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 £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 February 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 169 213
Rank change year-on-year +2 +44 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 13 26 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.34% 0.59% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.63% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 12 21 28
10th Percentile - £55,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £56,250 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £70,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +31.46% +6.50%
75th Percentile £47,813 £75,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £65,625 £80,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -

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 3,455 4,134 4,959
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.58% 94.38% 91.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,419 3,329 2,487
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £33,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £66,318 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £85,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,086
% change year-on-year +9.09% -11.41% +3.48%

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
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 7 February 2025.

Salary histogram 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 7 February 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
Hertfordshire +8 5 £47,500 -29.63% 3
Norfolk - 4 £30,000 - 2
Suffolk - 4 £45,000 -
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 February 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 6 (46.15%) Firewall
1 6 (46.15%) CCTV
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
3 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
3 4 (30.77%) Security Operations
3 4 (30.77%) Security Monitoring
3 4 (30.77%) Technology Roadmap
3 4 (30.77%) Law
3 4 (30.77%) AWS
3 4 (30.77%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (23.08%) Azure
4 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) AWS Certification
4 3 (23.08%) Data Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (23.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 3 (23.08%) Security Posture
4 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (23.08%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 2 (15.38%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
5 2 (15.38%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 2 (15.38%) SIEM
5 2 (15.38%) Network Security
5 2 (15.38%) Security Architecture
5 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
5 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
5 2 (15.38%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (15.38%) Microsoft

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 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (7.69%) IaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.69%) Mimecast
3 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
3 1 (7.69%) PaaS
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (15.38%) Network Security
3 1 (7.69%) DNS
3 1 (7.69%) IPsec
3 1 (7.69%) NGFW
3 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.69%) VLAN
3 1 (7.69%) VPN
General
1 4 (30.77%) Law
2 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) CCTV
2 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security Posture
2 3 (23.08%) Security Posture
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
2 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
2 4 (30.77%) Security Monitoring
2 4 (30.77%) Security Operations
2 4 (30.77%) Technology Roadmap
2 4 (30.77%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (23.08%) Data Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 2 (15.38%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 2 (15.38%) Security Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) SIEM
4 2 (15.38%) Threat Intelligence
5 1 (7.69%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (7.69%) Malware Analysis
5 1 (7.69%) Mobile Device Management
5 1 (7.69%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Bash
1 1 (7.69%) C#
1 1 (7.69%) Java
1 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.69%) Python
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) AWS Certification
1 3 (23.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.69%) CCSP
3 1 (7.69%) CEH
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.69%) CISM
3 1 (7.69%) CISSP
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) SSCP
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (7.69%) Nagios
1 1 (7.69%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
1 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
2 1 (7.69%) Blue Coat
2 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (7.69%) F5
2 1 (7.69%) IBM
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) VMware