Security Engineer
UK

The median Security Engineer salary in the UK is £62,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 November 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 300 366 366
Rank change year-on-year +66 0 -66
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 562 1,155 1,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.03% 0.92% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 0.97% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 494 809 854
10th Percentile £42,200 £37,885 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,313 £50,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,539 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £59,526 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.40% +19.05% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 51,902 119,603 122,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.53% 95.33% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 37,937 74,977 83,259
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the UK

Security Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in the UK

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer over the 6 months to 28 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in the UK

Security Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 November 2023. 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
England +67 487 £61,000 -4.31% 287
UK excluding London +85 320 £57,500 -3.40% 185
Work from Home +57 255 £60,500 +1.64% 121
London +68 216 £80,000 +14.29% 111
South East +142 74 £49,000 -21.60% 44
Midlands +123 74 £55,000 -4.35% 31
North of England +53 70 £59,526 - 50
West Midlands +90 44 £50,000 -14.89% 25
Scotland +37 39 £69,447 +13.85% 9
North West +67 35 £57,500 -9.80% 30
Yorkshire +67 35 £59,526 +8.23% 20
East Midlands +69 30 £56,750 +3.18% 5
East of England +110 25 £70,000 +40.00% 22
South West -12 24 £59,526 +19.05% 28
Wales -4 9 £50,000 +42.86% 4
Northern Ireland +35 7 £68,000 +13.33% 1

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 November 2023, 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 featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 310 (55.16%) Cybersecurity
2 249 (44.31%) Azure
3 190 (33.81%) Python
4 186 (33.10%) Cloud Security
5 184 (32.74%) Firewall
6 155 (27.58%) Microsoft
7 152 (27.05%) Finance
8 149 (26.51%) Network Security
9 146 (25.98%) Information Security
10 141 (25.09%) SIEM
11 138 (24.56%) AWS
12 129 (22.95%) PowerShell
13 116 (20.64%) Windows
14 115 (20.46%) Agile
15 104 (18.51%) Terraform
16 103 (18.33%) DevOps
17 95 (16.90%) Social Skills
18 94 (16.73%) Incident Response
18 94 (16.73%) CISSP
19 93 (16.55%) Cisco
20 90 (16.01%) Security Cleared
21 89 (15.84%) GCP
21 89 (15.84%) CI/CD
22 86 (15.30%) Infrastructure as Code
22 86 (15.30%) Kubernetes
23 79 (14.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
23 79 (14.06%) Microsoft 365
24 77 (13.70%) Cisco Certification
25 76 (13.52%) Vulnerability Management
25 76 (13.52%) Security Operations

