Infrastructure Security Engineer Job Trends in Central London

Infrastructure Security Engineer
London > Central London

The median Infrastructure Security Engineer salary in Central London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 172 181
Rank change year-on-year +34 +9 +121
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Security Engineer 7 9 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.37% 0.28% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.30% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7 9 3
10th Percentile £53,900 £36,250 -
25th Percentile - £41,250 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £112,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -51.11% +55.17% +11.54%
75th Percentile £57,750 £118,750 £74,375
90th Percentile £66,250 - £74,750
London median annual salary £57,500 £112,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -48.89% +95.65% -17.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 1,775 3,001 3,162
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 93.66% 96.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,423 1,955 2,851
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £39,085
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.01%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Security Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Infrastructure Security Engineer job vacancy trend in Central London

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer job vacancies in Central London.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer job vacancies in Central London

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Security Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Security Engineer in Central London

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Security Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
City of London +36 2 £64,750 -42.44%
West End of London - 1 £57,500 -
Infrastructure Security Engineer
London

Infrastructure Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 6 November 2025, Infrastructure Security Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Central London region featuring Infrastructure Security Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (85.71%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (85.71%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (85.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (85.71%) Windows
3 5 (71.43%) Migration
3 5 (71.43%) SharePoint
3 5 (71.43%) TCP/IP
3 5 (71.43%) VMware
3 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (71.43%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 5 (71.43%) Windows Server
4 4 (57.14%) Business Continuity
4 4 (57.14%) DNS
4 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (57.14%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (57.14%) VPN
5 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (42.86%) NIST
6 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (28.57%) Firewall
6 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
6 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
6 2 (28.57%) RBAC
6 2 (28.57%) SIEM
6 2 (28.57%) SQL

Infrastructure Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (71.43%) SharePoint
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 6 (85.71%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Stack
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) TCP/IP
2 4 (57.14%) DNS
2 4 (57.14%) VPN
3 2 (28.57%) Firewall
4 1 (14.29%) LAN
4 1 (14.29%) Network Security
4 1 (14.29%) WAN
4 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Law
2 4 (57.14%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (71.43%) Migration
3 5 (71.43%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 4 (57.14%) Business Continuity
4 4 (57.14%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
5 2 (28.57%) RBAC
5 2 (28.57%) SIEM
5 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
6 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 1 (14.29%) Patch Management
6 1 (14.29%) Security Patching
6 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (42.86%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
2 1 (14.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Dell
3 1 (14.29%) Meraki
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds