Security Engineer Job Trends in the South West

Security Engineer
England > South West

The median Security Engineer salary in the South West is £56,779 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 213 194
Rank change year-on-year +78 -19 +40
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 31 29 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.88% 0.38% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 0.41% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 22 27 38
10th Percentile £40,625 - £46,306
25th Percentile £48,165 £30,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,779 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.56% -16.67% +33.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £56,250 £75,000
90th Percentile - £89,250 £96,539
England median annual salary £59,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.67% -7.69% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 3,250 7,148 4,408
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.88% 93.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,128 4,636 3,450
10th Percentile £27,175 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,150 £52,000 £54,545
Median % change year-on-year -13.17% -4.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the South West

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in the South West.

Salary distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in the South West

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in the South West

Security Engineer
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Bristol +45 16 £85,000 +61.90% 20
Wiltshire +26 6 £51,058 +70.19% 2
Somerset - 5 - - 5
Devon +17 2 £40,000 -2.93% 7
Gloucestershire - 2 £107,500 - 19
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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 South West region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (38.71%) AWS
2 11 (35.48%) Cloud Security
3 8 (25.81%) CISSP
4 7 (22.58%) CISM
4 7 (22.58%) CCTV
4 7 (22.58%) Degree
4 7 (22.58%) Threat Modelling
5 6 (19.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 6 (19.35%) CompTIA Security+
5 6 (19.35%) Security Operations
5 6 (19.35%) Forensic Analysis
5 6 (19.35%) Docker
5 6 (19.35%) AWS Certification
5 6 (19.35%) Kubernetes
5 6 (19.35%) CI/CD
5 6 (19.35%) Technology Transformation
5 6 (19.35%) DevSecOps
5 6 (19.35%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
5 6 (19.35%) Azure
5 6 (19.35%) Information Security
5 6 (19.35%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (19.35%) Linux
5 6 (19.35%) Security Posture
6 5 (16.13%) Cloud Security Posture
6 5 (16.13%) Windows
6 5 (16.13%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (16.13%) Facilities Management
6 5 (16.13%) SC Cleared
6 5 (16.13%) NIST

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 (3.23%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (38.71%) AWS
2 6 (19.35%) Amazon ECS
2 6 (19.35%) Azure
3 4 (12.90%) Amazon S3
3 4 (12.90%) Amazon SageMaker
3 4 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (12.90%) AWS Step Functions
3 4 (12.90%) Serverless
3 4 (12.90%) Snowflake
4 2 (6.45%) GitHub
5 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) Firewall
1 3 (9.68%) VPN
2 1 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (3.23%) Network Security
2 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) GitLab
1 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (12.90%) Finance
1 4 (12.90%) Retail
2 2 (6.45%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (3.23%) HTML
1 1 (3.23%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) CCTV
2 6 (19.35%) Security Posture
3 5 (16.13%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (6.45%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.23%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) Linux
2 5 (16.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) Cloud Security
2 7 (22.58%) Threat Modelling
3 6 (19.35%) CI/CD
3 6 (19.35%) DevSecOps
3 6 (19.35%) Forensic Analysis
3 6 (19.35%) Information Security
3 6 (19.35%) Security Operations
3 6 (19.35%) Technology Transformation
4 5 (16.13%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (16.13%) Blue Team
4 5 (16.13%) Containerisation
4 5 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (16.13%) Data Engineering
4 5 (16.13%) Facilities Management
4 5 (16.13%) Microservices
5 4 (12.90%) Analytics
5 4 (12.90%) Data Protection
5 4 (12.90%) Data Science
5 4 (12.90%) Data Security
5 4 (12.90%) Key Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.45%) Bash
1 2 (6.45%) C
1 2 (6.45%) C++
1 2 (6.45%) Go
1 2 (6.45%) Python
1 2 (6.45%) Rust
2 1 (3.23%) Groovy
2 1 (3.23%) Java
2 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) CISSP
2 7 (22.58%) CISM
2 7 (22.58%) Degree
3 6 (19.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 6 (19.35%) AWS Certification
3 6 (19.35%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (19.35%) CompTIA Security+
3 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
4 5 (16.13%) SC Cleared
5 2 (6.45%) PhD
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.23%) CCSP
6 1 (3.23%) CEH
6 1 (3.23%) CISA
6 1 (3.23%) CREST Certified
6 1 (3.23%) DBS Check
6 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.23%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) NIST
2 4 (12.90%) GDPR
3 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.23%) NCSC
4 1 (3.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (19.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Oracle
2 1 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.23%) Palo Alto
2 1 (3.23%) Sophos