Senior Security Engineer Jobs in Cambridge

Senior Security Engineer
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Senior Security Engineer salary in Cambridge is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 - 63
Rank change year-on-year - - +72
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 1 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 0.30% - 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% - 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £56,500
25th Percentile £72,500 - £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +85.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 - £68,750
90th Percentile - - £69,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £75,000 - £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +71.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridge

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cambridge. 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 Cambridge with a recognized job title 317 628 495
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 97.82% 86.09%
Number of salaries quoted 221 486 282
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £87,325
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £47,500 £50,527 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.99% +1.05% -4.76%

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Engineer in Cambridge

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Cambridge

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

Salary trend for Senior Security Engineer in Cambridge

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 14 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge

For the 6 months to 4 August 2025, 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 Cambridge region featuring Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR