Security Engineer Jobs in Yorkshire

Security Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Security Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £41,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 270 251
Rank change year-on-year +87 -19 -51
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 36 48 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.63% 0.58% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.63% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 34 44 29
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,885 £39,800
25th Percentile £35,750 £51,531 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,750 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.86% +8.23% -
75th Percentile £57,250 £76,316 £73,750
90th Percentile £62,833 £77,542 £100,000
England median annual salary £59,526 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.42% - +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 5,483 7,617 6,956
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.41% 91.28% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,218 3,597 4,732
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,742 £54,600 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.73% +9.20% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Yorkshire

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in Yorkshire

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in Yorkshire

Security Engineer
Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 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
West Yorkshire +72 22 £56,500 -5.08% 5
South Yorkshire +50 11 £36,500 -40.41% 3
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 Yorkshire region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (63.89%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (50.00%) Azure
3 17 (47.22%) DevOps
4 15 (41.67%) Finance
5 14 (38.89%) Cloud Security
6 13 (36.11%) Microsoft
7 12 (33.33%) Firewall
7 12 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (30.56%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (30.56%) Agile
8 11 (30.56%) Python
8 11 (30.56%) Roadmaps
9 10 (27.78%) NIST
10 9 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
10 9 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
10 9 (25.00%) Terraform
10 9 (25.00%) Private Cloud
10 9 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (25.00%) Network Security
11 8 (22.22%) LAN
11 8 (22.22%) WAN
11 8 (22.22%) GCP
11 8 (22.22%) Splunk
11 8 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (22.22%) Key Management
11 8 (22.22%) Secrets Management
12 7 (19.44%) Public Cloud
13 6 (16.67%) Thycotic
13 6 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (13.89%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 18 (50.00%) Azure
2 11 (30.56%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 8 (22.22%) GCP
5 6 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (13.89%) AWS
6 5 (13.89%) GitHub
6 5 (13.89%) PaaS
7 3 (8.33%) SaaS
8 2 (5.56%) AWS KMS
8 2 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (33.33%) Firewall
2 9 (25.00%) Network Security
3 8 (22.22%) LAN
3 8 (22.22%) WAN
4 6 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 6 (16.67%) Wireshark
5 3 (8.33%) VPN
6 2 (5.56%) DNS
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.11%) GitLab
3 2 (5.56%) Burp Suite
General
1 15 (41.67%) Finance
2 5 (13.89%) Banking
3 3 (8.33%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 7 (19.44%) Public Cloud
3 6 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 6 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (13.89%) CCTV
4 5 (13.89%) Product Ownership
5 3 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (8.33%) NHS
6 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (5.56%) PKI
7 1 (2.78%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Android
1 6 (16.67%) Apple iOS
1 6 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (63.89%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (47.22%) DevOps
3 14 (38.89%) Cloud Security
4 12 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 11 (30.56%) Agile
5 11 (30.56%) Roadmaps
6 9 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
6 9 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (22.22%) Key Management
7 8 (22.22%) Secrets Management
8 6 (16.67%) Coaching
8 6 (16.67%) Cryptography
8 6 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
8 6 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 6 (16.67%) People Management
8 6 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
8 6 (16.67%) Project Roadmap
8 6 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
8 6 (16.67%) Security Operations
8 6 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 11 (30.56%) Python
2 6 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 3 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 6 (16.67%) CCSP
2 6 (16.67%) CEH
2 6 (16.67%) CISSP
2 6 (16.67%) SANS
2 6 (16.67%) SSCP
3 3 (8.33%) CCNA
3 3 (8.33%) CCNP
4 2 (5.56%) CCDP
5 1 (2.78%) CCSA
5 1 (2.78%) CCSE
5 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.78%) NIST
2 6 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 5 (13.89%) Docker
3 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (25.00%) Terraform
2 8 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (16.67%) Nmap
4 5 (13.89%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.56%) CA Single Sign-On
5 2 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (36.11%) Microsoft
2 8 (22.22%) Splunk
3 6 (16.67%) Qualys
3 6 (16.67%) Rapid7
3 6 (16.67%) Thycotic
4 5 (13.89%) Google
4 5 (13.89%) ServiceNow
5 3 (8.33%) Cisco
6 2 (5.56%) CA
6 2 (5.56%) CyberArk
6 2 (5.56%) SonicWALL
7 1 (2.78%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.78%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.78%) Palo Alto