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.20%) SharePoint
2 17 (3.02%) Confluence
3 6 (1.07%) nginx
4 5 (0.89%) IIS
5 4 (0.71%) MS Exchange
6 1 (0.18%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) Gunicorn
6 1 (0.18%) uWSGI
Applications
1 11 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.71%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 249 (44.31%) Azure
2 138 (24.56%) AWS
3 89 (15.84%) GCP
4 79 (14.06%) Microsoft 365
5 65 (11.57%) PaaS
6 47 (8.36%) Azure DevOps
7 46 (8.19%) Entra ID
8 39 (6.94%) GitHub
8 39 (6.94%) SaaS
9 35 (6.23%) Cloud Computing
10 32 (5.69%) Azure Sentinel
11 30 (5.34%) IaaS
12 17 (3.02%) Serverless
13 13 (2.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 10 (1.78%) Microsoft Purview
15 9 (1.60%) Datadog
16 7 (1.25%) AWS Direct Connect
16 7 (1.25%) Azure Key Vault
17 6 (1.07%) AWS CloudFormation
17 6 (1.07%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 184 (32.74%) Firewall
2 149 (26.51%) Network Security
3 67 (11.92%) Intrusion Detection
4 57 (10.14%) WAN
5 49 (8.72%) VPN
6 37 (6.58%) SD-WAN
7 32 (5.69%) LAN
8 28 (4.98%) Cisco ISE
9 27 (4.80%) Wireless
10 25 (4.45%) Internet
11 24 (4.27%) Cisco ASA
11 24 (4.27%) Cisco Firepower
11 24 (4.27%) Wi-Fi
12 23 (4.09%) TCP/IP
13 19 (3.38%) DNS
14 16 (2.85%) BGP
14 16 (2.85%) Cisco Nexus
15 15 (2.67%) DHCP
16 11 (1.96%) OSPF
17 9 (1.60%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.78%) Metadata
1 10 (1.78%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.60%) GIS
3 7 (1.25%) MySQL
4 4 (0.71%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 4 (0.71%) SAP HANA
5 3 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.36%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.36%) Bigtable
6 2 (0.36%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.18%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 55 (9.79%) Jenkins
2 24 (4.27%) Git
3 20 (3.56%) JIRA
4 6 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.36%) MSI
6 1 (0.18%) Ant
6 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.18%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.18%) Maven
6 1 (0.18%) Snyk
6 1 (0.18%) TeamCity
General
1 152 (27.05%) Finance
2 95 (16.90%) Social Skills
3 73 (12.99%) Banking
4 36 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (3.91%) Law
6 19 (3.38%) Telecoms
7 15 (2.67%) Public Sector
8 14 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (2.49%) Legal
9 11 (1.96%) Electronics
10 10 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.60%) Financial Institution
12 8 (1.42%) Front Office
12 8 (1.42%) Retail
13 6 (1.07%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.07%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.71%) Advertising
15 4 (0.71%) Norwegian Language
15 4 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (4.80%) JSON
2 26 (4.63%) YAML
3 8 (1.42%) 802.1X
3 8 (1.42%) web3js
4 7 (1.25%) .NET
4 7 (1.25%) OAuth
5 6 (1.07%) Regular Expression
5 6 (1.07%) RESTful
6 5 (0.89%) HTML
7 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.36%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.36%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.36%) JWT
8 2 (0.36%) OpenID
8 2 (0.36%) Velocity
9 1 (0.18%) Django
9 1 (0.18%) Flask
9 1 (0.18%) Kafka
9 1 (0.18%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.18%) React
Miscellaneous
1 59 (10.50%) Management Information System
1 59 (10.50%) Public Cloud
2 49 (8.72%) PKI
3 35 (6.23%) Security Posture
4 27 (4.80%) Data Centre
5 26 (4.63%) Cyber Threat
6 23 (4.09%) Security Operations Centre
7 22 (3.91%) Operational Technology
7 22 (3.91%) Product Ownership
8 20 (3.56%) Onboarding
9 17 (3.02%) Tandem
10 16 (2.85%) Linux Command Line
11 14 (2.49%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.60%) Cybercrime
12 9 (1.60%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.60%) Web3
13 8 (1.42%) Blockchain
13 8 (1.42%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 8 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (1.07%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 116 (20.64%) Windows
2 54 (9.61%) Linux
3 53 (9.43%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.67%) Unix
5 14 (2.49%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (1.78%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.42%) Windows 10
8 6 (1.07%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.89%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.18%) Android
11 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (55.16%) Cybersecurity
2 186 (33.10%) Cloud Security
3 146 (25.98%) Information Security
4 141 (25.09%) SIEM
5 115 (20.46%) Agile
6 103 (18.33%) DevOps
7 94 (16.73%) Incident Response
8 89 (15.84%) CI/CD
9 86 (15.30%) Infrastructure as Code
10 76 (13.52%) Security Operations
10 76 (13.52%) Vulnerability Management
11 68 (12.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 68 (12.10%) Use Case
12 57 (10.14%) Roadmaps
13 53 (9.43%) ITIL
14 50 (8.90%) DevSecOps
14 50 (8.90%) Problem-Solving
15 45 (8.01%) Application Security
15 45 (8.01%) Data Loss Prevention
15 45 (8.01%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 190 (33.81%) Python
2 129 (22.95%) PowerShell
3 75 (13.35%) Bash
4 21 (3.74%) C#
5 18 (3.20%) SQL
6 16 (2.85%) C++
7 14 (2.49%) Go
8 12 (2.14%) Ruby
9 10 (1.78%) Kusto Query Language
10 9 (1.60%) JavaScript
10 9 (1.60%) Search Processing Language
11 7 (1.25%) Java
11 7 (1.25%) Korn
12 5 (0.89%) C
13 3 (0.53%) Perl
13 3 (0.53%) Rust
14 2 (0.36%) Lua
14 2 (0.36%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.18%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 94 (16.73%) CISSP
2 90 (16.01%) Security Cleared
3 77 (13.70%) Cisco Certification
4 71 (12.63%) SC Cleared
5 54 (9.61%) Degree
6 36 (6.41%) CCNA
7 35 (6.23%) CCNP
8 32 (5.69%) Azure Certification
9 31 (5.52%) CISM
10 26 (4.63%) CCSP
11 25 (4.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 20 (3.56%) CompTIA Security+
13 18 (3.20%) AWS Certification
13 18 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
14 17 (3.02%) GSEC
15 14 (2.49%) CCSE
16 13 (2.31%) CEH
16 13 (2.31%) DV Cleared
17 11 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
18 10 (1.78%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (14.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 49 (8.72%) NIST
3 38 (6.76%) GDPR
4 25 (4.45%) NCSC
5 24 (4.27%) PCI DSS
6 13 (2.31%) RMADS
7 11 (1.96%) GRC
8 9 (1.60%) SLA
9 8 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 5 (0.89%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.71%) COBIT
13 3 (0.53%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.53%) QA
14 2 (0.36%) Accessibility
14 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
15 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 74 (13.17%) Active Directory
2 64 (11.39%) Docker
3 41 (7.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.60%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 8 (1.42%) Firmware
6 5 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.71%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (0.71%) Squid
8 3 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.36%) vSphere
10 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.18%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 104 (18.51%) Terraform
2 86 (15.30%) Kubernetes
3 42 (7.47%) Ansible
4 26 (4.63%) Nessus
5 19 (3.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (3.20%) SCCM
7 17 (3.02%) Istio
8 13 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (1.25%) Puppet
10 6 (1.07%) WSUS
11 5 (0.89%) Backup Exec
11 5 (0.89%) Nmap
11 5 (0.89%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.71%) CASB
12 4 (0.71%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.53%) Cisco CUCM
13 3 (0.53%) DatAdvantage
13 3 (0.53%) Host Intrusion Detection System
13 3 (0.53%) QRadar
13 3 (0.53%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 155 (27.58%) Microsoft
2 93 (16.55%) Cisco
3 64 (11.39%) Google
4 59 (10.50%) VMware
5 52 (9.25%) Palo Alto
6 38 (6.76%) CheckPoint
7 29 (5.16%) Splunk
8 27 (4.80%) ArcSight
9 26 (4.63%) Fortinet
9 26 (4.63%) McAfee
10 24 (4.27%) Carbon Black
10 24 (4.27%) CyberArk
10 24 (4.27%) F5
11 15 (2.67%) Qualys
12 13 (2.31%) SolarWinds
13 10 (1.78%) HP
13 10 (1.78%) SAP
13 10 (1.78%) Zscaler
14 9 (1.60%) Juniper
14 9 (1.60%) Meraki