Security Engineer Jobs in England

Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Security Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 392 426
Rank change year-on-year +20 +34 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 590 756 1,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.69% 0.84% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.92% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 484 566 691
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,625 £42,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £52,125 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,447 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +2.88% +12.50%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,375 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £68,515 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.43% +5.41% +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 81,185 82,540 127,939
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.53% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 60,576 52,509 74,661
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,288 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +40 263 £80,000 +3.23% 104
South East -15 114 £45,000 -18.18% 50
North of England +53 99 £52,500 -19.23% 31
Midlands -17 58 £57,500 +21.05% 34
North West -12 53 £55,000 -15.38% 23
West Midlands +6 40 £57,500 +25.00% 22
Yorkshire +89 37 £41,750 -39.06% 4
East of England +15 26 £57,500 +5.50% 26
South West -40 22 £41,206 -41.13% 28
East Midlands -5 18 £55,000 +15.79% 12
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 12 May 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.

1 281 (47.63%) Cybersecurity
2 196 (33.22%) Azure
3 146 (24.75%) Microsoft
4 118 (20.00%) Firewall
4 118 (20.00%) Finance
5 115 (19.49%) Python
6 111 (18.81%) Cloud Security
7 110 (18.64%) AWS
7 110 (18.64%) SIEM
8 103 (17.46%) Network Security
9 96 (16.27%) CISSP
9 96 (16.27%) Degree
10 95 (16.10%) Security Operations
10 95 (16.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 90 (15.25%) Information Security
12 88 (14.92%) PowerShell
13 87 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
14 84 (14.24%) Microsoft 365
15 82 (13.90%) Windows
16 80 (13.56%) Incident Response
17 77 (13.05%) DevOps
18 74 (12.54%) Social Skills
19 71 (12.03%) NIST
20 70 (11.86%) Vulnerability Management
21 69 (11.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
22 65 (11.02%) Mentoring
23 63 (10.68%) Coaching
24 62 (10.51%) Cisco
25 54 (9.15%) Cisco Certification
26 50 (8.47%) CEH

