Security Engineer Jobs in Leicestershire

Security Engineer
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The median Security Engineer salary in Leicestershire is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 92 119
Rank change year-on-year -11 +27 -50
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 8 2 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 0.64% 0.25% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.27% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £43,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -9.52% -38.24%
75th Percentile - £51,250 £53,750
90th Percentile £44,575 - -
East Midlands median annual salary £53,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +12.63% -9.52% -30.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leicestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leicestershire. 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 Leicestershire with a recognized job title 1,178 739 1,198
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.86% 94.02% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 653 267 638
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £24,750
25th Percentile £31,750 £34,375 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -10.53%
75th Percentile £59,500 £58,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £70,250 £68,740 £65,000
East Midlands median annual salary £44,050 £52,125 £47,500
% change year-on-year -15.49% +9.74% +9.20%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Leicestershire

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in Leicestershire

Security Engineer
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Engineer within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
Leicester +24 7 £40,000 -15.79% 6
Hinckley - 1 £40,000 - 1
Security Engineer
East Midlands

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 14 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire

For the 6 months to 11 June 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 Leicestershire region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) CCTV
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (12.50%) Qualys
3 1 (12.50%) SCCM
3 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Windows

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 1 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Qualys