Security Officer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Officer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Officer salary in the UK excluding London is £42,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 566 723 695
Rank change year-on-year +157 -28 +60
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Officer 7 36 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.018% 0.051% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.053% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 7 28 32
10th Percentile £36,200 £36,210 £35,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £41,875 £38,714
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% -17.39%
75th Percentile £46,000 £51,563 £60,125
90th Percentile £57,500 £70,625 £75,875
UK median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -13.04% -4.17%

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 35,390 67,294 53,432
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.56% 94.80% 89.16%
Number of salaries quoted 18,871 47,619 30,421
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,443 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.41% -12.50% -

Security Officer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Officer in the UK excluding London

Security Officer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Security Officer in the UK excluding London

Security Officer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Officer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Officer in the UK excluding London

Security Officer
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 Security Officer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
Midlands +66 4 £41,500 +14.33% 9
West Midlands +62 4 £41,500 +24.91% 9
South West +98 2 £53,750 +7.50% 2
Scotland +117 1 £50,000 +7.79% 2
Security Officer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2025, Security Officer 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 Security Officer in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (71.43%) Information Security
2 5 (71.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (42.86%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
3 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 3 (42.86%) Cyberattack
3 3 (42.86%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) SIEM
3 3 (42.86%) CISM
4 2 (28.57%) CISSP
4 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) GDPR
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Due Diligence
5 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (14.29%) Risk Register
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (14.29%) Internal Audit
5 1 (14.29%) Contingency Planning
5 1 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (14.29%) Service Management
5 1 (14.29%) CISA
5 1 (14.29%) ITIL
5 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 1 (14.29%) CCSP
5 1 (14.29%) Active Directory

Security Officer 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 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Law
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cyberattack
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Information Security
2 3 (42.86%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
2 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 3 (42.86%) SIEM
3 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 1 (14.29%) Communications Security
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) Due Diligence
4 1 (14.29%) Ethical Hacking
4 1 (14.29%) ITIL
4 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Register
4 1 (14.29%) Security Management
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CISM
2 2 (28.57%) CISSP
3 1 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (14.29%) CCSP
3 1 (14.29%) CEH
3 1 (14.29%) CISA
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (14.29%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (71.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (28.57%) GDPR
4 1 (14.29%) COBIT
4 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft