Security Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Security Engineer
England > North of England

The median Security Engineer salary in the North of England is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 295 339 345
Rank change year-on-year +44 +6 -77
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 107 88 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.54% 0.55% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.62% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 99 74 81
10th Percentile £35,000 £51,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £35,920 £55,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +10.00% +10.09%
75th Percentile £62,833 £77,542 £72,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £100,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% +8.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 18,721 14,174 18,106
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.91% 89.32% 96.30%
Number of salaries quoted 14,116 7,963 10,982
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,136 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the North of England

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in the North of England

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in the North of England

Security Engineer
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
North West -11 60 £55,000 -15.38% 32
Yorkshire +77 37 £38,500 -43.81% 24
North East -6 10 £49,455 -5.80% 3
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 North of England region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 56 (52.34%) Cybersecurity
2 44 (41.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 38 (35.51%) Azure
4 32 (29.91%) Microsoft
5 30 (28.04%) DevOps
6 24 (22.43%) Cloud Security
6 24 (22.43%) Mentoring
7 23 (21.50%) Security Operations
7 23 (21.50%) NIST
8 22 (20.56%) Coaching
9 21 (19.63%) Private Cloud
10 18 (16.82%) Network Security
10 18 (16.82%) AWS
11 17 (15.89%) Firewall
11 17 (15.89%) Finance
11 17 (15.89%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (15.89%) Incident Response
11 17 (15.89%) Key Management
11 17 (15.89%) Secrets Management
12 15 (14.02%) Information Security
12 15 (14.02%) ServiceNow
12 15 (14.02%) SIEM
13 14 (13.08%) Public Cloud
13 14 (13.08%) Azure Sentinel
14 13 (12.15%) PKI
14 13 (12.15%) Risk Management
15 12 (11.21%) Identity Management
15 12 (11.21%) Active Directory
15 12 (11.21%) CA
15 12 (11.21%) CA Single Sign-On

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

Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.67%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 38 (35.51%) Azure
2 18 (16.82%) AWS
3 14 (13.08%) Azure Sentinel
4 12 (11.21%) AWS KMS
4 12 (11.21%) Azure Key Vault
4 12 (11.21%) Entra ID
4 12 (11.21%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (9.35%) SaaS
6 7 (6.54%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.67%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (4.67%) GCP
7 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (4.67%) PaaS
8 3 (2.80%) GitHub
8 3 (2.80%) IaaS
9 1 (0.93%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 18 (16.82%) Network Security
2 17 (15.89%) Firewall
3 12 (11.21%) DNS
3 12 (11.21%) LAN
4 7 (6.54%) WAN
5 5 (4.67%) NGFW
5 5 (4.67%) Software-Defined Networking
5 5 (4.67%) TCP/IP
5 5 (4.67%) Wireless
5 5 (4.67%) Wireshark
5 5 (4.67%) WLAN
6 3 (2.80%) VPN
Development Applications
1 10 (9.35%) GitLab
2 3 (2.80%) Burp Suite
3 2 (1.87%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (15.89%) Finance
2 12 (11.21%) Public Sector
3 9 (8.41%) Social Skills
4 4 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.80%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.87%) Banking
7 1 (0.93%) Law
7 1 (0.93%) Military
7 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 21 (19.63%) Private Cloud
2 17 (15.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (13.08%) Public Cloud
4 13 (12.15%) PKI
5 12 (11.21%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (11.21%) Security Operations Centre
6 8 (7.48%) CCTV
7 5 (4.67%) Data Centre
7 5 (4.67%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.80%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (2.80%) NHS
8 3 (2.80%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.87%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.87%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.87%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.93%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.61%) Windows
2 5 (4.67%) Android
2 5 (4.67%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.87%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (52.34%) Cybersecurity
2 44 (41.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 30 (28.04%) DevOps
4 24 (22.43%) Cloud Security
4 24 (22.43%) Mentoring
5 23 (21.50%) Security Operations
6 22 (20.56%) Coaching
7 17 (15.89%) Incident Response
7 17 (15.89%) Key Management
7 17 (15.89%) Secrets Management
8 15 (14.02%) Information Security
8 15 (14.02%) SIEM
9 13 (12.15%) Risk Management
10 12 (11.21%) Identity Management
10 12 (11.21%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (11.21%) Privileged Identity Management
11 11 (10.28%) Vulnerability Management
12 10 (9.35%) ITIL
12 10 (9.35%) Security Architecture
12 10 (9.35%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.48%) Python
2 5 (4.67%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.74%) SQL
4 3 (2.80%) Java
5 1 (0.93%) C++
5 1 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 8 (7.48%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (6.54%) CISSP
2 7 (6.54%) Degree
3 6 (5.61%) CEH
4 5 (4.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 5 (4.67%) CCSP
4 5 (4.67%) SANS
4 5 (4.67%) SSCP
5 3 (2.80%) CCNA
5 3 (2.80%) CCNP
6 2 (1.87%) CCDP
6 2 (1.87%) GIAC
6 2 (1.87%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.87%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.93%) CCSA
7 1 (0.93%) CCSE
7 1 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.93%) GCFA
7 1 (0.93%) GCIA
7 1 (0.93%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (21.50%) NIST
2 11 (10.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (10.28%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.74%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.80%) GDPR
5 1 (0.93%) NIST 800
System Software
1 12 (11.21%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (11.21%) CA Single Sign-On
1 12 (11.21%) Single Sign-On
1 12 (11.21%) Terraform
2 8 (7.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (4.67%) Nmap
4 2 (1.87%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.93%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 32 (29.91%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.02%) ServiceNow
3 12 (11.21%) CA
3 12 (11.21%) CyberArk
4 8 (7.48%) Cisco
5 7 (6.54%) Splunk
6 6 (5.61%) Palo Alto
7 5 (4.67%) Qualys
7 5 (4.67%) Rapid7
7 5 (4.67%) Thycotic
8 2 (1.87%) Darktrace
8 2 (1.87%) Google
8 2 (1.87%) SonicWALL
8 2 (1.87%) Symantec
9 1 (0.93%) AlienVault
9 1 (0.93%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.93%) Fortinet