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 16 June 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 580 686
Rank change year-on-year -40 +106 +58
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 94 50 160
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.13% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.14% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 69 34 140
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,396 £57,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,188 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.92% +1.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £97,000 £97,125 £101,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £73,441
% change year-on-year -12.50% +8.93% -7.62%

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 78,099 35,564 89,585
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 89.90% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 54,949 20,661 66,315
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,926 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +9.52% -13.22%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -19 32 £85,000 - 66
South West -36 20 £57,500 -25.81% 2
North of England -17 18 £45,000 -18.18% 12
South East -15 17 £70,000 +33.33% 21
North West +8 9 £45,000 -18.18% 8
Yorkshire - 9 - - 3
Midlands -9 4 £72,500 - 3
West Midlands -20 2 £72,500 - 3
East Midlands - 2 - -
East of England -20 1 £65,000 +54.45% 7
Senior Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 June 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 36 (38.30%) Cloud Security
2 28 (29.79%) AWS
3 26 (27.66%) Network Security
4 24 (25.53%) Cybersecurity
5 23 (24.47%) Terraform
6 22 (23.40%) Firewall
6 22 (23.40%) Security Operations
7 21 (22.34%) CI/CD
8 19 (20.21%) Incident Response
8 19 (20.21%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (19.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 17 (18.09%) Azure
10 17 (18.09%) Python
10 17 (18.09%) SIEM
11 15 (15.96%) GCP
12 14 (14.89%) DevOps
12 14 (14.89%) DV Cleared
12 14 (14.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 14 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (14.89%) Security Cleared
12 14 (14.89%) Vulnerability Management
13 13 (13.83%) Security Architecture
14 12 (12.77%) Bash
14 12 (12.77%) Cisco
14 12 (12.77%) Mentoring
15 11 (11.70%) Agile
15 11 (11.70%) Platform Engineering
15 11 (11.70%) Zero Trust
16 10 (10.64%) AI
16 10 (10.64%) Ansible

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 28 (29.79%) AWS
2 17 (18.09%) Azure
3 15 (15.96%) GCP
4 9 (9.57%) Amazon S3
4 9 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (9.57%) GitHub
4 9 (9.57%) Serverless
5 8 (8.51%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (7.45%) SaaS
7 4 (4.26%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.19%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.13%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (2.13%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.13%) Pulumi
10 1 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.06%) AWS Control Tower
10 1 (1.06%) IaaS
10 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.06%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 26 (27.66%) Network Security
2 22 (23.40%) Firewall
3 9 (9.57%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (6.38%) VPN
5 5 (5.32%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (3.19%) BGP
6 3 (3.19%) Cisco Firepower
6 3 (3.19%) OSPF
6 3 (3.19%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.19%) VLAN
7 2 (2.13%) DNS
7 2 (2.13%) Internet
7 2 (2.13%) LAN
7 2 (2.13%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (2.13%) WAN
8 1 (1.06%) Cisco Nexus
Development Applications
1 7 (7.45%) TeamCity
2 2 (2.13%) GitLab
3 1 (1.06%) Git
3 1 (1.06%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.06%) JIRA
General
1 13 (13.83%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.70%) Retail
3 9 (9.57%) Documentation Skills
3 9 (9.57%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.51%) Banking
5 3 (3.19%) Finance
6 2 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.13%) Automotive
6 2 (2.13%) Marketing
7 1 (1.06%) Advertising
7 1 (1.06%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.06%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.57%) Node.js
2 5 (5.32%) eBPF
3 4 (4.26%) JSON
4 3 (3.19%) RESTful
5 2 (2.13%) JSON Schema
5 2 (2.13%) JWT
5 2 (2.13%) LDAP
5 2 (2.13%) OAuth
5 2 (2.13%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.13%) OpenID
5 2 (2.13%) Regular Expression
5 2 (2.13%) SAML
5 2 (2.13%) XML
5 2 (2.13%) XMPP
6 1 (1.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (23.40%) Cloud Native
2 16 (17.02%) CCTV
3 15 (15.96%) Driving Licence
4 10 (10.64%) PKI
5 6 (6.38%) Security Posture
6 3 (3.19%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.19%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.19%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (3.19%) YubiKey
7 1 (1.06%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.06%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.06%) NHS
7 1 (1.06%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.06%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.32%) Windows
1 5 (5.32%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.13%) Linux
2 2 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.06%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (38.30%) Cloud Security
2 24 (25.53%) Cybersecurity
3 22 (23.40%) Security Operations
4 21 (22.34%) CI/CD
5 19 (20.21%) Incident Response
5 19 (20.21%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (18.09%) SIEM
7 14 (14.89%) DevOps
7 14 (14.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (14.89%) Vulnerability Management
8 13 (13.83%) Security Architecture
9 12 (12.77%) Mentoring
10 11 (11.70%) Agile
10 11 (11.70%) Platform Engineering
10 11 (11.70%) Zero Trust
11 10 (10.64%) AI
11 10 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (10.64%) Decision-Making
11 10 (10.64%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 17 (18.09%) Python
2 12 (12.77%) Bash
3 6 (6.38%) Go
3 6 (6.38%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (2.13%) Search Processing Language
4 2 (2.13%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.06%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (14.89%) DV Cleared
1 14 (14.89%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.64%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (9.57%) CISSP
4 8 (8.51%) CCNA
5 7 (7.45%) AWS Certification
5 7 (7.45%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (6.38%) CCNP
6 6 (6.38%) Degree
7 5 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.19%) CCIE
8 3 (3.19%) GCIA
8 3 (3.19%) SANS
9 2 (2.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (2.13%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.13%) CASP
9 2 (2.13%) CCSP
9 2 (2.13%) CISM
9 2 (2.13%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (19.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (8.51%) SOC 2
3 7 (7.45%) GRC
3 7 (7.45%) NIST
4 6 (6.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (4.26%) GDPR
6 3 (3.19%) QA
7 2 (2.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (5.32%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.19%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.13%) vSphere
4 1 (1.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (24.47%) Terraform
2 10 (10.64%) Ansible
2 10 (10.64%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.57%) Grafana
3 9 (9.57%) Prometheus
4 7 (7.45%) Cilium
5 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.13%) HP Fortify
7 1 (1.06%) CASB
7 1 (1.06%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (12.77%) Cisco
2 10 (10.64%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.38%) Palo Alto
3 6 (6.38%) Splunk
4 5 (5.32%) VMware
5 4 (4.26%) Qualys
5 4 (4.26%) Tenable
6 3 (3.19%) Arista
7 2 (2.13%) McAfee
7 2 (2.13%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.13%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.06%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.06%) Sophos