IT Security Engineer Jobs in Central London

IT Security Engineer
London > Central London

The median IT Security Engineer salary in Central London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 182 243
Rank change year-on-year +24 +61 +57
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Security Engineer 2 6 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.079% 0.16% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.17% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile £58,000 - £35,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £26,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £27,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +154.55% -40.86% -11.43%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £53,250
90th Percentile £82,000 £88,750 £55,650
London median annual salary £65,000 £77,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year -16.13% -22.50% +58.10%

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 2,305 3,595 5,095
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 95.16% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,638 2,829 4,254
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £111,250
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

IT Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Security Engineer in Central London

IT Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for IT Security Engineer in Central London

IT Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Security Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Security Engineer in Central London

IT 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 IT Security Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +26 1 £85,000 +209.09%
Camden - 1 £55,000 -
IT Security Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, IT 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 Central London region featuring IT Security Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Compliance Audit
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) CEH
2 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection

IT Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Compliance Audit
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft