Senior Security Engineer Job Trends in England

Senior Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Security Engineer salary in England is £74,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 October 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 614 593 597
Rank change year-on-year -21 +4 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 153 41 136
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.15% 0.095% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.10% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 103 35 107
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £43,872
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% -11.76% +21.43%
75th Percentile £87,000 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £102,000 £106,000
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 96,140 39,294 61,877
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 90.57% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 67,276 23,232 35,571
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,019 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,828 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,235
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -0.42% -7.94%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,210 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.42% -2.39% -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 9 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 9 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 -33 50 £85,000 -5.56% 181
South East -29 34 £65,000 - 32
South West - 29 £70,000 - 16
North of England -52 23 £71,250 +9.62% 29
North West -13 12 £72,500 +11.54% 16
East of England -34 11 £75,000 +78.21% 20
Yorkshire - 11 £66,250 - 4
Midlands - 4 £66,250 - 16
East Midlands - 2 - - 5
West Midlands - 2 £66,250 - 11
Senior Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 56 (36.60%) Cybersecurity
2 55 (35.95%) Cloud Security
3 48 (31.37%) Firewall
4 40 (26.14%) Security Operations
5 37 (24.18%) Vulnerability Management
6 29 (18.95%) AWS
7 28 (18.30%) Cisco
7 28 (18.30%) SIEM
8 27 (17.65%) Azure
8 27 (17.65%) CI/CD
8 27 (17.65%) Penetration Testing
8 27 (17.65%) Terraform
9 25 (16.34%) Application Security
10 24 (15.69%) Infrastructure as Code
11 23 (15.03%) Information Security
11 23 (15.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 23 (15.03%) Software Engineering
12 22 (14.38%) Network Security
12 22 (14.38%) Palo Alto
12 22 (14.38%) Python
13 21 (13.73%) AI
14 20 (13.07%) Incident Response
14 20 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (12.42%) Threat Detection
15 19 (12.42%) VPN
16 18 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
16 18 (11.76%) Microsoft
16 18 (11.76%) Security Architecture
17 17 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
17 17 (11.11%) Wi-Fi

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 (0.65%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 29 (18.95%) AWS
2 27 (17.65%) Azure
3 15 (9.80%) GCP
4 10 (6.54%) Amazon S3
5 9 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (5.88%) Entra ID
5 9 (5.88%) Serverless
6 8 (5.23%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (4.58%) SaaS
8 6 (3.92%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (3.92%) GitHub
8 6 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.27%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.61%) Google Compute Engine
10 4 (2.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (2.61%) Mimecast
10 4 (2.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.31%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 48 (31.37%) Firewall
2 22 (14.38%) Network Security
3 19 (12.42%) VPN
4 17 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
5 16 (10.46%) Internet
6 14 (9.15%) LAN
6 14 (9.15%) WAN
7 12 (7.84%) Cisco Nexus
8 9 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
9 8 (5.23%) BGP
10 6 (3.92%) DNS
10 6 (3.92%) TCP/IP
11 4 (2.61%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (2.61%) Cisco Firepower
12 3 (1.96%) OSPF
12 3 (1.96%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (1.96%) VLAN
12 3 (1.96%) Wireless
12 3 (1.96%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.65%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 8 (5.23%) TeamCity
2 4 (2.61%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.96%) Burp Suite
3 3 (1.96%) Maven
3 3 (1.96%) Metasploit
3 3 (1.96%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.65%) Git
4 1 (0.65%) GitLab
4 1 (0.65%) JIRA
General
1 26 (16.99%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.38%) Finance
