Security Engineer Jobs in England

Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Security Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 373 392 420
Rank change year-on-year +19 +28 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 595 736 1,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.69% 0.83% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.91% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 488 558 700
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,625 £41,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £52,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £82,068
90th Percentile £92,143 £101,625 £93,875
UK median annual salary £60,000 £68,515 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.43% +5.41% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,786 81,001 131,568
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 91.55% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 60,839 51,644 75,317
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in England

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in England

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in England

Security Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London +39 263 £80,000 +1.91% 149
South East -10 112 £47,500 -13.64% 89
North of England +38 101 £52,500 -19.23% 43
Midlands -13 62 £57,500 +21.05% 37
North West -19 53 £55,000 -15.38% 26
West Midlands +5 45 £57,500 +26.37% 24
Yorkshire +92 38 £41,750 -39.06% 12
East of England +9 26 £57,500 +5.50% 38
South West -41 22 £41,206 -31.32% 28
East Midlands -15 17 £55,000 +15.79% 13
North East +8 10 £49,455 -5.80% 5
Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 England region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 280 (47.06%) Cybersecurity
2 194 (32.61%) Azure
3 142 (23.87%) Microsoft
4 119 (20.00%) Finance
5 117 (19.66%) Python
6 114 (19.16%) Firewall
7 113 (18.99%) Cloud Security
8 109 (18.32%) AWS
9 108 (18.15%) SIEM
10 104 (17.48%) Network Security
11 97 (16.30%) CISSP
12 96 (16.13%) Degree
13 94 (15.80%) Security Operations
14 91 (15.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 89 (14.96%) Information Security
16 88 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
17 85 (14.29%) PowerShell
18 84 (14.12%) Microsoft 365
19 81 (13.61%) Incident Response
20 77 (12.94%) Windows
21 75 (12.61%) DevOps
22 74 (12.44%) NIST
23 72 (12.10%) Social Skills
23 72 (12.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
24 68 (11.43%) Vulnerability Management
25 65 (10.92%) Mentoring
26 64 (10.76%) Cisco
27 63 (10.59%) Coaching
28 54 (9.08%) Cisco Certification
29 51 (8.57%) CEH

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.50%) Confluence
2 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.34%) Apache
3 2 (0.34%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.67%) AutoCAD
2 4 (0.67%) Revit
3 2 (0.34%) Trello
4 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.84%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 194 (32.61%) Azure
2 109 (18.32%) AWS
3 84 (14.12%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (8.07%) GCP
5 28 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (4.71%) Cloud Computing
5 28 (4.71%) PaaS
6 27 (4.54%) SaaS
7 26 (4.37%) Azure Sentinel
8 24 (4.03%) Entra ID
9 20 (3.36%) Microsoft Purview
10 16 (2.69%) GitHub
11 15 (2.52%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (2.52%) Amazon S3
12 14 (2.35%) Azure Key Vault
13 12 (2.02%) AWS KMS
13 12 (2.02%) Serverless
14 11 (1.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 11 (1.85%) AWS CloudTrail
14 11 (1.85%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 114 (19.16%) Firewall
2 104 (17.48%) Network Security
3 46 (7.73%) LAN
4 41 (6.89%) WAN
5 34 (5.71%) TCP/IP
6 29 (4.87%) VPN
7 23 (3.87%) DNS
8 22 (3.70%) Wireless
9 18 (3.03%) Cisco Firepower
10 17 (2.86%) SD-WAN
11 16 (2.69%) Wireshark
12 11 (1.85%) Cisco ISE
13 10 (1.68%) BGP
13 10 (1.68%) Cisco Nexus
13 10 (1.68%) SSL
13 10 (1.68%) VLAN
14 9 (1.51%) Cisco Wireless
14 9 (1.51%) NGFW
14 9 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (1.51%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (1.34%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.18%) Power BI
4 5 (0.84%) BigQuery
4 5 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (0.84%) Hadoop
4 5 (0.84%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (5.21%) Jenkins
2 12 (2.02%) GitLab
3 6 (1.01%) Burp Suite
4 5 (0.84%) JIRA
5 3 (0.50%) Metasploit
5 3 (0.50%) sqlmap
6 2 (0.34%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.34%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.17%) Git
7 1 (0.17%) MSI
General
1 119 (20.00%) Finance
2 72 (12.10%) Social Skills
3 50 (8.40%) Banking
4 39 (6.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (3.19%) Law
7 16 (2.69%) Public Sector
8 12 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (2.02%) Electronics
8 12 (2.02%) Manufacturing
8 12 (2.02%) Retail
9 9 (1.51%) Health Technology
9 9 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (1.51%) Tech for Good
10 8 (1.34%) Legal
11 7 (1.18%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.01%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.84%) Marketing
13 5 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.34%) 802.1X
2 7 (1.18%) web3js
3 6 (1.01%) HTML
4 5 (0.84%) Kafka
4 5 (0.84%) XMPP
5 4 (0.67%) Fluent Bit
5 4 (0.67%) OAuth
6 3 (0.50%) JSON
7 2 (0.34%) CSS
7 2 (0.34%) JSON Schema
7 2 (0.34%) KML
7 2 (0.34%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.34%) OpenID
7 2 (0.34%) Regular Expression
7 2 (0.34%) XML
7 2 (0.34%) XML Schema
8 1 (0.17%) JWT
8 1 (0.17%) RESTful
8 1 (0.17%) SAML
8 1 (0.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (7.39%) PKI
2 36 (6.05%) Management Information System
3 31 (5.21%) Public Cloud
3 31 (5.21%) Security Operations Centre
4 30 (5.04%) Data Centre
5 27 (4.54%) CCTV
6 24 (4.03%) Private Cloud
7 23 (3.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 19 (3.19%) Security Posture
9 18 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
10 17 (2.86%) Operational Technology
11 15 (2.52%) Cyberattack
12 14 (2.35%) Product Ownership
13 12 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (2.02%) SCADA
14 11 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.51%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 9 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
16 8 (1.34%) IoT
16 8 (1.34%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 77 (12.94%) Windows
2 29 (4.87%) Linux
3 23 (3.87%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.52%) Android
4 15 (2.52%) Apple iOS
5 12 (2.02%) Unix
6 6 (1.01%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (0.67%) CentOS
7 4 (0.67%) Solaris
7 4 (0.67%) zOS
8 2 (0.34%) Debian
8 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (47.06%) Cybersecurity
2 113 (18.99%) Cloud Security
3 108 (18.15%) SIEM
4 94 (15.80%) Security Operations
5 91 (15.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 89 (14.96%) Information Security
7 88 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
8 81 (13.61%) Incident Response
9 75 (12.61%) DevOps
10 68 (11.43%) Vulnerability Management
11 65 (10.92%) Mentoring
12 63 (10.59%) Coaching
13 48 (8.07%) Agile
14 47 (7.90%) Infrastructure as Code
15 46 (7.73%) Data Loss Prevention
16 45 (7.56%) ITIL
17 42 (7.06%) Analytics
18 41 (6.89%) Cryptography
18 41 (6.89%) Identity Access Management
18 41 (6.89%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 117 (19.66%) Python
2 85 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 24 (4.03%) Bash
4 21 (3.53%) Kusto Query Language
5 15 (2.52%) SQL
6 11 (1.85%) Java
7 9 (1.51%) C
7 9 (1.51%) C#
8 7 (1.18%) C++
8 7 (1.18%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.50%) Go
10 2 (0.34%) Rust
11 1 (0.17%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.17%) Lua
11 1 (0.17%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.17%) Ruby
11 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 97 (16.30%) CISSP
2 96 (16.13%) Degree
3 54 (9.08%) Cisco Certification
4 51 (8.57%) CEH
5 41 (6.89%) Security Cleared
6 33 (5.55%) CISM
6 33 (5.55%) SC Cleared
7 23 (3.87%) CCSP
8 22 (3.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 22 (3.70%) CCNP
9 21 (3.53%) CCNA
10 19 (3.19%) GIAC
10 19 (3.19%) SANS
11 17 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
12 14 (2.35%) DV Cleared
12 14 (2.35%) SSCP
13 12 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (1.85%) AWS Certification
15 9 (1.51%) Azure Certification
15 9 (1.51%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (12.44%) NIST
2 72 (12.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (5.38%) Data Quality
4 27 (4.54%) PCI DSS
5 16 (2.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 11 (1.85%) COBIT
7 11 (1.85%) GDPR
8 10 (1.68%) NCSC
9 8 (1.34%) SOC 2
10 7 (1.18%) NIST 800
11 5 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.67%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.34%) QA
14 1 (0.17%) GRC
System Software
1 45 (7.56%) Active Directory
2 21 (3.53%) Docker
3 14 (2.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (1.18%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (1.18%) Firmware
7 4 (0.67%) vSphere
8 3 (0.50%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 47 (7.90%) Terraform
2 29 (4.87%) Ansible
2 29 (4.87%) Kubernetes
3 26 (4.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (3.53%) CASB
5 20 (3.36%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (2.35%) Nmap
7 12 (2.02%) CA Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.51%) logstash
9 8 (1.34%) QRadar
10 5 (0.84%) Cisco CUCM
10 5 (0.84%) Stealthwatch
11 4 (0.67%) DatAdvantage
11 4 (0.67%) Fluentd
11 4 (0.67%) Nessus
11 4 (0.67%) vRealize
11 4 (0.67%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.34%) CSIRT
12 2 (0.34%) SCCM
Vendors
1 142 (23.87%) Microsoft
2 64 (10.76%) Cisco
3 40 (6.72%) Splunk
4 33 (5.55%) CyberArk
5 30 (5.04%) Qualys
6 29 (4.87%) Palo Alto
7 28 (4.71%) Rapid7
8 27 (4.54%) Google
9 20 (3.36%) VMware
10 19 (3.19%) CheckPoint
11 16 (2.69%) ArcSight
11 16 (2.69%) Carbon Black
11 16 (2.69%) ServiceNow
12 15 (2.52%) CA
13 14 (2.35%) Thycotic
14 12 (2.02%) Atlassian
15 11 (1.85%) F5
15 11 (1.85%) McAfee
16 9 (1.51%) EMC
16 9 (1.51%) Juniper