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 15 August 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 621 609 637
Rank change year-on-year -12 +28 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 113 45 134
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.10% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.11% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 74 32 112
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,652 £47,558
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,313 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £78,750 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.94% -7.35% +21.37%
75th Percentile £87,250 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £92,125 £97,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £78,750 £85,000
% change year-on-year -7.94% -7.35% +19.66%

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 88,788 39,586 68,659
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 90.58% 94.93%
Number of salaries quoted 62,342 23,878 46,719
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,201 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £56,076 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.96% - -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 15 August 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 August 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 -34 40 £85,000 - 128
South East -11 29 £70,000 +16.67% 8
South West - 21 £57,500 - 27
North of England -32 12 £87,500 +16.67% 26
Yorkshire - 10 £72,500 - 6
East of England -19 5 £80,000 +90.09% 6
Midlands - 4 £66,250 - 2
North West -9 2 £87,500 +16.67% 19
East Midlands - 2 - - 1
West Midlands - 2 £66,250 - 1
Senior Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 August 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 48 (42.48%) Cybersecurity
2 40 (35.40%) Firewall
3 36 (31.86%) Cloud Security
4 29 (25.66%) Security Operations
5 28 (24.78%) SIEM
6 27 (23.89%) AWS
6 27 (23.89%) Azure
7 25 (22.12%) Terraform
8 24 (21.24%) Cisco
8 24 (21.24%) Vulnerability Management
9 23 (20.35%) CI/CD
10 22 (19.47%) Penetration Testing
11 21 (18.58%) Infrastructure as Code
12 20 (17.70%) Python
13 18 (15.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 18 (15.93%) Network Security
13 18 (15.93%) Palo Alto
14 17 (15.04%) Software Engineering
15 16 (14.16%) AI
16 15 (13.27%) DevOps
16 15 (13.27%) Incident Response
16 15 (13.27%) Microsoft
17 14 (12.39%) VPN
17 14 (12.39%) Wi-Fi
18 13 (11.50%) Bash
18 13 (11.50%) Business Continuity
18 13 (11.50%) Mentoring
18 13 (11.50%) Problem-Solving
18 13 (11.50%) Security Architecture
19 12 (10.62%) Agile

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 27 (23.89%) AWS
1 27 (23.89%) Azure
2 11 (9.73%) GCP
3 9 (7.96%) Amazon S3
3 9 (7.96%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (7.96%) Serverless
4 8 (7.08%) Entra ID
4 8 (7.08%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (6.19%) Azure Sentinel
5 7 (6.19%) GitHub
6 6 (5.31%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (4.42%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (4.42%) Mimecast
8 3 (2.65%) SaaS
9 2 (1.77%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (1.77%) Pulumi
10 1 (0.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.88%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 40 (35.40%) Firewall
2 18 (15.93%) Network Security
3 14 (12.39%) VPN
3 14 (12.39%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (10.62%) Internet
5 11 (9.73%) LAN
5 11 (9.73%) WAN
6 9 (7.96%) Cisco Nexus
6 9 (7.96%) Intrusion Detection
7 6 (5.31%) DNS
8 4 (3.54%) BGP
9 3 (2.65%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (2.65%) Cisco Firepower
9 3 (2.65%) OSPF
9 3 (2.65%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (2.65%) TCP/IP
9 3 (2.65%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.88%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (4.42%) TeamCity
2 3 (2.65%) Burp Suite
2 3 (2.65%) Metasploit
3 2 (1.77%) GitLab
4 1 (0.88%) Git
4 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.88%) JIRA
General
1 16 (14.16%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.96%) Documentation Skills
2 9 (7.96%) Public Sector
