Security Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 425 411 369
Rank change year-on-year -14 -42 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 372 392 643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.66% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.74% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 285 281 384
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £38,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +5.45% +1.85%
75th Percentile £62,833 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £85,000
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,828 52,627 68,668
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.17% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 47,933 30,028 42,497
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Security Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
South East -25 112 £47,500 -13.64% 57
North of England +48 100 £52,500 -19.23% 35
Midlands -17 59 £57,500 +21.05% 30
North West -21 53 £55,000 -15.38% 24
West Midlands +3 43 £57,500 +26.37% 18
Yorkshire +83 38 £41,750 -39.06% 6
East of England +15 26 £57,500 +5.50% 31
Scotland -54 25 £57,263 -12.87% 8
South West -34 22 £41,206 -41.13% 29
Wales +26 20 £40,500 -19.00% 9
East Midlands -8 16 £55,000 +15.79% 12
North East - 9 £62,783 - 5
Northern Ireland +26 4 £90,000 +71.43% 3
Channel Islands - 3 - -
Isle of Man - 1 - - 3
Security Engineer
UK

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 17 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 UK excluding London region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 167 (44.89%) Cybersecurity
2 84 (22.58%) Azure
3 80 (21.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 68 (18.28%) Microsoft
5 67 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
6 62 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 62 (16.67%) Degree
7 61 (16.40%) Firewall
8 57 (15.32%) SIEM
9 56 (15.05%) Coaching
9 56 (15.05%) Security Operations
10 55 (14.78%) DevOps
10 55 (14.78%) Python
11 54 (14.52%) Cloud Security
12 49 (13.17%) NIST
13 46 (12.37%) Network Security
14 45 (12.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 45 (12.10%) Finance
15 42 (11.29%) Security Cleared
15 42 (11.29%) AWS
15 42 (11.29%) Infrastructure as Code
16 39 (10.48%) Analytics
17 38 (10.22%) Social Skills
18 37 (9.95%) Incident Response
18 37 (9.95%) Terraform
19 35 (9.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 35 (9.41%) Information Security
20 34 (9.14%) SC Cleared
21 33 (8.87%) Windows
22 29 (7.80%) Roadmaps

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.27%) Confluence
2 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.34%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 84 (22.58%) Azure
2 42 (11.29%) AWS
3 26 (6.99%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (5.65%) Entra ID
5 20 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (5.38%) PaaS
6 19 (5.11%) GCP
7 16 (4.30%) GitHub
8 12 (3.23%) AWS KMS
8 12 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
8 12 (3.23%) SaaS
9 11 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (2.96%) Azure Sentinel
10 10 (2.69%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (2.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (2.42%) Amazon S3
11 9 (2.42%) AWS CloudTrail
11 9 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (2.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 61 (16.40%) Firewall
2 46 (12.37%) Network Security
3 17 (4.57%) LAN
3 17 (4.57%) TCP/IP
4 16 (4.30%) DNS
5 12 (3.23%) WAN
6 9 (2.42%) Wireless
7 8 (2.15%) Intrusion Detection
7 8 (2.15%) Wireshark
8 7 (1.88%) SSL
9 6 (1.61%) VPN
10 5 (1.34%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (1.34%) NGFW
10 5 (1.34%) Software-Defined Networking
10 5 (1.34%) WLAN
11 3 (0.81%) Internet
12 2 (0.54%) DHCP
13 1 (0.27%) 802.11
13 1 (0.27%) Bluetooth
13 1 (0.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (4.57%) Jenkins
2 12 (3.23%) GitLab
3 6 (1.61%) Burp Suite
4 3 (0.81%) Metasploit
4 3 (0.81%) sqlmap
5 2 (0.54%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.27%) JIRA
6 1 (0.27%) MSI
General
1 45 (12.10%) Finance
2 38 (10.22%) Social Skills
3 35 (9.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (3.76%) Banking
5 12 (3.23%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.96%) Electronics
7 10 (2.69%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.88%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.88%) Retail
10 5 (1.34%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.54%) Law
11 2 (0.54%) Legal
11 2 (0.54%) Welsh Language
12 1 (0.27%) Automotive
12 1 (0.27%) Cyber-Physical System
12 1 (0.27%) Military
12 1 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.08%) Fluent Bit
2 2 (0.54%) JSON
2 2 (0.54%) JSON Schema
2 2 (0.54%) KML
2 2 (0.54%) Regular Expression
2 2 (0.54%) XML
2 2 (0.54%) XML Schema
3 1 (0.27%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.27%) CSS
3 1 (0.27%) Django
3 1 (0.27%) Flask
3 1 (0.27%) HTML
3 1 (0.27%) Jinja
3 1 (0.27%) Pyramid
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.53%) Public Cloud
2 23 (6.18%) Private Cloud
3 20 (5.38%) CCTV
4 19 (5.11%) Security Operations Centre
5 18 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 18 (4.84%) PKI
6 17 (4.57%) Operational Technology
7 14 (3.76%) Product Ownership
8 13 (3.49%) Management Information System
9 12 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (3.23%) SCADA
10 11 (2.96%) Data Centre
11 9 (2.42%) Cyber Threat
12 6 (1.61%) Cyberattack
12 6 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 6 (1.61%) PropTech
13 5 (1.34%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 5 (1.34%) Enterprise Storage
13 5 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.87%) Windows
2 18 (4.84%) Windows Server
3 15 (4.03%) Linux
4 6 (1.61%) Android
4 6 (1.61%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.81%) Unix
6 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (44.89%) Cybersecurity
2 80 (21.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 67 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 57 (15.32%) SIEM
6 56 (15.05%) Coaching
6 56 (15.05%) Security Operations
7 55 (14.78%) DevOps
8 54 (14.52%) Cloud Security
9 42 (11.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 39 (10.48%) Analytics
11 37 (9.95%) Incident Response
12 35 (9.41%) Information Security
13 29 (7.80%) Agile
13 29 (7.80%) Roadmaps
14 28 (7.53%) Data Science
15 27 (7.26%) Data Engineering
15 27 (7.26%) Data Modelling
15 27 (7.26%) Red Team
16 26 (6.99%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (14.78%) Python
2 25 (6.72%) PowerShell
3 10 (2.69%) Bash
4 6 (1.61%) C
4 6 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
4 6 (1.61%) SQL
5 4 (1.08%) C++
6 3 (0.81%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.54%) Java
8 1 (0.27%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.27%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 62 (16.67%) Degree
2 42 (11.29%) Security Cleared
3 34 (9.14%) SC Cleared
4 18 (4.84%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (3.76%) CISSP
6 13 (3.49%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.96%) CCNA
8 10 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.69%) SANS
9 9 (2.42%) AWS Certification
9 9 (2.42%) CEH
10 6 (1.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (1.61%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.61%) CCNP
10 6 (1.61%) CCSP
10 6 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.61%) SSCP
11 3 (0.81%) GCIA
11 3 (0.81%) GCIH
11 3 (0.81%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (13.17%) NIST
2 45 (12.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (7.26%) Data Quality
4 15 (4.03%) PCI DSS
5 12 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (2.42%) SOC 2
7 7 (1.88%) GDPR
8 5 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.34%) NCSC
8 5 (1.34%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.27%) COBIT
9 1 (0.27%) GRC
System Software
1 26 (6.99%) Active Directory
2 14 (3.76%) Docker
3 7 (1.88%) Embedded Firmware
3 7 (1.88%) Firmware
4 6 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (9.95%) Terraform
2 14 (3.76%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.23%) CA Single Sign-On
3 12 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (2.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (2.15%) Ansible
6 6 (1.61%) Nmap
7 4 (1.08%) CSIRT
7 4 (1.08%) Fluentd
7 4 (1.08%) logstash
8 3 (0.81%) Nessus
9 2 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.54%) CASB
9 2 (0.54%) SCCM
10 1 (0.27%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
10 1 (0.27%) WMI
10 1 (0.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 68 (18.28%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.26%) Cisco
3 16 (4.30%) ServiceNow
3 16 (4.30%) Splunk
4 14 (3.76%) Google
5 12 (3.23%) CA
5 12 (3.23%) CyberArk
6 11 (2.96%) Palo Alto
7 10 (2.69%) Qualys
8 9 (2.42%) EMC
9 7 (1.88%) VMware
10 6 (1.61%) Rapid7
10 6 (1.61%) Thycotic
11 5 (1.34%) F5
12 4 (1.08%) Forcepoint
12 4 (1.08%) Juniper
13 3 (0.81%) CheckPoint
13 3 (0.81%) Computacenter
13 3 (0.81%) Sophos
13 3 (0.81%) WatchGuard