Security Engineer Jobs in Hertfordshire

Security Engineer
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Security Engineer salary in Hertfordshire is £46,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 November 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 69 131
Rank change year-on-year -25 +62 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 6 2 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.41% 0.28% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.29% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 5
10th Percentile £40,000 £70,200 -
25th Percentile £41,250 £71,250 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £76,000 £33,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.14% +126.87% -10.67%
75th Percentile £62,813 £79,250 £35,250
90th Percentile £70,625 £79,400 £42,600
East of England median annual salary £40,000 £70,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -42.86% +40.00% +53.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Hertfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Hertfordshire. 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 Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 1,304 696 1,865
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.38% 95.74% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 609 494 991
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,765 £27,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,320 £55,000 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year +0.58% +1.38% +14.21%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £87,500
East of England median annual salary £52,795 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.56% - +10.53%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Hertfordshire

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in Hertfordshire

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 15 November 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in Hertfordshire

Security Engineer
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Engineer within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Bishop's Stortford - 2 £40,000 - 2
Stevenage -11 1 £47,500 -35.81% 2
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £72,500 -
Security Engineer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 15 November 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 Hertfordshire region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 2 (33.33%) CCTV
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (16.67%) CISSP
3 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (16.67%) Nagios
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
3 1 (16.67%) Law
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) Blue Coat
3 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) VLAN
3 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) CISA

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

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Mimecast
2 1 (16.67%) PaaS
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) NGFW
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) VLAN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Law
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) CCTV
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) Internal Audit
3 1 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (16.67%) Malware Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
3 1 (16.67%) SIEM
3 1 (16.67%) Situational Awareness
3 1 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (16.67%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CISA
2 1 (16.67%) CISM
2 1 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) Nagios
1 1 (16.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) Blue Coat
2 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (16.67%) F5
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk