Information Security Engineer Jobs in England

Information Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Information Security Engineer salary in England is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 850 856 1157
Rank change year-on-year +6 +301 -264
Permanent jobs requiring an Information Security Engineer 13 38 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.014% 0.046% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.051% 0.021%
Number of salaries quoted 11 36 29
10th Percentile - £27,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £55,750 £47,188 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £56,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.46% -13.85% +23.81%
75th Percentile £81,875 £77,813 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £96,000
UK median annual salary £71,250 £56,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +27.23% -13.85% +23.81%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Information Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security Engineer in England

Information Security Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Information Security Engineer in England

Information Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Security Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Information Security Engineer in England

Information Security Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +83 6 £80,000 +3.23% 2
Yorkshire +67 4 £56,500 +4.63%
North of England +6 4 £56,500 -5.83%
West Midlands -11 2 - - 1
Midlands -38 2 - - 1
South East -34 1 £59,850 +110.00% 1
Information Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Information 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 England region featuring Information Security Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Information Security
2 12 (92.31%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (84.62%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (76.92%) Agile
5 9 (69.23%) Python
5 9 (69.23%) Windows
5 9 (69.23%) Microsoft
5 9 (69.23%) CISSP
5 9 (69.23%) Azure
5 9 (69.23%) PowerShell
6 8 (61.54%) CEH
6 8 (61.54%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (61.54%) TCP/IP
6 8 (61.54%) Management Information System
6 8 (61.54%) Finance
6 8 (61.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 8 (61.54%) Privileged Access Management
6 8 (61.54%) Data Loss Prevention
6 8 (61.54%) Secrets Management
7 7 (53.85%) Zero Trust
7 7 (53.85%) Roadmaps
7 7 (53.85%) Cloud Security
7 7 (53.85%) Microsoft Purview
7 7 (53.85%) Regulatory Compliance
7 7 (53.85%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (53.85%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (53.85%) Key Management
7 7 (53.85%) Thycotic
7 7 (53.85%) Project Roadmap
7 7 (53.85%) NIST

Information Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (69.23%) Azure
3 7 (53.85%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (53.85%) Azure Sentinel
3 7 (53.85%) Cloud Computing
3 7 (53.85%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (15.38%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) TCP/IP
2 7 (53.85%) Firewall
2 7 (53.85%) LAN
2 7 (53.85%) Network Security
2 7 (53.85%) WAN
2 7 (53.85%) Wireshark
3 1 (7.69%) HTTP
3 1 (7.69%) HTTPS
3 1 (7.69%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
1 1 (7.69%) MSI
1 1 (7.69%) Robot Framework
1 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) JSON
1 1 (7.69%) RESTful
1 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Management Information System
2 7 (53.85%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (15.38%) Cyberattack
4 1 (7.69%) PKI
4 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Windows
2 7 (53.85%) Android
2 7 (53.85%) Apple iOS
3 1 (7.69%) Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Unix
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Information Security
2 12 (92.31%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (76.92%) Agile
4 8 (61.54%) Data Loss Prevention
4 8 (61.54%) Privileged Access Management
4 8 (61.54%) Secrets Management
5 7 (53.85%) Cloud Security
5 7 (53.85%) Cryptography
5 7 (53.85%) DevOps
5 7 (53.85%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (53.85%) Information Security Management
5 7 (53.85%) Key Management
5 7 (53.85%) People Management
5 7 (53.85%) Project Roadmap
5 7 (53.85%) Regulatory Compliance
5 7 (53.85%) Roadmaps
5 7 (53.85%) Security Management
5 7 (53.85%) Security Operations
5 7 (53.85%) Validation
5 7 (53.85%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) PowerShell
1 9 (69.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) CISSP
2 8 (61.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 8 (61.54%) CEH
2 8 (61.54%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (53.85%) CCSP
3 7 (53.85%) SANS
3 7 (53.85%) SSCP
4 1 (7.69%) CISM
4 1 (7.69%) Degree
4 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (53.85%) NIST
1 7 (53.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (53.85%) Nmap
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Nessus
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) WMI
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Microsoft
2 7 (53.85%) Qualys
2 7 (53.85%) Rapid7
2 7 (53.85%) Splunk
2 7 (53.85%) Thycotic
3 3 (23.08%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (7.69%) Atlassian
4 1 (7.69%) iManage
4 1 (7.69%) VMware