Security Engineer Jobs in the East Midlands

Security Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Security Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 161 183
Rank change year-on-year -7 +22 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 19 12 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.44% 0.42% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.47% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 16 12 6
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,688 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £58,750 £48,750 £56,563
90th Percentile - £76,875 £66,875
England median annual salary £59,526 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -11.81% - +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 4,083 2,533 3,308
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.60% 88.14% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,982 1,392 2,211
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £55,000 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £76,125 £72,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the East Midlands

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Security Engineer in the East Midlands

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in the East Midlands

Security Engineer
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Nottinghamshire -2 14 £57,500 -23.33% 3
Leicestershire - 4 £53,500 - 3
Derbyshire - 1 £30,000 - 1
Security Engineer
England

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 East Midlands region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (68.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (42.11%) Firewall
3 5 (26.32%) Change Management
3 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
3 5 (26.32%) Network Architecture
3 5 (26.32%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (26.32%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (26.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (26.32%) Technology Roadmap
3 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
3 5 (26.32%) SOC 2
3 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
3 5 (26.32%) Coaching
3 5 (26.32%) Data Centre
3 5 (26.32%) Security Operations
3 5 (26.32%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
5 3 (15.79%) Azure
5 3 (15.79%) Qualys
5 3 (15.79%) SCCM
5 3 (15.79%) SQL
5 3 (15.79%) Windows
5 3 (15.79%) Retail
5 3 (15.79%) PCI DSS
5 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (15.79%) Windows Server
6 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
6 2 (10.53%) Cloud Security
6 2 (10.53%) Vulnerability Remediation

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (15.79%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.26%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (42.11%) Firewall
2 2 (10.53%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (10.53%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
1 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (15.79%) Retail
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Data Centre
1 5 (26.32%) Enterprise Storage
1 5 (26.32%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (5.26%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Windows
1 3 (15.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (26.32%) Change Management
2 5 (26.32%) Coaching
2 5 (26.32%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
2 5 (26.32%) Network Architecture
2 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
2 5 (26.32%) Security Operations
2 5 (26.32%) Technology Roadmap
3 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Operations
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Security
4 2 (10.53%) Data Encryption
4 2 (10.53%) Database Security
4 2 (10.53%) DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (10.53%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Transformation
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.79%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (26.32%) SOC 2
2 3 (15.79%) PCI DSS
3 2 (10.53%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) SCCM
2 2 (10.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Qualys