Information Security Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Information Security Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Information Security Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £56,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 762 709 842
Rank change year-on-year -53 +133 -142
Permanent jobs requiring an Information Security Engineer 8 24 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.010% 0.042% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% 0.048% 0.030%
Number of salaries quoted 7 22 20
10th Percentile - - £40,375
25th Percentile £55,750 £27,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £54,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.63% -8.09% +11.90%
75th Percentile £57,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £58,660 - -
UK median annual salary £71,250 £57,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -8.80% +19.05%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 72,397 50,271 70,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.93% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,949 29,577 42,673
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Information Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Information Security Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Information Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Information Security Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Yorkshire +64 6 £56,500 +4.63%
North of England +29 6 £56,500 -5.83%
West Midlands -13 1 - - 1
Midlands -14 1 - - 1
South East -19 1 £59,850 +110.00% 1
Information Security Engineer
UK

Information Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 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 UK excluding London region featuring Information Security Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Information Security
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 7 (87.50%) Python
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (87.50%) PowerShell
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (87.50%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (75.00%) Rapid7
3 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (75.00%) Azure
3 6 (75.00%) Apple iOS
3 6 (75.00%) Splunk
3 6 (75.00%) SIEM
3 6 (75.00%) Process Improvement
3 6 (75.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 6 (75.00%) Android
3 6 (75.00%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (75.00%) Ethical Hacking
3 6 (75.00%) CEH
3 6 (75.00%) Nmap
3 6 (75.00%) DevOps
3 6 (75.00%) People Management
3 6 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
3 6 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (75.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 6 (75.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 6 (75.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 6 (75.00%) Thycotic
3 6 (75.00%) Project Roadmap

Information Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (87.50%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 6 (75.00%) Cloud Computing
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (12.50%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) Firewall
1 6 (75.00%) LAN
1 6 (75.00%) Network Security
1 6 (75.00%) TCP/IP
1 6 (75.00%) WAN
1 6 (75.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MSI
1 1 (12.50%) Robot Framework
1 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Management Information System
1 6 (75.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Cyberattack
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) Android
2 6 (75.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Information Security
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 7 (87.50%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (75.00%) Cryptography
3 6 (75.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 6 (75.00%) DevOps
3 6 (75.00%) Ethical Hacking
3 6 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
3 6 (75.00%) Information Security Management
3 6 (75.00%) Key Management
3 6 (75.00%) People Management
3 6 (75.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 6 (75.00%) Process Improvement
3 6 (75.00%) Project Roadmap
3 6 (75.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 6 (75.00%) Secrets Management
3 6 (75.00%) Security Management
3 6 (75.00%) Security Operations
3 6 (75.00%) SIEM
3 6 (75.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) PowerShell
1 7 (87.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 6 (75.00%) CCSP
1 6 (75.00%) CEH
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (75.00%) CISSP
1 6 (75.00%) SANS
1 6 (75.00%) SSCP
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (75.00%) NIST
1 6 (75.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (75.00%) Nmap
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Nessus
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) WMI
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (75.00%) Qualys
2 6 (75.00%) Rapid7
2 6 (75.00%) Splunk
2 6 (75.00%) Thycotic
3 1 (12.50%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (12.50%) VMware