Security Engineer Jobs in Yorkshire

Security Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Security Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 187 276
Rank change year-on-year +57 +89 -27
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 17 36 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.63% 0.63% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.66% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 17 34 28
10th Percentile £37,716 £35,000 £51,438
25th Percentile £42,500 £35,750 £55,914
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £41,750 £68,515
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% -39.06% +30.50%
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,250 £77,542
90th Percentile £55,000 £62,833 £77,715
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,925 £67,500
% change year-on-year -8.22% -11.22% +1.89%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 2,516 5,488 7,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 95.28% 91.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,354 4,235 3,548
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £49,136 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +0.74% -10.47% +9.76%
75th Percentile £69,938 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,125 £80,000 £83,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
East Yorkshire - 10 £47,500 - 3
South Yorkshire +43 4 £45,218 +23.88% 4
West Yorkshire +37 2 £52,500 -7.08% 10
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 13 (76.47%) Security Posture
2 12 (70.59%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 12 (70.59%) Cloud Security
2 12 (70.59%) DevOps
3 11 (64.71%) Vulnerability Management
3 11 (64.71%) Firewall
4 10 (58.82%) AWS
5 9 (52.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 9 (52.94%) Roadmaps
5 9 (52.94%) Technology Roadmap
5 9 (52.94%) Cloud Security Posture
5 9 (52.94%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (52.94%) Data Engineering
5 9 (52.94%) Security Operations
5 9 (52.94%) Security Monitoring
5 9 (52.94%) AWS Certification
5 9 (52.94%) Law
6 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (29.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (29.41%) NIST
9 3 (17.65%) SDLC
9 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (17.65%) Continuous Delivery
9 3 (17.65%) Software Delivery
9 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
9 3 (17.65%) Coaching
9 3 (17.65%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 3 (17.65%) Information Security
9 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration

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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) IaaS
2 2 (11.76%) Mimecast
2 2 (11.76%) SaaS
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 11 (64.71%) Firewall
2 3 (17.65%) Network Security
2 3 (17.65%) VPN
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco Firepower
General
1 9 (52.94%) Law
2 3 (17.65%) Legal
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 13 (76.47%) Security Posture
2 9 (52.94%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (17.65%) Cyber Security Posture
4 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
5 1 (5.88%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Cloud Security
1 12 (70.59%) DevOps
1 12 (70.59%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 11 (64.71%) Vulnerability Management
3 9 (52.94%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (52.94%) Data Engineering
3 9 (52.94%) Roadmaps
3 9 (52.94%) Security Monitoring
3 9 (52.94%) Security Operations
3 9 (52.94%) Technology Roadmap
4 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
6 3 (17.65%) Coaching
6 3 (17.65%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (17.65%) Incident Response
6 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
6 3 (17.65%) SDLC
6 3 (17.65%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) AWS Certification
1 9 (52.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.88%) CCNA
2 1 (5.88%) CCNP
2 1 (5.88%) CCSA
2 1 (5.88%) CCSE
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (29.41%) NIST
2 3 (17.65%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Ansible
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Cisco
2 2 (11.76%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (11.76%) Tenable
2 2 (11.76%) Varonis
3 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto