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 £56,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 773 707 854
Rank change year-on-year -66 +147 -155
Permanent jobs requiring an Information Security Engineer 7 21 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.009% 0.038% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.043% 0.027%
Number of salaries quoted 5 19 19
10th Percentile - - £40,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £27,750 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £54,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.63% -16.92% +23.81%
75th Percentile £57,250 £62,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £59,365 £65,000 -
UK median annual salary £71,250 £56,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +27.23% -13.85% +23.81%

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 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 12 June 2024. 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
Yorkshire +67 4 £56,500 +4.63%
North of England +6 4 £56,500 -5.83%
West Midlands -11 2 - - 1
Midlands -38 2 - - 1
South East -34 1 £59,850 +110.00% 1
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 12 June 2024, 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 7 (100.00%) Information Security
2 6 (85.71%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (85.71%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
3 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 5 (71.43%) Windows
3 5 (71.43%) Python
3 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
4 4 (57.14%) CCSP
4 4 (57.14%) CISSP
4 4 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (57.14%) LAN
4 4 (57.14%) WAN
4 4 (57.14%) TCP/IP
4 4 (57.14%) SSCP
4 4 (57.14%) Firewall
4 4 (57.14%) Information Security Management
4 4 (57.14%) Security Management
4 4 (57.14%) Management Information System
4 4 (57.14%) Finance
4 4 (57.14%) Validation
4 4 (57.14%) Cryptography
4 4 (57.14%) Ethical Hacking
4 4 (57.14%) CEH
4 4 (57.14%) Nmap
4 4 (57.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (57.14%) Wireshark
4 4 (57.14%) Qualys
4 4 (57.14%) Network Security
4 4 (57.14%) PCI DSS

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 6 (85.71%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Sentinel
2 4 (57.14%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (28.57%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
1 4 (57.14%) LAN
1 4 (57.14%) Network Security
1 4 (57.14%) TCP/IP
1 4 (57.14%) WAN
1 4 (57.14%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MSI
1 1 (14.29%) Robot Framework
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Management Information System
1 4 (57.14%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (28.57%) Cyberattack
3 1 (14.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Android
2 4 (57.14%) Apple iOS
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Information Security
2 6 (85.71%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (71.43%) Agile
4 4 (57.14%) Cryptography
4 4 (57.14%) Data Loss Prevention
4 4 (57.14%) DevOps
4 4 (57.14%) Ethical Hacking
4 4 (57.14%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (57.14%) Information Security Management
4 4 (57.14%) People Management
4 4 (57.14%) Privileged Access Management
4 4 (57.14%) Process Improvement
4 4 (57.14%) Project Roadmap
4 4 (57.14%) Regulatory Compliance
4 4 (57.14%) Security Management
4 4 (57.14%) Security Operations
4 4 (57.14%) SIEM
4 4 (57.14%) Validation
4 4 (57.14%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (57.14%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
1 5 (71.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 4 (57.14%) CCSP
1 4 (57.14%) CEH
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (57.14%) CISSP
1 4 (57.14%) SANS
1 4 (57.14%) SSCP
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (57.14%) NIST
1 4 (57.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (57.14%) Nmap
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Nessus
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) WMI
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) Qualys
2 4 (57.14%) Rapid7
2 4 (57.14%) Splunk
2 4 (57.14%) Thycotic
3 2 (28.57%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (14.29%) VMware