Security Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Security Engineer
England > North of England

The median Security Engineer salary in the North of England is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 243 289 342
Rank change year-on-year +46 +53 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 95 99 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.83% 0.57% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 0.60% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 90 93 75
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £51,600
25th Percentile £48,869 £35,920 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -19.23% +10.64%
75th Percentile £55,000 £62,833 £77,542
90th Percentile £61,375 £67,968 £89,250
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 of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 10,578 16,586 15,451
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.99% 94.87% 89.58%
Number of salaries quoted 5,737 12,834 8,216
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,265 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,577
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £78,100 £78,750 £81,250
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the North of England

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in the North of England

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in the North of England

Security Engineer
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
North West +21 70 £55,000 - 52
Yorkshire +56 18 £50,000 +19.76% 25
North East +42 7 £57,500 -8.41% 12
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 of England region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 43 (45.26%) Degree
2 39 (41.05%) BPSS Clearance
2 39 (41.05%) Systems Engineering
3 36 (37.89%) Social Skills
4 30 (31.58%) Cloud Security
5 26 (27.37%) DevOps
5 26 (27.37%) Security Posture
5 26 (27.37%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (24.21%) AWS
7 22 (23.16%) Firewall
8 21 (22.11%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (21.05%) Mathematics
9 20 (21.05%) Physics
9 20 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
9 20 (21.05%) Product Strategy
10 19 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 19 (20.00%) HNC
10 19 (20.00%) HND
11 18 (18.95%) Roadmaps
12 14 (14.74%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (14.74%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 14 (14.74%) Vulnerability Management
13 13 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (13.68%) Finance
13 13 (13.68%) Information Security
13 13 (13.68%) Terraform
14 12 (12.63%) Security Operations
14 12 (12.63%) GDPR
14 12 (12.63%) NIST
14 12 (12.63%) ISO/IEC 27001

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (1.05%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 23 (24.21%) AWS
2 9 (9.47%) Azure
3 5 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (5.26%) SaaS
4 3 (3.16%) GitHub
5 2 (2.11%) IaaS
5 2 (2.11%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.05%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 22 (23.16%) Firewall
2 10 (10.53%) Network Security
2 10 (10.53%) VPN
3 4 (4.21%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (2.11%) NGFW
5 1 (1.05%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.05%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (1.05%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.05%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.05%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (1.05%) TACACS
5 1 (1.05%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.05%) DB2
1 1 (1.05%) Hadoop
1 1 (1.05%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.05%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.05%) JIRA
General
1 36 (37.89%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.68%) Finance
3 10 (10.53%) Banking
3 10 (10.53%) Law
4 6 (6.32%) Legal
5 5 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.21%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.26%) AngularJS
1 5 (5.26%) React
2 3 (3.16%) REST
2 3 (3.16%) Web Services
3 1 (1.05%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.05%) JSON
3 1 (1.05%) OAuth
3 1 (1.05%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 26 (27.37%) Security Posture
2 11 (11.58%) Cloud Native
3 10 (10.53%) Cloud Security Posture
3 10 (10.53%) Product Ownership
4 7 (7.37%) Public Cloud
5 6 (6.32%) Cyber Security Posture
6 4 (4.21%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.11%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.05%) CCTV
8 1 (1.05%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.05%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.47%) Linux
2 8 (8.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (41.05%) Systems Engineering
2 30 (31.58%) Cloud Security
3 26 (27.37%) DevOps
3 26 (27.37%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (22.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
5 20 (21.05%) Mathematics
5 20 (21.05%) Physics
5 20 (21.05%) Product Strategy
6 19 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 18 (18.95%) Roadmaps
8 14 (14.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (14.74%) Vulnerability Management
8 14 (14.74%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 13 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (13.68%) Information Security
10 12 (12.63%) Security Operations
11 10 (10.53%) Data Engineering
11 10 (10.53%) Security Monitoring
11 10 (10.53%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.37%) Python
2 5 (5.26%) TypeScript
3 4 (4.21%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.11%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.05%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 43 (45.26%) Degree
2 39 (41.05%) BPSS Clearance
3 19 (20.00%) HNC
3 19 (20.00%) HND
4 10 (10.53%) AWS Certification
4 10 (10.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (3.16%) CISSP
5 3 (3.16%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.16%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.11%) CCNP
6 2 (2.11%) CEH
6 2 (2.11%) CISA
6 2 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.11%) CISM
6 2 (2.11%) CISMP
6 2 (2.11%) GCIH
6 2 (2.11%) GIAC
6 2 (2.11%) GISF
6 2 (2.11%) GSEC
6 2 (2.11%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.63%) GDPR
1 12 (12.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (12.63%) NIST
2 2 (2.11%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (7.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (13.68%) Terraform
2 2 (2.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (6.32%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.26%) Cisco
3 4 (4.21%) Ping Identity
4 3 (3.16%) Splunk
5 2 (2.11%) AlienVault
5 2 (2.11%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (2.11%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.11%) Tenable
5 2 (2.11%) Varonis
6 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.05%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.05%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.05%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.05%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.05%) IBM
6 1 (1.05%) Imperva
6 1 (1.05%) Juniper
6 1 (1.05%) Oracle