Senior Security Engineer Job Trends in England

Senior Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Security Engineer salary in England is £73,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 October 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 619 591 612
Rank change year-on-year -28 +21 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 149 42 136
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.14% 0.097% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.11% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 102 34 106
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,396 £43,227
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,250 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -11.76% +21.43%
75th Percentile £87,250 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £91,125 £97,500 £106,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% -11.76% +36.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 96,623 39,251 63,188
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 90.47% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 67,718 23,170 36,636
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,875 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,396 £54,987 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.20% -0.02% -8.33%

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Senior Security Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Senior Security Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Security Engineer job vacancies in England

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Engineer in England over the 6 months to 4 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Security Engineer in England

Senior 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 Security Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 4 October 2026. 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 -39 46 £85,000 -5.56% 169
South East -26 35 £65,000 - 41
South West - 30 £65,000 - 21
North of England -43 21 £71,250 +9.62% 39
East of England -29 11 £75,000 +78.21% 23
Yorkshire - 11 £66,250 - 7
North West -12 10 £72,500 +11.54% 22
Midlands - 4 £66,250 - 15
East Midlands - 2 - - 5
West Midlands - 2 £66,250 - 10
Senior Security Engineer
UK

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 4 October 2026, Senior 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 England region featuring Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 57 (38.26%) Cybersecurity
2 51 (34.23%) Cloud Security
3 47 (31.54%) Firewall
4 40 (26.85%) Security Operations
5 35 (23.49%) Vulnerability Management
6 29 (19.46%) SIEM
7 28 (18.79%) Cisco
7 28 (18.79%) Penetration Testing
8 27 (18.12%) AWS
8 27 (18.12%) Azure
9 25 (16.78%) CI/CD
9 25 (16.78%) Terraform
10 24 (16.11%) Application Security
11 23 (15.44%) Software Engineering
12 22 (14.77%) Infrastructure as Code
12 22 (14.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 22 (14.77%) Palo Alto
13 20 (13.42%) AI
13 20 (13.42%) Information Security
13 20 (13.42%) Network Security
13 20 (13.42%) Python
14 18 (12.08%) Incident Response
14 18 (12.08%) Microsoft
15 17 (11.41%) Cisco Certification
15 17 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (11.41%) Threat Detection
15 17 (11.41%) VPN
15 17 (11.41%) Wi-Fi
16 16 (10.74%) Business Continuity
16 16 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 27 (18.12%) AWS
1 27 (18.12%) Azure
2 13 (8.72%) GCP
3 10 (6.71%) Amazon S3
4 9 (6.04%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (6.04%) Entra ID
4 9 (6.04%) Serverless
5 8 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (4.03%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (4.03%) GitHub
6 6 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.36%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (3.36%) SaaS
8 4 (2.68%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.34%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.34%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (1.34%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (1.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (1.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 47 (31.54%) Firewall
2 20 (13.42%) Network Security
3 17 (11.41%) VPN
3 17 (11.41%) Wi-Fi
4 16 (10.74%) Internet
5 14 (9.40%) LAN
5 14 (9.40%) WAN
6 12 (8.05%) Cisco Nexus
7 9 (6.04%) Intrusion Detection
8 6 (4.03%) BGP
8 6 (4.03%) DNS
9 5 (3.36%) TCP/IP
10 4 (2.68%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (2.68%) Cisco Firepower
11 3 (2.01%) OSPF
11 3 (2.01%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (2.01%) VLAN
11 3 (2.01%) Wireless
11 3 (2.01%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.67%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 6 (4.03%) TeamCity
2 4 (2.68%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.01%) Burp Suite
