Senior Security Engineer Jobs

Senior Security Engineer
UK

The median Senior Security Engineer salary in the UK is £70,073 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 759 795 904
Rank change year-on-year +36 +109 -80
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 135 197 297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.19% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.20% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 121 161 131
10th Percentile £56,219 £52,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £57,597 £56,219 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,073 £68,515 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -8.65% +25.00%
75th Percentile £88,500 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £60,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +4.64% -17.24% +20.83%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Engineer in the UK

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Security Engineer in the UK

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Senior Security Engineer in the UK

Senior Security Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

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 UK 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
England +44 122 £72,500 +5.82% 56
Work from Home +93 81 £62,783 +0.45% 30
London +91 77 £80,000 -5.88% 32
UK excluding London -27 50 £62,783 +4.64% 24
North of England +28 27 £62,783 +4.64% 4
North West +11 14 £62,783 +4.64% 3
Yorkshire +70 8 £59,526 -8.77%
South East +7 5 £60,000 -14.29% 8
North East - 5 £62,783 - 1
Midlands +2 4 £115,000 +150.00% 4
South West -23 4 £59,526 - 2
East of England +30 3 £75,000 +38.89% 3
Scotland -63 3 £59,526 -
Northern Ireland - 3 £90,000 -
West Midlands +11 2 £115,000 +150.00% 2
East Midlands - 2 - - 2
Wales - 1 £45,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 featuring Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 85 (62.96%) Azure
2 84 (62.22%) Cybersecurity
3 53 (39.26%) Microsoft
4 47 (34.81%) Cloud Security
5 41 (30.37%) DevOps
5 41 (30.37%) AWS
6 40 (29.63%) Python
7 37 (27.41%) Finance
8 34 (25.19%) CISSP
9 33 (24.44%) Microsoft 365
10 31 (22.96%) SIEM
10 31 (22.96%) PKI
10 31 (22.96%) Public Cloud
11 30 (22.22%) Active Directory
11 30 (22.22%) Windows
12 28 (20.74%) Information Security
13 27 (20.00%) Agile
13 27 (20.00%) GCP
13 27 (20.00%) Network Security
14 26 (19.26%) PaaS
14 26 (19.26%) Firewall
14 26 (19.26%) Incident Response
15 25 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 25 (18.52%) Security Operations
15 25 (18.52%) Jenkins
16 24 (17.78%) CI/CD
16 24 (17.78%) Roadmaps
17 23 (17.04%) Terraform
18 22 (16.30%) CyberArk
19 21 (15.56%) PowerShell

