Senior Security Engineer Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Senior Security Engineer
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Senior Security Engineer salary in Cambridgeshire 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 68 - 81
Rank change year-on-year - - +85
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 1 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.15% - 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% - 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,500 - £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +71.43%
75th Percentile £77,500 - £67,500
90th Percentile - - £69,000
East of England median annual salary £42,085 - £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +71.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 620 1,054 731
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 93.11% 86.41%
Number of salaries quoted 418 780 406
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,825 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,527 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.99% +1.05% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,313 £68,750
90th Percentile £71,475 £85,000 £85,000
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Engineer in Cambridgeshire

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for Senior Security Engineer in Cambridgeshire

Senior Security Engineer
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 4 August 2025. 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
Cambridge - 1 £75,000 - 7
Senior Security Engineer
East of England

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

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 Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire 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