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 10 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.51%) Confluence
2 3 (0.51%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.34%) Apache
3 2 (0.34%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.68%) AutoCAD
3 4 (0.68%) Revit
4 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.85%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 196 (33.22%) Azure
2 110 (18.64%) AWS
3 84 (14.24%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (8.14%) GCP
5 29 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (4.92%) Cloud Computing
5 29 (4.92%) PaaS
6 27 (4.58%) SaaS
7 26 (4.41%) Azure Sentinel
8 25 (4.24%) Entra ID
9 19 (3.22%) Microsoft Purview
10 16 (2.71%) GitHub
11 13 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (2.20%) Amazon S3
11 13 (2.20%) Azure Key Vault
12 12 (2.03%) AWS KMS
12 12 (2.03%) IaaS
13 10 (1.69%) Azure AKS
13 10 (1.69%) Serverless
14 9 (1.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 118 (20.00%) Firewall
2 103 (17.46%) Network Security
3 48 (8.14%) LAN
4 44 (7.46%) WAN
5 34 (5.76%) TCP/IP
6 30 (5.08%) VPN
7 23 (3.90%) DNS
8 22 (3.73%) Wireless
9 19 (3.22%) SD-WAN
10 17 (2.88%) Cisco Firepower
11 16 (2.71%) Wireshark
12 13 (2.20%) Cisco ISE
13 11 (1.86%) BGP
13 11 (1.86%) Cisco Nexus
13 11 (1.86%) VLAN
14 10 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (1.53%) Cisco Wireless
15 9 (1.53%) Internet
15 9 (1.53%) NGFW
15 9 (1.53%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (1.36%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.19%) Power BI
4 5 (0.85%) BigQuery
4 5 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (0.85%) Hadoop
4 5 (0.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (5.42%) Jenkins
2 12 (2.03%) GitLab
3 6 (1.02%) Burp Suite
4 5 (0.85%) JIRA
5 3 (0.51%) Metasploit
5 3 (0.51%) sqlmap
6 2 (0.34%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.34%) Git
6 2 (0.34%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.17%) Ant
7 1 (0.17%) MSI
General
1 118 (20.00%) Finance
2 74 (12.54%) Social Skills
3 49 (8.31%) Banking
4 39 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (3.56%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (3.22%) Law
7 16 (2.71%) Public Sector
8 13 (2.20%) Retail
9 12 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (2.03%) Electronics
9 12 (2.03%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.69%) Health Technology
10 10 (1.69%) Tech for Good
11 9 (1.53%) Legal
11 9 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.19%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.19%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.85%) Marketing
13 5 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.53%) 802.1X
2 7 (1.19%) HTML
2 7 (1.19%) web3js
3 5 (0.85%) Kafka
3 5 (0.85%) XMPP
4 4 (0.68%) Fluent Bit
4 4 (0.68%) OAuth
5 3 (0.51%) JSON
6 2 (0.34%) CSS
6 2 (0.34%) JSON Schema
6 2 (0.34%) KML
6 2 (0.34%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.34%) OpenID
6 2 (0.34%) Regular Expression
6 2 (0.34%) XML
6 2 (0.34%) XML Schema
7 1 (0.17%) .NET
7 1 (0.17%) RESTful
7 1 (0.17%) SAML
7 1 (0.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.97%) PKI
2 37 (6.27%) Management Information System
3 33 (5.59%) Data Centre
4 32 (5.42%) Public Cloud
5 31 (5.25%) Security Operations Centre
6 26 (4.41%) CCTV
7 24 (4.07%) Private Cloud
8 23 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (3.05%) Cyber Threat
10 17 (2.88%) Operational Technology
10 17 (2.88%) Security Posture
11 15 (2.54%) Cyberattack
12 14 (2.37%) Product Ownership
13 12 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
14 11 (1.86%) SCADA
14 11 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
16 9 (1.53%) Cyber Kill Chain
17 8 (1.36%) Blockchain
17 8 (1.36%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 82 (13.90%) Windows
2 29 (4.92%) Linux
3 26 (4.41%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.54%) Android
4 15 (2.54%) Apple iOS
5 12 (2.03%) Unix
6 6 (1.02%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (0.68%) CentOS
7 4 (0.68%) Solaris
7 4 (0.68%) zOS
8 2 (0.34%) Debian
8 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (47.63%) Cybersecurity
2 111 (18.81%) Cloud Security
3 110 (18.64%) SIEM
4 95 (16.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 95 (16.10%) Security Operations
5 90 (15.25%) Information Security
6 87 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
7 80 (13.56%) Incident Response
8 77 (13.05%) DevOps
9 70 (11.86%) Vulnerability Management
10 65 (11.02%) Mentoring
11 63 (10.68%) Coaching
12 48 (8.14%) Agile
12 48 (8.14%) Data Loss Prevention
13 46 (7.80%) Infrastructure as Code
14 45 (7.63%) ITIL
15 42 (7.12%) Analytics
16 41 (6.95%) Cryptography
16 41 (6.95%) Identity Access Management
16 41 (6.95%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 115 (19.49%) Python
2 88 (14.92%) PowerShell
3 23 (3.90%) Bash
4 22 (3.73%) Kusto Query Language
5 17 (2.88%) SQL
6 11 (1.86%) Java
7 10 (1.69%) C#
8 9 (1.53%) C
9 7 (1.19%) C++
9 7 (1.19%) 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 96 (16.27%) CISSP
1 96 (16.27%) Degree
2 54 (9.15%) Cisco Certification
3 50 (8.47%) CEH
4 40 (6.78%) Security Cleared
5 33 (5.59%) CISM
6 32 (5.42%) SC Cleared
7 23 (3.90%) CCSP
8 22 (3.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 22 (3.73%) CCNP
9 21 (3.56%) CCNA
10 19 (3.22%) SANS
11 18 (3.05%) GIAC
12 17 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
13 14 (2.37%) SSCP
14 12 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (1.86%) DV Cleared
16 9 (1.53%) AWS Certification
16 9 (1.53%) Azure Certification
16 9 (1.53%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (12.03%) NIST
2 69 (11.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (5.42%) Data Quality
4 28 (4.75%) PCI DSS
5 16 (2.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 11 (1.86%) COBIT
7 11 (1.86%) NCSC
8 10 (1.69%) GDPR
9 7 (1.19%) SOC 2
10 6 (1.02%) NIST 800
11 5 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.68%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.34%) QA
14 1 (0.17%) GRC
System Software
1 49 (8.31%) Active Directory
2 21 (3.56%) Docker
3 15 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (1.19%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (1.19%) Firmware
5 7 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.68%) vSphere
7 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (8.47%) Terraform
2 31 (5.25%) Kubernetes
3 28 (4.75%) Ansible
4 24 (4.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (3.39%) CASB
5 20 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (2.37%) Nmap
7 12 (2.03%) CA Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.53%) logstash
9 7 (1.19%) Nessus
9 7 (1.19%) QRadar
10 6 (1.02%) Cisco CUCM
10 6 (1.02%) Stealthwatch
11 4 (0.68%) DatAdvantage
11 4 (0.68%) Fluentd
11 4 (0.68%) vRealize
11 4 (0.68%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 3 (0.51%) SCCM
13 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.34%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 146 (24.75%) Microsoft
2 62 (10.51%) Cisco
3 41 (6.95%) Splunk
4 32 (5.42%) CyberArk
4 32 (5.42%) Palo Alto
5 30 (5.08%) Qualys
6 27 (4.58%) Google
6 27 (4.58%) Rapid7
7 24 (4.07%) VMware
8 20 (3.39%) CheckPoint
9 17 (2.88%) ServiceNow
10 15 (2.54%) ArcSight
10 15 (2.54%) CA
10 15 (2.54%) Carbon Black
11 14 (2.37%) Thycotic
12 11 (1.86%) Atlassian
13 10 (1.69%) McAfee
14 9 (1.53%) EMC
14 9 (1.53%) Juniper
15 8 (1.36%) Fortinet