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.19%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (8.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.48%) AutoCAD
3 2 (1.48%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.48%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 85 (62.96%) Azure
2 41 (30.37%) AWS
3 33 (24.44%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (20.00%) GCP
5 26 (19.26%) PaaS
6 21 (15.56%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (12.59%) GitHub
8 13 (9.63%) Azure Key Vault
8 13 (9.63%) Entra ID
8 13 (9.63%) SaaS
9 12 (8.89%) AWS KMS
9 12 (8.89%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (5.19%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (5.19%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (4.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 6 (4.44%) IaaS
12 4 (2.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 27 (20.00%) Network Security
2 26 (19.26%) Firewall
3 20 (14.81%) WAN
4 16 (11.85%) DNS
5 13 (9.63%) Cisco ISE
5 13 (9.63%) VPN
6 12 (8.89%) LAN
6 12 (8.89%) TCP/IP
7 9 (6.67%) Cisco Firepower
8 8 (5.93%) SD-WAN
9 7 (5.19%) Cisco IOS
9 7 (5.19%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (4.44%) BGP
10 6 (4.44%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (4.44%) DMZ
10 6 (4.44%) MPLS
10 6 (4.44%) Unified Communications
10 6 (4.44%) VLAN
10 6 (4.44%) Wireshark
11 4 (2.96%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.96%) Power BI
2 2 (1.48%) InfluxDB
2 2 (1.48%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 25 (18.52%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.48%) JMeter
2 2 (1.48%) Postman
2 2 (1.48%) SoapUI
General
1 37 (27.41%) Finance
2 20 (14.81%) Banking
3 17 (12.59%) Social Skills
4 13 (9.63%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.67%) Law
6 8 (5.93%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.96%) Legal
9 3 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.22%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.48%) Retail
10 2 (1.48%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.48%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.67%) HTML
2 4 (2.96%) OAuth
3 2 (1.48%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.48%) CSS
3 2 (1.48%) Django
3 2 (1.48%) Flask
3 2 (1.48%) JWT
3 2 (1.48%) OAuth2
3 2 (1.48%) SOAP
3 2 (1.48%) web3js
3 2 (1.48%) XML
4 1 (0.74%) Jinja
4 1 (0.74%) Pyramid
Miscellaneous
1 31 (22.96%) PKI
1 31 (22.96%) Public Cloud
2 18 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (12.59%) Product Ownership
4 12 (8.89%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (8.15%) Cyberattack
6 10 (7.41%) Security Operations Centre
7 8 (5.93%) Management Information System
8 7 (5.19%) Hedge funds
9 6 (4.44%) Cybercrime
9 6 (4.44%) Data Centre
9 6 (4.44%) Security Posture
10 4 (2.96%) Cloud Native
10 4 (2.96%) Cyber Security Posture
10 4 (2.96%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (2.22%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (2.22%) Virtual Team
12 2 (1.48%) Blockchain
12 2 (1.48%) Onboarding
12 2 (1.48%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 30 (22.22%) Windows
2 6 (4.44%) Unix
3 5 (3.70%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.96%) Android
4 4 (2.96%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.96%) Linux
5 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (62.22%) Cybersecurity
2 47 (34.81%) Cloud Security
3 41 (30.37%) DevOps
4 31 (22.96%) SIEM
5 28 (20.74%) Information Security
6 27 (20.00%) Agile
7 26 (19.26%) Incident Response
8 25 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 25 (18.52%) Security Operations
9 24 (17.78%) CI/CD
9 24 (17.78%) Roadmaps
10 21 (15.56%) Secrets Management
11 19 (14.07%) Data Loss Prevention
11 19 (14.07%) Infrastructure as Code
11 19 (14.07%) Key Management
11 19 (14.07%) Use Case
12 17 (12.59%) Mentoring
12 17 (12.59%) Vulnerability Management
13 15 (11.11%) ITIL
13 15 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 40 (29.63%) Python
2 21 (15.56%) PowerShell
3 9 (6.67%) C#
3 9 (6.67%) SQL
4 6 (4.44%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (2.96%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.48%) C++
6 2 (1.48%) Go
6 2 (1.48%) Java
6 2 (1.48%) Lua
6 2 (1.48%) Ruby
6 2 (1.48%) Rust
7 1 (0.74%) C
7 1 (0.74%) Embedded C
7 1 (0.74%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 34 (25.19%) CISSP
2 21 (15.56%) CEH
3 18 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (8.89%) CCSP
5 11 (8.15%) Degree
6 10 (7.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 8 (5.93%) CISM
7 8 (5.93%) SANS
8 6 (4.44%) GIAC
9 4 (2.96%) CCIE
9 4 (2.96%) CRISC
9 4 (2.96%) ISSMP
9 4 (2.96%) SSCP
10 3 (2.22%) Azure Certification
10 3 (2.22%) CCSK
10 3 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.22%) GSEC
10 3 (2.22%) ISSAP
10 3 (2.22%) ISSEP
11 2 (1.48%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 8 (5.93%) NIST
4 5 (3.70%) COBIT
5 4 (2.96%) NCSC
5 4 (2.96%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.48%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.48%) GDPR
System Software
1 30 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 18 (13.33%) Docker
3 6 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.96%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.96%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (17.04%) Terraform
2 19 (14.07%) Kubernetes
3 15 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (8.89%) CA Single Sign-On
5 7 (5.19%) Cisco CUCM
5 7 (5.19%) Stealthwatch
6 6 (4.44%) Ansible
7 5 (3.70%) CASB
8 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (2.96%) Nmap
9 2 (1.48%) CSIRT
9 2 (1.48%) Grafana
9 2 (1.48%) Nessus
Vendors
1 53 (39.26%) Microsoft
2 22 (16.30%) CyberArk
3 21 (15.56%) Google
4 16 (11.85%) Cisco
5 13 (9.63%) CA
5 13 (9.63%) Splunk
6 12 (8.89%) ServiceNow
7 10 (7.41%) CheckPoint
7 10 (7.41%) Palo Alto
8 8 (5.93%) VMware
9 6 (4.44%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (4.44%) Qualys
9 6 (4.44%) SolarWinds
10 5 (3.70%) Rapid7
11 4 (2.96%) Alibaba
11 4 (2.96%) Netskope
11 4 (2.96%) Thycotic
12 3 (2.22%) Symantec
12 3 (2.22%) Zscaler
13 2 (1.48%) McAfee