentile £25,400 £22,250 £35,900
25th Percentile £25,625 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,750 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% -5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £55,250 £50,000 £64,375
90th Percentile £64,750 £76,625 £72,250
Derbyshire median annual salary £38,125 £44,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.33% -11.00% +12.36%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Chesterfield

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Chesterfield

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Chesterfield

Salary distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in Chesterfield.

Salary distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in Chesterfield

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, 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 Chesterfield region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) COBIT
2 1 (25.00%) ISMS
2 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chesterfield 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 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (25.00%) ISMS
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Security Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISM
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) COBIT
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune