Security Engineer Jobs in Sheffield

Security Engineer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Security Engineer salary in Sheffield is £36,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 94 87
Rank change year-on-year +21 -7 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 11 4 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.03% 0.43% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 0.49% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 10 4 4
10th Percentile £35,000 £56,125 £53,125
25th Percentile £35,750 £57,813 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £64,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -42.97% +4.49% -
75th Percentile £37,250 £68,625 £63,750
90th Percentile £38,025 £69,300 -
South Yorkshire median annual salary £36,500 £62,500 £61,250
% change year-on-year -41.60% +2.04% +36.51%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 1,015 819 831
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.48% 88.44% 98.46%
Number of salaries quoted 820 398 509
10th Percentile £27,500 £24,745 £31,200
25th Percentile £36,750 £33,713 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -7.62% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
South Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +5.26%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Sheffield

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in Sheffield.

Salary trend for Security Engineer in Sheffield

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 Sheffield region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (45.45%) CCTV
1 5 (45.45%) C-CURE
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (36.36%) Private Cloud
3 2 (18.18%) Service Management
3 2 (18.18%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) Security Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
3 2 (18.18%) Coaching
3 2 (18.18%) GitLab
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (18.18%) Operational Stability
3 2 (18.18%) NIST
3 2 (18.18%) Terraform
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
4 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
4 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
4 1 (9.09%) Network Security
4 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) VPN
4 1 (9.09%) B2B
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco
4 1 (9.09%) CCNP
4 1 (9.09%) CCNA
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (45.45%) C-CURE
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) CCTV
2 4 (36.36%) Private Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (18.18%) Coaching
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (18.18%) ITIL
2 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
2 2 (18.18%) Operational Stability
2 2 (18.18%) Security Architecture
2 2 (18.18%) Service Management
3 1 (9.09%) B2B
3 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
3 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) CCNA
1 1 (9.09%) CCNP
1 1 (9.09%) CCSA
1 1 (9.09%) CCSE
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco
1 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
1 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto