Senior Security Engineer Job Trends in England

Senior Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Security Engineer salary in England is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 626 603 618
Rank change year-on-year -23 +15 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 133 45 131
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.10% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.12% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 91 35 106
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,768 £43,227
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -11.76% +21.43%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £106,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% -11.76% +21.43%

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 94,011 39,021 65,407
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 90.42% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 66,359 23,411 39,739
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,300 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 16 September 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 September 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 -29 43 £85,000 -5.56% 200
South East -34 33 £65,000 - 36
South West - 29 £65,000 - 17
North of England -55 14 £72,500 -3.33% 37
Yorkshire - 10 £72,500 - 3
East of England -30 8 £75,000 +78.21% 25
North West -17 4 £78,750 +5.00% 30
Midlands - 4 £66,250 - 15
East Midlands - 2 - - 5
West Midlands - 2 £66,250 - 10
Senior Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 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 (42.11%) Cybersecurity
2 45 (33.83%) Cloud Security
3 44 (33.08%) Firewall
4 36 (27.07%) Security Operations
5 29 (21.80%) SIEM
5 29 (21.80%) Vulnerability Management
6 28 (21.05%) Azure
7 27 (20.30%) Cisco
7 27 (20.30%) Penetration Testing
8 26 (19.55%) AWS
9 24 (18.05%) CI/CD
9 24 (18.05%) Terraform
10 22 (16.54%) Software Engineering
11 21 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
11 21 (15.79%) Palo Alto
12 20 (15.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 18 (13.53%) AI
13 18 (13.53%) Application Security
13 18 (13.53%) Microsoft
13 18 (13.53%) Network Security
13 18 (13.53%) Python
14 17 (12.78%) Wi-Fi
15 16 (12.03%) Business Continuity
15 16 (12.03%) DevOps
15 16 (12.03%) Internet
15 16 (12.03%) Mentoring
16 15 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
16 15 (11.28%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (11.28%) Qualys
16 15 (11.28%) Threat Detection

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 (21.05%) Azure
2 26 (19.55%) AWS
3 12 (9.02%) GCP
4 10 (7.52%) Amazon S3
4 10 (7.52%) Entra ID
5 9 (6.77%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (6.77%) Serverless
6 8 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (5.26%) GitHub
7 7 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.76%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (3.01%) Mimecast
10 3 (2.26%) SaaS
11 2 (1.50%) Anthropic Claude
12 1 (0.75%) Akamai
12 1 (0.75%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.75%) Dagster
12 1 (0.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 44 (33.08%) Firewall
2 18 (13.53%) Network Security
3 17 (12.78%) Wi-Fi
4 16 (12.03%) Internet
5 14 (10.53%) LAN
5 14 (10.53%) VPN
5 14 (10.53%) WAN
6 12 (9.02%) Cisco Nexus
7 9 (6.77%) Intrusion Detection
8 6 (4.51%) DNS
9 4 (3.01%) BGP
10 3 (2.26%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (2.26%) Cisco Firepower
10 3 (2.26%) OSPF
10 3 (2.26%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (2.26%) TCP/IP
10 3 (2.26%) VLAN
11 2 (1.50%) Wireless
11 2 (1.50%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.75%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (3.76%) TeamCity
2 3 (2.26%) Burp Suite
2 3 (2.26%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.26%) Metasploit
3 2 (1.50%) Maven
3 2 (1.50%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.75%) Git
4 1 (0.75%) GitLab
4 1 (0.75%) JIRA
General
1 19 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.53%) Finance
3 10 (7.52%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.77%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (6.77%) Retail
5 7 (5.26%) Banking
6 3 (2.26%) Digital Health
6 3 (2.26%) Digital Healthcare
6 3 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.50%) Automotive
7 2 (1.50%) Marketing
8 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.05%) Terraform
2 9 (6.77%) Node.js
3 5 (3.76%) eBPF
3 5 (3.76%) JSON
4 3 (2.26%) JSON Schema
4 3 (2.26%) LDAP
4 3 (2.26%) Regular Expression
4 3 (2.26%) RESTful
4 3 (2.26%) XML
4 3 (2.26%) XMPP
5 2 (1.50%) JWT
5 2 (1.50%) OAuth
5 2 (1.50%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.50%) OpenID
5 2 (1.50%) Pulumi
5 2 (1.50%) SAML
6 1 (0.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (21.80%) Cloud Native
2 19 (14.29%) CCTV
3 16 (12.03%) Driving Licence
4 12 (9.02%) Security Posture
5 11 (8.27%) PKI
6 9 (6.77%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (3.76%) Management Information System
8 4 (3.01%) Data Centre
9 3 (2.26%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (2.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.26%) NHS
9 3 (2.26%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.50%) PMI
10 2 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.75%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.75%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.75%) SCADA
11 1 (0.75%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.02%) Linux
2 3 (2.26%) Kali Linux
2 3 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.26%) Windows
2 3 (2.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (42.11%) Cybersecurity
2 45 (33.83%) Cloud Security
3 36 (27.07%) Security Operations
4 29 (21.80%) SIEM
4 29 (21.80%) Vulnerability Management
5 27 (20.30%) Penetration Testing
6 24 (18.05%) CI/CD
7 22 (16.54%) Software Engineering
8 21 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (13.53%) AI
9 18 (13.53%) Application Security
10 16 (12.03%) Business Continuity
10 16 (12.03%) DevOps
10 16 (12.03%) Mentoring
11 15 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (11.28%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (11.28%) Threat Detection
12 14 (10.53%) Incident Response
12 14 (10.53%) Information Security
12 14 (10.53%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 18 (13.53%) Python
2 12 (9.02%) Bash
3 8 (6.02%) PowerShell
4 5 (3.76%) C++
4 5 (3.76%) Go
5 3 (2.26%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (2.26%) Search Processing Language
5 3 (2.26%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.50%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.50%) Rust
7 1 (0.75%) Java
7 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (9.77%) Cisco Certification
1 13 (9.77%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.02%) CISSP
2 12 (9.02%) DV Cleared
3 10 (7.52%) CCNA
4 8 (6.02%) CompTIA Security+
5 7 (5.26%) Degree
6 6 (4.51%) CCNP
7 5 (3.76%) AWS Certification
7 5 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (3.01%) CISM
9 3 (2.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (2.26%) CCIE
9 3 (2.26%) CCSP
9 3 (2.26%) GCIA
9 3 (2.26%) SANS
10 2 (1.50%) CASP
10 2 (1.50%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (1.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (6.02%) SOC 2
3 7 (5.26%) GDPR
3 7 (5.26%) NIST
4 5 (3.76%) GRC
5 3 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.26%) QA
System Software
1 8 (6.02%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (8.27%) Ansible
2 9 (6.77%) Grafana
2 9 (6.77%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.77%) Prometheus
3 7 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (3.76%) Cilium
5 3 (2.26%) Nessus
5 3 (2.26%) Nmap
5 3 (2.26%) SCCM
5 3 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.50%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.75%) CASB
Vendors
1 27 (20.30%) Cisco
2 21 (15.79%) Palo Alto
3 18 (13.53%) Microsoft
4 15 (11.28%) Qualys
5 11 (8.27%) Aruba
6 6 (4.51%) Splunk
6 6 (4.51%) Tenable
7 4 (3.01%) Arista
7 4 (3.01%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.26%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (2.26%) McAfee
8 3 (2.26%) Okta
8 3 (2.26%) Rapid7
8 3 (2.26%) RedGate
8 3 (2.26%) VMware
9 2 (1.50%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.50%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.75%) Databricks
10 1 (0.75%) Juniper
10 1 (0.75%) Sophos