Security Engineer Jobs in England

Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Security Engineer salary in England is £59,526 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 375 373 402
Rank change year-on-year -2 +29 -21
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 584 828 1,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.69% 0.89% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.97% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 481 590 697
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,000 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,526 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.81% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £93,000
UK median annual salary £59,526 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.42% - +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 80,117 85,349 125,598
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.55% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 59,992 53,990 75,607
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in England

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in England

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in England

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 Security Engineer within the England 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
London +31 258 £78,750 +5.00% 114
South East +12 120 £45,000 -18.18% 40
North of England +29 97 £52,500 -19.23% 42
Midlands -11 53 £55,000 +15.79% 34
North West -19 52 £55,000 -15.38% 35
Yorkshire +93 36 £41,750 -39.06% 3
West Midlands 0 34 £53,000 +11.58% 23
East of England +11 26 £57,500 +6.48% 25
South West -35 22 £41,206 -31.32% 32
East Midlands -7 19 £55,000 +15.79% 11
North East - 9 £62,783 - 4
Security Engineer
UK

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

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 England region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 277 (47.43%) Cybersecurity
2 198 (33.90%) Azure
3 154 (26.37%) Microsoft
4 128 (21.92%) Firewall
5 111 (19.01%) Finance
6 110 (18.84%) Python
7 108 (18.49%) AWS
7 108 (18.49%) SIEM
7 108 (18.49%) Cloud Security
8 103 (17.64%) Network Security
9 98 (16.78%) Information Security
10 97 (16.61%) Degree
11 96 (16.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 95 (16.27%) Security Operations
13 93 (15.92%) CISSP
14 91 (15.58%) PowerShell
15 88 (15.07%) Windows
16 86 (14.73%) Microsoft 365
16 86 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
17 77 (13.18%) Incident Response
17 77 (13.18%) DevOps
18 72 (12.33%) Social Skills
19 70 (11.99%) Vulnerability Management
20 67 (11.47%) NIST
21 65 (11.13%) Mentoring
21 65 (11.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
22 62 (10.62%) Coaching
23 61 (10.45%) Cisco
24 54 (9.25%) Active Directory
25 53 (9.08%) Cisco Certification

