Security Engineer Job Trends in Exeter

Security Engineer
Devon > Exeter

The median Security Engineer salary in Exeter is £37,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Exeter 0.54% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 - -
75th Percentile £38,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Devon median annual salary £40,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Exeter

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Exeter. 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 Exeter with a recognized job title 173 298 142
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 97.39% 94.67%
Number of salaries quoted 130 230 108
10th Percentile £27,225 £28,000 £26,136
25th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £35,356
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £43,491 £47,633
Median % change year-on-year -8.03% -8.69% +21.68%
75th Percentile £46,438 £53,363 £65,438
90th Percentile £58,750 £70,000 £82,500
Devon median annual salary £38,000 £45,000 £46,750
% change year-on-year -15.56% -3.74% +15.43%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Security Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Exeter.

Security Engineer job vacancy trend in Exeter

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Exeter

Salary distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in Exeter.

Salary distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in Exeter

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Exeter

For the 6 months to 7 November 2025, Security Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Exeter region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Clearswift
1 1 (100.00%) Email Filtering
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) Sophos
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable
1 1 (100.00%) Vendor Relationship Management
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 1 (100.00%) Web Filtering

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Exeter by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Email Filtering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Vendor Relationship Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 1 (100.00%) Web Filtering
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Clearswift
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) Sophos
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable
1 1 (100.00%) VMware