Senior Security Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Security Engineer salary in England is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 716 755 853
Rank change year-on-year +39 +98 -63
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 120 196 283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.21% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.23% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 108 159 120
10th Percentile £56,219 £52,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £57,597 £56,219 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £68,515 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% -8.65% +22.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £71,287 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.61% -10.00% +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 79,927 86,214 125,478
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.56% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 59,989 54,425 75,776
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,084 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,433 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Engineer in England

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Security Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Senior Security Engineer in England

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Engineer in England over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Security Engineer in England

Senior Security Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Security Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
London +92 77 £82,500 - 18
North of England +25 26 £62,783 +4.64% 5
North West +1 13 £62,783 +4.64% 3
Yorkshire +69 8 £59,526 -8.77% 1
North East - 5 £62,783 - 1
Midlands +15 4 £115,000 +155.56% 2
South East +3 4 £60,000 -14.29% 6
South West -15 4 £59,526 - 1
East of England +35 3 £75,000 +38.89% 2
West Midlands +23 2 £115,000 +155.56% 1
East Midlands - 2 - - 1
Senior Security Engineer
UK

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 23 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 England region featuring Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 77 (64.17%) Azure
2 72 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
3 52 (43.33%) Microsoft
4 41 (34.17%) Cloud Security
5 38 (31.67%) DevOps
6 36 (30.00%) AWS
7 34 (28.33%) CISSP
8 32 (26.67%) Python
9 31 (25.83%) Finance
9 31 (25.83%) Microsoft 365
10 30 (25.00%) PKI
11 29 (24.17%) Active Directory
12 28 (23.33%) Windows
12 28 (23.33%) Information Security
12 28 (23.33%) SIEM
13 27 (22.50%) Network Security
13 27 (22.50%) Public Cloud
14 26 (21.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 24 (20.00%) Incident Response
16 23 (19.17%) GCP
16 23 (19.17%) PaaS
17 22 (18.33%) CyberArk
17 22 (18.33%) Security Operations
17 22 (18.33%) Firewall
17 22 (18.33%) Agile
18 21 (17.50%) CEH
18 21 (17.50%) WAN
18 21 (17.50%) PowerShell
18 21 (17.50%) Roadmaps
19 20 (16.67%) CI/CD

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (5.83%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (9.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.67%) AutoCAD
3 2 (1.67%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.67%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 77 (64.17%) Azure
2 36 (30.00%) AWS
3 31 (25.83%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (19.17%) GCP
4 23 (19.17%) PaaS
5 18 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (11.67%) Entra ID
6 14 (11.67%) GitHub
7 13 (10.83%) Azure Key Vault
8 12 (10.00%) AWS KMS
8 12 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
8 12 (10.00%) SaaS
9 8 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (5.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 7 (5.83%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (5.00%) IaaS
12 4 (3.33%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.83%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 27 (22.50%) Network Security
2 22 (18.33%) Firewall
3 21 (17.50%) WAN
4 16 (13.33%) DNS
5 13 (10.83%) Cisco ISE
5 13 (10.83%) VPN
6 12 (10.00%) LAN
7 11 (9.17%) TCP/IP
8 9 (7.50%) Cisco Firepower
8 9 (7.50%) SD-WAN
9 7 (5.83%) Cisco IOS
9 7 (5.83%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (5.00%) BGP
10 6 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (5.00%) DMZ
10 6 (5.00%) MPLS
10 6 (5.00%) Unified Communications
10 6 (5.00%) VLAN
10 6 (5.00%) Wireshark
11 4 (3.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (15.83%) Jenkins
General
1 31 (25.83%) Finance
2 17 (14.17%) Banking
3 16 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 13 (10.83%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.50%) Law
6 8 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.33%) Legal
9 3 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.67%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.67%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.83%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.67%) HTML
2 2 (1.67%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.67%) web3js
3 1 (0.83%) CSS
3 1 (0.83%) Django
3 1 (0.83%) Flask
3 1 (0.83%) JWT
3 1 (0.83%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 30 (25.00%) PKI
2 27 (22.50%) Public Cloud
3 18 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (11.67%) Product Ownership
5 12 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
7 9 (7.50%) Cyberattack
8 7 (5.83%) Hedge funds
8 7 (5.83%) Management Information System
9 6 (5.00%) Cybercrime
9 6 (5.00%) Data Centre
10 5 (4.17%) Security Posture
11 3 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (2.50%) Virtual Team
12 2 (1.67%) Blockchain
12 2 (1.67%) Onboarding
12 2 (1.67%) Operational Technology
12 2 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
12 2 (1.67%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 28 (23.33%) Windows
2 5 (4.17%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.33%) Android
3 4 (3.33%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.50%) Linux
5 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 41 (34.17%) Cloud Security
3 38 (31.67%) DevOps
4 28 (23.33%) Information Security
4 28 (23.33%) SIEM
5 26 (21.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 24 (20.00%) Incident Response
7 22 (18.33%) Agile
7 22 (18.33%) Security Operations
8 21 (17.50%) Roadmaps
9 20 (16.67%) CI/CD
9 20 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
9 20 (16.67%) Secrets Management
10 19 (15.83%) Key Management
11 16 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 16 (13.33%) Use Case
11 16 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
12 15 (12.50%) Mentoring
13 14 (11.67%) ITIL
14 13 (10.83%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 32 (26.67%) Python
2 21 (17.50%) PowerShell
3 8 (6.67%) C#
4 7 (5.83%) SQL
5 6 (5.00%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.67%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.83%) C
7 1 (0.83%) C++
7 1 (0.83%) Embedded C
7 1 (0.83%) Go
7 1 (0.83%) Java
7 1 (0.83%) Lua
7 1 (0.83%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.83%) Ruby
7 1 (0.83%) Rust
Qualifications
1 34 (28.33%) CISSP
2 21 (17.50%) CEH
3 17 (14.17%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (10.00%) CCSP
5 10 (8.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 10 (8.33%) Degree
6 8 (6.67%) CISM
7 7 (5.83%) SANS
8 4 (3.33%) CCIE
8 4 (3.33%) CRISC
8 4 (3.33%) GIAC
8 4 (3.33%) GSEC
8 4 (3.33%) ISSMP
8 4 (3.33%) SSCP
9 3 (2.50%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.50%) CCSK
9 3 (2.50%) ISSAP
9 3 (2.50%) ISSEP
10 2 (1.67%) GREM
10 2 (1.67%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 8 (6.67%) NIST
4 5 (4.17%) COBIT
5 4 (3.33%) NCSC
5 4 (3.33%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.67%) GDPR
7 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 29 (24.17%) Active Directory
2 15 (12.50%) Docker
3 4 (3.33%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (14.17%) Terraform
2 16 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 14 (11.67%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (10.00%) CA Single Sign-On
5 7 (5.83%) Cisco CUCM
5 7 (5.83%) Stealthwatch
6 6 (5.00%) Ansible
7 5 (4.17%) CASB
8 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (3.33%) Nmap
9 2 (1.67%) CSIRT
9 2 (1.67%) Nessus
Vendors
1 52 (43.33%) Microsoft
2 22 (18.33%) CyberArk
3 18 (15.00%) Google
4 16 (13.33%) Cisco
5 13 (10.83%) CA
5 13 (10.83%) Splunk
6 12 (10.00%) ServiceNow
7 9 (7.50%) Palo Alto
8 8 (6.67%) CheckPoint
9 6 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (5.00%) Qualys
9 6 (5.00%) SolarWinds
9 6 (5.00%) VMware
10 5 (4.17%) Rapid7
11 4 (3.33%) Alibaba
11 4 (3.33%) Netskope
11 4 (3.33%) Thycotic
12 3 (2.50%) Symantec
12 3 (2.50%) Zscaler
13 2 (1.67%) McAfee