Senior Security Engineer Job Trends in England

Senior Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Security Engineer salary in England is £71,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 June 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 614 579 681
Rank change year-on-year -35 +102 +66
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 91 50 164
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 66 34 144
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,396 £56,603
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,188 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £80,000 £73,441
Median % change year-on-year -10.94% +8.93% -2.08%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £98,125 £97,125 £101,250
UK median annual salary £71,250 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -10.94% +10.34% -8.81%

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 78,007 35,527 89,324
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 89.85% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 54,881 20,627 66,148
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,402
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +9.52% -12.87%
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 15 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 15 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 -13 31 £85,000 - 24
South West -41 20 £57,500 -25.81%
North of England -22 18 £45,000 -18.18% 10
South East -16 16 £70,000 +33.33% 20
North West -1 9 £45,000 -18.18% 7
Yorkshire - 9 - - 2
Midlands -20 4 £72,500 - 2
West Midlands -17 2 £72,500 - 2
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 15 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 35 (38.46%) Cloud Security
2 28 (30.77%) AWS
3 25 (27.47%) Network Security
4 23 (25.27%) Terraform
5 22 (24.18%) Cybersecurity
6 21 (23.08%) CI/CD
6 21 (23.08%) Firewall
6 21 (23.08%) Security Operations
7 19 (20.88%) Incident Response
7 19 (20.88%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (18.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (18.68%) Python
8 17 (18.68%) SIEM
9 16 (17.58%) Azure
10 15 (16.48%) GCP
11 14 (15.38%) DevOps
11 14 (15.38%) DV Cleared
11 14 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 14 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (15.38%) Security Cleared
12 13 (14.29%) Security Architecture
12 13 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
13 12 (13.19%) Bash
13 12 (13.19%) Cisco
13 12 (13.19%) Mentoring
14 11 (12.09%) Agile
14 11 (12.09%) Platform Engineering
15 10 (10.99%) AI
15 10 (10.99%) Ansible
15 10 (10.99%) Cisco Certification

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 (30.77%) AWS
2 16 (17.58%) Azure
3 15 (16.48%) GCP
4 9 (9.89%) Amazon S3
4 9 (9.89%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (9.89%) GitHub
4 9 (9.89%) Serverless
5 8 (8.79%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (7.69%) SaaS
7 3 (3.30%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.20%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (2.20%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.20%) Pulumi
9 1 (1.10%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.10%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (1.10%) IaaS
9 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.10%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 25 (27.47%) Network Security
2 21 (23.08%) Firewall
3 9 (9.89%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (5.49%) VPN
4 5 (5.49%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (3.30%) BGP
5 3 (3.30%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (3.30%) OSPF
5 3 (3.30%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.30%) VLAN
6 2 (2.20%) DNS
6 2 (2.20%) Internet
6 2 (2.20%) LAN
6 2 (2.20%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (2.20%) WAN
7 1 (1.10%) Cisco Nexus
Development Applications
1 7 (7.69%) TeamCity
2 2 (2.20%) GitLab
3 1 (1.10%) Git
3 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.10%) JIRA
General
1 12 (13.19%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.09%) Retail
3 9 (9.89%) Documentation Skills
3 9 (9.89%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.79%) Banking
5 3 (3.30%) Finance
6 2 (2.20%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.20%) Automotive
6 2 (2.20%) Marketing
7 1 (1.10%) Advertising
7 1 (1.10%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.10%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.89%) Node.js
2 5 (5.49%) eBPF
3 4 (4.40%) JSON
4 3 (3.30%) RESTful
5 2 (2.20%) JSON Schema
5 2 (2.20%) JWT
5 2 (2.20%) LDAP
5 2 (2.20%) OAuth
5 2 (2.20%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.20%) OpenID
5 2 (2.20%) Regular Expression
5 2 (2.20%) SAML
5 2 (2.20%) XML
5 2 (2.20%) XMPP
6 1 (1.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (24.18%) Cloud Native
2 16 (17.58%) CCTV
3 15 (16.48%) Driving Licence
4 9 (9.89%) PKI
5 6 (6.59%) Security Posture
6 3 (3.30%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.30%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.30%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (3.30%) YubiKey
7 1 (1.10%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.10%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.10%) NHS
7 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.10%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.49%) Windows
1 5 (5.49%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.20%) Linux
2 2 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.10%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (38.46%) Cloud Security
2 22 (24.18%) Cybersecurity
3 21 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 21 (23.08%) Security Operations
4 19 (20.88%) Incident Response
4 19 (20.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (18.68%) SIEM
6 14 (15.38%) DevOps
6 14 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (14.29%) Security Architecture
7 13 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
8 12 (13.19%) Mentoring
9 11 (12.09%) Agile
9 11 (12.09%) Platform Engineering
10 10 (10.99%) AI
10 10 (10.99%) Decision-Making
10 10 (10.99%) Information Security
10 10 (10.99%) Zero Trust
11 9 (9.89%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (18.68%) Python
2 12 (13.19%) Bash
3 6 (6.59%) Go
4 5 (5.49%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.20%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (2.20%) Search Processing Language
5 2 (2.20%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.10%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (15.38%) DV Cleared
1 14 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.99%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (9.89%) CISSP
4 8 (8.79%) CCNA
5 7 (7.69%) AWS Certification
5 7 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (6.59%) CCNP
6 6 (6.59%) Degree
7 5 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.30%) CCIE
8 3 (3.30%) GCIA
8 3 (3.30%) SANS
9 2 (2.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (2.20%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.20%) CASP
9 2 (2.20%) CCSP
9 2 (2.20%) CISM
9 2 (2.20%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (7.69%) GRC
2 7 (7.69%) SOC 2
3 6 (6.59%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (6.59%) NIST
4 4 (4.40%) GDPR
5 3 (3.30%) QA
6 2 (2.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (5.49%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.30%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.20%) vSphere
4 1 (1.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (25.27%) Terraform
2 10 (10.99%) Ansible
2 10 (10.99%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.89%) Grafana
3 9 (9.89%) Prometheus
4 7 (7.69%) Cilium
5 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.20%) HP Fortify
7 1 (1.10%) CASB
Vendors
1 12 (13.19%) Cisco
2 9 (9.89%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.49%) Palo Alto
3 5 (5.49%) Splunk
3 5 (5.49%) VMware
4 3 (3.30%) Arista
4 3 (3.30%) Qualys
4 3 (3.30%) Tenable
5 2 (2.20%) McAfee
5 2 (2.20%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.20%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.10%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.10%) Sophos