Security Engineer Jobs in West Yorkshire

Security Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Security Engineer salary in West Yorkshire is £56,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 209 190
Rank change year-on-year +73 -19 -32
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 22 33 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.73% 0.63% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.67% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 21 30 19
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,885 £34,000
25th Percentile £37,750 £56,219 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £68,515 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +30.50% -4.55%
75th Percentile £62,833 £77,542 £57,750
90th Percentile - £77,715 £78,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £41,750 £65,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -36.26% +24.76% -4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 2,907 4,920 4,533
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.97% 93.31% 97.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,125 2,386 3,193
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £81,850
Yorkshire median annual salary £49,500 £54,882 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.81% +9.76% +5.26%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in West Yorkshire

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in West Yorkshire

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in West Yorkshire

Security Engineer
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Leeds +38 11 £38,500 -43.81% 1
Bradford - 6 £56,500 -
Halifax +63 5 £59,526 -
Security Engineer
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 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 Yorkshire region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (77.27%) Azure
1 17 (77.27%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (63.64%) Cloud Security
3 12 (54.55%) DevOps
3 12 (54.55%) Microsoft
4 11 (50.00%) Python
4 11 (50.00%) Firewall
4 11 (50.00%) Finance
4 11 (50.00%) Agile
4 11 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 11 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (40.91%) Azure Sentinel
5 9 (40.91%) Identity Access Management
6 8 (36.36%) GCP
6 8 (36.36%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (36.36%) Network Security
6 8 (36.36%) Splunk
6 8 (36.36%) LAN
6 8 (36.36%) WAN
6 8 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (31.82%) Key Management
7 7 (31.82%) Secrets Management
8 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (27.27%) Zero Trust
8 6 (27.27%) Project Roadmap
8 6 (27.27%) NIST
8 6 (27.27%) Data Loss Prevention
8 6 (27.27%) Regulatory Compliance
8 6 (27.27%) Privileged Access Management
8 6 (27.27%) Thycotic

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 17 (77.27%) Azure
2 11 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (40.91%) Azure Sentinel
4 8 (36.36%) GCP
5 6 (27.27%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (22.73%) GitHub
6 5 (22.73%) PaaS
7 4 (18.18%) AWS
8 3 (13.64%) SaaS
9 1 (4.55%) AWS KMS
9 1 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (50.00%) Firewall
2 8 (36.36%) LAN
2 8 (36.36%) Network Security
2 8 (36.36%) WAN
3 6 (27.27%) TCP/IP
3 6 (27.27%) Wireshark
4 2 (9.09%) VPN
5 1 (4.55%) DNS
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.09%) Burp Suite
General
1 11 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Management Information System
1 6 (27.27%) Public Cloud
1 6 (27.27%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (22.73%) Product Ownership
3 3 (13.64%) NHS
3 3 (13.64%) Private Cloud
4 2 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (4.55%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Android
1 6 (27.27%) Apple iOS
1 6 (27.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (63.64%) Cloud Security
3 12 (54.55%) DevOps
4 11 (50.00%) Agile
4 11 (50.00%) Roadmaps
5 9 (40.91%) Identity Access Management
6 7 (31.82%) Key Management
6 7 (31.82%) Secrets Management
7 6 (27.27%) Cryptography
7 6 (27.27%) Data Loss Prevention
7 6 (27.27%) Ethical Hacking
7 6 (27.27%) People Management
7 6 (27.27%) Privileged Access Management
7 6 (27.27%) Process Improvement
7 6 (27.27%) Project Roadmap
7 6 (27.27%) Regulatory Compliance
7 6 (27.27%) Security Operations
7 6 (27.27%) SIEM
7 6 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
7 6 (27.27%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 3 (13.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (27.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 6 (27.27%) CCSP
2 6 (27.27%) CEH
2 6 (27.27%) CISSP
2 6 (27.27%) SANS
2 6 (27.27%) SSCP
3 2 (9.09%) CCDP
3 2 (9.09%) CCNA
3 2 (9.09%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (27.27%) NIST
1 6 (27.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Virtual Desktop
2 5 (22.73%) Docker
3 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (27.27%) Nmap
3 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
3 5 (22.73%) Terraform
4 1 (4.55%) CA Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 8 (36.36%) Splunk
3 6 (27.27%) Qualys
3 6 (27.27%) Rapid7
3 6 (27.27%) Thycotic
4 5 (22.73%) Google
5 4 (18.18%) ServiceNow
6 2 (9.09%) Cisco
6 2 (9.09%) SonicWALL
7 1 (4.55%) CA
7 1 (4.55%) CyberArk