Security Engineer Jobs in West Yorkshire

Security Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Security Engineer salary in West Yorkshire is £56,500 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 131 213 206
Rank change year-on-year +82 -7 -42
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 20 16 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.62% 0.35% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.38% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 17 14 21
10th Percentile £35,000 - £34,000
25th Percentile £37,750 £60,713 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £68,515 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +30.50% -4.55%
75th Percentile £60,000 £77,542 £75,000
90th Percentile £68,781 - £93,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £38,500 £68,515 £55,000
% change year-on-year -43.81% +24.57% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 3,114 4,248 4,776
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.84% 92.77% 97.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,242 2,196 3,111
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,750 £40,000 £39,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.62% +0.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £82,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £48,620 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.39% +5.00% +5.26%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in West Yorkshire

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in West Yorkshire

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in West Yorkshire

Security Engineer
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Engineer within the West Yorkshire 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
Leeds +31 15 £44,250 -35.42% 7
Bradford - 4 £56,500 - 1
Halifax +71 1 £59,526 -21.21%
Security Engineer
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 West Yorkshire region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (70.00%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (65.00%) Azure
3 12 (60.00%) Microsoft
4 9 (45.00%) Firewall
4 9 (45.00%) Cloud Security
5 7 (35.00%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (35.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 7 (35.00%) Network Security
6 6 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (30.00%) LAN
6 6 (30.00%) WAN
6 6 (30.00%) Splunk
6 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (30.00%) DevOps
7 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (25.00%) Key Management
7 5 (25.00%) Secrets Management
7 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
7 5 (25.00%) Python
7 5 (25.00%) Finance
7 5 (25.00%) Agile
8 4 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
8 4 (20.00%) CEH
8 4 (20.00%) Nmap
8 4 (20.00%) Cryptography
8 4 (20.00%) SaaS
8 4 (20.00%) AWS
8 4 (20.00%) Qualys
8 4 (20.00%) Android

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 13 (65.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) AWS
4 4 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (20.00%) GCP
4 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (20.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) AWS KMS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub
5 1 (5.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) Firewall
2 7 (35.00%) Network Security
3 6 (30.00%) LAN
3 6 (30.00%) WAN
4 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 4 (20.00%) Wireshark
5 2 (10.00%) VPN
6 1 (5.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Burp Suite
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (15.00%) NHS
2 3 (15.00%) Private Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.00%) PKI
4 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Android
1 4 (20.00%) Apple iOS
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (45.00%) Cloud Security
3 7 (35.00%) Identity Access Management
4 6 (30.00%) DevOps
5 5 (25.00%) Agile
5 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (25.00%) Key Management
5 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 5 (25.00%) Secrets Management
6 4 (20.00%) Cryptography
6 4 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
6 4 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
6 4 (20.00%) Information Security
6 4 (20.00%) Information Security Management
6 4 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
6 4 (20.00%) Project Roadmap
6 4 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
6 4 (20.00%) Security Management
6 4 (20.00%) Validation
6 4 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 4 (20.00%) CCSP
2 4 (20.00%) CEH
2 4 (20.00%) CISSP
2 4 (20.00%) SANS
2 4 (20.00%) SSCP
3 2 (10.00%) CCDP
3 2 (10.00%) CCNA
3 2 (10.00%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (20.00%) NIST
1 4 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (20.00%) Nmap
3 1 (5.00%) CA Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (30.00%) Splunk
3 4 (20.00%) Qualys
3 4 (20.00%) Rapid7
3 4 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 4 (20.00%) Thycotic
4 2 (10.00%) Cisco
4 2 (10.00%) SonicWALL
5 1 (5.00%) CA
5 1 (5.00%) CyberArk
5 1 (5.00%) Google