Security Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Security Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Security Engineer salary in the City of London is £73,441 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 178 200
Rank change year-on-year +38 +22 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 37 49 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.11% 1.06% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 1.10% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 34 41 71
10th Percentile £26,850 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,567 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,441 £85,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +25.93% +12.50%
75th Percentile £84,688 £90,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £105,000 £81,250
Central London median annual salary £73,441 £85,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.60% +30.77% +8.33%

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 3,208 4,455 6,766
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.85% 96.20% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,545 3,737 5,558
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +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 £73,480 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.33% +1.35% +3.57%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the City of London

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in the City of London

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 City of London region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (70.27%) Azure
2 21 (56.76%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (48.65%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (48.65%) Microsoft
4 14 (37.84%) Rapid7
5 13 (35.14%) Vulnerability Management
5 13 (35.14%) Network Security
5 13 (35.14%) CISSP
5 13 (35.14%) Cloud Security
6 12 (32.43%) Firewall
6 12 (32.43%) Finance
6 12 (32.43%) Information Security
6 12 (32.43%) Degree
6 12 (32.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (29.73%) CEH
7 11 (29.73%) Data Loss Prevention
8 10 (27.03%) Python
8 10 (27.03%) Computer Science
8 10 (27.03%) PowerShell
9 9 (24.32%) AWS
9 9 (24.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (24.32%) SIEM
9 9 (24.32%) Windows
9 9 (24.32%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (24.32%) Penetration Testing
9 9 (24.32%) Agile
9 9 (24.32%) Identity Access Management
9 9 (24.32%) NIST
9 9 (24.32%) Azure Sentinel
9 9 (24.32%) Social Skills

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.70%) Confluence
1 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Trello
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (70.27%) Azure
2 21 (56.76%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (24.32%) AWS
3 9 (24.32%) Azure Sentinel
4 8 (21.62%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (21.62%) Microsoft Purview
5 7 (18.92%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (10.81%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (10.81%) Mimecast
7 3 (8.11%) Entra ID
8 2 (5.41%) ClickUp
9 1 (2.70%) SaaS
9 1 (2.70%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 13 (35.14%) Network Security
2 12 (32.43%) Firewall
3 8 (21.62%) LAN
3 8 (21.62%) WAN
4 7 (18.92%) TCP/IP
4 7 (18.92%) Wireshark
5 4 (10.81%) DKIM
6 2 (5.41%) VPN
7 1 (2.70%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (2.70%) Internet
7 1 (2.70%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (2.70%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (32.43%) Finance
2 9 (24.32%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) HTML
1 1 (2.70%) Kafka
1 1 (2.70%) OAuth
1 1 (2.70%) OAuth2
1 1 (2.70%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Management Information System
2 7 (18.92%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (8.11%) Security Posture
4 2 (5.41%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (5.41%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (24.32%) Windows
2 8 (21.62%) Android
2 8 (21.62%) Apple iOS
3 4 (10.81%) Linux
4 2 (5.41%) Debian
4 2 (5.41%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (48.65%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (35.14%) Cloud Security
2 13 (35.14%) Vulnerability Management
3 12 (32.43%) Information Security
4 11 (29.73%) Data Loss Prevention
5 10 (27.03%) Computer Science
6 9 (24.32%) Agile
6 9 (24.32%) Identity Access Management
6 9 (24.32%) Penetration Testing
6 9 (24.32%) SIEM
7 8 (21.62%) DevOps
7 8 (21.62%) Secrets Management
7 8 (21.62%) Security Operations
8 7 (18.92%) Ethical Hacking
8 7 (18.92%) Key Management
8 7 (18.92%) Privileged Access Management
8 7 (18.92%) Project Roadmap
8 7 (18.92%) Regulatory Compliance
8 7 (18.92%) Roadmaps
8 7 (18.92%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.03%) PowerShell
1 10 (27.03%) Python
2 1 (2.70%) C#
2 1 (2.70%) C++
2 1 (2.70%) Go
2 1 (2.70%) Java
2 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.70%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 13 (35.14%) CISSP
2 12 (32.43%) Degree
3 11 (29.73%) CEH
4 9 (24.32%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (21.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 8 (21.62%) SANS
6 7 (18.92%) CCSP
6 7 (18.92%) SSCP
7 3 (8.11%) Azure Certification
7 3 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (5.41%) CISM
8 2 (5.41%) Master's Degree
9 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
9 1 (2.70%) CCIE
9 1 (2.70%) CCNA
9 1 (2.70%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (24.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (24.32%) NIST
2 8 (21.62%) PCI DSS
3 2 (5.41%) GDPR
3 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (5.41%) QA
4 1 (2.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (16.22%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (8.11%) Docker
4 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (32.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (18.92%) Nmap
3 6 (16.22%) CASB
4 5 (13.51%) QRadar
5 4 (10.81%) DatAdvantage
5 4 (10.81%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (48.65%) Microsoft
2 14 (37.84%) Rapid7
3 8 (21.62%) Qualys
3 8 (21.62%) Splunk
4 7 (18.92%) Thycotic
5 6 (16.22%) Cisco
5 6 (16.22%) Palo Alto
6 5 (13.51%) Kenna
7 4 (10.81%) Darktrace
7 4 (10.81%) Varonis
8 2 (5.41%) CyberArk
8 2 (5.41%) iManage
8 2 (5.41%) LogRhythm
9 1 (2.70%) IBM
9 1 (2.70%) Netskope
9 1 (2.70%) Okta
9 1 (2.70%) Red Hat