3 10 (6.54%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.92%) Banking
5 6 (3.92%) Retail
6 4 (2.61%) Back Office
6 4 (2.61%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.96%) Digital Health
7 3 (1.96%) Digital Healthcare
8 2 (1.31%) Automotive
8 2 (1.31%) Marketing
9 1 (0.65%) Billing
9 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (17.65%) Terraform
2 9 (5.88%) Node.js
3 5 (3.27%) JSON
4 4 (2.61%) eBPF
5 3 (1.96%) JSON Schema
5 3 (1.96%) LDAP
5 3 (1.96%) Regular Expression
5 3 (1.96%) RESTful
5 3 (1.96%) XML
5 3 (1.96%) XMPP
6 2 (1.31%) Ajax
6 2 (1.31%) JWT
6 2 (1.31%) OAuth
6 2 (1.31%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.31%) OpenID
6 2 (1.31%) Pulumi
6 2 (1.31%) SAML
7 1 (0.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (22.88%) Cloud Native
2 18 (11.76%) CCTV
3 16 (10.46%) Security Posture
4 13 (8.50%) Driving Licence
5 10 (6.54%) PKI
6 9 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (5.88%) Management Information System
7 5 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.61%) Blog
8 4 (2.61%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (2.61%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.96%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.96%) NHS
9 3 (1.96%) PMI
9 3 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.65%) Fibre Optics
10 1 (0.65%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.65%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.23%) Linux
2 3 (1.96%) Kali Linux
2 3 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.96%) Windows
2 3 (1.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (36.60%) Cybersecurity
2 55 (35.95%) Cloud Security
3 40 (26.14%) Security Operations
4 37 (24.18%) Vulnerability Management
5 28 (18.30%) SIEM
6 27 (17.65%) CI/CD
6 27 (17.65%) Penetration Testing
7 25 (16.34%) Application Security
8 24 (15.69%) Infrastructure as Code
9 23 (15.03%) Information Security
9 23 (15.03%) Software Engineering
10 21 (13.73%) AI
11 20 (13.07%) Incident Response
11 20 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (12.42%) Threat Detection
13 18 (11.76%) Security Architecture
14 17 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (10.46%) Business Continuity
15 16 (10.46%) DevOps
16 15 (9.80%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 22 (14.38%) Python
2 12 (7.84%) Bash
3 8 (5.23%) Go
3 8 (5.23%) PowerShell
4 5 (3.27%) C++
4 5 (3.27%) Java
5 4 (2.61%) SQL
6 3 (1.96%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.96%) Search Processing Language
6 3 (1.96%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.31%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.31%) Rust
8 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (10.46%) CISSP
3 14 (9.15%) Security Cleared
4 12 (7.84%) DV Cleared
5 11 (7.19%) CCNA
6 8 (5.23%) CISM
7 7 (4.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 7 (4.58%) CCSP
7 7 (4.58%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (3.92%) CCNP
8 6 (3.92%) Degree
9 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.61%) AWS Certification
10 4 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.96%) CCIE
11 3 (1.96%) City & Guilds
11 3 (1.96%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.31%) CASP
12 2 (1.31%) CompTIA CySA+
12 2 (1.31%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (15.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (7.19%) NIST
2 11 (7.19%) SOC 2
3 7 (4.58%) GDPR
4 4 (2.61%) GRC
4 4 (2.61%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.96%) QA
6 2 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 8 (5.23%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (8.50%) Grafana
2 12 (7.84%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.19%) Ansible
4 9 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.23%) Cilium
6 7 (4.58%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.96%) Nessus
7 3 (1.96%) Nmap
7 3 (1.96%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.96%) SCCM
7 3 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.65%) CASB
Vendors
1 28 (18.30%) Cisco
2 22 (14.38%) Palo Alto
3 18 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 15 (9.80%) Qualys
5 11 (7.19%) Aruba
6 6 (3.92%) RedGate
6 6 (3.92%) Splunk
6 6 (3.92%) Tenable
7 4 (2.61%) Arista
7 4 (2.61%) Google
7 4 (2.61%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.96%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (1.96%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.96%) LexisNexis
8 3 (1.96%) McAfee
8 3 (1.96%) Okta
8 3 (1.96%) Rapid7
8 3 (1.96%) VMware
9 2 (1.31%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.65%) Cribl.io