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 to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 286 309 346
Rank change year-on-year +23 +37 -87
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 98 122 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.57% 0.70% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.78% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 93 93 70
10th Percentile £35,000 £46,750 £39,875
25th Percentile £35,920 £53,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +13.04% +6.48%
75th Percentile £62,833 £76,316 £80,000
90th Percentile £67,968 £77,715 £85,000
England median annual salary £59,526 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -11.81% - +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,421 15,679 17,326
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.07% 89.49% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,705 8,279 11,135
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,650 £65,225
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 -24 53 £53,750 -17.31% 34
Yorkshire +94 36 £41,750 -38.15% 4
North East - 9 £62,783 - 5
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 52 (53.06%) Cybersecurity
2 44 (44.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 39 (39.80%) Azure
4 37 (37.76%) DevOps
5 29 (29.59%) Microsoft
6 24 (24.49%) Mentoring
6 24 (24.49%) Finance
7 23 (23.47%) NIST
8 22 (22.45%) Coaching
8 22 (22.45%) Cloud Security
9 21 (21.43%) Private Cloud
9 21 (21.43%) Security Operations
10 20 (20.41%) Public Cloud
11 18 (18.37%) Terraform
11 18 (18.37%) Key Management
11 18 (18.37%) Secrets Management
11 18 (18.37%) Infrastructure as Code
11 18 (18.37%) AWS
12 17 (17.35%) SIEM
12 17 (17.35%) Hybrid Cloud
13 15 (15.31%) Firewall
13 15 (15.31%) Python
13 15 (15.31%) ServiceNow
14 14 (14.29%) Network Security
14 14 (14.29%) Agile
14 14 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (14.29%) Roadmaps
15 13 (13.27%) LAN
16 12 (12.24%) DNS
16 12 (12.24%) Active Directory

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:

Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.10%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 39 (39.80%) Azure
2 18 (18.37%) AWS
3 14 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (12.24%) AWS KMS
4 12 (12.24%) Azure Key Vault
4 12 (12.24%) Entra ID
5 11 (11.22%) GCP
5 11 (11.22%) PaaS
6 10 (10.20%) Azure Sentinel
6 10 (10.20%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (9.18%) GitHub
8 7 (7.14%) SaaS
9 6 (6.12%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (6.12%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (3.06%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.31%) Firewall
2 14 (14.29%) Network Security
3 13 (13.27%) LAN
4 12 (12.24%) DNS
5 8 (8.16%) WAN
6 6 (6.12%) TCP/IP
6 6 (6.12%) Wireshark
7 5 (5.10%) NGFW
7 5 (5.10%) Software-Defined Networking
7 5 (5.10%) Wireless
7 5 (5.10%) WLAN
8 3 (3.06%) VPN
Development Applications
1 10 (10.20%) GitLab
2 8 (8.16%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.06%) Burp Suite
General
1 24 (24.49%) Finance
2 12 (12.24%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.16%) Banking
4 7 (7.14%) Social Skills
5 3 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.06%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.02%) Law
6 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.02%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.02%) CSS
1 1 (1.02%) Django
1 1 (1.02%) Flask
1 1 (1.02%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.43%) Private Cloud
2 20 (20.41%) Public Cloud
3 17 (17.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (12.24%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (12.24%) PKI
5 9 (9.18%) Security Operations Centre
6 8 (8.16%) CCTV
6 8 (8.16%) Product Ownership
7 6 (6.12%) Management Information System
8 5 (5.10%) Data Centre
9 3 (3.06%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 3 (3.06%) NHS
10 2 (2.04%) Algorithms
10 2 (2.04%) Client/Server
10 2 (2.04%) Data Structures
11 1 (1.02%) Cyber Defence
11 1 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (1.02%) Cyberattack
11 1 (1.02%) Operational Technology
11 1 (1.02%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.12%) Android
1 6 (6.12%) Apple iOS
1 6 (6.12%) Windows
2 1 (1.02%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (53.06%) Cybersecurity
2 44 (44.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 37 (37.76%) DevOps
4 24 (24.49%) Mentoring
5 22 (22.45%) Cloud Security
5 22 (22.45%) Coaching
6 21 (21.43%) Security Operations
7 18 (18.37%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (18.37%) Key Management
7 18 (18.37%) Secrets Management
8 17 (17.35%) SIEM
9 14 (14.29%) Agile
9 14 (14.29%) Roadmaps
10 12 (12.24%) Identity Management
10 12 (12.24%) Privileged Identity Management
11 11 (11.22%) Incident Response
11 11 (11.22%) Information Security
12 10 (10.20%) ITIL
12 10 (10.20%) Operational Stability
12 10 (10.20%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (15.31%) Python
2 6 (6.12%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.08%) SQL
4 2 (2.04%) Java
5 1 (1.02%) C++
5 1 (1.02%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (9.18%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (7.14%) CISSP
3 6 (6.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 6 (6.12%) CCSP
3 6 (6.12%) CEH
3 6 (6.12%) Degree
3 6 (6.12%) SANS
3 6 (6.12%) SSCP
4 3 (3.06%) CCNA
4 3 (3.06%) CCNP
5 2 (2.04%) CCDP
5 2 (2.04%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.04%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.02%) CCSA
6 1 (1.02%) CCSE
6 1 (1.02%) GCFA
6 1 (1.02%) GCIA
6 1 (1.02%) GCIH
6 1 (1.02%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (23.47%) NIST
2 12 (12.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (12.24%) PCI DSS
3 4 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (3.06%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (12.24%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.16%) Docker
3 6 (6.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (18.37%) Terraform
2 12 (12.24%) CA Single Sign-On
2 12 (12.24%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (8.16%) Kubernetes
3 8 (8.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (6.12%) Nmap
5 1 (1.02%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 29 (29.59%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.31%) ServiceNow
3 12 (12.24%) CA
3 12 (12.24%) CyberArk
4 8 (8.16%) Cisco
4 8 (8.16%) Google
4 8 (8.16%) Splunk
5 6 (6.12%) Palo Alto
5 6 (6.12%) Qualys
5 6 (6.12%) Rapid7
5 6 (6.12%) Thycotic
6 2 (2.04%) Darktrace
6 2 (2.04%) SonicWALL
6 2 (2.04%) Symantec
7 1 (1.02%) AlienVault
7 1 (1.02%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.02%) Fortinet