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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.51%) Apache
2 3 (0.51%) nginx
2 3 (0.51%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.34%) Confluence
4 1 (0.17%) Gunicorn
4 1 (0.17%) uWSGI
Applications
1 14 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.51%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.51%) Revit
4 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.86%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 198 (33.90%) Azure
2 108 (18.49%) AWS
3 86 (14.73%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (8.22%) GCP
5 30 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (5.14%) PaaS
6 27 (4.62%) Azure Sentinel
6 27 (4.62%) Cloud Computing
6 27 (4.62%) SaaS
7 24 (4.11%) Entra ID
8 19 (3.25%) Microsoft Purview
9 16 (2.74%) GitHub
10 13 (2.23%) Azure Key Vault
10 13 (2.23%) IaaS
11 12 (2.05%) AWS KMS
12 10 (1.71%) Azure AKS
13 9 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (1.54%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 8 (1.37%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 128 (21.92%) Firewall
2 103 (17.64%) Network Security
3 50 (8.56%) LAN
4 48 (8.22%) WAN
5 33 (5.65%) TCP/IP
5 33 (5.65%) VPN
6 24 (4.11%) DNS
7 22 (3.77%) SD-WAN
7 22 (3.77%) Wireless
8 16 (2.74%) Wireshark
9 15 (2.57%) Cisco Firepower
9 15 (2.57%) Cisco ISE
10 12 (2.05%) BGP
10 12 (2.05%) Internet
11 11 (1.88%) Cisco Nexus
11 11 (1.88%) VLAN
11 11 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (1.71%) WLAN
13 9 (1.54%) Cisco Wireless
13 9 (1.54%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.37%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.20%) Power BI
3 5 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (0.86%) BigQuery
3 5 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (0.86%) Hadoop
3 5 (0.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (5.65%) Jenkins
2 12 (2.05%) GitLab
3 5 (0.86%) Burp Suite
4 4 (0.68%) JIRA
5 3 (0.51%) Git
6 2 (0.34%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.34%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.34%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.34%) sqlmap
7 1 (0.17%) Ant
7 1 (0.17%) MSI
General
1 111 (19.01%) Finance
2 72 (12.33%) Social Skills
3 44 (7.53%) Banking
4 39 (6.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (3.94%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (3.42%) Law
7 16 (2.74%) Public Sector
8 13 (2.23%) Retail
9 12 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (2.05%) Electronics
9 12 (2.05%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.71%) Health Technology
10 10 (1.71%) Legal
10 10 (1.71%) Tech for Good
11 9 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.37%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.20%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.68%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.54%) 802.1X
2 8 (1.37%) HTML
3 7 (1.20%) web3js
4 5 (0.86%) XMPP
5 4 (0.68%) Fluent Bit
5 4 (0.68%) Kafka
5 4 (0.68%) OAuth
6 3 (0.51%) JSON
7 2 (0.34%) CSS
7 2 (0.34%) JSON Schema
7 2 (0.34%) KML
7 2 (0.34%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.34%) OpenID
7 2 (0.34%) Regular Expression
7 2 (0.34%) XML
7 2 (0.34%) XML Schema
8 1 (0.17%) .NET
8 1 (0.17%) RESTful
8 1 (0.17%) Web Services
8 1 (0.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (9.08%) PKI
2 37 (6.34%) Management Information System
3 34 (5.82%) Data Centre
4 33 (5.65%) Public Cloud
5 31 (5.31%) Security Operations Centre
6 26 (4.45%) CCTV
7 24 (4.11%) Private Cloud
8 23 (3.94%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (3.25%) Cyber Threat
10 16 (2.74%) Operational Technology
10 16 (2.74%) Security Posture
11 14 (2.40%) Product Ownership
12 13 (2.23%) Cyberattack
13 12 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.54%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 9 (1.54%) SCADA
16 8 (1.37%) Blockchain
16 8 (1.37%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 88 (15.07%) Windows
2 28 (4.79%) Windows Server
3 27 (4.62%) Linux
4 14 (2.40%) Android
4 14 (2.40%) Apple iOS
5 12 (2.05%) Unix
6 7 (1.20%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.68%) CentOS
8 4 (0.68%) Solaris
8 4 (0.68%) zOS
9 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.34%) Debian
10 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (47.43%) Cybersecurity
2 108 (18.49%) Cloud Security
2 108 (18.49%) SIEM
3 98 (16.78%) Information Security
4 96 (16.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 95 (16.27%) Security Operations
6 86 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
7 77 (13.18%) DevOps
7 77 (13.18%) Incident Response
8 70 (11.99%) Vulnerability Management
9 65 (11.13%) Mentoring
10 62 (10.62%) Coaching
11 48 (8.22%) Agile
11 48 (8.22%) Data Loss Prevention
12 46 (7.88%) ITIL
13 42 (7.19%) Analytics
13 42 (7.19%) Infrastructure as Code
14 41 (7.02%) Cryptography
15 40 (6.85%) Data Modelling
15 40 (6.85%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 110 (18.84%) Python
2 91 (15.58%) PowerShell
3 24 (4.11%) Bash
4 22 (3.77%) Kusto Query Language
5 19 (3.25%) SQL
6 11 (1.88%) Java
7 10 (1.71%) C#
8 9 (1.54%) C
9 7 (1.20%) C++
9 7 (1.20%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.51%) Go
11 2 (0.34%) Rust
12 1 (0.17%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.17%) Lua
12 1 (0.17%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.17%) Ruby
12 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 97 (16.61%) Degree
2 93 (15.92%) CISSP
3 53 (9.08%) Cisco Certification
4 48 (8.22%) CEH
5 43 (7.36%) Security Cleared
6 35 (5.99%) CISM
6 35 (5.99%) SC Cleared
7 24 (4.11%) CCSP
8 23 (3.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 21 (3.60%) CCNA
9 21 (3.60%) CCNP
10 19 (3.25%) SANS
11 17 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
12 15 (2.57%) GIAC
13 14 (2.40%) SSCP
14 12 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (1.54%) CISA
16 8 (1.37%) CRISC
16 8 (1.37%) DV Cleared
16 8 (1.37%) ISSMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (11.47%) NIST
2 65 (11.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (5.48%) Data Quality
4 30 (5.14%) PCI DSS
5 16 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 12 (2.05%) NCSC
8 11 (1.88%) COBIT
8 11 (1.88%) GDPR
9 7 (1.20%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.86%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.68%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.34%) GRC
12 2 (0.34%) QA
System Software
1 54 (9.25%) Active Directory
2 21 (3.60%) Docker
2 21 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (1.20%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (1.20%) Firmware
5 6 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.68%) vSphere
7 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 50 (8.56%) Terraform
2 30 (5.14%) Kubernetes
3 27 (4.62%) Ansible
4 24 (4.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (3.42%) CASB
5 20 (3.42%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (2.40%) Nmap
7 12 (2.05%) CA Single Sign-On
7 12 (2.05%) Nessus
8 9 (1.54%) logstash
9 7 (1.20%) Cisco CUCM
9 7 (1.20%) QRadar
9 7 (1.20%) Stealthwatch
10 5 (0.86%) DatAdvantage
11 4 (0.68%) Fluentd
11 4 (0.68%) SCCM
11 4 (0.68%) vRealize
11 4 (0.68%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.34%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 154 (26.37%) Microsoft
2 61 (10.45%) Cisco
3 41 (7.02%) Splunk
4 33 (5.65%) Palo Alto
5 31 (5.31%) CyberArk
6 30 (5.14%) Qualys
6 30 (5.14%) VMware
7 27 (4.62%) Google
8 26 (4.45%) Rapid7
9 20 (3.42%) CheckPoint
10 19 (3.25%) ServiceNow
11 15 (2.57%) CA
12 14 (2.40%) Thycotic
13 12 (2.05%) ArcSight
13 12 (2.05%) Carbon Black
14 10 (1.71%) Atlassian
14 10 (1.71%) Fortinet
15 9 (1.54%) EMC
15 9 (1.54%) Juniper
15 9 (1.54%) McAfee