Information Security Engineer Jobs in London

Information Security Engineer
England > London

The median Information Security Engineer salary in London is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 501 612 859
Rank change year-on-year +111 +247 -276
Permanent jobs requiring an Information Security Engineer 8 23 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.034% 0.064% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.067% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 8 23 10
10th Percentile - £47,500 £46,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £57,125 £48,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +42.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £90,313 £83,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £93,875 £87,500 £70,750
England median annual salary £66,175 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.29% +4.35% +6.48%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 22,169 34,255 62,848
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 95.07% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,697 25,036 34,819
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Information Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security Engineer in London

Information Security Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Information Security Engineer in London.

Salary trend for Information Security Engineer in London

Information Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Security Engineer in London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Information Security Engineer in London

Information Security Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 25 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
Central London +55 5 £72,500 +6.62%
Information Security Engineer
England

Information Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Information 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 London region featuring Information Security Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Information Security
1 8 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 7 (87.50%) CISSP
3 6 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (75.00%) Python
3 6 (75.00%) Windows
3 6 (75.00%) TCP/IP
3 6 (75.00%) CEH
3 6 (75.00%) Management Information System
3 6 (75.00%) Finance
3 6 (75.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (75.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 6 (75.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 6 (75.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 6 (75.00%) Secrets Management
4 5 (62.50%) Zero Trust
4 5 (62.50%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (62.50%) Key Management
4 5 (62.50%) Roadmaps
4 5 (62.50%) Cloud Security
4 5 (62.50%) Regulatory Compliance
4 5 (62.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (62.50%) Thycotic
4 5 (62.50%) Project Roadmap
4 5 (62.50%) NIST
4 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Purview

Information Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (62.50%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Azure Sentinel
2 5 (62.50%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 5 (62.50%) Firewall
2 5 (62.50%) LAN
2 5 (62.50%) Network Security
2 5 (62.50%) WAN
2 5 (62.50%) Wireshark
3 1 (12.50%) HTTP
3 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
3 1 (12.50%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Law
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) JSON
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
1 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (62.50%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Android
2 5 (62.50%) Apple iOS
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 8 (100.00%) Information Security
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
3 6 (75.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 6 (75.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 6 (75.00%) Secrets Management
4 5 (62.50%) Cryptography
4 5 (62.50%) DevOps
4 5 (62.50%) Ethical Hacking
4 5 (62.50%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (62.50%) Information Security Management
4 5 (62.50%) People Management
4 5 (62.50%) Process Improvement
4 5 (62.50%) Project Roadmap
4 5 (62.50%) Regulatory Compliance
4 5 (62.50%) Security Management
4 5 (62.50%) Security Operations
4 5 (62.50%) SIEM
4 5 (62.50%) Vulnerability Management
4 5 (62.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) CISSP
2 6 (75.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 6 (75.00%) CEH
2 6 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (62.50%) CCSP
3 5 (62.50%) SANS
3 5 (62.50%) SSCP
4 1 (12.50%) CISM
4 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (62.50%) NIST
1 5 (62.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (62.50%) Nmap
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) Qualys
2 5 (62.50%) Rapid7
2 5 (62.50%) Splunk
2 5 (62.50%) Thycotic
3 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
3 1 (12.50%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (12.50%) iManage