Senior Security Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Senior Security Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Security Engineer salary in the City of London is £72,970 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 219 275
Rank change year-on-year +52 +56 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 9 16 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.27% 0.34% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.35% 0.089%
Number of salaries quoted 8 15 5
10th Percentile £69,768 £63,750 £59,250
25th Percentile £70,880 £70,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,970 £85,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.15% +25.93% -15.63%
75th Percentile £79,085 £88,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,750 £99,000 £72,000
Central London median annual salary £72,970 £85,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -14.15% +25.93% -15.63%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 City of London with a recognized job title 3,226 4,579 6,746
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.90% 96.44% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,578 3,850 5,624
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Engineer in the City of London

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Security Engineer in the City of London.

Salary trend for Senior Security Engineer in the City of London

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Security Engineer in the City of London

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Senior 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 City of London region featuring Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) Network Security
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (66.67%) Cloud Security
3 5 (55.56%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (55.56%) Windows
3 5 (55.56%) CISSP
3 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) Information Security
3 5 (55.56%) CEH
3 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
3 5 (55.56%) Splunk
3 5 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (55.56%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (55.56%) DevOps
4 4 (44.44%) Rapid7
4 4 (44.44%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (44.44%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (44.44%) Apple iOS
4 4 (44.44%) SIEM
4 4 (44.44%) Process Improvement
4 4 (44.44%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (44.44%) Android
4 4 (44.44%) Qualys
4 4 (44.44%) PCI DSS
4 4 (44.44%) Nmap
4 4 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (44.44%) Wireshark
4 4 (44.44%) Validation

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (77.78%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Azure Sentinel
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (11.11%) AWS
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) Network Security
2 4 (44.44%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) LAN
2 4 (44.44%) TCP/IP
2 4 (44.44%) WAN
2 4 (44.44%) Wireshark
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco ISE
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Management Information System
1 4 (44.44%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Android
2 4 (44.44%) Apple iOS
3 1 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Information Security
3 4 (44.44%) Cryptography
3 4 (44.44%) Ethical Hacking
3 4 (44.44%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (44.44%) Information Security Management
3 4 (44.44%) Key Management
3 4 (44.44%) Process Improvement
3 4 (44.44%) Project Roadmap
3 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
3 4 (44.44%) Secrets Management
3 4 (44.44%) Security Management
3 4 (44.44%) Security Operations
3 4 (44.44%) SIEM
3 4 (44.44%) Validation
3 4 (44.44%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (44.44%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
2 4 (44.44%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) CEH
1 5 (55.56%) CISSP
2 4 (44.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 4 (44.44%) CCSP
2 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (44.44%) SANS
2 4 (44.44%) SSCP
3 3 (33.33%) Degree
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (44.44%) NIST
1 4 (44.44%) PCI DSS
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (44.44%) Nmap
2 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (55.56%) Splunk
3 4 (44.44%) Qualys
3 4 (44.44%) Rapid7
3 4 (44.44%) Thycotic
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco
4 1 (11.11%) Netskope
4 1 (11.11%) Okta
4 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 1 (11.11%) Red Hat