Security Engineer Jobs in the North East

Security Engineer
England > North East

The median Security Engineer salary in the North East is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 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
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 107 -
Rank change year-on-year +49 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 7 9 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 0.94% 0.48% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 0.51% -
Number of salaries quoted 7 9 0
10th Percentile £39,836 £35,000 -
25th Percentile £41,875 £35,920 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,783 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.41% - -
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,968 -
90th Percentile - £70,000 -
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year -8.33% -13.60% +2.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 the North East with a recognized job title 674 1,774 1,021
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.84% 95.53% 80.08%
Number of salaries quoted 390 1,431 600
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,500 £30,575
25th Percentile £28,625 £35,920 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,672
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -0.36% +19.18%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,750 £72,625
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the North East

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in the North East.

Salary trend for Security Engineer in the North East

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in the North East over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in the North East

Security Engineer
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Engineer within the North East region over the 6 months to 10 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
Tyne and Wear +40 7 £57,500 -8.41% 5
Security Engineer
England

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 10 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 North East region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
1 5 (71.43%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 5 (71.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (71.43%) GDPR
1 5 (71.43%) NIST
2 4 (57.14%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (57.14%) Network Security
2 4 (57.14%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (57.14%) SIEM
2 4 (57.14%) Business Continuity Planning
2 4 (57.14%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (57.14%) Business Continuity
2 4 (57.14%) VPN
2 4 (57.14%) Manufacturing
2 4 (57.14%) BCP
2 4 (57.14%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
4 1 (14.29%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Coaching

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (57.14%) Network Security
2 4 (57.14%) VPN
General
1 4 (57.14%) Manufacturing
1 4 (57.14%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (14.29%) Law
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 4 (57.14%) BCP
2 4 (57.14%) Business Continuity
2 4 (57.14%) Business Continuity Planning
2 4 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (57.14%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (57.14%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (57.14%) SIEM
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Coaching
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Data Security
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
4 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) GDPR
1 5 (71.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (71.43%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft