Security Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 425 430 360
Rank change year-on-year +5 -70 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 390 385 655
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.54% 0.66% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.73% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 303 278 384
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,263 £40,000
25th Percentile £39,250 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% +7.27% +1.85%
75th Percentile £62,833 £75,000 £74,063
90th Percentile £70,000 £83,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £69,447 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.60% +6.84% +8.33%

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 68,862 52,395 69,656
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.16% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 48,635 29,827 42,609
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,250 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +6.13% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
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%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

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 Security Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
South East -2 116 £47,500 -13.64% 52
North of England +47 105 £53,750 -17.31% 42
Midlands -10 66 £57,500 +21.05% 34
North West -13 55 £55,000 -15.38% 29
West Midlands +4 48 £60,000 +31.87% 17
Yorkshire +94 40 £47,500 -30.67% 9
East of England +11 26 £57,500 +5.50% 36
South West -32 23 £45,603 -29.84% 24
Scotland -57 23 £59,526 -14.29% 12
Wales +23 22 £40,500 -19.00% 4
East Midlands -2 18 £55,000 +15.79% 17
North East +3 10 £49,455 -5.80% 4
Northern Ireland +30 5 £90,000 +60.00% 3
Channel Islands - 3 - -
Isle of Man - 1 - - 2
Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 175 (44.87%) Cybersecurity
2 83 (21.28%) Azure
3 80 (20.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 67 (17.18%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 62 (15.90%) Degree
7 61 (15.64%) Mentoring
8 60 (15.38%) Firewall
9 57 (14.62%) Python
9 57 (14.62%) SIEM
10 56 (14.36%) Network Security
10 56 (14.36%) Coaching
10 56 (14.36%) DevOps
10 56 (14.36%) Security Operations
11 54 (13.85%) Cloud Security
12 50 (12.82%) NIST
13 46 (11.79%) Finance
13 46 (11.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 45 (11.54%) AWS
15 44 (11.28%) Security Cleared
15 44 (11.28%) Infrastructure as Code
16 40 (10.26%) Incident Response
17 39 (10.00%) Analytics
18 37 (9.49%) Terraform
19 36 (9.23%) Social Skills
19 36 (9.23%) SC Cleared
20 35 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 33 (8.46%) Information Security
21 33 (8.46%) Windows
22 29 (7.44%) Agile

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.26%) Confluence
2 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.28%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 83 (21.28%) Azure
2 45 (11.54%) AWS
3 24 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (5.13%) Entra ID
5 19 (4.87%) GCP
5 19 (4.87%) PaaS
6 16 (4.10%) GitHub
7 13 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (3.08%) AWS KMS
8 12 (3.08%) Azure Key Vault
9 11 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (2.82%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 11 (2.82%) AWS CloudTrail
9 11 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (2.82%) Azure Sentinel
9 11 (2.82%) SaaS
9 11 (2.82%) Serverless
9 11 (2.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 60 (15.38%) Firewall
2 56 (14.36%) Network Security
3 17 (4.36%) LAN
3 17 (4.36%) TCP/IP
4 16 (4.10%) DNS
5 12 (3.08%) WAN
6 9 (2.31%) SSL
6 9 (2.31%) Wireless
7 8 (2.05%) Wireshark
8 7 (1.79%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (1.54%) Intrusion Detection
9 6 (1.54%) VPN
10 5 (1.28%) NGFW
10 5 (1.28%) Software-Defined Networking
10 5 (1.28%) WLAN
11 3 (0.77%) Internet
12 2 (0.51%) DHCP
13 1 (0.26%) 802.11
13 1 (0.26%) Bluetooth
13 1 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (4.36%) Jenkins
2 12 (3.08%) GitLab
3 6 (1.54%) Burp Suite
4 3 (0.77%) Metasploit
4 3 (0.77%) sqlmap
5 2 (0.51%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.26%) JIRA
6 1 (0.26%) MSI
General
1 46 (11.79%) Finance
2 36 (9.23%) Social Skills
3 35 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (3.59%) Banking
5 13 (3.33%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.82%) Electronics
7 10 (2.56%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.79%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.79%) Retail
10 5 (1.28%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.51%) Law
11 2 (0.51%) Legal
11 2 (0.51%) Welsh Language
12 1 (0.26%) Cyber-Physical System
12 1 (0.26%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.26%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.26%) Military
12 1 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.03%) Fluent Bit
2 2 (0.51%) JSON
2 2 (0.51%) JSON Schema
2 2 (0.51%) KML
2 2 (0.51%) Regular Expression
2 2 (0.51%) XML
2 2 (0.51%) XML Schema
3 1 (0.26%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.26%) CSS
3 1 (0.26%) Django
3 1 (0.26%) Flask
3 1 (0.26%) HTML
3 1 (0.26%) Jinja
3 1 (0.26%) Pyramid
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.18%) Public Cloud
2 23 (5.90%) Private Cloud
3 22 (5.64%) CCTV
4 19 (4.87%) Security Operations Centre
5 18 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 18 (4.62%) PKI
6 17 (4.36%) Operational Technology
7 14 (3.59%) Product Ownership
8 13 (3.33%) Management Information System
9 12 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (3.08%) SCADA
10 11 (2.82%) Data Centre
11 9 (2.31%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (2.05%) PropTech
13 7 (1.79%) Cyberattack
14 6 (1.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 5 (1.28%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 5 (1.28%) Enterprise Storage
15 5 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
16 4 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.46%) Windows
2 17 (4.36%) Windows Server
3 15 (3.85%) Linux
4 6 (1.54%) Android
4 6 (1.54%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.77%) Unix
6 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (44.87%) Cybersecurity
2 80 (20.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 67 (17.18%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (15.64%) Mentoring
5 57 (14.62%) SIEM
6 56 (14.36%) Coaching
6 56 (14.36%) DevOps
6 56 (14.36%) Security Operations
7 54 (13.85%) Cloud Security
8 44 (11.28%) Infrastructure as Code
9 40 (10.26%) Incident Response
10 39 (10.00%) Analytics
11 33 (8.46%) Information Security
12 29 (7.44%) Agile
12 29 (7.44%) Roadmaps
13 28 (7.18%) Data Science
14 27 (6.92%) Data Engineering
14 27 (6.92%) Data Modelling
14 27 (6.92%) Red Team
15 26 (6.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (14.62%) Python
2 24 (6.15%) PowerShell
3 10 (2.56%) Bash
4 6 (1.54%) C
4 6 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
4 6 (1.54%) SQL
5 4 (1.03%) C++
6 3 (0.77%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.51%) Java
8 1 (0.26%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.26%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.26%) Rust
Qualifications
1 62 (15.90%) Degree
2 44 (11.28%) Security Cleared
3 36 (9.23%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.36%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (3.85%) DV Cleared
6 13 (3.33%) CISSP
7 11 (2.82%) AWS Certification
8 10 (2.56%) CCNA
8 10 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.56%) SANS
9 9 (2.31%) CEH
10 6 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (1.54%) CCNP
10 6 (1.54%) CCSP
10 6 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.54%) SSCP
11 4 (1.03%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.77%) GCIA
12 3 (0.77%) GCIH
12 3 (0.77%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (12.82%) NIST
2 46 (11.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (6.92%) Data Quality
4 15 (3.85%) PCI DSS
5 12 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (2.31%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.54%) GDPR
8 5 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.28%) NCSC
8 5 (1.28%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.26%) COBIT
9 1 (0.26%) GRC
System Software
1 24 (6.15%) Active Directory
2 14 (3.59%) Docker
3 7 (1.79%) Embedded Firmware
3 7 (1.79%) Firmware
4 6 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (9.49%) Terraform
2 14 (3.59%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.08%) CA Single Sign-On
3 12 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (2.05%) Ansible
6 6 (1.54%) Nmap
7 4 (1.03%) CSIRT
7 4 (1.03%) Fluentd
7 4 (1.03%) logstash
8 3 (0.77%) Nessus
9 2 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.51%) CASB
9 2 (0.51%) SCCM
10 1 (0.26%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
10 1 (0.26%) WMI
10 1 (0.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 65 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.18%) Cisco
3 16 (4.10%) ServiceNow
3 16 (4.10%) Splunk
4 14 (3.59%) Google
5 12 (3.08%) CA
5 12 (3.08%) CyberArk
6 11 (2.82%) Palo Alto
7 10 (2.56%) Qualys
8 9 (2.31%) EMC
9 7 (1.79%) F5
9 7 (1.79%) VMware
10 6 (1.54%) Rapid7
10 6 (1.54%) Thycotic
11 4 (1.03%) Forcepoint
11 4 (1.03%) Juniper
12 3 (0.77%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.77%) Computacenter
12 3 (0.77%) Sophos
12 3 (0.77%) WatchGuard