Senior Security Engineer Job Trends in England

Senior Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Security Engineer salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 July 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 607 594 686
Rank change year-on-year -13 +92 +47
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 97 48 160
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.13% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 69 33 139
10th Percentile £49,500 £42,024 £57,500
25th Percentile £52,016 £51,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +3.23% -1.27%
75th Percentile £86,500 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £92,250 £97,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -5.66%

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 80,906 37,725 87,507
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 90.30% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 56,953 22,407 64,506
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,945 £38,594
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,201 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.52% +8.95% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% -12.50%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -10 37 £85,000 +1.49% 18
South East -21 19 £70,000 +33.33% 15
South West -49 17 £50,000 -35.48% 4
North of England -25 15 £45,000 -18.18% 8
Yorkshire - 9 - - 1
North West -8 6 £45,000 -18.18% 7
Midlands - 5 £66,250 - 3
West Midlands - 3 £66,250 - 3
East of England -13 2 £72,500 +72.27% 10
East Midlands - 2 - -
Senior Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 July 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 40 (41.24%) Cloud Security
2 31 (31.96%) AWS
2 31 (31.96%) Cybersecurity
3 26 (26.80%) Firewall
3 26 (26.80%) Terraform
4 25 (25.77%) Security Operations
5 24 (24.74%) CI/CD
5 24 (24.74%) Network Security
6 23 (23.71%) Azure
7 21 (21.65%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (20.62%) Python
9 19 (19.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 17 (17.53%) SIEM
11 16 (16.49%) GCP
11 16 (16.49%) Incident Response
11 16 (16.49%) Vulnerability Management
12 15 (15.46%) DevOps
13 13 (13.40%) AI
13 13 (13.40%) Bash
13 13 (13.40%) Cisco
13 13 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (13.40%) Security Architecture
13 13 (13.40%) Zero Trust
14 12 (12.37%) Agile
14 12 (12.37%) Information Security
14 12 (12.37%) Kubernetes
14 12 (12.37%) Mentoring
15 11 (11.34%) Ansible
15 11 (11.34%) Cisco Certification
15 11 (11.34%) 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:

Cloud Services
1 31 (31.96%) AWS
2 23 (23.71%) Azure
3 16 (16.49%) GCP
4 9 (9.28%) Amazon S3
4 9 (9.28%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (9.28%) GitHub
4 9 (9.28%) Serverless
5 8 (8.25%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (7.22%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (7.22%) SaaS
7 5 (5.15%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (5.15%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.06%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (2.06%) Pulumi
9 1 (1.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.03%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (1.03%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 26 (26.80%) Firewall
2 24 (24.74%) Network Security
3 9 (9.28%) Intrusion Detection
3 9 (9.28%) VPN
4 6 (6.19%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (4.12%) BGP
5 4 (4.12%) Internet
6 3 (3.09%) Cisco Firepower
6 3 (3.09%) LAN
6 3 (3.09%) OSPF
6 3 (3.09%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.09%) VLAN
6 3 (3.09%) WAN
7 2 (2.06%) DNS
7 2 (2.06%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.03%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.03%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (7.22%) TeamCity
2 2 (2.06%) GitLab
3 1 (1.03%) Git
3 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.03%) JIRA
General
1 12 (12.37%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.34%) Retail
3 9 (9.28%) Banking
3 9 (9.28%) Documentation Skills
3 9 (9.28%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.19%) Finance
5 3 (3.09%) Digital Health
5 3 (3.09%) Digital Healthcare
6 2 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.06%) Automotive
6 2 (2.06%) Marketing
7 1 (1.03%) Advertising
7 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.28%) Node.js
2 5 (5.15%) eBPF
3 4 (4.12%) JSON
4 3 (3.09%) RESTful
5 2 (2.06%) JSON Schema
5 2 (2.06%) JWT
5 2 (2.06%) LDAP
5 2 (2.06%) OAuth
5 2 (2.06%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.06%) OpenID
5 2 (2.06%) Regular Expression
5 2 (2.06%) SAML
5 2 (2.06%) XML
5 2 (2.06%) XMPP
6 1 (1.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (23.71%) Cloud Native
2 16 (16.49%) CCTV
3 15 (15.46%) Driving Licence
4 12 (12.37%) PKI
5 9 (9.28%) Security Posture
6 5 (5.15%) Management Information System
7 4 (4.12%) Data Centre
8 3 (3.09%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (3.09%) NHS
8 3 (3.09%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.03%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (1.03%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.03%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.09%) Linux
2 2 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.06%) Windows
2 2 (2.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (41.24%) Cloud Security
2 31 (31.96%) Cybersecurity
3 25 (25.77%) Security Operations
4 24 (24.74%) CI/CD
5 21 (21.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (17.53%) SIEM
7 16 (16.49%) Incident Response
7 16 (16.49%) Vulnerability Management
8 15 (15.46%) DevOps
9 13 (13.40%) AI
9 13 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (13.40%) Security Architecture
9 13 (13.40%) Zero Trust
10 12 (12.37%) Agile
10 12 (12.37%) Information Security
10 12 (12.37%) Mentoring
11 11 (11.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (11.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 11 (11.34%) Platform Engineering
12 10 (10.31%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 20 (20.62%) Python
2 13 (13.40%) Bash
3 9 (9.28%) PowerShell
4 6 (6.19%) Go
5 2 (2.06%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.06%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (2.06%) Search Processing Language
5 2 (2.06%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.03%) C++
6 1 (1.03%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (11.34%) Cisco Certification
1 11 (11.34%) DV Cleared
1 11 (11.34%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.31%) CISSP
3 9 (9.28%) CCNA
4 8 (8.25%) CompTIA Security+
5 7 (7.22%) AWS Certification
6 6 (6.19%) CCNP
6 6 (6.19%) Degree
7 5 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.09%) CCIE
8 3 (3.09%) GCIA
8 3 (3.09%) SANS
9 2 (2.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (2.06%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.06%) CASP
9 2 (2.06%) CCSP
9 2 (2.06%) CISM
9 2 (2.06%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (19.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (10.31%) SOC 2
3 7 (7.22%) GRC
3 7 (7.22%) NIST
4 6 (6.19%) GDPR
5 3 (3.09%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (3.09%) QA
6 2 (2.06%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (3.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.06%) vSphere
3 1 (1.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (26.80%) Terraform
2 12 (12.37%) Kubernetes
3 11 (11.34%) Ansible
4 9 (9.28%) Grafana
4 9 (9.28%) Prometheus
5 7 (7.22%) Cilium
6 6 (6.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (3.09%) SCCM
8 2 (2.06%) HP Fortify
9 1 (1.03%) CASB
Vendors
1 13 (13.40%) Cisco
2 10 (10.31%) Microsoft
3 9 (9.28%) Palo Alto
4 5 (5.15%) Splunk
5 4 (4.12%) Arista
5 4 (4.12%) Qualys
6 3 (3.09%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.09%) Tenable
7 2 (2.06%) McAfee
7 2 (2.06%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.06%) VMware
8 1 (1.03%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.03%) Juniper
8 1 (1.03%) Sophos