Security Engineer Jobs in the East of England

Security Engineer
England > East of England

The median Security Engineer salary in the East of England is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 199 211
Rank change year-on-year +46 +12 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 15 26 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.50% 0.43% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.46% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 15 21 18
10th Percentile £40,512 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,280 £50,000 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +5.50% +9.00%
75th Percentile £49,375 £68,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £53,000 £80,000 £60,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,925 £67,500
% change year-on-year -8.22% -11.22% +1.89%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 2,665 5,696 4,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.67% 93.93% 84.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,522 4,346 2,298
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,809 £26,675
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,206 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,000 £75,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the East of England

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in the East of England

Security Engineer
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Cambridgeshire +43 6 £50,000 -37.50% 20
Hertfordshire +29 6 £42,085 -37.65% 12
Suffolk -11 3 £45,000 +12.50% 1
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 East of England region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (73.33%) Firewall
2 8 (53.33%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (53.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 7 (46.67%) Cloud Security
3 7 (46.67%) Security Posture
3 7 (46.67%) Cloud Security Posture
3 7 (46.67%) AWS
3 7 (46.67%) Vulnerability Management
4 6 (40.00%) Degree
5 4 (26.67%) Tenable
5 4 (26.67%) Docker
5 4 (26.67%) NCSC
5 4 (26.67%) NIST
5 4 (26.67%) Incident Response
5 4 (26.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (26.67%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (26.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 4 (26.67%) CREST Certified
5 4 (26.67%) Threat Detection
5 4 (26.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (26.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 4 (26.67%) CISM
5 4 (26.67%) Qualys
5 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
5 4 (26.67%) VLAN
5 4 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (26.67%) FortiGate
5 4 (26.67%) TypeScript
5 4 (26.67%) ITIL
5 4 (26.67%) Python

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 7 (46.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (73.33%) Firewall
2 4 (26.67%) DHCP
2 4 (26.67%) DNS
2 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (26.67%) VLAN
General
1 4 (26.67%) Local Government
2 3 (20.00%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Cloud Security Posture
1 7 (46.67%) Security Posture
2 2 (13.33%) Blockchain
2 2 (13.33%) CCTV
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Cybersecurity
1 8 (53.33%) Threat Intelligence
2 7 (46.67%) Cloud Security
2 7 (46.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (26.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 4 (26.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 4 (26.67%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (26.67%) Incident Response
3 4 (26.67%) ITIL
3 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
3 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
3 4 (26.67%) Threat Detection
4 3 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
4 3 (20.00%) Security Operations
4 3 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 3 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Python
1 4 (26.67%) TypeScript
2 2 (13.33%) C
2 2 (13.33%) C++
2 2 (13.33%) Go
2 2 (13.33%) Rust
2 2 (13.33%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Degree
2 4 (26.67%) CEH
2 4 (26.67%) CISM
2 4 (26.67%) CISSP
2 4 (26.67%) CREST Certified
2 4 (26.67%) GIAC
2 4 (26.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (13.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (26.67%) NCSC
1 4 (26.67%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) FortiGate
1 4 (26.67%) Nessus
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (26.67%) Qualys
1 4 (26.67%) Tenable