Security Engineer Jobs in Lancashire

Security Engineer
North West > Lancashire

The median Security Engineer salary in Lancashire is £50,472 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 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
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 75 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 46 10 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 2.23% 0.78% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.36% 0.84% -
Number of salaries quoted 46 10 0
10th Percentile £48,778 £35,000 -
25th Percentile £48,869 £35,920 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,472 £54,891 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% - -
75th Percentile £55,000 £67,968 -
90th Percentile - £68,171 -
North West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -15.38% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Lancashire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Lancashire. 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 Lancashire with a recognized job title 1,950 1,194 572
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.43% 92.85% 82.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,241 1,018 365
10th Percentile £41,250 £28,000 £27,100
25th Percentile £47,683 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £45,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.23% -4.26% +10.59%
75th Percentile £54,793 £60,741 £57,500
90th Percentile £58,943 £75,000 £64,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Lancashire

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Lancashire

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in Lancashire

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

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

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in Lancashire

Security Engineer
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Engineer within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 6 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
Preston -14 9 £52,500 +11.70%
Blackpool -26 8 £52,527 -16.33%
Lytham St Annes - 8 £52,527 -
Blackburn - 8 £52,527 -
Nelson - 2 £45,000 -
Lancaster - 2 £51,237 -
Security Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, 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 Lancashire region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 39 (84.78%) Degree
1 39 (84.78%) BPSS Clearance
1 39 (84.78%) Systems Engineering
2 20 (43.48%) Stakeholder Management
2 20 (43.48%) Mathematics
2 20 (43.48%) Physics
2 20 (43.48%) Product Strategy
3 19 (41.30%) Social Skills
3 19 (41.30%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (41.30%) HNC
3 19 (41.30%) HND
4 4 (8.70%) DevOps
4 4 (8.70%) SDLC
4 4 (8.70%) Security Posture
5 3 (6.52%) Roadmaps
5 3 (6.52%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (6.52%) Mentoring
5 3 (6.52%) Firewall
6 2 (4.35%) Law
6 2 (4.35%) Legal
6 2 (4.35%) Information Security
6 2 (4.35%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (4.35%) Coaching
6 2 (4.35%) Microservices
6 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.35%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (4.35%) Software Delivery
6 2 (4.35%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (4.35%) Test Automation

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 1 (2.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.35%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 19 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.35%) Law
2 2 (4.35%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.70%) Security Posture
2 2 (4.35%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (4.35%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Linux
1 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (84.78%) Systems Engineering
2 20 (43.48%) Mathematics
2 20 (43.48%) Physics
2 20 (43.48%) Product Strategy
2 20 (43.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (41.30%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (8.70%) DevOps
4 4 (8.70%) SDLC
5 3 (6.52%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (6.52%) Mentoring
5 3 (6.52%) Roadmaps
6 2 (4.35%) Cloud Security
6 2 (4.35%) Coaching
6 2 (4.35%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (4.35%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (4.35%) Information Security
6 2 (4.35%) Microservices
6 2 (4.35%) Software Delivery
6 2 (4.35%) Test Automation
6 2 (4.35%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 39 (84.78%) BPSS Clearance
1 39 (84.78%) Degree
2 19 (41.30%) HNC
2 19 (41.30%) HND
3 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) GDPR
1 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.35%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
1 1 (2.17%) Cisco
1 1 (2.17%) Juniper
1 1 (2.17%) Palo Alto