Senior Security Engineer Job Trends in England

Senior Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Security Engineer salary in England is £73,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 October 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 607 587 585
Rank change year-on-year -20 -2 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 156 38 137
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.15% 0.089% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.098% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 104 34 107
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,250 £43,872
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,250 £76,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -10.59% +21.43%
75th Percentile £86,750 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £90,875 £102,750 £106,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £76,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -4.61% -10.59% +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 96,394 38,710 60,932
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 90.53% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 67,344 23,101 34,738
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,522 £55,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.22% -2.65% -5.83%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,750 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.81% -2.73% -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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -21 51 £85,000 -5.56% 146
South East -19 35 £65,000 - 18
South West - 30 £70,000 - 18
North of England -43 23 £71,250 +9.62% 25
North West -23 12 £72,500 +11.54% 16
East of England -29 11 £75,000 +28.11% 15
Yorkshire - 11 £66,250 - 4
Midlands - 4 £66,250 - 16
East Midlands - 2 - - 8
West Midlands - 2 £66,250 - 8
Senior Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 October 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 (35.90%) Cloud Security
1 56 (35.90%) Cybersecurity
2 49 (31.41%) Firewall
3 40 (25.64%) Security Operations
4 39 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 30 (19.23%) AWS
6 28 (17.95%) Azure
6 28 (17.95%) CI/CD
6 28 (17.95%) Cisco
6 28 (17.95%) SIEM
6 28 (17.95%) Terraform
7 27 (17.31%) Penetration Testing
8 26 (16.67%) Application Security
9 25 (16.03%) Infrastructure as Code
10 24 (15.38%) Information Security
10 24 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 24 (15.38%) Software Engineering
11 23 (14.74%) Network Security
11 23 (14.74%) Python
12 22 (14.10%) Palo Alto
13 21 (13.46%) AI
13 21 (13.46%) Incident Response
13 21 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (12.82%) Threat Detection
14 20 (12.82%) VPN
15 19 (12.18%) Cisco Certification
15 19 (12.18%) Microsoft
15 19 (12.18%) Security Architecture
16 17 (10.90%) CISSP
16 17 (10.90%) Continuous Improvement

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 (0.64%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 30 (19.23%) AWS
2 28 (17.95%) Azure
3 16 (10.26%) GCP
4 10 (6.41%) Amazon S3
4 10 (6.41%) Entra ID
5 9 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (5.77%) Serverless
6 8 (5.13%) SaaS
7 6 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (3.85%) GitHub
7 6 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (3.21%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (3.21%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (3.21%) Google Compute Engine
8 5 (3.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (3.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (2.56%) Mimecast
10 2 (1.28%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 49 (31.41%) Firewall
2 23 (14.74%) Network Security
3 20 (12.82%) VPN
4 17 (10.90%) Wi-Fi
5 16 (10.26%) Internet
6 14 (8.97%) LAN
6 14 (8.97%) WAN
7 12 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
8 9 (5.77%) BGP
8 9 (5.77%) Intrusion Detection
9 7 (4.49%) TCP/IP
10 6 (3.85%) DNS
11 4 (2.56%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (2.56%) Cisco Firepower
12 3 (1.92%) OSPF
12 3 (1.92%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (1.92%) VLAN
12 3 (1.92%) Wireless
12 3 (1.92%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.64%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 9 (5.77%) TeamCity
2 4 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.92%) Burp Suite
3 3 (1.92%) Maven
3 3 (1.92%) Metasploit
3 3 (1.92%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.64%) Git
4 1 (0.64%) GitLab
4 1 (0.64%) JIRA
General
1 27 (17.31%) Social Skills
