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 24 September 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 625 602 625
Rank change year-on-year -23 +23 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 142 43 133
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.14% 0.100% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.11% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 98 34 105
10th Percentile £47,350 £42,396 £42,581
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 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £106,500
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 96,021 38,933 64,766
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.16% 90.43% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 67,503 23,350 38,276
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,325 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £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 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.73% - -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 24 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 24 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 45 £85,000 -5.56% 154
South East -32 36 £65,000 - 31
South West - 29 £65,000 - 18
North of England -45 17 £71,250 +9.62% 30
Yorkshire - 11 £66,250 - 5
East of England -30 9 £75,000 +78.21% 19
North West -20 6 £72,500 +11.54% 20
Midlands - 4 £66,250 - 12
East Midlands - 2 - - 3
West Midlands - 2 £66,250 - 9
Senior Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 57 (40.14%) Cybersecurity
2 47 (33.10%) Cloud Security
3 46 (32.39%) Firewall
4 38 (26.76%) Security Operations
5 32 (22.54%) Vulnerability Management
6 29 (20.42%) SIEM
7 28 (19.72%) Cisco
7 28 (19.72%) Penetration Testing
8 27 (19.01%) AWS
8 27 (19.01%) Azure
9 25 (17.61%) CI/CD
9 25 (17.61%) Terraform
10 22 (15.49%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (15.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 22 (15.49%) Palo Alto
10 22 (15.49%) Software Engineering
11 21 (14.79%) Application Security
12 20 (14.08%) Network Security
13 19 (13.38%) AI
13 19 (13.38%) Python
14 18 (12.68%) Incident Response
14 18 (12.68%) Microsoft
14 18 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (11.97%) Information Security
15 17 (11.97%) Wi-Fi
16 16 (11.27%) Business Continuity
16 16 (11.27%) Cisco Certification
16 16 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
16 16 (11.27%) DevOps
16 16 (11.27%) Internet

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 (0.70%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 27 (19.01%) AWS
1 27 (19.01%) Azure
2 13 (9.15%) GCP
3 10 (7.04%) Amazon S3
4 9 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (6.34%) Entra ID
4 9 (6.34%) Serverless
5 8 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (4.93%) GitHub
6 7 (4.93%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (4.23%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (3.52%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (2.82%) Mimecast
9 4 (2.82%) SaaS
10 2 (1.41%) Anthropic Claude
11 1 (0.70%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (0.70%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.70%) Google Compute Engine
11 1 (0.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 46 (32.39%) Firewall
2 20 (14.08%) Network Security
3 17 (11.97%) Wi-Fi
4 16 (11.27%) Internet
4 16 (11.27%) VPN
5 14 (9.86%) LAN
5 14 (9.86%) WAN
6 12 (8.45%) Cisco Nexus
7 9 (6.34%) Intrusion Detection
8 6 (4.23%) DNS
9 5 (3.52%) BGP
10 4 (2.82%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (2.82%) Cisco Firepower
10 4 (2.82%) TCP/IP
11 3 (2.11%) OSPF
11 3 (2.11%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (2.11%) VLAN
11 3 (2.11%) Wireless
11 3 (2.11%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (0.70%) Hadoop
1 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (4.23%) TeamCity
2 4 (2.82%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.11%) Burp Suite
3 3 (2.11%) Maven
3 3 (2.11%) Metasploit
3 3 (2.11%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.70%) Git
4 1 (0.70%) GitLab
4 1 (0.70%) JIRA
General
1 23 (16.20%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.27%) Finance
3 10 (7.04%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.34%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (5.63%) Retail
6 7 (4.93%) Banking
7 4 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.11%) Digital Health
8 3 (2.11%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.41%) Automotive
9 2 (1.41%) Marketing
10 1 (0.70%) Back Office
10 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (17.61%) Terraform
2 9 (6.34%) Node.js
3 5 (3.52%) eBPF
3 5 (3.52%) JSON
4 3 (2.11%) JSON Schema
4 3 (2.11%) LDAP
4 3 (2.11%) Regular Expression
4 3 (2.11%) RESTful
4 3 (2.11%) XML
4 3 (2.11%) XMPP
5 2 (1.41%) JWT
5 2 (1.41%) OAuth
5 2 (1.41%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.41%) OpenID
5 2 (1.41%) Pulumi
5 2 (1.41%) SAML
6 1 (0.70%) Ajax
6 1 (0.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (21.83%) Cloud Native
2 21 (14.79%) CCTV
3 16 (11.27%) Driving Licence
4 13 (9.15%) Security Posture
5 11 (7.75%) PKI
6 9 (6.34%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (4.23%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.82%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (2.82%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (2.11%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.11%) NHS
9 3 (2.11%) PMI
9 3 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.70%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.70%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.70%) Tandem
11 1 (0.70%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.63%) Linux
2 3 (2.11%) Kali Linux
2 3 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.11%) Windows
2 3 (2.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (40.14%) Cybersecurity
2 47 (33.10%) Cloud Security
3 38 (26.76%) Security Operations
4 32 (22.54%) Vulnerability Management
5 29 (20.42%) SIEM
6 28 (19.72%) Penetration Testing
7 25 (17.61%) CI/CD
8 22 (15.49%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (15.49%) Software Engineering
9 21 (14.79%) Application Security
10 19 (13.38%) AI
11 18 (12.68%) Incident Response
11 18 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (11.97%) Information Security
13 16 (11.27%) Business Continuity
13 16 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (11.27%) DevOps
13 16 (11.27%) Mentoring
13 16 (11.27%) Security Architecture
13 16 (11.27%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 19 (13.38%) Python
2 12 (8.45%) Bash
3 8 (5.63%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.23%) Go
5 5 (3.52%) C++
6 3 (2.11%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (2.11%) Search Processing Language
6 3 (2.11%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.41%) Java
7 2 (1.41%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.41%) Rust
8 1 (0.70%) SQL
8 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (11.27%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (9.86%) CISSP
2 14 (9.86%) Security Cleared
3 12 (8.45%) CCNA
3 12 (8.45%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.63%) CompTIA Security+
5 7 (4.93%) CCNP
5 7 (4.93%) Degree
6 5 (3.52%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.52%) CISM
6 5 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (2.82%) CCSP
8 3 (2.11%) CCIE
8 3 (2.11%) City & Guilds
8 3 (2.11%) GCIA
8 3 (2.11%) PMI Certification
8 3 (2.11%) SANS
9 2 (1.41%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (6.34%) SOC 2
3 8 (5.63%) NIST
4 7 (4.93%) GDPR
5 5 (3.52%) GRC
6 3 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (2.11%) QA
7 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (5.63%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (7.75%) Ansible
2 10 (7.04%) Grafana
2 10 (7.04%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.34%) Prometheus
4 7 (4.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (4.23%) Cilium
6 3 (2.11%) Nessus
6 3 (2.11%) Nmap
6 3 (2.11%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.11%) SCCM
6 3 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.70%) CASB
Vendors
1 28 (19.72%) Cisco
2 22 (15.49%) Palo Alto
3 18 (12.68%) Microsoft
4 15 (10.56%) Qualys
5 11 (7.75%) Aruba
6 6 (4.23%) Splunk
6 6 (4.23%) Tenable
7 4 (2.82%) Arista
7 4 (2.82%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.82%) RedGate
8 3 (2.11%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (2.11%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.11%) McAfee
8 3 (2.11%) Okta
8 3 (2.11%) Rapid7
8 3 (2.11%) VMware
9 2 (1.41%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.70%) Cribl.io
10 1 (0.70%) Google
10 1 (0.70%) LexisNexis