IT Security Engineer Jobs in England

IT Security Engineer
UK > England

The median IT Security Engineer salary in England is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 655 790 837
Rank change year-on-year +135 +47 +213
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Security Engineer 15 47 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.031% 0.055% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.058% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12 41 93
10th Percentile £42,500 £30,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £44,375 £42,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.48% +11.54% +13.08%
75th Percentile £56,563 £82,500 £77,542
90th Percentile £75,875 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +13.08%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 43,436 80,761 84,301
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 94.49% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,713 60,391 53,470
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,995 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

IT Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Security Engineer in England

IT Security Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for IT Security Engineer in England

IT Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Security Engineer in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Security Engineer in England

IT Security Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Security Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 7 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
London +75 7 £65,000 -16.13% 7
South West +123 4 £47,500 +15.27% 7
Midlands +57 3 £45,000 +50.00%
West Midlands +44 2 £45,000 -
North of England +54 1 £57,500 -4.17% 3
East Midlands +48 1 £40,000 +33.33%
North East - 1 £57,500 -
IT Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 England region featuring IT Security Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (66.67%) Information Security
2 9 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (53.33%) Azure
3 8 (53.33%) SIEM
3 8 (53.33%) Firewall
3 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
4 7 (46.67%) Finance
5 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
5 6 (40.00%) AWS
5 6 (40.00%) Cloud Security
5 6 (40.00%) Security Posture
6 5 (33.33%) Roadmaps
6 5 (33.33%) NIST
6 5 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
6 5 (33.33%) Risk Management
6 5 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (33.33%) CISSP
7 4 (26.67%) Degree
7 4 (26.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (26.67%) Security Operations
8 3 (20.00%) DevSecOps
8 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
8 3 (20.00%) CCSK
8 3 (20.00%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (20.00%) Virtual Team
8 3 (20.00%) Zscaler
8 3 (20.00%) CASB
8 3 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (20.00%) Key Management

IT Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) AWS
3 3 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (20.00%) GCP
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (13.33%) IaaS
4 2 (13.33%) PaaS
4 2 (13.33%) SaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) Firewall
2 3 (20.00%) DHCP
2 3 (20.00%) DNS
2 3 (20.00%) Network Security
2 3 (20.00%) VPN
3 2 (13.33%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Law
3 3 (20.00%) Legal
3 3 (20.00%) Marketing
4 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Mandarin Language
5 1 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (20.00%) PKI
2 3 (20.00%) Virtual Team
3 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Information Security
2 8 (53.33%) SIEM
3 6 (40.00%) Cloud Security
4 5 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
4 5 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 5 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 4 (26.67%) Security Operations
6 3 (20.00%) Agile
6 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (20.00%) Data Security
6 3 (20.00%) DevSecOps
6 3 (20.00%) ITIL
6 3 (20.00%) Key Management
6 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 3 (20.00%) Patch Management
6 3 (20.00%) SABSA
6 3 (20.00%) Secrets Management
6 3 (20.00%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) CISSP
2 4 (26.67%) Degree
3 3 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (20.00%) CCSK
3 3 (20.00%) CCSP
3 3 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (13.33%) CISM
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 1 (6.67%) CEH
5 1 (6.67%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (33.33%) NIST
3 4 (26.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (20.00%) GDPR
4 3 (20.00%) PCI DSS
5 2 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
6 1 (6.67%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) CASB
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (13.33%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Symantec
2 3 (20.00%) Zscaler
3 2 (13.33%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
4 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.67%) Sophos