2 23 (14.74%) Finance
3 10 (6.41%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.77%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.85%) Banking
5 6 (3.85%) Retail
6 5 (3.21%) Back Office
6 5 (3.21%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.92%) Digital Health
8 3 (1.92%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.28%) Automotive
9 2 (1.28%) Marketing
10 1 (0.64%) Billing
10 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (17.95%) Terraform
2 9 (5.77%) Node.js
3 5 (3.21%) JSON
4 4 (2.56%) eBPF
5 3 (1.92%) JSON Schema
5 3 (1.92%) LDAP
5 3 (1.92%) Regular Expression
5 3 (1.92%) RESTful
5 3 (1.92%) XML
5 3 (1.92%) XMPP
6 2 (1.28%) Ajax
6 2 (1.28%) JWT
6 2 (1.28%) OAuth
6 2 (1.28%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.28%) OpenID
6 2 (1.28%) Pulumi
6 2 (1.28%) SAML
7 1 (0.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 18 (11.54%) CCTV
3 17 (10.90%) Security Posture
4 13 (8.33%) Driving Licence
5 10 (6.41%) Management Information System
5 10 (6.41%) PKI
6 9 (5.77%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (3.21%) Blog
9 4 (2.56%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (2.56%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.92%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.92%) NHS
10 3 (1.92%) PMI
10 3 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.64%) Fibre Optics
11 1 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.64%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.13%) Linux
2 3 (1.92%) Kali Linux
2 3 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.92%) Windows
2 3 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (35.90%) Cloud Security
1 56 (35.90%) Cybersecurity
2 40 (25.64%) Security Operations
3 39 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 28 (17.95%) CI/CD
4 28 (17.95%) SIEM
5 27 (17.31%) Penetration Testing
6 26 (16.67%) Application Security
7 25 (16.03%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (15.38%) Information Security
8 24 (15.38%) Software Engineering
9 21 (13.46%) AI
9 21 (13.46%) Incident Response
9 21 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (12.82%) Threat Detection
11 19 (12.18%) Security Architecture
12 17 (10.90%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (10.26%) Business Continuity
13 16 (10.26%) DevOps
14 15 (9.62%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 23 (14.74%) Python
2 12 (7.69%) Bash
3 9 (5.77%) Go
4 8 (5.13%) PowerShell
5 6 (3.85%) Java
6 5 (3.21%) C++
6 5 (3.21%) SQL
7 3 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (1.92%) Search Processing Language
7 3 (1.92%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.28%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.28%) Rust
9 1 (0.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (12.18%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (10.90%) CISSP
3 14 (8.97%) Security Cleared
4 12 (7.69%) DV Cleared
5 11 (7.05%) CCNA
6 9 (5.77%) CISM
7 8 (5.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 8 (5.13%) CCSP
8 7 (4.49%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (3.85%) CCNP
9 6 (3.85%) Degree
10 5 (3.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (2.56%) AWS Certification
11 4 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.92%) CCIE
12 3 (1.92%) City & Guilds
12 3 (1.92%) PMI Certification
13 2 (1.28%) CASP
13 2 (1.28%) CompTIA CySA+
13 2 (1.28%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (7.69%) NIST
2 12 (7.69%) SOC 2
3 7 (4.49%) GDPR
4 5 (3.21%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.56%) GRC
6 3 (1.92%) QA
7 2 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 9 (5.77%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (8.97%) Grafana
2 13 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.05%) Ansible
4 9 (5.77%) Cilium
4 9 (5.77%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.92%) Nessus
6 3 (1.92%) Nmap
6 3 (1.92%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.92%) SCCM
6 3 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.64%) CASB
Vendors
1 28 (17.95%) Cisco
2 22 (14.10%) Palo Alto
3 19 (12.18%) Microsoft
4 15 (9.62%) Qualys
5 11 (7.05%) Aruba
6 6 (3.85%) RedGate
6 6 (3.85%) Splunk
6 6 (3.85%) Tenable
7 5 (3.21%) Google
8 4 (2.56%) Arista
8 4 (2.56%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (1.92%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.92%) LexisNexis
9 3 (1.92%) McAfee
9 3 (1.92%) Okta
9 3 (1.92%) Rapid7
9 3 (1.92%) VMware
10 2 (1.28%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.64%) Cribl.io