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 £53,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 288 331 345
Rank change year-on-year +43 +14 -86
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 108 91 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.57% 0.57% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.64% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 100 74 79
10th Percentile £35,000 £51,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £35,920 £55,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £65,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.62% +8.75% +11.11%
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 18,108 14,310 17,849
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.24% 89.32% 96.30%
Number of salaries quoted 13,776 7,988 10,999
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,247 £40,000 £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 £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +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 3 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 3 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 -19 59 £55,000 -15.38% 29
Yorkshire +78 39 £45,000 -34.32% 11
North East -4 10 £49,455 -5.80% 4
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 57 (52.78%) Cybersecurity
2 45 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 39 (36.11%) Azure
4 33 (30.56%) DevOps
5 32 (29.63%) Microsoft
6 24 (22.22%) Cloud Security
6 24 (22.22%) Mentoring
7 23 (21.30%) NIST
8 22 (20.37%) Coaching
9 21 (19.44%) Private Cloud
9 21 (19.44%) Security Operations
10 20 (18.52%) Finance
11 18 (16.67%) Network Security
11 18 (16.67%) AWS
12 17 (15.74%) Firewall
12 17 (15.74%) Hybrid Cloud
12 17 (15.74%) Public Cloud
12 17 (15.74%) Key Management
12 17 (15.74%) Secrets Management
13 16 (14.81%) SIEM
14 15 (13.89%) ServiceNow
14 15 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
14 15 (13.89%) Terraform
15 14 (12.96%) Incident Response
16 13 (12.04%) PKI
16 13 (12.04%) Risk Management
17 12 (11.11%) Identity Management
17 12 (11.11%) Information Security
17 12 (11.11%) Active Directory
17 12 (11.11%) CA

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 (4.63%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 39 (36.11%) Azure
2 18 (16.67%) AWS
3 12 (11.11%) AWS KMS
3 12 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
3 12 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 11 (10.19%) Azure Sentinel
5 10 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (9.26%) SaaS
6 8 (7.41%) GCP
6 8 (7.41%) PaaS
7 6 (5.56%) GitHub
8 5 (4.63%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.78%) IaaS
10 1 (0.93%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 18 (16.67%) Network Security
2 17 (15.74%) Firewall
3 12 (11.11%) DNS
3 12 (11.11%) LAN
4 7 (6.48%) WAN
5 5 (4.63%) NGFW
5 5 (4.63%) Software-Defined Networking
5 5 (4.63%) TCP/IP
5 5 (4.63%) Wireless
5 5 (4.63%) Wireshark
5 5 (4.63%) WLAN
6 3 (2.78%) VPN
Development Applications
1 10 (9.26%) GitLab
2 5 (4.63%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.78%) Burp Suite
General
1 20 (18.52%) Finance
2 12 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 9 (8.33%) Social Skills
4 5 (4.63%) Banking
5 4 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.78%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.93%) Law
7 1 (0.93%) Military
7 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 21 (19.44%) Private Cloud
2 17 (15.74%) Hybrid Cloud
2 17 (15.74%) Public Cloud
3 13 (12.04%) PKI
4 12 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
6 8 (7.41%) CCTV
7 5 (4.63%) Data Centre
7 5 (4.63%) Management Information System
7 5 (4.63%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.78%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (2.78%) NHS
8 3 (2.78%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.85%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.85%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.85%) Data Structures
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 (5.56%) Windows
2 5 (4.63%) Android
2 5 (4.63%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (52.78%) Cybersecurity
2 45 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 33 (30.56%) DevOps
4 24 (22.22%) Cloud Security
4 24 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 22 (20.37%) Coaching
6 21 (19.44%) Security Operations
7 17 (15.74%) Key Management
7 17 (15.74%) Secrets Management
8 16 (14.81%) SIEM
9 15 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (12.96%) Incident Response
11 13 (12.04%) Risk Management
12 12 (11.11%) Identity Management
12 12 (11.11%) Information Security
12 12 (11.11%) Privileged Identity Management
13 11 (10.19%) Roadmaps
14 10 (9.26%) ITIL
14 10 (9.26%) Operational Stability
14 10 (9.26%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.19%) Python
2 5 (4.63%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.70%) SQL
4 3 (2.78%) Java
5 1 (0.93%) C++
5 1 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 8 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (6.48%) CISSP
2 7 (6.48%) Degree
3 6 (5.56%) CEH
4 5 (4.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 5 (4.63%) CCSP
4 5 (4.63%) SANS
4 5 (4.63%) SSCP
5 3 (2.78%) CCNA
5 3 (2.78%) CCNP
6 2 (1.85%) CCDP
6 2 (1.85%) GIAC
6 2 (1.85%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.85%) 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 (21.30%) NIST
2 11 (10.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (10.19%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.78%) GDPR
5 1 (0.93%) NIST 800
System Software
1 12 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.63%) Docker
2 5 (4.63%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (13.89%) Terraform
2 12 (11.11%) CA Single Sign-On
2 12 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (4.63%) Kubernetes
4 5 (4.63%) Nmap
5 1 (0.93%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 32 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 15 (13.89%) ServiceNow
3 12 (11.11%) CA
3 12 (11.11%) CyberArk
4 8 (7.41%) Cisco
5 7 (6.48%) Splunk
6 6 (5.56%) Palo Alto
7 5 (4.63%) Google
7 5 (4.63%) Qualys
7 5 (4.63%) Rapid7
7 5 (4.63%) Thycotic
8 2 (1.85%) Darktrace
8 2 (1.85%) SonicWALL
8 2 (1.85%) Symantec
9 1 (0.93%) AlienVault
9 1 (0.93%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.93%) Fortinet