2 9 (7.96%) Retail
3 7 (6.19%) Banking
4 6 (5.31%) Finance
5 3 (2.65%) Digital Health
5 3 (2.65%) Digital Healthcare
6 2 (1.77%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.77%) Automotive
6 2 (1.77%) Marketing
7 1 (0.88%) Advertising
7 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.96%) Node.js
2 5 (4.42%) eBPF
2 5 (4.42%) JSON
3 3 (2.65%) JSON Schema
3 3 (2.65%) LDAP
3 3 (2.65%) Regular Expression
3 3 (2.65%) RESTful
3 3 (2.65%) XML
3 3 (2.65%) XMPP
4 2 (1.77%) JWT
4 2 (1.77%) OAuth
4 2 (1.77%) OAuth2
4 2 (1.77%) OpenID
4 2 (1.77%) SAML
5 1 (0.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.01%) Cloud Native
2 19 (16.81%) CCTV
3 17 (15.04%) Driving Licence
4 11 (9.73%) PKI
5 9 (7.96%) Security Posture
6 7 (6.19%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (4.42%) Management Information System
8 4 (3.54%) Data Centre
9 3 (2.65%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.65%) NHS
9 3 (2.65%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.88%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.88%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (0.88%) Fibre Optics
11 1 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.88%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.19%) Linux
2 3 (2.65%) Kali Linux
2 3 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.65%) Windows
2 3 (2.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (42.48%) Cybersecurity
2 36 (31.86%) Cloud Security
3 29 (25.66%) Security Operations
4 28 (24.78%) SIEM
5 24 (21.24%) Vulnerability Management
6 23 (20.35%) CI/CD
7 22 (19.47%) Penetration Testing
8 21 (18.58%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (15.04%) Software Engineering
10 16 (14.16%) AI
11 15 (13.27%) DevOps
11 15 (13.27%) Incident Response
12 13 (11.50%) Business Continuity
12 13 (11.50%) Mentoring
12 13 (11.50%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (11.50%) Security Architecture
13 12 (10.62%) Agile
13 12 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (10.62%) Platform Engineering
14 11 (9.73%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 20 (17.70%) Python
2 13 (11.50%) Bash
3 10 (8.85%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.42%) Go
5 4 (3.54%) C++
6 3 (2.65%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.77%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.77%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.77%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.88%) Java
8 1 (0.88%) Rust
8 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (10.62%) Cisco Certification
1 12 (10.62%) DV Cleared
1 12 (10.62%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.73%) CISSP
3 9 (7.96%) CCNA
4 8 (7.08%) CompTIA Security+
5 7 (6.19%) Degree
6 6 (5.31%) CCNP
7 5 (4.42%) AWS Certification
7 5 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (3.54%) CISM
9 3 (2.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (2.65%) CCIE
9 3 (2.65%) CCSP
9 3 (2.65%) GCIA
9 3 (2.65%) SANS
10 2 (1.77%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.77%) CASP
10 2 (1.77%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (15.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (7.08%) NIST
2 8 (7.08%) SOC 2
3 7 (6.19%) GDPR
4 5 (4.42%) GRC
5 3 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.65%) QA
System Software
1 7 (6.19%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (22.12%) Terraform
2 11 (9.73%) Ansible
3 9 (7.96%) Grafana
3 9 (7.96%) Prometheus
4 8 (7.08%) Kubernetes
5 7 (6.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (4.42%) Cilium
7 3 (2.65%) Nessus
7 3 (2.65%) Nmap
7 3 (2.65%) SCCM
7 3 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.88%) CASB
Vendors
1 24 (21.24%) Cisco
2 18 (15.93%) Palo Alto
3 15 (13.27%) Microsoft
4 12 (10.62%) Qualys
5 8 (7.08%) Aruba
6 6 (5.31%) Tenable
7 5 (4.42%) Splunk
8 4 (3.54%) Arista
8 4 (3.54%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.65%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (2.65%) McAfee
9 3 (2.65%) Okta
9 3 (2.65%) Rapid7
9 3 (2.65%) VMware
10 2 (1.77%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.77%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.77%) Sophos
11 1 (0.88%) Juniper