Security Engineer Jobs in Suffolk

Security Engineer
East of England > Suffolk

The median Security Engineer salary in Suffolk is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 46 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 3 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Suffolk 0.63% 0.83% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.86% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -
75th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £56,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +2.27% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Suffolk

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Suffolk. 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 Suffolk with a recognized job title 441 465 220
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 96.07% 83.02%
Number of salaries quoted 263 300 110
10th Percentile £27,250 £24,725 £24,725
25th Percentile £36,250 £27,750 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,100 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +65.25% - -1.12%
75th Percentile £66,253 £53,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £66,340 £61,250 £77,625
East of England median annual salary £50,967 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.30% -13.64% +10.00%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Suffolk

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Suffolk

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in Suffolk

Security Engineer
Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Engineer within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 5 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
Ipswich +2 3 £45,000 +12.50%
Security Engineer
East of England

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk

For the 6 months to 5 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 Suffolk region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) Law
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 3 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 3 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Security Posture
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (100.00%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 3 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 3 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner