Security Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Security Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Security Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 216 211 235
Rank change year-on-year -5 +24 -50
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 36 57 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.50% 0.87% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.96% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 25 33 33
10th Percentile £35,368 £38,050 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £40,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £46,000 £57,483
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -19.98% +4.51%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £71,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £68,515 £67,500
% change year-on-year -12.43% +1.50% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,829 5,930 6,889
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 90.03% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,164 3,360 4,786
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,991 £37,822
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the West Midlands

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in the West Midlands

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in the West Midlands

Security Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Birmingham -8 14 £60,000 - 7
Warwickshire +41 9 £45,000 - 1
Staffordshire -24 5 £65,000 +52.94% 1
Solihull - 4 £35,000 - 4
Coventry +30 1 £52,500 +7.69%
Security Engineer
England

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 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 West Midlands region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (30.56%) NIST
3 9 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (22.22%) SCADA
4 8 (22.22%) Incident Response
5 7 (19.44%) Operational Technology
5 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (19.44%) Python
6 6 (16.67%) Firewall
6 6 (16.67%) Analytics
6 6 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 6 (16.67%) Coaching
6 6 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
6 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (13.89%) Serverless
7 5 (13.89%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (13.89%) AWS Certification
7 5 (13.89%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (13.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (13.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (13.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (13.89%) AWS CloudTrail
7 5 (13.89%) Security Architecture
7 5 (13.89%) SIEM
7 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
7 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
7 5 (13.89%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (13.89%) Amazon S3
7 5 (13.89%) AWS

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (2.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 5 (13.89%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (13.89%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 5 (13.89%) Amazon S3
1 5 (13.89%) AWS
1 5 (13.89%) AWS CloudFormation
1 5 (13.89%) AWS CloudTrail
1 5 (13.89%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (13.89%) Serverless
1 5 (13.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 3 (8.33%) Azure
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.56%) Wireshark
3 1 (2.78%) 802.11
3 1 (2.78%) Bluetooth
3 1 (2.78%) Internet
3 1 (2.78%) Network Security
3 1 (2.78%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Burp Suite
1 2 (5.56%) GitLab
1 2 (5.56%) Metasploit
1 2 (5.56%) sqlmap
2 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 5 (13.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Finance
3 2 (5.56%) Legal
3 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Automotive
4 1 (2.78%) Cyber-Physical System
4 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Electronics
4 1 (2.78%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) SCADA
2 7 (19.44%) Operational Technology
3 3 (8.33%) PropTech
4 2 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (5.56%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) CAN bus
5 1 (2.78%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.78%) IoT
5 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (22.22%) Incident Response
3 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (16.67%) Analytics
4 6 (16.67%) Coaching
4 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
5 5 (13.89%) Security Architecture
5 5 (13.89%) SIEM
6 4 (11.11%) Business Development
6 4 (11.11%) Cloud Security
6 4 (11.11%) Data Engineering
6 4 (11.11%) Data Modelling
6 4 (11.11%) DevOps
6 4 (11.11%) Information Security
6 4 (11.11%) ITIL
6 4 (11.11%) Service Management
6 4 (11.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 7 (19.44%) Python
2 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) AWS Certification
1 5 (13.89%) Degree
1 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
1 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) CEH
3 2 (5.56%) CISSP
3 2 (5.56%) GCFA
3 2 (5.56%) GCFE
3 2 (5.56%) GCIH
3 2 (5.56%) GREM
3 2 (5.56%) OSCP
3 2 (5.56%) SANS
4 1 (2.78%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (2.78%) ECSA
4 1 (2.78%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (30.56%) NIST
2 9 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 4 (11.11%) NIST 800
4 3 (8.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (2.78%) Firmware
1 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) CSIRT
1 2 (5.56%) Terraform
2 1 (2.78%) CASB
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.78%) Nessus
2 1 (2.78%) SCCM
2 1 (2.78%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.78%) EMC
2 1 (2.78%) LogRhythm
2 1 (2.78%) Netskope
2 1 (2.78%) Qualys
2 1 (2.78%) VMware