Security Engineer Jobs in the North West

Security Engineer
England > North West

The median Security Engineer salary in the North West is £53,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 237 221
Rank change year-on-year +50 -16 +47
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 71 52 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.94% 0.54% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 0.56% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 67 49 56
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £49,500
25th Percentile £48,869 £41,875 £54,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,250 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -15.38% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £62,833 £75,000
90th Percentile £69,736 £67,968 £98,125
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,925 £67,500
% change year-on-year -8.22% -11.22% +1.89%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 6,852 9,205 7,037
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 94.71% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,054 7,083 4,090
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,620 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £68,938
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,700 £81,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the North West

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in the North West

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in the North West

Security Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Lancashire -11 46 £50,472 -8.05% 13
Manchester +58 19 £60,000 +9.09% 36
Cheshire +39 3 £55,000 - 9
Merseyside +39 3 £41,625 -4.86% 4
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 West region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 41 (57.75%) Degree
2 39 (54.93%) BPSS Clearance
2 39 (54.93%) Systems Engineering
3 32 (45.07%) Social Skills
4 23 (32.39%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (29.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (28.17%) Mathematics
6 20 (28.17%) Physics
6 20 (28.17%) Product Strategy
7 19 (26.76%) HNC
7 19 (26.76%) HND
8 18 (25.35%) Cloud Security
9 16 (22.54%) DevOps
10 15 (21.13%) Security Posture
11 13 (18.31%) Finance
11 13 (18.31%) AWS
12 12 (16.90%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (16.90%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (15.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 11 (15.49%) Terraform
14 10 (14.08%) Cloud Native
14 10 (14.08%) Banking
14 10 (14.08%) Roadmaps
15 9 (12.68%) Product Ownership
15 9 (12.68%) Linux
16 8 (11.27%) Information Security
16 8 (11.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 7 (9.86%) Virtual Machines
17 7 (9.86%) Azure
17 7 (9.86%) Public Cloud

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (1.41%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (18.31%) AWS
2 7 (9.86%) Azure
3 4 (5.63%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (4.23%) GitHub
4 3 (4.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.45%) Firewall
2 3 (4.23%) Network Security
2 3 (4.23%) VPN
3 2 (2.82%) NGFW
4 1 (1.41%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (1.41%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.41%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.41%) TACACS
4 1 (1.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.41%) DB2
1 1 (1.41%) Hadoop
1 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.41%) JIRA
General
1 32 (45.07%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.31%) Finance
3 10 (14.08%) Banking
4 4 (5.63%) Legal
5 3 (4.23%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.82%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.63%) AngularJS
1 4 (5.63%) React
2 2 (2.82%) REST
2 2 (2.82%) Web Services
3 1 (1.41%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.41%) JSON
3 1 (1.41%) OAuth
3 1 (1.41%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.13%) Security Posture
2 10 (14.08%) Cloud Native
3 9 (12.68%) Product Ownership
4 7 (9.86%) Public Cloud
5 4 (5.63%) Cyber Security Posture
6 2 (2.82%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.82%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.82%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.41%) CCTV
7 1 (1.41%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.68%) Linux
2 8 (11.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (54.93%) Systems Engineering
2 23 (32.39%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (29.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (28.17%) Mathematics
4 20 (28.17%) Physics
4 20 (28.17%) Product Strategy
5 18 (25.35%) Cloud Security
6 16 (22.54%) DevOps
7 12 (16.90%) Cybersecurity
7 12 (16.90%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (15.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (14.08%) Roadmaps
10 8 (11.27%) Information Security
11 7 (9.86%) CI/CD
11 7 (9.86%) SDLC
12 6 (8.45%) Mentoring
13 5 (7.04%) DevSecOps
13 5 (7.04%) Microservices
14 4 (5.63%) Continuous Delivery
14 4 (5.63%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.63%) Python
1 4 (5.63%) TypeScript
2 2 (2.82%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (2.82%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 41 (57.75%) Degree
2 39 (54.93%) BPSS Clearance
3 19 (26.76%) HNC
3 19 (26.76%) HND
4 3 (4.23%) CISSP
5 2 (2.82%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (2.82%) CEH
5 2 (2.82%) CISA
5 2 (2.82%) CISM
5 2 (2.82%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (2.82%) CRISC
5 2 (2.82%) GCIH
5 2 (2.82%) GIAC
5 2 (2.82%) GISF
5 2 (2.82%) ISACA
5 2 (2.82%) SANS
5 2 (2.82%) SSCP
6 1 (1.41%) CCIE
6 1 (1.41%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.63%) GDPR
1 4 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (5.63%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (9.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (15.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (4.23%) Ping Identity
2 2 (2.82%) Cisco
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.41%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.41%) Cloudera
3 1 (1.41%) CyberArk
3 1 (1.41%) IBM
3 1 (1.41%) Imperva
3 1 (1.41%) Juniper
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle
3 1 (1.41%) Palo Alto
3 1 (1.41%) Splunk