Security Support Engineer Job Trends in Portsmouth

Security Support Engineer
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The median Security Support Engineer salary in Portsmouth is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Support Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Portsmouth 0.54% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 - -
75th Percentile £38,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median annual salary £37,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Portsmouth

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Portsmouth. 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 Portsmouth with a recognized job title 351 512 191
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 94.99% 88.84%
Number of salaries quoted 154 379 160
10th Percentile £29,125 £25,250 £25,950
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,356 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
Hampshire median annual salary £52,000 £52,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -0.95% -1.87% +1.90%

Security Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Support Engineer in Portsmouth

Security Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Security Support 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 Portsmouth region featuring Security Support Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot

Security Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft