Security Engineer Jobs in the North West

Security Engineer
England > North West

The median Security Engineer salary in the North West is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 217 231 222
Rank change year-on-year +14 -9 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 69 56 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.89% 0.55% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 0.58% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 64 53 54
10th Percentile £48,742 £35,000 £51,500
25th Percentile £48,869 £41,875 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% -
75th Percentile - £62,833 £77,542
90th Percentile £73,288 £67,968 £100,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +3.70%

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 7,153 9,681 6,823
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.11% 94.70% 89.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3,787 7,427 4,039
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £78,500 £80,650
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

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 28 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 28 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 -37 42 £52,042 -5.19% 14
Manchester +57 22 £60,000 +9.09% 40
Merseyside +38 3 £41,625 -4.86% 8
Cheshire +4 2 £55,000 - 8
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 43 (62.32%) Degree
2 39 (56.52%) BPSS Clearance
2 39 (56.52%) Systems Engineering
3 35 (50.72%) Social Skills
4 23 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (30.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (28.99%) Mathematics
6 20 (28.99%) Physics
6 20 (28.99%) Product Strategy
7 19 (27.54%) HNC
7 19 (27.54%) HND
8 17 (24.64%) Cloud Security
9 13 (18.84%) Finance
10 12 (17.39%) AWS
11 11 (15.94%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (15.94%) Terraform
12 10 (14.49%) Cloud Native
12 10 (14.49%) DevOps
12 10 (14.49%) Banking
12 10 (14.49%) Product Ownership
13 9 (13.04%) Security Posture
13 9 (13.04%) Linux
14 8 (11.59%) Information Security
14 8 (11.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 8 (11.59%) Infrastructure as Code
14 8 (11.59%) Roadmaps
15 7 (10.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 7 (10.14%) Virtual Machines
15 7 (10.14%) Public Cloud
15 7 (10.14%) Azure

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 (1.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (17.39%) AWS
2 7 (10.14%) Azure
3 5 (7.25%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (4.35%) GitHub
4 3 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.80%) Firewall
2 3 (4.35%) Network Security
2 3 (4.35%) VPN
3 2 (2.90%) NGFW
4 1 (1.45%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (1.45%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.45%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.45%) TACACS
4 1 (1.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.45%) DB2
1 1 (1.45%) Hadoop
1 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.45%) JIRA
General
1 35 (50.72%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.84%) Finance
3 10 (14.49%) Banking
4 3 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.90%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.25%) AngularJS
1 5 (7.25%) React
2 3 (4.35%) REST
2 3 (4.35%) Web Services
3 1 (1.45%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.45%) JSON
3 1 (1.45%) OAuth
3 1 (1.45%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.49%) Cloud Native
1 10 (14.49%) Product Ownership
2 9 (13.04%) Security Posture
3 7 (10.14%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.90%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.90%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.45%) CCTV
5 1 (1.45%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.04%) Linux
2 8 (11.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (56.52%) Systems Engineering
2 23 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (30.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (28.99%) Mathematics
4 20 (28.99%) Physics
4 20 (28.99%) Product Strategy
5 17 (24.64%) Cloud Security
6 11 (15.94%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (14.49%) DevOps
8 8 (11.59%) Information Security
8 8 (11.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (11.59%) Roadmaps
9 7 (10.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (8.70%) Microservices
11 5 (7.25%) DevSecOps
11 5 (7.25%) Software Engineering
12 4 (5.80%) Incident Management
12 4 (5.80%) Incident Response
12 4 (5.80%) SIEM
13 3 (4.35%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.25%) Python
1 5 (7.25%) TypeScript
2 2 (2.90%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (2.90%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 43 (62.32%) Degree
2 39 (56.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 19 (27.54%) HNC
3 19 (27.54%) HND
4 3 (4.35%) CISSP
5 2 (2.90%) CEH
5 2 (2.90%) CISA
5 2 (2.90%) CISM
5 2 (2.90%) CompTIA CySA+
5 2 (2.90%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (2.90%) CRISC
5 2 (2.90%) GCIH
5 2 (2.90%) GIAC
5 2 (2.90%) GISF
5 2 (2.90%) ISACA
5 2 (2.90%) SANS
5 2 (2.90%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.90%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.90%) SSCP
6 1 (1.45%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.90%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (10.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (15.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (5.80%) Microsoft
1 4 (5.80%) Ping Identity
2 3 (4.35%) Splunk
3 2 (2.90%) AlienVault
3 2 (2.90%) Cisco
4 1 (1.45%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.45%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.45%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.45%) IBM
4 1 (1.45%) Imperva
4 1 (1.45%) Juniper
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle
4 1 (1.45%) Palo Alto