Information Security Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Information Security Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Information Security Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £39,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 758 714
Rank change year-on-year +207 -44 +123
Permanent jobs requiring an Information Security Engineer 6 8 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.016% 0.011% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.012% 0.058%
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 30
10th Percentile - £53,275 £27,750
25th Percentile - £55,750 £28,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £56,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.09% +4.63% -6.09%
75th Percentile - £57,250 £65,000
90th Percentile - £58,308 £72,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% +4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 33,156 66,640 54,781
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.03% 94.78% 89.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18,505 47,222 31,088
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Information Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Information Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Information Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Information Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Information Security Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Information Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Information Security Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South East +112 5 - - 4
West Midlands - 1 £39,500 - 1
Midlands - 1 £39,500 - 3
Information Security Engineer
UK

Information Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Information 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 UK excluding London region featuring Information Security Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Information Security
1 6 (100.00%) Degree
1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (83.33%) Security Architecture
2 5 (83.33%) Telecoms
2 5 (83.33%) Law
2 5 (83.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (83.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (83.33%) Incident Response
3 3 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (50.00%) Threat Detection
3 3 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (50.00%) SMTP
3 3 (50.00%) HTTP
3 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (50.00%) DNS
3 3 (50.00%) Google
3 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (50.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (33.33%) Digital Forensics
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) AWS
4 2 (33.33%) EnCE
4 2 (33.33%) Network Security
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Splunk

Information Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) HTTP
1 3 (50.00%) SMTP
1 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
General
1 5 (83.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (83.33%) Law
1 5 (83.33%) Pharmaceutical
1 5 (83.33%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (100.00%) Information Security
2 5 (83.33%) Incident Response
2 5 (83.33%) Security Architecture
3 3 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 3 (50.00%) Threat Detection
3 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (33.33%) Advanced Persistent Threat
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) Case Management
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Forensics
4 2 (33.33%) Data Science
4 2 (33.33%) Digital Forensics
4 2 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (33.33%) Security Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) CCFP
2 2 (33.33%) CISSP
2 2 (33.33%) EnCE
2 2 (33.33%) GCFA
2 2 (33.33%) GCFE
2 2 (33.33%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) EnCase
1 2 (33.33%) FTK
1 2 (33.33%) RSA Security Analytics
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) FireEye
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) NetWitness
2 2 (33.33%) Splunk