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 27 June 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 619 585 691
Rank change year-on-year -34 +106 +47
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 94 48 163
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.12% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.13% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 67 33 142
10th Percentile £49,000 £42,024 £57,500
25th Percentile £51,008 £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 £87,000 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £97,250 £101,125
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 79,755 36,318 87,533
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.17% 90.01% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,088 21,224 64,679
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,938
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 27 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 27 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 -14 36 £85,000 +1.49% 18
South East -24 18 £70,000 +33.33% 14
South West -38 17 £50,000 -35.48% 1
North of England -19 15 £45,000 -18.18% 10
Yorkshire - 9 - - 1
North West +2 6 £45,000 -18.18% 8
Midlands - 4 £72,500 - 3
East of England -18 2 £72,500 +72.27% 9
West Midlands - 2 £72,500 - 3
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 27 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 39 (41.49%) Cloud Security
2 30 (31.91%) AWS
3 28 (29.79%) Cybersecurity
4 26 (27.66%) Terraform
5 25 (26.60%) Firewall
6 24 (25.53%) Network Security
6 24 (25.53%) Security Operations
7 23 (24.47%) CI/CD
8 21 (22.34%) Azure
8 21 (22.34%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (20.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 19 (20.21%) Python
10 18 (19.15%) SIEM
11 17 (18.09%) Incident Response
12 16 (17.02%) GCP
12 16 (17.02%) Vulnerability Management
13 15 (15.96%) DevOps
14 14 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
15 13 (13.83%) AI
15 13 (13.83%) Bash
15 13 (13.83%) Cisco
15 13 (13.83%) Security Architecture
16 12 (12.77%) Agile
16 12 (12.77%) DV Cleared
16 12 (12.77%) Information Security
16 12 (12.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 12 (12.77%) Kubernetes
16 12 (12.77%) Mentoring
16 12 (12.77%) Security Cleared
16 12 (12.77%) Zero Trust

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 30 (31.91%) AWS
2 21 (22.34%) Azure
3 16 (17.02%) 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 5 (5.32%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (3.19%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.13%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (2.13%) Pulumi
11 1 (1.06%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.06%) AWS Control Tower
11 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (1.06%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 25 (26.60%) Firewall
2 24 (25.53%) Network Security
3 9 (9.57%) Intrusion Detection
4 8 (8.51%) VPN
5 6 (6.38%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (4.26%) BGP
6 4 (4.26%) Internet
7 3 (3.19%) Cisco Firepower
7 3 (3.19%) LAN
7 3 (3.19%) OSPF
7 3 (3.19%) TCP/IP
7 3 (3.19%) VLAN
7 3 (3.19%) WAN
8 2 (2.13%) DNS
8 2 (2.13%) Remote Desktop
9 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 12 (12.77%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.70%) Retail
3 9 (9.57%) Banking
3 9 (9.57%) Documentation Skills
3 9 (9.57%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.38%) Finance
5 3 (3.19%) Digital Health
5 3 (3.19%) Digital Healthcare
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%) Inclusion and Diversity
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 11 (11.70%) PKI
5 9 (9.57%) Security Posture
6 5 (5.32%) Management Information System
7 4 (4.26%) Data Centre
8 3 (3.19%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (3.19%) NHS
8 3 (3.19%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (1.06%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (1.06%) Fibre Optics
10 1 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (1.06%) Product Ownership
10 1 (1.06%) Taxonomies
10 1 (1.06%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.19%) Linux
1 3 (3.19%) Windows
1 3 (3.19%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (41.49%) Cloud Security
2 28 (29.79%) Cybersecurity
3 24 (25.53%) Security Operations
4 23 (24.47%) CI/CD
5 21 (22.34%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (19.15%) SIEM
7 17 (18.09%) Incident Response
8 16 (17.02%) Vulnerability Management
9 15 (15.96%) DevOps
10 14 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (13.83%) AI
11 13 (13.83%) Security Architecture
12 12 (12.77%) Agile
12 12 (12.77%) Information Security
12 12 (12.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 12 (12.77%) Mentoring
12 12 (12.77%) Zero Trust
13 11 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (11.70%) Platform Engineering
14 10 (10.64%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 19 (20.21%) Python
2 13 (13.83%) Bash
3 8 (8.51%) PowerShell
4 6 (6.38%) Go
5 2 (2.13%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (2.13%) Search Processing Language
5 2 (2.13%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.06%) C++
Qualifications
1 12 (12.77%) DV Cleared
1 12 (12.77%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.70%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (10.64%) CISSP
4 9 (9.57%) CCNA
5 8 (8.51%) CompTIA Security+
6 7 (7.45%) AWS Certification
7 6 (6.38%) CCNP
7 6 (6.38%) Degree
8 5 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (3.19%) CCIE
9 3 (3.19%) GCIA
9 3 (3.19%) SANS
10 2 (2.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (2.13%) Azure Certification
10 2 (2.13%) CASP
10 2 (2.13%) CCSP
10 2 (2.13%) CISM
10 2 (2.13%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (20.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (9.57%) SOC 2
3 7 (7.45%) GRC
3 7 (7.45%) NIST
4 6 (6.38%) GDPR
5 4 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (3.19%) QA
7 2 (2.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (3.19%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.13%) vSphere
3 1 (1.06%) Docker
3 1 (1.06%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (27.66%) Terraform
2 12 (12.77%) Kubernetes
3 11 (11.70%) Ansible
4 9 (9.57%) Grafana
4 9 (9.57%) Prometheus
5 7 (7.45%) Cilium
6 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.13%) HP Fortify
7 2 (2.13%) SCCM
8 1 (1.06%) CASB
Vendors
1 13 (13.83%) Cisco
2 9 (9.57%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.45%) Palo Alto
4 5 (5.32%) Splunk
5 4 (4.26%) Arista
6 3 (3.19%) Qualys
6 3 (3.19%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.19%) Tenable
6 3 (3.19%) VMware
7 2 (2.13%) McAfee
7 2 (2.13%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.06%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.06%) Juniper
8 1 (1.06%) Sophos