3 3 (2.01%) Maven
3 3 (2.01%) Metasploit
3 3 (2.01%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.67%) Git
4 1 (0.67%) GitLab
4 1 (0.67%) JIRA
General
1 24 (16.11%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.75%) Finance
3 10 (6.71%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.04%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (4.70%) Retail
6 6 (4.03%) Banking
7 4 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.01%) Digital Health
8 3 (2.01%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.34%) Automotive
9 2 (1.34%) Back Office
9 2 (1.34%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.34%) Marketing
10 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (16.78%) Terraform
2 9 (6.04%) Node.js
3 5 (3.36%) JSON
4 4 (2.68%) eBPF
5 3 (2.01%) JSON Schema
5 3 (2.01%) LDAP
5 3 (2.01%) Regular Expression
5 3 (2.01%) RESTful
5 3 (2.01%) XML
5 3 (2.01%) XMPP
6 2 (1.34%) JWT
6 2 (1.34%) OAuth
6 2 (1.34%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.34%) OpenID
6 2 (1.34%) Pulumi
6 2 (1.34%) SAML
7 1 (0.67%) Ajax
7 1 (0.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (22.15%) Cloud Native
2 18 (12.08%) CCTV
3 14 (9.40%) Security Posture
4 13 (8.72%) Driving Licence
5 10 (6.71%) PKI
6 9 (6.04%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (4.70%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.68%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (2.68%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (2.01%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.01%) NHS
9 3 (2.01%) PMI
9 3 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.34%) Blog
11 1 (0.67%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.67%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.37%) Linux
2 3 (2.01%) Kali Linux
2 3 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.01%) Windows
2 3 (2.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (38.26%) Cybersecurity
2 51 (34.23%) Cloud Security
3 40 (26.85%) Security Operations
4 35 (23.49%) Vulnerability Management
5 29 (19.46%) SIEM
6 28 (18.79%) Penetration Testing
7 25 (16.78%) CI/CD
8 24 (16.11%) Application Security
9 23 (15.44%) Software Engineering
10 22 (14.77%) Infrastructure as Code
11 20 (13.42%) AI
11 20 (13.42%) Information Security
12 18 (12.08%) Incident Response
13 17 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (11.41%) Threat Detection
14 16 (10.74%) Business Continuity
14 16 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (10.74%) DevOps
14 16 (10.74%) Security Architecture
15 14 (9.40%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 20 (13.42%) Python
2 12 (8.05%) Bash
3 8 (5.37%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.03%) Go
5 5 (3.36%) C++
6 3 (2.01%) Java
6 3 (2.01%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (2.01%) Search Processing Language
6 3 (2.01%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.34%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.34%) Rust
7 2 (1.34%) SQL
8 1 (0.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (11.41%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (10.07%) CISSP
3 14 (9.40%) Security Cleared
4 12 (8.05%) CCNA
4 12 (8.05%) DV Cleared
5 8 (5.37%) CompTIA Security+
6 7 (4.70%) CCNP
6 7 (4.70%) Degree
7 6 (4.03%) CISM
8 5 (3.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (3.36%) CCSP
8 5 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (2.68%) AWS Certification
10 3 (2.01%) CCIE
10 3 (2.01%) City & Guilds
10 3 (2.01%) GCIA
10 3 (2.01%) PMI Certification
10 3 (2.01%) SANS
11 2 (1.34%) CASP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (6.04%) NIST
2 9 (6.04%) SOC 2
3 7 (4.70%) GDPR
4 4 (2.68%) GRC
5 3 (2.01%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.01%) QA
6 2 (1.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (5.37%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.01%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (7.38%) Ansible
1 11 (7.38%) Grafana
2 10 (6.71%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.04%) Prometheus
4 7 (4.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (4.03%) Cilium
6 3 (2.01%) Nessus
6 3 (2.01%) Nmap
6 3 (2.01%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.01%) SCCM
6 3 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.67%) CASB
Vendors
1 28 (18.79%) Cisco
2 22 (14.77%) Palo Alto
3 18 (12.08%) Microsoft
4 15 (10.07%) Qualys
5 11 (7.38%) Aruba
6 6 (4.03%) RedGate
6 6 (4.03%) Splunk
6 6 (4.03%) Tenable
7 4 (2.68%) Arista
7 4 (2.68%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.01%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (2.01%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.01%) McAfee
8 3 (2.01%) Okta
8 3 (2.01%) Rapid7
8 3 (2.01%) VMware
9 2 (1.34%) Google
9 2 (1.34%) LexisNexis
9 2 (1.34%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.67%) Sophos