Security Engineer Jobs in Yorkshire

Security Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Security Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £38,500 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 185 262 246
Rank change year-on-year +77 -16 -36
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 37 24 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.58% 0.33% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.36% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 33 21 26
10th Percentile £35,000 £52,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £58,750 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £68,515 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -43.81% +27.47% -2.27%
75th Percentile £57,250 £77,542 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,968 - £93,750
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
Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 6,083 6,682 7,184
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 90.78% 96.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4,589 3,386 4,515
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £28,189
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,813 £37,908
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,507 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,650 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,000 £82,500 £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 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 9 June 2024.

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 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
West Yorkshire +72 21 £56,500 -17.54% 13
South Yorkshire +36 13 £36,500 -40.41% 8
Security Engineer
England

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

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 Yorkshire region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (59.46%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (40.54%) Azure
3 14 (37.84%) Microsoft
4 12 (32.43%) DevOps
4 12 (32.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 11 (29.73%) Firewall
5 11 (29.73%) Cloud Security
6 10 (27.03%) Finance
6 10 (27.03%) Network Security
7 9 (24.32%) NIST
7 9 (24.32%) Private Cloud
8 8 (21.62%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (21.62%) Identity Access Management
8 8 (21.62%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (18.92%) LAN
9 7 (18.92%) WAN
9 7 (18.92%) Key Management
9 7 (18.92%) Secrets Management
9 7 (18.92%) Splunk
9 7 (18.92%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (16.22%) Mentoring
10 6 (16.22%) Coaching
10 6 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (16.22%) Python
10 6 (16.22%) Agile
10 6 (16.22%) Roadmaps
11 5 (13.51%) C-CURE
11 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (13.51%) Ethical Hacking
11 5 (13.51%) CEH

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:

Business Applications
1 5 (13.51%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) Azure
2 8 (21.62%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (13.51%) AWS
4 5 (13.51%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (13.51%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (13.51%) SaaS
5 4 (10.81%) GCP
6 2 (5.41%) AWS KMS
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.70%) GitHub
7 1 (2.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (29.73%) Firewall
2 10 (27.03%) Network Security
3 7 (18.92%) LAN
3 7 (18.92%) WAN
4 5 (13.51%) TCP/IP
4 5 (13.51%) Wireshark
5 3 (8.11%) VPN
6 2 (5.41%) DNS
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) GitLab
2 2 (5.41%) Burp Suite
3 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (27.03%) Finance
2 3 (8.11%) Telecoms
3 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.70%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) Private Cloud
2 5 (13.51%) CCTV
2 5 (13.51%) Management Information System
2 5 (13.51%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (8.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (8.11%) NHS
3 3 (8.11%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.41%) PKI
5 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.70%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Android
1 5 (13.51%) Apple iOS
1 5 (13.51%) Windows
2 2 (5.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (59.46%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (32.43%) DevOps
2 12 (32.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (29.73%) Cloud Security
4 8 (21.62%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (18.92%) Key Management
5 7 (18.92%) Secrets Management
6 6 (16.22%) Agile
6 6 (16.22%) Coaching
6 6 (16.22%) Mentoring
6 6 (16.22%) Roadmaps
7 5 (13.51%) Cryptography
7 5 (13.51%) Data Loss Prevention
7 5 (13.51%) Ethical Hacking
7 5 (13.51%) Information Security
7 5 (13.51%) Information Security Management
7 5 (13.51%) People Management
7 5 (13.51%) Security Management
7 5 (13.51%) Security Operations
7 5 (13.51%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.22%) Python
2 5 (13.51%) PowerShell
3 3 (8.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (13.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 5 (13.51%) CCSP
2 5 (13.51%) CEH
2 5 (13.51%) CISSP
2 5 (13.51%) SANS
2 5 (13.51%) SSCP
3 3 (8.11%) CCNA
3 3 (8.11%) CCNP
4 2 (5.41%) CCDP
5 1 (2.70%) CCSA
5 1 (2.70%) CCSE
5 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (24.32%) NIST
2 5 (13.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (13.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (18.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (13.51%) Nmap
2 5 (13.51%) Terraform
3 2 (5.41%) CA Single Sign-On
3 2 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (37.84%) Microsoft
2 7 (18.92%) Splunk
3 5 (13.51%) Qualys
3 5 (13.51%) Rapid7
3 5 (13.51%) ServiceNow
3 5 (13.51%) Thycotic
4 3 (8.11%) Cisco
5 2 (5.41%) CA
5 2 (5.41%) CyberArk
5 2 (5.41%) SonicWALL
6 1 (2.70%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.70%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.70%) Google
6 1 (2.70%) Palo Alto