Security Engineer Jobs in the South West

Security Engineer
England > South West

The median Security Engineer salary in the South West is £73,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 July 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 253 223
Rank change year-on-year +98 -30 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 33 30 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.84% 0.30% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 0.31% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 28 25 32
10th Percentile £43,500 - £42,500
25th Percentile £47,686 £30,000 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £41,206 £67,213
Median % change year-on-year +78.98% -38.69% +32.77%
75th Percentile £95,000 £55,000 £75,000
90th Percentile - £68,500 £77,542
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,783 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.40% -10.31% +3.70%

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 3,645 9,643 5,723
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 96.06% 89.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,313 6,991 3,824
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,125 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,199 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.97% -11.83% -

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

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +76 19 £95,000 +90.00% 22
Wiltshire +37 7 £51,058 +70.19% 2
Somerset - 5 - - 10
Devon +23 2 £40,000 -2.93% 4
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 July 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 18 (54.55%) AWS
2 17 (51.52%) Cloud Security
3 14 (42.42%) CISSP
4 13 (39.39%) Threat Modelling
5 12 (36.36%) NIST
5 12 (36.36%) Technology Transformation
5 12 (36.36%) CISM
5 12 (36.36%) Finance
6 9 (27.27%) Firewall
6 9 (27.27%) Security Operations
7 8 (24.24%) Accessibility
7 8 (24.24%) Strategic Roadmap
7 8 (24.24%) Roadmaps
7 8 (24.24%) Security Posture
7 8 (24.24%) Information Security
7 8 (24.24%) Network Design
7 8 (24.24%) VPN
7 8 (24.24%) Network Security
8 7 (21.21%) Degree
8 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
8 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
8 7 (21.21%) Azure
8 7 (21.21%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (18.18%) Windows
9 6 (18.18%) Mentoring
9 6 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (18.18%) NCSC
10 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
10 5 (15.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (15.15%) CompTIA Security+

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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (54.55%) AWS
2 7 (21.21%) Azure
3 5 (15.15%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (12.12%) Amazon S3
4 4 (12.12%) Amazon SageMaker
4 4 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (12.12%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (12.12%) Serverless
4 4 (12.12%) Snowflake
5 2 (6.06%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.06%) IaaS
5 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (6.06%) PaaS
5 2 (6.06%) SaaS
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 9 (27.27%) Firewall
2 8 (24.24%) Network Security
2 8 (24.24%) VPN
3 2 (6.06%) DHCP
3 2 (6.06%) DNS
4 1 (3.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
General
1 12 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (9.09%) Retail
2 3 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) Security Posture
2 5 (15.15%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Windows
2 5 (15.15%) Linux
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (51.52%) Cloud Security
2 13 (39.39%) Threat Modelling
3 12 (36.36%) Technology Transformation
4 9 (27.27%) Security Operations
5 8 (24.24%) Information Security
5 8 (24.24%) Network Design
5 8 (24.24%) Roadmaps
5 8 (24.24%) Strategic Roadmap
6 7 (21.21%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (18.18%) Mentoring
8 5 (15.15%) Blue Team
8 5 (15.15%) CI/CD
8 5 (15.15%) Containerisation
8 5 (15.15%) DevSecOps
8 5 (15.15%) Facilities Management
8 5 (15.15%) Forensic Analysis
8 5 (15.15%) Microservices
9 4 (12.12%) Data Encryption
9 4 (12.12%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.06%) C
1 2 (6.06%) C++
1 2 (6.06%) Go
1 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
1 2 (6.06%) Rust
Qualifications
1 14 (42.42%) CISSP
2 12 (36.36%) CISM
3 7 (21.21%) Degree
3 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
4 5 (15.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 5 (15.15%) AWS Certification
4 5 (15.15%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (15.15%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (6.06%) CREST Certified
5 2 (6.06%) PhD
5 2 (6.06%) SANS
6 1 (3.03%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (36.36%) NIST
2 8 (24.24%) Accessibility
3 6 (18.18%) NCSC
4 4 (12.12%) GDPR
5 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (3.03%) JSP 440
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.06%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) Oracle
3 1 (3.03%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.03%) Palo Alto
3 1 (3.03%) Sophos