Security Officer Jobs in Exeter

Security Officer
Devon > Exeter

The median Security Officer salary in Exeter is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 41 -
Rank change year-on-year +16 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Officer 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Exeter 0.88% 0.33% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.35% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,250 £66,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 -
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 -
90th Percentile - - -
Devon median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 -

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 107 288 241
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 96.00% 86.38%
Number of salaries quoted 82 246 192
10th Percentile £27,200 £26,859 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £31,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £40,000 £40,250
Median % change year-on-year -21.25% -0.62% +2.45%
75th Percentile £55,625 £50,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £57,250 £62,340
Devon median annual salary £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -22.22% +12.50% -11.11%

Security Officer
Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Officer in Exeter

Security Officer
Salary Trend in Exeter

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Officer in Exeter.

Salary trend for Security Officer in Exeter

Security Officer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Exeter

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, Security Officer 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 Exeter region featuring Security Officer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Internal Audit
1 1 (100.00%) Contingency Planning
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response

Security Officer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Exeter 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Contingency Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Internal Audit
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune