Senior Information Security Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Information Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Information Security Engineer salary in England is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 830 912 1142
Rank change year-on-year +82 +230 -282
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Information Security Engineer 3 15 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.004% 0.016% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.018% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 3 13 7
10th Percentile - - £52,250
25th Percentile £71,250 £52,000 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -7.69% +30.00%
75th Percentile £81,875 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,750 £72,500 -
UK median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% -7.69% +30.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,510 84,770 126,878
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.53% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,250 53,679 75,658
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,626 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,833 £60,775 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.42% +1.29% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,777 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.04% - +9.09%

Senior Information Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Information Security Engineer in England

Senior Information Security Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Information Security Engineer in England

Senior Information Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Information Security Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Information Security Engineer in England

Senior Information Security Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Information Security Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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
London +127 3 £72,500 +0.69%
Senior Information Security Engineer
UK

Senior Information Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Senior Information 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 England region featuring Senior Information Security Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
1 3 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
1 3 (100.00%) CEH
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (66.67%) Security Management
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (66.67%) Privileged Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) Thycotic
2 2 (66.67%) Project Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (66.67%) Key Management
2 2 (66.67%) Secrets Management
2 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
2 2 (66.67%) Rapid7
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) People Management
2 2 (66.67%) SANS
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Desktop

Senior Information Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
1 2 (66.67%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Android
1 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Cryptography
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Ethical Hacking
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security Management
2 2 (66.67%) Key Management
2 2 (66.67%) People Management
2 2 (66.67%) Privileged Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) Project Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (66.67%) Secrets Management
2 2 (66.67%) Security Management
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CEH
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
2 2 (66.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (66.67%) CCSP
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) SANS
2 2 (66.67%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
1 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (66.67%) Nmap
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Qualys
1 2 (66.67%) Rapid7
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
1 2 (66.67%) Thycotic
2 1 (33.33%) iManage