Security Engineer Jobs in Croydon

Security Engineer
South London > Croydon

The median Security Engineer salary in Croydon is £73,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 1.10% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.39% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £68,875 - -
25th Percentile £69,063 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 - -
75th Percentile £79,063 - -
90th Percentile £79,625 - -
South London median annual salary £50,000 £44,000 -
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Croydon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Croydon. 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 Croydon with a recognized job title 144 202 181
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 79.12% 94.84% 91.88%
Number of salaries quoted 32 147 112
10th Percentile - £24,750 £32,275
25th Percentile £32,000 £35,000 £40,113
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,272 £81,786 £67,438
90th Percentile £68,625 £83,750 £88,625
South London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Croydon

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Croydon

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in Croydon

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, 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 Croydon region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) EMC
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) BCP
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) SonicWALL
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) NAS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) NAS
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Compliance Management
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) SOAR
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) EMC
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) SonicWALL
1 2 (100.00%) VMware